Organic-inorganic hybrid materials. V-dynamics and degradation of poly(methyl methacrylate) silica hybrids

Poly(methyl methacrylate)-silica hybrid materials (PMMA-SiO2) were prepared by in situ polycondensation of alkoxysilane in the presence of trialkoxysi lane-functional PMMA. Infrared, differential scanning calorimetry, Si-29 an d C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analy sis were used to study the PMMA-SiO2 hybrids. The effects of the content an d kind of the alkoxysilane on the dynamics and stability of the PMMA-SiO2 h ybrids were investigated in this study. The dynamics of SiO2 within hybrids were investigated with Si-29-H-1 cross-polarization. The spin-diffusion pa th length was on a nanometer scale estimated with the spin-lattice relaxati on time in the rotating frame (T-1p(H)). The apparent activation energies f or the degradation of the hybrids under air and nitrogen were evaluated by the van Krevelen method. (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.