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coleio
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ive been looking into composites for a while now and was under the impression that epoxy resins are the only resins that are used but just now I have come across the following

cyanite ester
bmi
polyimide

what can you tell me about these resins before I go spend hours researching on google

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They certainly aren't 'common' resins, that's for sure. Cyanate ester I know of, BMI and polyimides I'm not familiar with. What led you to these resins? Epoxy is very far from the only resin that is used in composites, but the other common ones are vinyl ester and polyester. Then you've got slightly more specialist acrylics, polyurethanes, even silicones. There's heaps of them out there, but the three you have listed are definitely very specialist, they aren't something you will pick up from your local fibreglass store! Haha. 

Cyanate ester is an aerospace resin. Works much like vinyl ester, but has very high performance properties. Tg of over 400C or something ridiculous, and tougher than epoxies. Extremely high chemical resistance. From memory it's one of the NASA space shuttles that is made from carbon/cyanate ester. I know it's also used quite extensively in making printed circuit boards for hostile environments. 
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