Differential scanning calorimetry of the epoxy cure reaction

From a review of the literature it is shown that kinetics from programmed heating rate experiments are often in serious disagreement with published isothermal data. In every case, including the present, the dynamic kinetic parameters measured on epoxies are significantly larger than the isothermal. Use of a dynamic rate equation provides good agreement between the two experiments. It is also shown that the Kissinger method is correct when applied to DSC of epoxies.