Background
With the improvement of environmental protection and safety protection consciousness, halogen-free flame retardance has become a research hotspot of polyacrylate materials. Most of flame-retardant acrylate emulsion is prepared by adding a flame retardant later at present, the addition amount is usually high, and the mechanical stability of the emulsion and the water resistance of an emulsion film are often influenced due to poor compatibility and easy migration of the external flame retardant and a polymer. In recent years, methods such as physically coating inorganic nanoparticles and copolymerizing a flame-retardant monomer and acrylate are used, so that the method is an effective method for improving the utilization rate of a flame retardant and improving the application performance of an emulsion film.
N-methylol acrylamide is a common cross-linking agent for acrylate emulsion, is low in price and remarkable in effect, but formaldehyde is released in the cross-linking process to limit the application of the N-methylol acrylamide. The crosslinking degree is improved by using the matching of various aldehyde-free crosslinking agents, the mechanical property and the water resistance of the emulsion film can be greatly improved, and the stable carbon skeleton can be constructed by the aid of a system under the action of high temperature or flame.
Patent CN105085790B obtains stable bulk flame retardant acrylate emulsion by copolymerizing vinyl silane grafted metal hydroxide functional monomer and acrylic monomer, but the flame retardant effect of metal hydroxide used alone is limited. Patent CN105111358A synthesizes organic phosphorus and magnesium hydroxide synergistic acrylate composite emulsion, has durable, low-smoke, nontoxic and environment-friendly flame retardant performance, uses fluorine-containing monomer to improve water resistance, but polymer is not fully crosslinked to improve mechanical strength, and does not mention the construction of a flame retardant carbon forming system.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects in the prior art and provide the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion, which effectively combines a nano inorganic substance and a flame-retardant monomer, so that the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion has good stability, and the mechanical property and the flame-retardant effect are improved.
Therefore, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion consists of a nano zinc borate nuclear layer and a polyacrylate shell layer.
In addition to the technical scheme, the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight by a miniemulsion polymerization method:
the invention adopts another technical scheme that: the preparation method of the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion comprises the following steps:
1) adding an acrylate monomer into a reaction container, starting stirring, sequentially adding a co-stabilizer, nano zinc borate, di (methacryloyloxyethyl) hydrogen phosphate and N-trimethylolpropane methacrylamide, and stirring until the mixture is uniformly mixed;
2) adding a phosphate ester anionic nonionic emulsifier and sodium carbonate into deionized water, stirring for dissolving, then dripping into the mixed solution obtained in the step 1), and performing ultrasonic treatment for 10-20 minutes;
3) introducing nitrogen, adding a redox initiator at 20-30 ℃ to initiate polymerization reaction, continuing to react for 2-4 hours at 60-80 ℃, adding an after-treatment agent to perform after-treatment and keeping the temperature for 0.3-0.8 hour, then cooling to below 45 ℃, filtering and discharging to obtain the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion;
the dosage of the raw materials is as follows by weight:
as a supplement to the above technical scheme, the acrylate monomer is one or a mixture of more than two of acrylonitrile, styrene, methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, tert-butyl acrylate and tert-butyl methacrylate.
As a supplement to the technical scheme, the co-stabilizer is one of hexadecane and dodecyl acrylate.
In addition to the above technical scheme, the phosphate anionic nonionic emulsifier has the following structural formula:
wherein R is C12~C14N is 4 to 6.
As a supplement to the above technical scheme, the redox initiator is one of sodium persulfate/sodium bisulfite and ammonium persulfate/sodium hydrosulfite.
In addition to the above technical solution, the post-treatment agent is tert-butyl hydroperoxide/ascorbic acid.
The invention has the following beneficial effects: according to the invention, by adopting a miniemulsion polymerization technology, zinc borate and a flame-retardant monomer are effectively combined to obtain a halogen-free formaldehyde-free and high-stability body flame-retardant emulsion; the nano zinc borate, the di (methacryloyloxyethyl) hydrogen phosphate and the N-trihydroxymethyl methacrylamide simultaneously play a flame retardant role and a crosslinking role, and the emulsion is crosslinked through ionic crosslinking and chemical bonds after being formed into a film, so that the emulsion has good mechanical properties and water resistance, and helps to construct a stable carbon skeleton under the action of high temperature and flame.
Detailed Description
The present invention is described below by way of specific examples, but the present invention is not limited to these examples.
Example 1
30.5 g of tert-butyl acrylate and 9.5g of methyl acrylate were placed in a reaction vessel, stirred, and 1.5g of dodecyl acrylate, 2.2g of nano zinc borate, 5.0g of di (methacryloyloxyethyl) hydrogen phosphate and 10.0g of 10.0g N-trimethylolmethacrylamide were added in this order and stirred until mixed uniformly. Then a mixed solution of 5.4g of phosphate anionic nonionic emulsifier and 2.0g of sodium carbonate in 110g of deionized water is slowly dropped in, and then ultrasonic treatment is carried out for 15 minutes. Introducing nitrogen, adding 3.0g of sodium persulfate/3.0 g of sodium bisulfite at the temperature of 20-30 ℃ to initiate polymerization reaction, continuing to react for 3 hours at the temperature of 70-80 ℃, adding 2.0g of tert-butyl hydroperoxide/2.0 g of ascorbic acid for post-treatment, preserving heat for 0.5 hour, then cooling to the temperature below 45 ℃, filtering and discharging to obtain the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion.
