Abstract:
The nonequlibrium thermodynamic fluctuation theory has been used to predict the cure behavior of epoxy-imidazole-SiO
2 system at various temperatures and various SiO
2 filler loadings.There exists good agreement between the theoretical predictions and experimental reaults obtained by the dynamic torsional vibration method.It has been shown that the activation energy of cure reaction almost remained a constant value of △H=76.6×10
3J/mol with various.SiO
2 filler loadngs,but SiO
2 filler has a cempex effect on the rate of the cure reaction.