Analysis of curing reaction of liquid-crystalline epoxy compositions by using temperature-modulated DSC TOPEM®
02 engineering and technology
0210 nano-technology
DOI:
10.1007/s10973-019-08193-w
Publication Date:
2019-03-27T20:14:17Z
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ABSTRACT
The curing behaviour of the composition of a liquid-crystalline diepoxy monomer (LCEM) with the central triaromatic mesogenic group was studied using differential scanning calorimetry, conventional DSC and temperature-modulated TMDSC and nuclear magnetic resonance 1H-NMR spectroscopy. The stoichiometric amount of primary aromatic diamine, 4,4′-diaminodiphenylmethane (DDM), was used as a curing agent. TMDSC TOPEM® allowed the separation of the thermal effects related to reversible processes (e.g. phase transitions) from irreversible processes (cross-linking reaction) and determining that irreversible curing reaction occurs at the same time as reversible transition of the LCEM from crystal to the liquid-crystalline nematic phase. Additionally, 1H-NMR analysis of the LCEM/DDM mixture preheated to a temperature from the temperature range of complex thermal changes was conducted. The obtained spectrum clearly showed the presence of partially cured products in the investigated samples and additionally proved that during the endothermic phase transition of the LCEM monomer an exothermic cross-linking reaction was occurring.
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