Moulding composition comprising a thermoset component and thermoplast component

摘要

A curable moulding composition in the form of a flowable particulate solid substantially non self-adhesive at temperatures up to 60 DEG C., flowable under shear and self-adhesive at temperatures in the range 60 DEG -150 DEG C. and hardenable at temperature over 150 DEG C., said composition comprising an uncured or partly cured thermoset resin precursor and, mixed intimately therewith, a polyarylsulphone containing the repeating units (Ph SO2 Ph)n and Ph1a linked through ether and/or thioether, where Ph is paraphenylene, Ph1 is phenylene, n is 1 to 2 a is 1 to 3 and groups Ph1 are (when a exceeds 1) linked through a single chemical bond or a divalent group other than SO2 or alkylene or are fused together. Preferably the polyarylsulphone contains end-groups of formula -D-Y where D is a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group and Y is a group reactive with the thermoset precursor and has been incipiently reacted with the thermoset precursor.