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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Polyepoxide

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Epoxy or polyepoxide is a cross linking thermosetting polymer that cures (polymerizes and cross-links) when mixed with a "hardener" or curing agent. Most common epoxy resins are formed by the polymerization between epichlorohydrin and bisphenol-A. Dr. S.O. Greenlee of United States and Dr. Pierre Castan of Switzerland were in the year 1936, first jointly synthesized bisphenol-A based epoxy resins.
Epoxy resin is most widely used as a matrix for advanced structural composites due to their superior thermal, electrical and mechanical properties; chemical resistance and dimensional stability. Epoxy is also used as surface coatings and most widely used as industrial finishes and provides flexibility, superior adhesion and corrosion resistance when …show more content…

[46], there have been continuous efforts to incorporate CNTs into various types of epoxy resins to fabricate functional composite materials with desirable electrical and mechanical properties. They reported a simple method to produce aligned arrays of CNTs into the epoxy matrix. MWCNTs produced by arc-discharge and purified nanotubes in ethanol were randomly dispersed in a liquid epoxy resin by mechanical mixing with a glass rod. The resin was prepared by mixing epoxy resin (Epon 812) with the curing agents dodecenyl succinic anhydride (DDSA: 12.4 ml) and methyl nadic anhydride (MNA: 9.4 ml) and the accelerating agent, 2, 4, 6-tris (diaminomethylaminomethyl) phenol (DMP 30: 0.7 ml) by magnetic stirring for 2 h. The composite after evacuation was hardened in capsular shaped blocks for 24 h at 60°C. Low and high magnification transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of the thin slices cut from the composite showed that the thinner and longer nanotubes were preferentially oriented along the cutting direction, though the thicker tubes and nanoparticles had random orientation. Most of the tubes were adhered to the polymer matrix, and the directional cutting process created shear that induced flow of the tubes. The tubes on the surface were deformed during cutting (due to defect formation) and were oriented unidirectionally on the newly formed surface. …show more content…

The matrix used in this study was an epoxy polymer based on bisphenol-A resin (Araldite LY 556) and an aromatic hardener (Araldite HY 932). Weight percentages ranging from 0.0225 to 0.15 wt% of the pristine CVD-grown [50] MWCNTs (diameter 5–10 nm, length a few microns) were first dispersed in ethanol in an ultrasonic bath at room temperature for 1 h. The solution was then mixed with the resin and stirred for 1 h at 2000 rpm at 80°C. Ethanol was evaporated in a vacuum oven at 80°C for 1 h, and the mixtures were stirred again for 1 h at 2000 rpm. After adding the hardener, the mixtures were stirred at 2000 rpm for 15 min. The resulting epoxy nanocomposite was hardened in a vacuum oven at 140°C for 8 h. Composite sample containing 0.025% of CNTs in the epoxy resin show a remarkable improvement in the dispersion of CNTs in the epoxy resin due to ultrasound exposure. At these lower filler fractions, neither the processing behaviour (viscosity) of the matrix nor the surface finish of the samples was adversely

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