Cure Characterization of a New Bismaleimide Resin using Differential Scanning Calorimetry.

The cure characterization of a new BMI resin was investigated to ascertain a suitable cure model for the material. A series of isothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) runs from 170°C to 220°C provided information about the cure characterization. All “kinetic triplet” (i. e., Arrhenius parameters A, activation energy E, and the reaction model, f (α)) of this new BMI system were calculated. It was found that the cure characterization of this new BMI could be expressed by n th‐order cure reaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]