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Particle-matrix interfacial bonding: Effect on the fracture properties of rubber-modified epoxy polymers
Abstract
This study employed various butadiene-acrylonitrile rubbers and showed that both the functionality of the end groups and the acrylonitrile content have a strong influence on the microstructure and the interfacial bonding that are observed in the resulting rubber-toughened epoxy. For the rubbers examined, significant toughening is recorded only when the rubber forms a separate phase in the epoxy matrix with a particle size on the order of micrometers. These microstructural features are affected by both the functionality of the end groups and the acrylonitrile content of the rubber employed. However, once phase separation of the rubber has been achieved to give particles on the order of micrometers in size, then the interfacial bonding between the rubber particles and the epoxy matrix has only a small effect on the fracture properties of the rubber-toughened epoxy polymers. 28 refs., 6 figs., 3 tabs.
- Authors:
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- Imperial College of Science, London (United Kingdom)
- BFGoodrich Co., Brecksville, OH (United States)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 76235
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-900802-
TRN: 94:009880-0016
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 200. American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting, Washington, DC (United States), 26-31 Aug 1990; Other Information: PBD: 1993; Related Information: Is Part Of Toughened plastics I: Science and engineering; Riew, C.K.; Kinloch, A.J. [eds.]; PB: 567 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; RUBBERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; EPOXIDES; ACRYLONITRILE; INTERFACES; MICROSTRUCTURE; ADHESION; PARTICLE SIZE; CAVITATION
Citation Formats
Huang, Y, Kinloch, A J, Bertsch, R J, and Siebert, A R. Particle-matrix interfacial bonding: Effect on the fracture properties of rubber-modified epoxy polymers. United States: N. p., 1993.
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Huang, Y, Kinloch, A J, Bertsch, R J, & Siebert, A R. Particle-matrix interfacial bonding: Effect on the fracture properties of rubber-modified epoxy polymers. United States.
Huang, Y, Kinloch, A J, Bertsch, R J, and Siebert, A R. 1993.
"Particle-matrix interfacial bonding: Effect on the fracture properties of rubber-modified epoxy polymers". United States.
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title = {Particle-matrix interfacial bonding: Effect on the fracture properties of rubber-modified epoxy polymers},
author = {Huang, Y and Kinloch, A J and Bertsch, R J and Siebert, A R},
abstractNote = {This study employed various butadiene-acrylonitrile rubbers and showed that both the functionality of the end groups and the acrylonitrile content have a strong influence on the microstructure and the interfacial bonding that are observed in the resulting rubber-toughened epoxy. For the rubbers examined, significant toughening is recorded only when the rubber forms a separate phase in the epoxy matrix with a particle size on the order of micrometers. These microstructural features are affected by both the functionality of the end groups and the acrylonitrile content of the rubber employed. However, once phase separation of the rubber has been achieved to give particles on the order of micrometers in size, then the interfacial bonding between the rubber particles and the epoxy matrix has only a small effect on the fracture properties of the rubber-toughened epoxy polymers. 28 refs., 6 figs., 3 tabs.},
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year = {Fri Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1993},
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