Particle engineering for toughened polyimide-matrix composites

摘要

The material of the present invention is a filled polymeric material, the material comprising, or consisting essentially of, a thermosetting polymeric material formed from the at least one monomer; the thermosetting polymeric containing a nano-porous inorganic gel material, the inorganic gel material having a sufficient degree of porosity for the monomer(s) such that the inorganic gel material is capable of bonding to the thermosetting polymeric material during polymerization. The present invention also includes an method for the production of such filled polymeric materials.