Chapter 6: Conclusions and future works
6.2 Suggested future work
6.2.3 Curing dynamic
Some of the functionalised-CNTs used in this project contains chemical groups that could react with epoxy/hardener, which could change the curing dynamic of the NCs. However, this part of study was not conducted in this project. By examining the curing dynamic of the made NCs, using an DSC, the energy requires to cure/curing temperature/curing time of the NCs could be determined. In addition, the changing of the chemical structure of the NCs can be recorded by examining the NCs in curing. The suggested method is the examining of the samples in curing
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using fourier transform infrared spectrometer, every 10 or 15 minutes. It could help with the explanation of the enthalpy changes differences between different NCs, in the curing process.
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