The curing kinetics of an epoxy stoichiometrically
equivalent mixture of 4,4‘-(diglycidyloxy)-α-methylstilbene and 2,4-diaminotoluene has been determined
experimentally. A liquid-crystalline
phase has been observed to form during the curing reaction. A
phenomenological model of the
system is developed, and with parameter values extracted from the data
by fitting of separate
parts of the DSC curve, the model equations fit the measured data over
a wide range of
temperatures.
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