Hey everyone, I am working on the project about to synthesize thermoplastic polyurethane as hot melt adhesive by using MDI and butane diol as hard segment and polycarbonate diol as macrodiol.
After first phase of research, I chose some formula to synthesize again. I did exactly the same procedure that I used to synthesize my previous samples. But it turns out with different properties, including thermal properties, crystalline structure and of course mechanical properties.
I know that maybe because of moisture impurity in MDI and other chemicals. I did even resynthesized over and over by using freshly open bottle of MDI and DMF (solvent), but the results still the same.
I also reviewed synthesis papers and handbook again and again to find out what I missed about synthesis method. However, I could not find anything.
Could anyone tell me about the factors that affect properties of TPU, please?
Thank you so much in advance.