Toray Industries, Inc.

Taiki Kuroda

Kentaro Sano

Noriyuki Hirano

Reo Takaiwa

Toshiya Kamae

Ayumi Mori

Hiroyuki Uchida

Provided is a fiber-reinforced composite material exhibiting high heat resistance and excellent appearance quality. is the composite material is based on an epoxy resin composition which contains constituents [A], [B], and [C] and satisfies conditions (i) and (ii):

Epoxy resin composition, prepreg, fiber-reinforced composite material, and method for producing same

The present invention provides an epoxy resin composition that serves to produce a cured epoxy resin that simultaneously realizes a high heat resistance, a high elastic modulus, and a low color and to produce a molded article having a good appearance without suffering the formation of white spots on the surface thereof when used as matrix resin in a fiber reinforced composite material. The epoxy resin composition includes an epoxy resin as component [A], an aromatic urea [B1] and/or an imidazole compound [B2] as component [B], and a borate ester compound as component [C], containing dicyandiamide in the amount of 0.5 part by mass or less relative to the total quantity of epoxy resins which accounts for 100 parts by mass, wherein the epoxy resin composition meets certain sets of further requirements with respect to its composition.

Epoxy resin composition, prepreg, and fiber-reinforced composite material

The present invention provides an epoxy resin composition that serves to produce a cured epoxy resin that simultaneously realizes a high heat resistance, a high elastic modulus, and a low color and to produce a molded article having a good appearance without suffering the formation of white spots on the surface thereof when used as matrix resin in a fiber reinforced composite material. The epoxy resin composition includes an epoxy resin as component [A] and an imidazole compound as component [B] and meets certain conditions (a) to (d).

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