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This work reports on the curing kinetics of unsaturated polymer resins (UPRs) cured with styrene, studied by differential scanning calorimetry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The data lead to determination of the experimental conditions with which to obtain a fully cured material and open the way for study of the relaxation phenomena by means of thermally stimulated depolarization current analysis (TSDC). In relaxation studies on fully cured resins, the TSDC spectra revealed important overlapping of the main relaxation peak with an extra upper peak. The importance of this extra peak a priori prevents further analysis of the main relaxation. To identify the origins of this peak (space charge or other), the purity of the resin was checked by X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. The use of UPR specimens with different compositions (in terms of the resin/activator/initiator ratio) demonstrated that the bulk of the impurities Cl, K, Ca, Sr, Zr and Ba are due to the promoter. Decoupling of the mixed peaks (α-relaxation and extra) revealed that the a peak is independent of the proportion of the promoter in the resin and that the extra peak is principally due to the presence of these impurities.
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Grenet, J., Marais, S., Legras, M.T. et al. DSC and TSDC Study of Unsaturated Polyester Resin. Influence of the promoter content. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 61, 719–730 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010172408643
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