Flame Retarding Cyanate Ester Resin with Low Curing Temperature, High Thermal Resistance, Outstanding Dielectric Property, and Low Water Absorption for High Frequency and High Speed Printed Circuit Broads
Xiangxiu Chen, Guozheng Liang*(梁国正), Aijuan Gu*(顾嫒娟) and Li Yuan
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application Department of Materials Science & Engineering College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2015, 54, 1806–1815
High-end electric products require high frequency and high speed printed circuit broads (HFS-PCBs), while high performance resin is the key for fabricating HFS-PCBs. A new resin system (DPDP/CE) was developed by copolymerizing 10-(2,5-dihydroxyphenyl)-9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide (DPDP) and 2,2′-bis(4-cyanatophenyl) propane (CE). Compared with CE resin postcured at 250 °C for 4 h, the DPDP/CE system that was only postcured at 220 °C for 2 h has outstanding flame retardancy, greatly reduced water absorption, low dielectric loss, and high thermal resistance. For DPDP1.4/CE resin with 1.4 wt % phosphorus content, its dielectric constant and loss at 1 GHz are 2.71 and 0.005, respectively, and hardly change after staying in boiling water for 100 h. Different from UL-94 V-2 rating of CE resin, the flame retardancy of DPDP1.4/CE resin is desirable UL-94 V-0 rating, resulting from both gas-phase and condensed-phase mechanisms. These attractive features suggest that the DPDP/CE system is suitable to fabricate HFS-PCBs for high-performance electric products.
