M. Ree et al., STRUCTURE EVOLUTION AND PROPERTIES IN A RIGID POLYIMIDE PREPARED FROMITS FLEXIBLE POLY(AMIC-ACID) PRECURSOR, Macromolecular symposia, 118, 1997, pp. 213-220
Soluble poly(p-phenylene biphenyltetracarboxamic acid) precursor was c
onverted to the polyimide by thermal imidization at various conditions
. The structure evolution being occurred during its thermal imidizatio
n over 25-400 degrees C was investigated as a function of imidization
temperature and time by X-ray scattering with synchrotron radiation so
urces of Pohang Accelerator Laboratory in Korea and with conventional
radiation sources. In addition, properties in the polyimide films were
investigated by dynamic mechanical thermal analysis, stress-strain an
alysis, prism coupling, and residual stress analysis.