Polymer Innovation Blog

Guest Post by Jeremy Pasatta, Advanced Polymer Coatings One of the largest drivers of new product development for thermosets, and in particular epoxies, is sustainability, and the curing agents for epoxies are no exception.  Today there are a variety of biobased curing agents for epoxy resins, and ... [Click to Continue...]

Guest Post by Jeremy Pasatta, Advanced Polymer Coatings All the epoxy curing agents in the last set of blog posts (amines, mercaptans and anhydrides) required mixing of the epoxy with the curing agent just prior to curing and are therefore considered two component formulations.  The common element ... [Click to Continue...]

Guest Post by Jeremy Pasatta, Huntsman Corporation In the last three blog posts, we investigated the use of amines and mercaptans as curing agents for epoxy resins, and in general these curatives gave moderate properties through room temperature reactions.  But what if you needed higher chemical ... [Click to Continue...]

Guest Post by Jeremy Pasatta, Huntsman Corporation In the last two blog posts we looked at amines as curing agents for epoxies, and one downside of amines is that they can take up to a couple of hours to cure at ambient temperature depending on the structure, with the fastest amines still only ... [Click to Continue...]

Guest Post by Jeremy Pasatta, Huntsman Corporation In the Part 1 blog post on amine curing agents for epoxies, we reviewed in general how amines react with epoxies, how to formulate with amine curing agents, and some of the general structure-property relationships of amines.  In this post, we will ... [Click to Continue...]

Guest Post by Jeremy Pasatta, Huntsman Corporation This is the first in a series of six guest posts by Jeremy Pasatta. Curing agents for epoxies are one of the most critical, and often overlooked, parts of a formulation.  The correct choice of curing agent can dramatically improve the properties ... [Click to Continue...]