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Effect of the Aromatic Amine Curing Agent Structure on Properties of Epoxy Resin-Based Syntactic Foams
Sizhu Yu1, Xiaodong Li1, Meishuai Zou1
1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Abstract:
Epoxy resin is one of the commonly used matrixes of syntactic foams as a buoyancy material, the curing agents of which affect some of the properties for syntactic foams. Therefore, the curing reactions of N,N,N',N'-tetraepoxypropyl-4,4'-diaminodiphenylmethane (AG-80) epoxy resin between 4,4-diaminodiphenyl methane (DDM) and the mixture of m-xylylenediamine and DDM (DDM-m-XDA) systems are studied. The DDM mixed with m-XDA enhances curing reactions with the AG-80 epoxy resin, and the mechanisms of the two curing systems are different through nonisothermal kinetics. Compared with a single curing system, there are some wrinkles on the surface of the AG-80/DDM-m-XDA matrix because of the disordered network. Composited with hollow glass microspheres (HGMs), the more flexible m-XDA structure enhances the interfacial adhesion between the matrix and HGM for syntactic foams. However, the wrinkles in the matrix increase the broken degree of HGMs; especially at HGM contents higher than 55%, the flaw increases the density and water absorption of syntactic foams; meanwhile, it decreases the compressive strength. Therefore, the properties of syntactic foams can be improved by mixing different molecular structure curing agents and the mixture liquid curing agent simplifies the preparation process to some extent.
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