13C Solid State NMR Study on the Dynamics of the Poly(vinyl butylal) with Various Water Contents

Abstract

Physical properties of PVB [Poly(vinyl butyral)] polymer are strongly correlated with water contents in the polymer. Thus dynamics of PVB containing 10~50 (w/w) % of water were studied by 13C CP/MAS/DD over the temperature range 293K – 348K. From the peak area, line width, chemical shift, and relaxation times (T1, T1) measured at 9.4 T, it was deduced that water facilitates molecular dynamics of the PVB molecules overall including conformational exchange of the racemic and meso butyaldehyde rings in the PVB. However, the influence of water was not linear to the amount of water in the PVB samples. It is suggested that water up to 30 w/w % of the sample is closely bound to the PVB polymer and water relatively free from the PVB polymer starts to appear when water is added more than 30 w/w %.