Hi,

I posted a new thread a few days ago regarding the use of Carbon nanotube enhanced epoxy in my small structural parts project.

I can see that Matt from the staff has answered, but when trying to access the thread, I keep getting a "404" error ?

I have since then had very positive replies from the NanoCyl people, and they are now helping me along

I still have a tech question though.. My first tests indicate that your infusion epoxy is the best for my small parts, the prototypes used for strenght testing are very close to the goal, but the Epocyl additive may bribg me the few ten of percent more strenght that I need.

The question is: What type of Epoxy is the Infusion grade EC epoxy?  Is it Bisphenol-A based or "tetrafunctional" ?

This has a bearing on what precise type of additive I need to get from NanoCyl.

I will of course be posting my results in the forum, in due time ...

Cheers ..

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I have now ordered some EpoCyl NC R128-02 Bisphenol-A based Carbon nanotube Resin.

This is simply a standard epoxy resin additive, containing a high percentage of multi-walled Carbon nanotubes, which can be mixed in with normal laminating Epoxy resin.

The Nanocyl company states that addition of a 1/6 part Epocyl resin will increse the internal strenght of the epoxy matrix by up to 100%  !!! and facilitate a stronger bond between the resin and "plastic" fibres, such as Kevlar, Twaron, Dyneema or diolene fibres.

The carbon nanotube content also increases the thermal conductivity of the resin, to make thermal curing and post curing much more uniform.

The carbon nanotubes makes the epoxy itself electrically conductive, which may or may not be an advantage.

I'm very much looking forward to doing the first testing

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