Abstract:
A thermoplastic polymer toughening material in the form of polymeric fibers produced by mixing at least one epoxy curing agent and a thermoplastic polyaromatic polymer to form an admixture, and producing polymeric fibers from the admixture, wherein the thermoplastic polymer toughening material does not include an epoxy resin, and is soluble in an epoxy resin at a temperature lower than a dissolving temperature required by the thermoplastic polymer toughening material without epoxy curing agent.
Abstract:
A thermoplastic polymer toughening material in the form of polymeric fibers produced by mixing at least one epoxy curing agent and a thermoplastic polyaromatic polymer to form an admixture, and producing polymeric fibers from the admixture, wherein the thermoplastic polymer toughening material does not include an epoxy resin, and is soluble in an epoxy resin at a temperature lower than a dissolving temperature required by the thermoplastic polymer toughening material without epoxy curing agent.
Abstract:
A stabilizable preform precursor for composites is provided. The preform precursor has at least one layer of a structural fabric comprised of reinforcing fibers where at least one of the layer(s) of structural fabric has integrated therein one or more stabilizing fiber(s) that dissolves at a dissolution temperature in a resin for infusing into the structural fabric to make the composite. The stabilizing fiber stabilizes the stabilizable preform precursor when the stabilizable preform precursor is subjected to an elevated temperature.
Abstract:
Methods for preparing phosphonium salts by reacting a primary phosphine or a secondary phosphine with an ester compound selected from the group consisting of: a phosphate triester; a phosphonate diester; a sulfate diester; and a sulfonate ester; to form a phosphonium salt of formula VII wherein each of RQ, RX, RY, and RZ is independently hydrocarbyl and X− is a phosphate, phosphonate, sulfate, or sulfonate are provided herein. These phosphonium salts may find utility in a wide range of applications, including as surfactants, as polar solvents (ionic liquids), as antimicrobial agents, and as a component of spinning finish in polyamide fiber processing.
Abstract:
Methods for preparing phosphonium salts by reacting a primary phosphine or a secondary phosphine with an ester compound selected from the group consisting of: a phosphate triester; a phosphonate diester; a sulfate diester; and a sulfonate ester; to form a phosphonium salt of formula VII wherein each of RQ, RX, RY, and RZ is independently hydrocarbyl and X− is a phosphate, phosphonate, sulfate, or sulfonate are provided herein. These phosphonium salts may find utility in a wide range of applications, including as surfactants, as polar solvents (ionic liquids), as antimicrobial agents, and as a component of spinning finish in polyamide fibre processing.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are monofunctional benzoxazine compounds having at least one electron-withdrawing group. The monofunctional benzoxazine compounds may be combined with one or more multifunctional benzoxazine compounds to form a unique benzoxazine blend. This benzoxazine blend may be combined with additional components such as catalysts and toughening agents to form a curable resin composition suitable for forming resinous films or composite materials. The presence of monofunctional benzoxazine improves the processability of the benzoxazine-based resin composition by reducing the viscosity of the resin composition, and results in improved tack and drape in the films and composite materials formed from the composition without the loss of modulus in the cured resin.
Abstract:
Polyolefin thin films having a stabilizing amount of a stabilizer composition including: i) at least one o-hydroxyphenyl triazine ultraviolet light absorber (I); ii) at least one ultraviolet light stabilizer selected from tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl compounds (II) according to Formula II and iii) at least one light stabilizer (III) chosen from hindered amine light stabilizers (HALS) different from compounds of formula II are provided herein, along with methods for stabilizing and/or using same, wherein the polyolefins have increased resistance against the degradative effects due to exposure to agrochemicals and/or UV light.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method for utilizing the exothermic energy generated by a low temperature cure reaction to access a high-temperature cure reaction, which is otherwise energetically inaccessible at a chosen tool temperature, thereby producing a cured resin matrix with properties closely matching to those produced via high-temperature cure reactions but achieved via a short cure time and low cure temperature. Also disclosed is a short-cure resin composition containing: (a) at least one multifunctional epoxy resin having an epoxy functionality of greater than 1; (b) a hardener composition containing (i) at least one aliphatic or cycloaliphatic amine curing agent having one or more amino groups per molecule; (ii) at least one aromatic amine curing agent having one or more amino groups per molecule; and optionally, (iii) an imidazole as curing accelerator. The improved properties of this resin composition include being curable at a temperature of ≦120° C. for a time period of less than 10 minutes to achieve a degree of cure higher than that derived from the same composition with just (i) aliphatic/cycloaliphatic amine or (ii) aromatic amine in isolation.
Abstract:
Hydrophobically modified Si-containing polyamines are useful for treating scale in industrial process streams. Preferred hydrophobically modified Si-containing polyamines are particularly useful for treating aluminosilicate scale in difficult-to-treat industrial process streams, such as in the Bayer alumina process streams, nuclear waste streams and kraft paper mill effluent streams.
Abstract:
A resin-rich peel ply that does not leave behind residual fibers after peeling and can work well with different resin-based composite substrates. The resin-rich peel ply is composed of a woven fabric impregnated with a resin matrix different from the resin matrix of the composite substrate. The peel ply is designed such that, upon manual removal of the peel ply from the composite substrate's surface, a thin film of the peel ply resin remains on the composite substrate's surface to create a bondable surface capable of bonding with another composite substrate, but no fibrous material from the woven fabric remains on the same surface.