High Performance Phthalonitrile Resins : Challenges and Engineering Applications

Exploring blends and composites of phthalonitriles with other high-performance polymers, High Performance Phthalonitrile Resins: Challenges and Engineering Applications not only introduces the chemistry and physicochemical properties of phthalonitrile resins, but also describes strategies for crosslinking and structural modification.

Although there are a good number of research papers addressing various aspects, such as synthesis, polymerization, reaction kinetics, blending and property evaluation, there has not been any serious attempt to consolidate all these information into a single book or a review article to analyze the potentiality of this material with respect to its synthesis feasibility and property tuning.

Authors Dhanya Augustine, PhD; Satheesh Chandran, PhD; Dona Mathew, PhD; and C.P. Reghunadhan Nair, PhD wrote High Performance Phthalonitrile Resins: Challenges and Engineering Applications, taking into account the above aspects in a comprehensive textbook focusing on the recent developments in the field of phthalonitrile polymers.

High Performance Phthalonitrile Resins: Challenges and Engineering Applications is divided in to five chapters. Chapter 1 describes the competence of phthalonitriles vis-a-vis other state-of-the-art polymers such as phenolic resins, epoxy resins, polyimides and cyanate esters. Chapter 2 details the basic chemistry of phthalonitriles, including the crosslinking mechanisms and cure promoters and their reactions. Chapter 3 elaborates the structure -property relationships of phthalonitriles composed of different backbones such as fluorine- imide- and benzoxazine-functional phthalonitriles. Chapter 4 focuses on the self-catalyzed phthalonitrile systems, while Chapter 5 critically examines the blends and composites of phthalonitrile systems.