• A thermoset polymer matrix is a synthetic polymer reinforcement where polymers act as binder or matrix to secure in place incorporated particulates, fibres...
    28 KB (3,469 words) - 11:13, 12 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Thermosetting polymer
    In materials science, a thermosetting polymer, often called a thermoset, is a polymer that is obtained by irreversibly hardening ("curing") a soft solid...
    14 KB (1,744 words) - 15:41, 15 January 2025
  • woven into glass cloth. The plastic matrix may be a thermoset polymer matrix—most often based on thermosetting polymers such as epoxy, polyester resin, or...
    39 KB (4,788 words) - 04:23, 20 May 2025
  • applications. The binding polymer is often a thermoset resin such as epoxy, but other thermoset or thermoplastic polymers, such as polyester, vinyl ester...
    62 KB (6,990 words) - 14:00, 21 May 2025
  • (FRP; also called fibre-reinforced polymer, or in American English fiber) is a composite material made of a polymer matrix reinforced with fibres. The fibres...
    46 KB (6,231 words) - 20:05, 12 May 2025
  • science, a polymer matrix composite (PMC) is a composite material composed of a variety of short or continuous fibers bound together by a matrix of organic...
    14 KB (1,734 words) - 05:25, 21 December 2024
  • such as fiberglass and aramids. Since crosslinking stabilises the thermoset polymer matrix of these materials, they have physical properties more similar...
    15 KB (1,819 words) - 23:22, 1 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Composite material
    thermoplastics. There are numerous thermoset composites, including paper composite panels. Many advanced thermoset polymer matrix systems usually incorporate...
    96 KB (11,310 words) - 11:29, 12 May 2025
  • Bakelite. This used wood flour fibres in phenolic resin as the thermoset polymer matrix. As the fibres were only short this material had relatively low...
    3 KB (319 words) - 03:29, 11 April 2023
  • used as an alternative to polyester and epoxy materials as the thermoset polymer matrix in composite materials, where its characteristics, strengths, and...
    3 KB (368 words) - 11:13, 12 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Polybenzoxazine
    Polybenzoxazine (category Organic polymers)
    factors) Good chemical resistance Thermosetting polymer Thermoset polymer matrix Plastic "Benzoxazine Thermoset Resins" (PDF). Huntsman. 2015. Archived from...
    8 KB (703 words) - 17:13, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Polyester
    and in non-metallic auto-body fillers. They are also used as the thermoset polymer matrix in pre-pregs. Fiberglass-reinforced unsaturated polyesters find...
    46 KB (5,396 words) - 23:52, 29 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Polymer characterization
    in shape-memory polymers, monitor cures in thermosets, and determine molecular weight. An oscillating force is applied to a polymer sample and the sample’s...
    15 KB (1,923 words) - 12:16, 18 September 2024
  • Bulk moulding compound (category Fibre-reinforced polymers)
    moulding compound (DMC), is a ready-to-mold, glass-fiber reinforced thermoset polymer material primarily used in compression moulding, as well as in injection...
    3 KB (416 words) - 14:19, 19 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Cyanate ester
    contains two cyanate groups the resulting structure is a 3D polymer network. Thermoset polymer matrix properties can be fine tuned by the choice of substituents...
    3 KB (346 words) - 10:55, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phenol formaldehyde resin
    under heat and pressure. The resin fully polymerizes (cures) during this process forming the thermoset polymer matrix. The base material choice depends on...
    13 KB (1,528 words) - 01:07, 12 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Epoxy
    Epoxy (category Organic polymers)
    resins, but usually produce stronger and more temperature-resistant thermoset polymer matrix composite parts. Machine bedding to overcome vibrations is a use...
    68 KB (8,438 words) - 13:49, 4 May 2025
  • Polyimide (category Organic polymers)
    (49,000 psi) and flexural moduli of 21,000 MPa (3,000,000 psi). Thermoset polymer matrix polyimides exhibit very low creep and high tensile strength. These...
    17 KB (2,002 words) - 20:38, 12 May 2025
  • state. They are cured to form crosslinked polymers and are subsequently backed with thermoset polymer matrix composites which are often mixtures of polyester...
    3 KB (373 words) - 00:51, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Polyurethane
    Polyaspartic Polyurethane dispersion Thermoplastic polyurethanes Thermoset polymer matrix "polyurethane". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Gama,...
    57 KB (6,311 words) - 00:48, 19 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Polymer degradation
    than equivalent thermosets, as those are more thoroughly cross-linked. The majority (PP, PE, PVC, PS and PMMA) are addition polymers with all-carbon backbones...
    41 KB (4,492 words) - 12:36, 24 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Plastic
    Plastic (redirect from Polymer additive)
    for a particular purpose. Examples include thermoplastics, thermosets, conductive polymers, biodegradable plastics, engineering plastics and elastomers...
    101 KB (12,538 words) - 14:31, 21 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Grout
    cementing agent in grout. However, the utilization of thermoset polymer matrix grouts based on thermosets such as urethanes and epoxies are also popular. Portland...
    9 KB (1,094 words) - 06:09, 30 April 2025
  • constitute the SMP. SMPs include thermoplastic and thermoset (covalently cross-linked) polymeric materials. SMPs are known to be able to store up to...
    42 KB (4,988 words) - 07:51, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silicone resin
    Polysiloxane polymers with reactive side group functionality such as vinyl, acrylate, epoxy, mercaptan, or amine, are used to create thermoset polymer matrix composites...
    4 KB (398 words) - 13:42, 29 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Thermoplastic
    differ from thermosetting polymers (or "thermosets"), which form irreversible chemical bonds during the curing process. Thermosets do not melt when heated...
    19 KB (2,492 words) - 17:41, 7 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Nanocomposite
    note that with polymer nanocomposites, properties related to local chemistry, degree of thermoset cure, polymer chain mobility, polymer chain conformation...
    29 KB (3,519 words) - 14:30, 25 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Polymer
    the other hand, leads to thermosets. Cross-links and branches are shown as red dots in the figures. Highly branched polymers are amorphous and the molecules...
    73 KB (7,830 words) - 09:20, 7 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Maleimide
    bismaleimide materials, in addition to the use of advanced carbon fiber thermoset polymer matrix composites. N-Methylmaleimide Succinimide Hermanson G (2013). "Chapter...
    15 KB (1,494 words) - 00:42, 8 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Oxazines
    polybenzoxazine networks. The resulting high molecular weight thermoset polymer matrix composites are used where enhanced mechanical performance, flame...
    5 KB (474 words) - 05:17, 5 April 2023