Cure Behavior, Morphology and Dielectric Constant of Flexible Epoxy Composite with Cu Particle, SWCNT and MWCNT Nanoparticle by UV-Cure Technique
Abstract
The flexible epoxy cured by UV light source at room temperature using LED UV lamp was determined. The hybrid system of epoxy between photo-initiator and thermal curing agent was used for observing the cure behavior of epoxy and epoxy composites in UV-Cure system. The remained epoxy functional group after curing by UV light was determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Moreover, the UV-Visible spectrophotometry was used as another method to confirm and support the cure behavior of neat epoxy and epoxy composites. The morphology was evaluated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to reveal the cross sectional surface of specimen after mixing under atmospheric pressure and curing with UV light. Furthermore, the dielectric constant of neat epoxy and epoxy composites were measured by LCR meter at 1 kHz of frequency. It was found from this work that neat epoxy could be cured under UV light at 2-3 hours while epoxy composites would be cured at longer time than neat epoxy due to the effect of particle in epoxy matrix. The dielectric constant of epoxy composite with single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) at 1 phr showed the highest value among epoxy composites in this work. This might be due to the different morphology of epoxy composites and structure of SWCNT in epoxy composites from high surface area and bubble inside during processing.
Keywords : epoxy, copper, carbon nanotube, UV-cure, dielectric constant
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