Epoxy curing reaction, differential

Analysis of an Epoxy Curing Reaction by Differential Scanning Calorimetry... 

Barton, J. M. The Application of Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) to the Study of Epoxy Resins Curing Reactions. Vol. 72, pp. 111 — 154. 

In this Sect, we describe the starting material impurities and their effect on the processing and cure reactions of TGDDM-DDS epoxies. The cure reactions are characterized by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) studies. The BF3 amine catalysts used to accelerate the cure of TGDDM-DDS epoxies are characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy studies. 

Levy, N. Analysis of an epoxy resin curing reaction by differential scanning calorimetry, in Computer Applications in Applied Polymer Science, p. 313, ACS Symp. Ser. 197, Washington D.C., Amer. Chem. Soc. 1975... 

Theoretical treatment of this polymerization is difficult because of the presence of both primary and secondary amine reactions as well as tertiary amine catalyzed epoxy homopolymerization. To obtain kinetic and viscosity correlations, empirical methods were utilized. Various techniques that fully or partially characterize such a system by experimental means are described in the literature ( - ). These methods Include measuring cure by differential scanning calorimetry, infra-red spectrometry, vlsco-metry, and by monitoring electrical properties. The presence of multiple reaction mechanisms with different activation energies and reaction orders (10) makes accurate characterizations difficult, but such complexities should be quantified. A dual Arrhenius expression was adopted here for that purpose. 

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