Journal
JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY
Volume 114, Issue 1, Pages 137-146Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-012-2899-9
Keywords
Cyanate/epoxy copolymers; DMA; Modification; Morphology; Thermal stability
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Dynamic mechanical analysis was conducted on specimens prepared from cyanate ester (CE) and epoxy (EP) resins cured together at various mass compositions. Increase of amount of epoxy resin in composition was shown to have a disadvantageous effect on glass transition temperature (T (g)). It was shown that post-curing procedure was needed to produce a polymer matrix with a single glass transition relaxation, but increase in post-cure temperature up to 250 A degrees C resulted in slight reduction in T (g) for epoxy/cyanate copolymers. TG results proved that the presence of epoxy resin reduces thermal stability of the cyanate/epoxy materials. The neat CE and EP/CE systems containing 30 wt% of epoxy resin were modified using epoxy-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber (ETBN) and polysiloxane core-shell elastomer (PS). The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) results showed the existence of second phase of ETBN and PS modifiers. Only in the case of EP/CE composition modified with ETBN, well-dispersed second phase domains were observed. Analysis of SEM images for other CE- and EP/CE-modified systems revealed the formation of spherical aggregates.
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