Statistical deduction and experimental verification on kinetic equations for the curing reactions of epoxy resins/amines

摘要

Based on three typical mechanisms (second-order, third-order and competitive mechanisms) for the curing reactions of the epoxy resins with amines, a pair of the kinetic equations (for primary and secondary aminations) was presented to explain the uniformity and relationship among the three different kinetic mechanisms of the reactions. The presented macro-equations were deduced from the kinetic micro-equations by the statistics method. And the constitutive equations were verified by experimental data at different reaction times and temperatures (95℃, 60℃ and 39℃), taking diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) /ethyleneamine (EA) as a model.