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Curing Study of Epoxy Resin of (2E, 6E)-Bis (4-hydroxybenzylidene)-4-methylcyclohexanone with Different Aromatic Diamines and Anhydrides Hardeners: Spectral and Thermal Analysis

JALPA V. CHOPDA, DHARMESH B. SANKHAVARA, JIGNESH P. PATEL, P. H. PARSANIA^*

Department of Chemistry, Saurashtra University, Rajkot-360 005, Gujarat, India

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Journal of Polymer Materials 2021, 38(1-2), 35-48. https://doi.org/10.32381/JPM.2021.38.1-2.4

Abstract

Conventional curing study of epoxy resin of (2E, 6E)-bis (4-hydroxybenzylidene)-4-methyl cyclohexanone (EMBHBC) was conducted at 140 0 /150 0 C by using 4,4’-diaminodiphenylmethane (DDM),4,4’-diaminodiphenylsulphone (DDS),4-4’-diaminodiphenyl ether (DDE), p-phenylenediamine (PDA), 1,2,3,6-tetrahydrophthalic anhydride(THPA), maleic anhydride (MAH) and pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA). The gel time for DDS, THPA and DDM hardeners are found considerably longer than those of DDE, PDA, MAH and PMDA systems indicated different reactivity towards curing of EMBHBC. Sol–gel analysis of cured resins was carried out in DMF at room temperature. Diamines cured samples showed 76.3-97.5% gel fractions, while anhydrides cured samples showed 84.6-99.6% gel fractions. DDM, PDA and THPA are found suitable hardeners for curing of EMBHBC. Cured EMBHBC samples are characterized by FTIR, DSC and TGA techniques. DSC endothermic/exothermic transitions supported either physical or chemical change as supported by TGA. Diamines and anhydrides cured EMBHBC are thermally stable up to 224–315 0 C and 237–300 0 C, respectively and followed two step degradation reactions except EMBHBC-PDA and EMBHBC-MAH. Diamines and anhydrides cured EMBHBC showed respectively 30–52% and 32–41% residues at 700 0 C. Use of selected hardeners affected curing and thermal behavior of the cured epoxy resins under selected experimental conditions.

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