• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.80-87
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• 2002

A comparative study using electron-beam(EB) and thermal curing techniques was carried out to determine the effect of cure behavior and thermal stability of epoxy resins. In this work, benzylquinoxalinium hexafluoroantimonate(BQH) was used as a latent cationic catalyst for an epoxy resin. According to the thermogravimetric analysis(TGA), the decomposed activation energy based on Coats-Redfern method was higher in the case of thermal curing technique. This could be interpreted in terms of slow thermal diffusion rate resulted from high crosslink density of the thermally cured epoxy resin. However, the increase of hydroxyl group in the epoxy resin cured by EB technique was observed in near-infrared spectroscopy(NIRS) measurements, resulting in improving the stable short aromatic chain structure, integral procedural decomposition temperature, and finally ductile properties for high impact strengths.

• Journal of Adhesion and Interface
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.45-52
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• 2006

Five low molar ratio urea-formaldehyde (LUF) resins were synthesized in this study. The effects of molar ratio, free formaldehyde content, and catalysts on the curing characteristics of LUF resins were studied by measuring its free formaldehyde content, pH value change after catalysts added, curing rate, and pot life, observing its cured appearance, and analyzing its thermal behavior. The results indicate that: 1) The LUF resin with lower molar ratio than 1.0 can still cure; 2) Free formaldehyde content is not the main factor in affecting curing rate of LUF resin; 3) Compared with ammonium chloride as a traditional catalyst, persulfate salts markedly accelerate the curing rate of LUF resin, and result in the different appearance; 4) the addition of sodium chloride to catalysts can accelerate the curing rate of LUF resin, but the effect is moderate.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.339-346
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• 2007

The influence of adding urea to phenol-formaldehyde (PF) resins as a co-polymer component were investigated aiming at synthesizing useful phenol-urea-formaldehyde resins. Urea was added at 10% by total resin weight. Several methods for the addition of urea to the PF resins during synthesizing resins to see the co-polymerization occurs between urea and PF resins. The urea was added at the beginning, at three different middle stages, and at the end of PF resin synthesis. The copolymerized methylene bridges between phenol and urea molecules were not observed by $^{13}C-NMR;$ no signal around 50ppm. The curing of urea-modified PF resins, evaluated by dynamic mechanical analysis(DMA), showed some differences among the resins. DMA gel times ranged from 2.75 min to 3.25 min and the resins made with earlier urea additions showed slightly shorter gel times. The longest cure time and gelation time was observed for the resin PFU. Catalyst effects on the DMA cure time values of resins were not significant with different amounts of catalyst or different types of catalyst for all resins tested. Gel times of urea-modified PF resins shortened the most by triacetin catalyst.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.84-90
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• 2020

The adhesion strength of two konds of solid propellants(primary propellant/secondary propellant) was studied by coating agent of adhesion composition composed of organic solvent, curing agent, and cure catalyst. The coating agent using FeAA, cure catalyst, resulted propellant breaking at more 0.14 wt% and interface breaking at less 0.10 wt%. The TPB cure catalyst of confirmed the result of the interface breaking immediately after curing of the secondary propellant. In addition, the coating agent using TPB was found to increase the adhesion strength between the primary propellant and the secondary propellant over time.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.103-109
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• 2015

In this study, epoxy/anhydride mixing ratio for the highly silica filled compounds with chromium (III) octoate catalyst was investigated at a low curing temperature ($71^{\circ}C$ for 40 hr) by evaluating the compressive strength with the weight ratio ranges from 0.3/1.0 to 1.0/1.0 of epoxy part (Part A)/anhydride part (Part B). In case of epoxy/anhydride compounds used surface unmodified silica by coupling agent, these compounds need excess anhydride unlike the weight ratio in the conventional epoxy/anhydride compounds. In curing behavior, the epoxy/anhydride compounds containing chromium (III) octoate showed high conversions at $71^{\circ}C$ for 40 hr, even if a dipropylene glycol (DPG) was not used as a polymerization initiator. Also, DPG leads to a poor epoxy network structure. In conclusion, the appropriate weight ratio of Part A/Part B of highly silica filled epoxy/anhydride compounds with chromium (III) octoate catalyst is 0.5/1.0 and the maximum amounts of silica is 1470 phr of epoxy resin.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.151-156
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• 2018

