A positron annihilation study on the microstructure of cyanate ester resin toughened by carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber system

Polymers for Advanced Technologies

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1664-1671

  Zeng, Minfeng ^a   Sun, Xudong ^a   Wang, Yun ^a   Zhang, Mingzhu ^a   Shen, Yongmiao ^a   Wang, Baoyi ^b   Qi, Chenze ^a  

^a SHAOXING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cyanate ester resin; Free volume; Positron annihilation; Toughness

Indexed keywords

BUTADIENE; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CURING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTRONS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREE VOLUME; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; OCEAN STRUCTURES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHASE SEPARATION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; RESINS; RUBBER;

ACTIVATION EFFECTS; ANNIHILATION PROCESSES; CARBOXYL GROUPS; CURING BEHAVIORS; CURING PROCESSES; CURING REACTIONS; CYANATE ESTER RESIN; CYANATE ESTERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; INTERFACIAL ADHESIONS; LOW WEIGHTS; MACRO PORES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPIES; RESIN MATRIXES; TOUGHENING MECHANISMS; VOLUME PROPERTIES; WEIGHT PERCENTAGES;

POSITRONS;

ADHESION; COMPOSITE; PHASE SEPARATION; SYNTHETIC RUBBER; TOUGHNESS;

EID: 58049101280     PISSN: 10427147     EISSN: 10991581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pat.1185     Document Type: Article

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