The study describes the thermal properties of functional microspheres composed of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) and crosslinking agent ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA). Copolymeric poly(GMA- co -EGDMA) microspheres were prepared via suspension–emulsion polymerization in the presence of toluene and decan-1-ol as porogens. In order to introduce functional groups, the porous methacrylate network was modified by epoxy ring opening with the use of sodium cyclopentadienide and then the Diels–Alder addition with maleic anhydride. The thermal properties of poly(GMA- co -EGDMA) materials were evaluated by thermogravimetry and differential scanning calorimetry. By TG/FTIR, it was observed that new functional materials exhibited multi-staged decomposition patterns, different from parent poly(GMA- co -EGDMA) microspheres. The synthesized poly(GMA- co -EGDMA) microspheres exhibited rather high thermal stability in inert atmosphere. Their initial decomposition temperature determined at the temperature of 2% of mass loss was about 210 °C; however, after the chemical modification it was slightly lower. The thermal degradation of parent poly(GMA- co -EGDMA) copolymer runs mainly according to the depolymerization mechanism, while functionalized by cyclopentadienyl group and maleic anhydride microspheres decompose through the chain scission mechanism.
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