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Toughening Thermosets with Block Copolymers
Guest post by Jeremy Pasatta, Advanced Polymer Coatings Previous blog posts on toughening have looked at the need for tougheners in thermosets, the two main toughening technologies, RLP and coreshell particles, along with methods of how to measure toughness and typical increases in toughness with ... [Click to Continue...]
Measuring the Toughness of Thermosets
Guest post by Jeremy Pasatta, Advanced Polymer Coatings Now that we have looked at the theory of toughening thermosets with second phase tougheners along with the two most common tougheners (RLP and coreshell particles) let’s look at how we measure the toughness of thermosets. There are several ... [Click to Continue...]
Toughening Thermosets with Coreshell Particles
Guest post by Jeremy Pasatta, Advanced Polymer Coatings The previous two blog posts have looked at both the fundamentals of toughening thermosets as well as one of the most common technologies used to toughen thermosets – Reactive Liquid Polymers and CTBN. In this blog post, we’ll look at ... [Click to Continue...]
Professional Development Course at IMAPS-San Diego
Join me at the IMAPS International Symposium on Microelectronics in October. I will be presenting a Professional Development Course on: Polymers for Wafer Level Packaging Monday, October 2 at 10:30 AM. Course Description The course has been completely updated to include a detailed discussion ... [Click to Continue...]
Toughening Thermosets with Reactive Liquid Polymers
Guest post by Jeremy Pasatta, Advanced Polymer Coatings In the previous blog post, we explored the reasons why thermosets benefit from the addition of second phase tougheners. One of the most successful and widely used forms of second phase tougheners is Reactive Liquid Polymers, or RLP. RLP can ... [Click to Continue...]
The Need for Tougheners in Thermosets
Guest post by Jeremy Pasatta, Advanced Polymer Coatings Thermosets such as epoxies, vinyl esters, cyanate esters, and benzoxazines give excellent properties such as chemical and thermal resistance, dimensional stability, high modulus and good adhesion to a variety of substrates. These properties ... [Click to Continue...]
Beyond Epoxy: High Performance Thermosets Part Six – Cyanate Esters for Electronic Packaging Applications
This is the final post in this series on high performance thermosetting polymers. This post discussed the use of specialized cyanate esters for high performance electronic packaging applications. Dicyanate resins are versatile thermosets and have been used in a wide variety of applications. For ... [Click to Continue...]
Beyond Epoxy: High Performance Thermosets Part Five, Electronic Packaging
The previous post covered an introduction to cyanate ester thermosetting resins. This post will discuss the main applications of cyanate ester thermosets. In the 1980’s the main applications for cyanate esters were in electronic applications. Specifically, cyanate esters were used in high ... [Click to Continue...]