Abstract

Two series of single-phase, semi-interpenetrating polymer networks (semi-IPNs) based on the same linear polyurethane (LPU) and two different heterocyclic polymer networks (HPNs), respectively, were characterized by the room temperature microhardness H measurement. It is shown that the H value linearly increases with both the mass content of the stiffer component (HPN) and the glass transition temperature of a semi-IPN. The latter dependence can be justified on the assumption that the excess enthalpy of the glass with respect to a hypothetical melt state is a measure of the yield strength of the glassy quasi lattice.

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