Thermoplastic Resin Fluidity and Tensile Strength via Fluorene-Dihydroxy Composite

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Solution Overview

Problem

Thermoplastic resins with a fluorene skeleton face challenges in achieving both high fluidity and tensile strength, which are essential for optical materials like camera lenses.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating specific dihydroxy compounds with a fluorene skeleton and certain impurities, such as 9,9-bis(4-(2-hydroxyethoxy)phenyl)fluorene, in specific amounts to enhance the fluidity and tensile strength of the thermoplastic resin.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If thermoplastic resin with fluorene skeleton is used to achieve high refractive index, then optical performance is improved, but fluidity and tensile strength deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverefractive indexVSAvoidtensile strength
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a composite resin system by combining fluorene skeleton-based monomers (providing high refractive index) with specific dihydroxy compounds containing naphthyl groups (improving fluidity and tensile strength). This composite approach allows the final material to simultaneously achieve high optical performance and mechanical properties that neither component could provide alone.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent optimizes the molecular structure parameters of the dihydroxy compound by specifying particular naphthyl group configurations and hydroxyl group positions. By carefully adjusting these structural parameters, the resin achieves improved fluidity for injection molding while maintaining high tensile strength, resolving the contradiction between processing ease and mechanical performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Illumination intensity

If thermoplastic resin with fluorene skeleton is used to achieve high refractive index, then optical performance is improved, but fluidity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverefractive indexVSAvoidfluidity
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines fluorene-based monomers (high refractive index) with specific dihydroxy compounds (improved fluidity) to create a composite resin system. The dihydroxy compound acts as a fluidity-enhancing component that enables easier injection molding while the fluorene skeleton maintains the high refractive index necessary for optical lens applications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent modifies the chemical structure parameters by introducing specific dihydroxy compounds with naphthyl groups that have optimized molecular weight and functional group arrangement. These parameter changes reduce the resin's viscosity and improve fluidity for molding operations while preserving the optical properties of the fluorene skeleton.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP3536728B1Method of producing thermoplastic resin
Publication Date: 2022.10.12 MITSUBISHI GAS CHEM CO INC
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AI summary

The present invention provides a method for producing a thermoplastic resin by reacting reactants comprising a dihydroxy compound. In this production method, the dihydroxy compound comprises a dihydroxy compound represented by the following formula (1), and at least one of a compound represented by the following formula (A), a compound represented by the following formula (B), and a compound represented by the following formula (C), wherein the total weight of the compound represented by the formula (A), the compound represented by the formula (B), and the compound represented by the formula (C) is 1,500 ppm or more, based on the weight (100 parts by weight) of the dihydroxy compound represented by the formula (1).