Chemorheology of a highly reactive silica-polyurethane nanocomposite for the production of high-volume composites

J. M. KENNY; L. TORRE; LEONEL MATIAS CHIACCHIARELLI; A. TERENZI

Ustica

Conferencia; XII convegno nazionale della società Italiana di Reologia; 2012

The research activity presented is related to an European project that involves the development of high performance composites for high volume applications. Even though high costs prevented this approach, the project is focusing on the introduction of new resin systems and the modelling of the whole LCA chain in order to cut costs. Hence, this work considers the Chemorheological studies of these innovative composites, particularly considering the effect of nanofillers on the final Chemorheological properties. In addition, the cure kinetics will also be presented and related to the chemoviscosity profiles. The main characteristic to focus was the high reactivity of the system.