As industry and medicine developed, many people became interested in the quality of life. As the concern for health became higher, vegetarian or vegetable oils became more popular than meat. With the development of processes primarily using nickel catalysts today, the shelf life of vegetable oils has increased and mobility has become more convenient. Currently nickel catalysts for the curing of oil are dominated by foreign companies in the world market. On the other hand, the mass production technology of domestic nickel catalyst is backward, and the entire amount is imported from foreign countries. Therefore, there is a need for active research and development of a catalyst that can be commercialized in korea. In this study, nickel as a main active catalyst was used as a base for hydrogen curing reaction, and the effect of rare earth on catalytic activity was investigated. A certain amount of rare earths could induce the dispersion of nickel to increase efficiency and use as co-catalyst.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.229-232
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• 2006

Two novel synthetic route proposed for Hydro-Terminated Poly(EO-ran-THF) and tri-block(PEC-PTHF-PEG) copolymer by cationic ring-opening polymerization of tetrahydrofuran(THF) and ethylene oxide(EO) and just by polymerization of EO on poly-THF, respectively. Polyurethane was synthesized from random and tri-block HTPE using N-100/IPDI mixture as curing agent, and TPB(Triphenylbismuth) as catalyst. The mechanical properties of resultant polyurethane after mixing with various ratio of isocyanate was also investigated. Finally, the post treatment process of HTPE based on amount of catalyst used in the synthesis was studied, to evaluate the optimum curing condition for the polyurethane propellant binder.

• Fibers and Polymers
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.116-121
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• 2000

It has been considered that malic acid, $\alpha$-hydroky succinic acid, could not form crosslinks in the cellulosic materials unless activated by other polycarboxylic acids such as butanetetracarboxylic acid or citric acid because there are only two carboxylic acids per molecule available fur the formation of one anhydride intermediate. However we found that the dicarboxylic malic acid with sodium hypophosphite catalyst without the addition of other crosslinkers was able to improve wrinkle resistance of cotton up to $294^{\circ}$(dry WRA) and $285^{\circ}$ (wet WRA), which is a measure of crosslinking level in cotton. $^1$H FT-NMR, FT-IR and GPC analysis indicated the in-situ formation of an trimeric $\alpha$, $\beta$-rnalic acid with a composition of 1:3 through the esterification between hydroxyl group and one of carboxylic groups in malic acid during curing. The crosslinking of cotton was attributed to the trimeric $\alpha$, $\beta$-malic acid, a tetracarboxylic acid, which can form two anhydride rings during curing. The influence of crosslinking conditions such as concentrations of malic acid and catalyst, pH of the formulation bath, and curing temperature were investigated in terms of imparted wrinkle resistance and whiteness. The addition of reactive polyurethane resin in the formulation slightly increased the mechanical strength retention of crosslinked fabric coupled with additional increase in wrinkle resistance.

• Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.47-53
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• 1985

The studies on the reaction of Urea-Formaldehyde(UF) resin with silk fabric were studied, and the final results summarized as below; 1. The pH and UF molar ratio for preparing liquid resin was found at pH 4-5 and UF molar ration 1:2 and above. 2. The weight gains were increased with respect to increase in concentration of UF resin solution, while moisture regains were decreased. 3. The weight gains were significant high in case of wet pick up 70%. 4. The weight gains were increased with respect to increase in curing temperature and the amount of catalyst((NH4)2SO4) found was 2.5% on the weight of Dimethylol urea and Hydrochloric acid was 1%, Tartaric acid was 10%. 5. The effect of different catalyst on wash fastness of UF resin was good where as in case of acidic catalyst was significantly high. 6. The weight gains with different catalyst was high where as in case of potential acid catalyst was significantly high. 7. The crease recovery are increased with the increase of the weight gain of silk fabric and also stiffness are increased.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.8
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• pp.2272-2278
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• 2010

A new hybrid thermosetting maleimido epoxy compound 4-(N-maleimidophenyl) glycidylether (N-MPGE) is prepared by reacting N-(4-hydroxyphenyl) maleimide (HPM) with Epichlorohydrin by using benzyltrimethylammonium chloride as a catalyst. The resulting compound possesses both the oxirane ring and maleimide group. The curing reaction of these maleimidophenyl glycidylether epoxy compound (N-MPGE) with amines as curing agents such as ethylendiamine (EDA), diethylentriamine (DETA) and triethylenetetramine (TETA), aminoethylpiperazine (AEP) and isophoronediamine, IPDA), are studied. Incorporation of maleimide groups in the epichlorohydrin provides cyclic imide structure and high cross-linking density to the cured resins. The cured samples exhibited good thermal stability, excellent chemical (acid/alkali/solvent) and water absorption resistance. Morphological studies by the SEM technique further confirmed the phase homogeneity net work of the cured systems.