Epoxy resins: Their manufacture and applications

✍ Scribed by Ping L. Ku

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 668 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0730-6679
• DOI: 10.1002/adv.1988.060080109

✦ Synopsis

can be used for bonding many varieties of material, such as plastics, metals, glass, ceramics, wood, concrete, etc. The resins before curing are essentially a thermoplastic. After curing, however, they are crosslinked and transformed into a thermosetting material producing many unique properties that other thermosetting materials do not have and thus producing a uniquely wide range of applications. This paper will examine advantages and disadvantages of epoxy resins compared with other thermosetting materials.

CHEMISTRY

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