Applications: High performance structural composite parts

• Automotive (bumpers and other structural parts)
• Marine, especially sailing boats (structural outer shell in carbon fiber composite, masts and other generic structural parts)
• Industrial parts (rollers, doctor-blades and wind-mill blades)
• Sporting equipments (bike frames, hockey sticks, tennis rackets, skis and golf shafts)
• Aerospace (structural parts and interiors)

Main direct advantages (demonstrated in specific final formulation)

• Improved fracture toughness (G1C) of over 100% = higher crack propagation/delamination resistance
• Improved failure strength: transverse and off-axis (+/- 45°) by over 15% = higher shear resistance
• Reduced CTE of over 15% = less distorted parts produced
• No reduction in the Tg = possible to be used in any formulation

Additional advantages in general

• Electrical properties: induces antistatic properties in the composite parts; excellent for electrostatic painting application
• Flame resistance: higher resistance to flammability up to UL 94 level on the final fiber reinforced composite
• Better thermal dissipation: avoids hot-spots during curing, more homogenous temperature

Curing agents EPOCYL™ NC R128-04 can be cured or cross-linked with different types of curing agents depending on the properties desired in the final composite like any conventional Bis-A based formulations.

IMPORTANT: EPOCYL™ NC R128-02 is not an additive in your formulation, it is a substitution product for the equivalent parts of your conventional Bis A liquid resin. EPOCYL™ NC R128-02 is designed only for formulating solvent based formulations.