Abstract
The goal of this research was to study the kinetics of the reaction of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA)-based epoxy resin cured with sebacic acid as a biobased hardener in the presence of three different loadings of epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) (i.e., 10, 20, 30 wt %). Nonisothermal differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) and model-free isoconversional method was used to analyze the curing kinetic data and determine the activation energy of the reactions. It was found that the biobased hardener increased the enthalpy of reaction as well as the activation energy of reaction in comparison to the amine hardeners that are currently used for epoxy curing. The addition of epoxidized soybean oil increased the enthalpy of reaction, maximum exothermic temperature, and activation energy of the system. Kissinger–Akahira–Sunose (KAS) and Starink methods were used to determine the activation energy of the studied systems. It was also found that the curing reaction of epoxy with 30 wt % of ESO is diffusion cont...
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