Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol.72, No.4, 537-542, 1999
Crosslinking of trimellitimide glycidyl ester derivatives
The cure reaction of diglycidyl trimellitimide esters with 4-dimethylaminopyridine, diaminodiphenylmethane, and dicyandiamide as hardener was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Isoconversional kinetic analysis was applied to nonisothermal DSC data and the dependences of activation energies on conversion degrees were obtained. Differences in the shape of these plots were found in accordance to the different kinetic schemes of the curing agents. The thermal properties of the final products evaluated by thermogravimetry do not show noteworthy differences.