Cyanate ester nanocomposites

Ganguli, S. Dean, D. Derrick, J. Kelvin, P. Price, G. Vaia, R. Mechanical properties of intercalated cyanate ester-layered silicate nanocomposites. Polymer 2003, 44 (4), 1315-1319. 

Mon Mondragon, I., Solar, L., Nohales, A., Vallo, C. I., Gomez, C. M. Properties and structure of cyanate ester/polysulfone/organoclay nanocomposites. Polymer 47 (2006) 3401-3409. 

Gilman, J. W., Morgan, A., Harris, R. Jr., Jackson, C., and Hunter, D. 2000. Phenolic cyanate ester clay nanocomposites Effect of ammonium ion structure flammability and nano-dispersion. Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Preprints 82 276-277. 

The thermal stability of nanocomposites containing cyanate ester/MWCNTs was found to be dependent on the surface modification of CNTs [93]. The results showed that the presence of unmodified MWCNTs in the nanocomposites produced a decrease of the initial decomposition temperature and a char yield similar to the neat resin. On the contrary, the initial decomposition temperature increased with 20 °C in the presence of modified MWCNTs. Moreover, the char yield of the nanocomposites containing modified MWCNTs was much higher than that of the cyanate ester resin. These results proved that the nature of carbon nanofiller is important for developing new nanocomposites with enhanced thermal properties. 

Nagendiran, S. Premkumar, S. Alagar, M., Mechanical and Morphological Properties of Organic-Inorganic, Hybrid, Clay-Filled, and Cyanate Ester/SUox-ane Toughened Epoxy Nanocomposites. J.Appl. Polym. Sci. 2007,106, 1263-1273. 

This technique has found the following applications in addition to those discussed in Sections 10.1 (resin cure studies on phenol urethane compositions) [65], 12.2 (photopolymer studies [66-68]), and 13.3 (phase transitions in PE) [66], Chapter 15 (viscoelastic and rheological properties), and Section 16.4 (heat deflection temperatures) epoxy resin-amine system [67], cured acrylate-terminated unsaturated copolymers [68], PE and PP foam [69], ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymers [70], natural rubbers [71, 72], polyester-based clear coat resins [73], polyvinyl esters and unsaturated polyester resins [74], polyimide-clay nanocomposites [75], polyether sulfone-styrene-acrylonitrile, PS-polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) blends and PS-polytetrafluoroethylene PMMA copolymers [76], cyanate ester resin-carbon fibre composites [77], polycyanate epoxy resins [78], and styrenic copolymers [79]. 

FIGURE 12.4 XRD data for solid and powder samples of a cyanate ester clay nanocomposite. (From Ref. [73].)... 

Zhang, J., Hu, S., Zhan, G., Tang, X., Yu, Y., 2013. Biobased nanocomposites from clay modified blend of epoxidized soybean oil and cyanate ester resin. Progress in Organic Coatings 76, 1683-1690. 

Gilman JW, Harris RH et al (1999a) Cyanate ester day nanocomposites synthesis and flammability studies. Evolving and Revolutionary Technologies for the New Millennium 44th International SAMPE Sym-posium/Exhibition, Long Beach, CA, USA, Sodety for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE)... 

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