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Shuji Ogata1, Masayuki Uranagase1
1Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
Abstract:
A significant challenge in adhesive bonding is the accelerated breaking of stretched adhesives under wet conditions, which is known as cohesive failure. One group of commonly used adhesives consists of the amine-cured epoxy resins. Based on deprotonation free-energy calculations of the unstrained resin in water, it has recently been proposed that these adhesives can undergo failure through breakage originating at the protonated amine group under neutral or acidic conditions [J. Phys. Chem. B 2021, 125, 8989-8996]. In this study, we comprehensively investigated the degree of protonation of the amine group under both stretched and compressed conditions by devising a robust first-principles protonation calculation method applicable to strained materials. It was found that the amine group was partially protonated in neutral water at 298 K and that the amine group was protonated when the epoxy resin was stretched to a greater extent in water, and vice versa. These findings support the physicochemical cause of cohesive failure due to protonation of the amine group in the stretched amine-cured epoxy resins.
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