Best Wishes for a Safe and Prosperous 2023! We have a number of blog posts upcoming in early 2023.  Back by popular demand will be Jeremy Pasatta who will cover accelerators for epoxy curing.  Jeremy authored a popular series on epoxy hardeners in late 2022. I will have a series of posts on "Beyond Epoxies: Other High Performance Thermosets"  The series will cover ... [Click to Continue...]

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 perhaps the most widely known and utilized are the phenalkamine family of ... [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 between all these curing agents is that they immediately start reacting with the ... [Click to Continue...]