Volume 142, Issue 17 e56802
RESEARCH ARTICLE

High Heat Resistance and Low Dielectric o-Cresol Formaldehyde Epoxy Resin Solder Resist Containing Photocurable Small Molecular Compound Based on 3,4-Epoxycyclohexylmethyl Methacrylate

Wei Tang

Wei Tang

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Data curation (lead), ​Investigation (lead), Supervision (lead), Writing - original draft (lead), Writing - review & editing (equal)

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Keyu Lian

Keyu Lian

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Contribution: Formal analysis (equal), ​Investigation (supporting), Resources (equal), Visualization (supporting)

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Junhua Zhang

Corresponding Author

Junhua Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Correspondence:

Junhua Zhang ([email protected])

Contribution: Funding acquisition (lead), Resources (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)

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First published: 03 February 2025

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

ABSTRACT

High heat resistance and low dielectric constant are the development trend for PCB ink. Generally, higher crosslinking density and rigid molecular structure are beneficial for improving the heat resistance, and low polarity molecules and larger three-dimensional structure are helpful for reducing dielectric constant. In this work, based on the photocurable small molecular epoxy compound 3,4-epoxycyclohexylmethyl methacrylate (TTA15), we successively grafted it with acrylic acid (AA) and 1,2,5,6-tetrahydrophthalic anhydride (THPA), named 15AT. After modification with AA and THPA, two unsaturated double bonds were introduced. In 15AT, containing three double bonds and a cyclohexyl ring, mixed as an auxiliary resin into the main resin EPT-001 (industrialized o-cresol formaldehyde epoxy resin grafted with AA and THPA products), it is obviously possible to improve the heat resistance. According to the addition mass of 15AT in total resin, 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% were named EAT, EAT15-5, EAT15-10, EAT15-15, and EAT15-20, respectively. The results show that the introduction of 15AT increases the T g value by up to 37.1°C and also has the lowest dielectric constant (2.45), which is 0.29 lower than the original resin EAT, thereby offering a new approach to improving the properties of PCB ink.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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