Controlling water uptake of sugar based epoxy resins

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

6-16-2011

Abstract

Epoxy resins made from natural materials have numerous advantages over those made from petroleum derived chemicals. Isosorbide and its isomers, isomannide and isoidide, can react similarly to bisphenol A to produce diglycidyl ethers that may be used as epoxy resins. These materials have comparable mechanical properties to bisphenol A based epoxies when produced under similar conditions. However, the sugar derived epoxies take up a significant amount of water, which is detrimental to their use in many applications. Modification of these materials with hydrophobic molecules may be an effective method of reducing water uptake. © 2011 IEEE.

Identifier

79958705629 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781612848273]

Publication Title

2011 IEEE 37th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference Nebec 2011

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2011.5778662

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