Real-time dielectric studies of polymerizing systems

Abstract
The use of real-time dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) for monitoring changes in molecular mobility during reaction for thermosetting systems is described together with phenomenological and molecular theories of the time-dependent relaxation functions that are involved. Reduced molecular mobility normally leads to the diffusion control of a reaction and ultimately to glass formation at the polymerization temperature . We present new DRS results for a boroxine/epoxide system that show glass formation below a `floor temperature' and very different behaviour above , when the dielectric properties become independent of time and an elastomer is formed.

This publication has 77 references indexed in Scilit: