Cationic copolymerization of cycloaliphatic epoxy resin with an spirobislactone with lanthanum triflate as initiator

An increase in the proportion of s(γ-BL) increases the speed of the curing process. By means of applying isoconversional methods to dynamic experimental data, we observed that an increase in the proportion of s(γ-BL) leads to an overall decrease in the activation energy for the different formulations. Kinetic parameters that were determined using both differential and integral isoconversional procedures were compared. This allowed us to analyze and to discuss the usefulness of different methods in order to obtain a suitable kinetic triplet at each step of the curing of the ECH/s(γ-BL) system using lanthanum triflate as a catalyst.