Featuring new techniques of physicochemical analysis and broader coverage of textile applications

The thoroughly rewritten and enlarged Second Edition provides hands-on assistance in the use, formulation, synthesis, processing, and handling of epoxy resins.

Epoxy Resins, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded documents available commercial products, including rarer species of epoxides ... shows how to achieve quality assurance through analytical methods ... discusses toxicity, hazards, and safe handling ... looks closely at elastomer modification of resins as well as adhesives, coatings, electrical and electronic applications, fiber-reinforced composites, and the use of epoxy resins in the stabilization of polymers, plasticizers, and textiles ... and assists in the more efficient selection and application of epoxy resins.

Complete with nearly 300 pages of tables for quick references, plus over 300 diagrams and photographs, and more than 4,400 bibliographic references, this volume will prove indispensable to polymer, physical, and organic chemists, rheologists, materials scientists and engineers, and chemical, plastics, aerospace, automotive, and electrical and electronics engineers.