High Char-Yield in AN-AM Copolymer by Acidic Hydrolysis of Homopolyacrylonitrile

High Char-Yield in AN-AM Copolymer by Acidic Hydrolysis of Homopolyacrylonitrile

1. Introduction

2. Experimental

2.1. Materials

2.2. Precipitation polymerization

2.3. Acidic hydrolysis of PAN

2.4. Characterization

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Infrared spectroscopy

3.2. XRD

3.3. DSC analysis

3.4. TGA

4. Conclusions