Cation coordination and hydrogen bonding in potassium and magnesium based-di-amidosil hybrids
Journal article, 2008

Fourier transform mid-infrared and Raman spectroscopies were employed to elucidate the cation/alkylene chains, cation/cross-link, cation/anion interactions and hydrogen bonding occurring in amorphous di-amide cross-linked alkylene/siloxane hybrid materials (diamidosils) doped with potassium and magnesium triflates (KCF3SO3 and Mg(CF3SO3)(2), respectively). Materials with compositions infinity > n >= 5 (where it expresses the molar ratio of carbonyl oxygen atoms per guest cation) were investigated. The conformations (gauche) of the alkylene chains of the host di-amidosil matrix are not affected by the presence of the guest salt in both doped di-amidosil families. The K+ and M2+ ions coordinate to the carbonyl oxygen atoms of the amide cross-links within the whole range of salt concentration considered, leading to the saturation of the cross-linkages, to a redistribution of the amide-amide hydrogen-bonded aggregates of the host matrix and, in the case of the K+-doped sample with n = 10, to the formation of a new type of aggregate, stronger and more ordered than those detected at lower salt content. In both di-amidosil systems guest salt addition leads to the increase of ionic associated species and to a concomitant decrease of the concentration of "free" anions. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

di-amidosils

FT-Raman

magnesium and potassium triflates

BANDS

sol-gel process

ENVIRONMENT

INFRARED TEMPERATURE

FT-IR

POLYMERS

Author

S. C. Nunes

University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro

V. D. Bermudez

University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro

Denis Ostrovskii

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Physics

L. D. Carlos

Centro de Investigacao em Materiais Ceramicos e Compositos

M. M. Silva

University of Minho

M. J. Smith

University of Minho

Journal of Molecular Structure

0022-2860 (ISSN)

Vol. 874 1-3 128-137

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies

DOI

10.1016/j.molstruc.2007.03.045

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