Abstract
The curing kinetics and thermal properties of two epoxy resins crosslinked with two amino acids (at molar ratio epoxy ring/amine or carboxylic proton 1/1), by non-isothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and simultaneous TG/FT-IR/MS analysis were studied. The kinetic analysis of the curing reactions was made using the variable peak exotherm methods of Flynn–Wall–Ozawa and Kissinger and multivariate non-linear regression. The most probable kinetic model and kinetic parameters of the degradation process using a multivariate non-linear regression program (Netzsch Thermokinetics software) were determined. The kinetic parameters and the thermal degradation mechanisms for crosslinked resins taking place in 2 and 3 steps, depending on the chemical structure of the sample were identified.
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