“…After curing, the PIs showed appropriate chain cross-linkability and extendibility, leading to excellent mechanical properties with improved toughness and good thermal stability. [12][13][14][15] Among the workers who have been working on phenylethynyl-terminated imide oligomers since 1980s, researchers in NASA Langley Research Center successfully prepared significant phenylethynyl terminated imide (PETI)-5 as the adhesive and composite matrix resin, which derived from 3,3 0 ,4,4 0 -biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (s-BPDA), 1,3-bis(3-aminophenoxy)benzene, and 3,4 0 -oxydianiline with calculated molecular weight of 5000 g mol À1 . 16,17 In spite of good combination of high fracture toughness, thermo-oxidative stability, and good processability, PETI-5 exhibited a relatively low glass transition temperature (T g ) of 270 C and high melt viscosity (6000 Pa s) even at a temperature as high as 370 C, resulting in limited melt processability.…”