Fluorescene technique to monitor cure in polymers

Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing – Synthetic or natural resin

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A method for determining the extent of polymerization of a polymer system consisting of adding a fluorescent label, the label having a reactivity similar to the reactivity of the curing agent, to the polymer system and measuring the fluorescence intensity proportional to cure species concentration during polymerization. The fluorescence intensity of the label exhibits sensitive changes throughout the polymerization process, allowing one to follow cure reactions in a quantitive way by measuring fluorescence, especially in the latter stages of cure. The cure species composition, reactivity ratio, activation energy and weight-average molecular weight can also be determined by adding a label and measuring the UV-VIS spectra in addition to the fluorescence intensity. Reaction of the label with the monomer produces spectrophotometric shifts which are deconvoluted based on the band assignments of model compounds to obtain compositional analy

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