Example 2
32.5g of butyl acrylate, 25.2 g of methylstyrene and 22.3g of tert-butyl methacrylate are placed in a reaction vessel, stirred, 1.5g of hexadecane, 4.5g of nano-zinc borate, 12.0g of di (methacryloyloxyethyl) hydrogen phosphate and 3.4g N-trimethylolmethacrylamide are added in this order and stirred until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Then a mixed solution of 5.0g of phosphate anionic nonionic emulsifier and 1.4g of sodium carbonate in 150g of deionized water is slowly dropped in, and then ultrasonic treatment is carried out for 10 minutes. Introducing nitrogen, adding 4.0g of sodium persulfate/4.0 g of sodium bisulfite at the temperature of 20-30 ℃ to initiate polymerization reaction, continuing to react for 3 hours at the temperature of 60-70 ℃, adding 3.0g of tert-butyl hydroperoxide/3.0 g of ascorbic acid for post-treatment, preserving heat for 0.3 hour, then cooling to the temperature below 45 ℃, filtering and discharging to obtain the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion.
Example 3
34.0g of butyl acrylate, 20.5 g of styrene and 25.5g of methyl methacrylate are added to a reaction vessel, stirring is started, 4.0g of dodecyl acrylate, 5.0g of nano zinc borate, 8.0g of di (methacryloyloxyethyl) hydrogen phosphate and 5.0g of 5.0g N-trimethylolmethacrylamide are added in this order, and stirring is carried out until uniform mixing is achieved. Then a mixed solution of 6.5g of phosphate anionic nonionic emulsifier and 3.0g of sodium carbonate in 150g of deionized water is slowly dropped in, and then ultrasonic treatment is carried out for 20 minutes. Introducing nitrogen, adding 4.0g of ammonium persulfate/4.0 g of sodium hydrosulfite at the temperature of 20-30 ℃ to initiate polymerization reaction, continuing to react for 3 hours at the temperature of 65-75 ℃, adding 1.0g of tert-butyl hydroperoxide/1.0 g of ascorbic acid for post-treatment, preserving heat for 0.8 hour, cooling to the temperature below 45 ℃, filtering and discharging to obtain the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion.
Example 4
8.0g of acrylonitrile, 22.5 g of styrene and 24.8g of ethyl acrylate were added to a reaction vessel, and stirring was started, 4.0g of hexadecane, 3.1g of nano zinc borate, 5.8g of di (methacryloyloxyethyl) hydrogen phosphate and 5.0g of 5.0g N-trimethylolmethacrylamide were added in this order, and stirring was carried out until uniform mixing was achieved. Then, a mixed solution of 3.0g of phosphate anionic nonionic emulsifier and 1.4g of sodium carbonate in 120g of deionized water was slowly dropped, followed by sonication for 15 minutes. Introducing nitrogen, adding 2.0g of sodium persulfate/2.0 g of sodium bisulfite at the temperature of 20-30 ℃ to initiate polymerization reaction, continuing to react for 3 hours at the temperature of 60-70 ℃, adding 1.5g of tert-butyl hydroperoxide/1.5 g of ascorbic acid for post-treatment, preserving heat for 0.5 hour, then cooling to the temperature below 45 ℃, filtering and discharging to obtain the flame-retardant acrylate miniemulsion.
Comparative example 1
The only difference from example 4 is that N-trimethylolmethacrylamide was not present.
Comparative example 2
The only difference from example 4 is that the di (methacryloyloxyethyl) hydrogen phosphate is replaced by a non-crosslinking reactive phosphorus-containing monomer, methacrylic ether phosphate, in the same amount.
Comparative example 3
The difference from example 4 is only that the nano zinc borate is changed into nano magnesium hydroxide, and the amount is not changed.
The flame retardant acrylate miniemulsions provided in examples 1 to 4 and comparative examples 1 to 3, respectively, were dried in a mold to form films, and were sufficiently dried and crosslinked by baking at 100 c for 10 minutes, and then subjected to mechanical property testing and thermal property (TGA) analysis, as shown in table 1 below. Comparing example 4 with comparative examples 1 to 3, it can be seen that nano zinc borate, di (methacryloyloxyethyl) hydrogen phosphate and N-trimethylol methacrylamide effectively enhance the mechanical properties of the resin and synergistically exert the flame retardant and carbon forming effects.
TABLE 1
The foregoing is merely a preferred embodiment of the invention and is not intended to limit the invention in any manner. Any simple modification, equivalent change and modification of the above embodiments according to the technical spirit of the present invention fall within the scope of the present invention.