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Preparation, Cure, And Characterization Of Cyanate Ester-Epoxy Blends, Donald A. Klosterman
Preparation, Cure, And Characterization Of Cyanate Ester-Epoxy Blends, Donald A. Klosterman
Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications
Cyanate ester resins are often blended with lower cost epoxy monomers in order to modify the cost, toughness, and processing characteristics. There are also several choices of catalysts that can be used to improve processing, namely by reducing the cure temperature. This study was undertaken to illustrate how a designed experiment approach can be used to systematically investigate a wide range of material combinations and illuminate the basic cure behavior of some simple cyanate ester – epoxy blend combinations. Two commercial cyanate ester resin products were obtained. Each was blended with a bisphenol F based epoxy resin at two different …