Method for the preparation of a reinforced thermoset polymer composite

The present invention refers to a method for the preparation of a reinforced thermoset polymer composite, said thermoset polymer composite comprising coated fibres, the coating being used as a vehicle for the introduction of carbon nanotubes into the thermoset polymer, the preparation of said reinforced thermoset polymer composite comprising the following steps: - providing fibres; - preparing a coating comprising carbon nanotubes and a polymeric binder; - applying said coating to said fibres to obtain coated fibres; - impregnating said coated fibres with a precursor of a thermoset polymer and letting part of the carbon nanotubes transfer from the coating into the precursor of the thermoset polymer; - curing said precursor containing the coated fibres and the transferred carbon nanotubes to achieve the reinforced thermoset polymer composite.

Patent Publication Number: EP2300517

Year filing: 2009

Year approval: 2015

Year publication: 2015

Status: Assigned

Technology domains: Basic materials chemistry, Textile and paper machines, Other special machines

Validated for IOF-key: Yes

Attributed to: Associatie KULeuven