Physics

Glass transition

Engineering

Methacrylate

Curing (chemistry)

Copolymer

Composite material

Epoxy

Monomer

Polymer chemistry

Materials science

Programming language

Comonomer

Glycidyl methacrylate

Differential scanning calorimetry

Computer science

Chemical engineering

Polymerization

Polymer

Ternary operation

Thermodynamics

Journal of Applied Polymer Science

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to design novel binary and ternary copolymers based on methacrylate and/or epoxy monomers reinforced with 10 wt % mono‐/octafunctional polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) compounds bearing one or eight epoxy or methacrylate moieties. The experimental parameters such as temperature and time of reaction, comonomer ratio and the incorporation of various types of POSS that strongly influences the curing behavior, polymerization kinetics, glass transition temperature ( T g ), thermostability and morphological structure of the obtained copolymers were investigated through DSC, FTIR, DMA, TGA, and SEM techniques. The obtained results evidenced that the complex kinetic mechanisms of curing reactions for the binary and ternary copolymers ± POSS influence the thermomechanical and morphological properties of the materials. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2016 , 133 , 42912.

Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes nanoreinforced methacrylate/epoxy hybrids