ArticlePolymers2025
Investigation of Window Silicone Sealant Weathering Using Evolved Gas Analysis and Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry.
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Thermal degradation of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based silicone sealants was investigated using evolved gas analysis (EGA) for rapid temperature screening, combined with multistep pyrolysis gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection. The identified products were cyclic siloxanes, ranging from hexamethyl cyclotrisiloxane to hexadecamethyl cyclooctasiloxane. Aged and weathered sealants showed distinctly lower siloxane evolution temperatures (450-510 °C) compared to fresh samples (610-710 °C), indicating more facile polymer degradation. This trend was evident in both EGA-MS and Py-GC-MS, with EGA-MS showing a more pronounced effect, suggesting its potential for detecting sealant failure. Notably, the total evolved amounts of specific siloxanes remained nearly constant, suggesting that weathering primarily affects the thermal evolution profiles rather than the overall PDMS structure. The abundance of the three largest-size siloxanes increased (3-7%) with the weathering; in contrast, the changes in the amounts of the most abundant siloxanes were insignificant throughout all samples, regardless of the extent of weathering. These observations suggest that weathering induces changes in details of material structure, e.g., intermolecular interactions, rather than substantial chemical alterations to the PDMS structure.
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