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Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jun 18;51(48):9903-6. doi: 10.1039/c4cc10192h.

Ductile thermoset polymers via controlling network flexibility.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

N Hameed, N V Salim, T R Walsh, J S Wiggins, P M Ajayan, B L Fox

Affiliations

  1. Carbon Nexus, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3216, Australia. [email protected].

PMID: 26000341 DOI: 10.1039/c4cc10192h

Abstract

We report the design and synthesis of a polymer structure from a cross-linkable epoxy-ionic liquid system which behaves like a hard and brittle epoxy thermoset, perfectly ductile thermoplastic and an elastomer, all depending on controllable network compositions.

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