<br/>Elemental sulfur is an abundant byproduct of the petroleum refining process. In 2015, approximately 70 million metric tons of sulfur was produced globally by this process. All current industrial consumption underutilize the readily available elemental sulfur waste stream, to the extent that 7 million tons of excess sulfur remains annually. In terms of materials production, only a small fraction of this plentiful, affordable sulfur is used for vulcanization of rubber and its use as an additive in asphalt. The current contribution highlights our efforts to modify bisphenol A (BPA) to facilitate its cross-linking with sulfur-rich compounds to afford new synthetic polymers and network materials. The sulfur content was varied over a wide range, and the extent to which composition influenced thermal and mechanical properties was quantified. We report on analyses of thermal and mechanical properties for a series of BPS composites by TGA , DSC and DMA.

Thermal and mechanical properties of new high-sulfur-content copolymers of Bisphenol A

256th National Meeting (2018)

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