| Abstract: | The influence of carbon fibre on the curing kinetics of the prepolymer based on bisphenol A cyanurate and epoxy resin has been studied using infra‐red spectroscopy. It was found that curing process of prepolymer is very complicated. It is shown that in curing the prepolymer a number of the sequential transformations of ones cycle structure into others occurs. An introduction of the carbon fiber (CF) of two types, original CF and modified CF (MCF) containing phosphate groups, affect strongly the prepolymer curing. Both CF and MCF accelerate the conversion rate of epoxy groups. In the case of cyanate groups, the former does not practically affect their conversion whereas the latter decelerates strongly this process. In the paper the influence mechanism of CF is considered. |
