| Abstract: | The objective of this article is to establish a new method in evaluating photo‐polymerization resin reaction behavior, and to use the trends resulting from past evaluation methods and those already known to prove the feasibility of this method. Another objective is to compare the data gathered using the differential photo calorimeter (DPC) method and RPT on different photo‐polymerization resin systems to illustrate that the application of RPT on photo‐polymerization resin studies is more suitable. Experiment results show that the trends through the real time method using oxide series acrylate research through rigid‐body Pendulum Rheometer, the photo‐curing behavior under the various parameters of monomer functionality, and photo‐initiator concentration can all be observed. Comparing the DPC and RPT methods on polyester acrylate series, when the oligomer of tetra‐functional polyester acrylate is added with a different ratio of the monomer of propoxylated neopentyl‐glycol di‐acrylate, DPC evaluation methods show that the differences in observation are minimal. However, when RPT was applied, not only were the differences in reaction speed observed, but also the differences in crosslinking and other data in the hardening process when the balanced time was achieved during the oscillations procedure. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 101: 3402–3407, 2006 |
