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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1996
Jeffrey Thomas Gotro, Endwell, NY (US);
Jeffrey Curtis Hedrick, Peekskill, NY (US);
Konstantinos Papathomas, Endicott, NY (US);
Niranjan Mohanlal Patel, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Alfred Viehbeck, Fishkill, NY (US);
William Joseph, Minneapolis, MN (US);
IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a curable thermosetting resin composition having enhanced fracture toughness as a results of the incorporation of reactive thermoplastic oligomers therein. More specifically, the present invention relates to a composition comprising a thermoset resin which contains fluorine and containing at least one fluorine containing thermoplastic homopolymer component which is soluble in the thermoset. Said thermoplastic polymer undergoes an in-situ phase separation process during cure to form a microphase separated multiphase thermoset material.