Highly reactive photothermal initiating system based on sulfonium salts for the photoinduced thermal frontal cationic polymerization of epoxides: a way to create carbon-fiber reinforced polymers
Benoit Gachet, Maxime Lecompère, Céline Croutxé‐Barghorn, Dominique Burr, Gildas L’Hostis, Xavier Allonas
Abstract
and were found to increase with an increasing concentration of thermal sulfonium salt. The effect of an addition of carbon filler is investigated with a concentration of up to 50 wt%, which allows the formation of a composite material with a high content of carbon without the need for thermal post curing.
Topics & Concepts
SulfoniumPolymerizationCationic polymerizationPhotopolymerCuring (chemistry)Materials sciencePolymer chemistryPolymerThermalChemical engineeringIn situ polymerizationComposite materialPhotochemistryChemistrySalt (chemistry)Organic chemistryPhysicsEngineeringMeteorologyPhotopolymerization techniques and applications