A heat-curable structural adhesive includes a non-rubber-modified epoxy resin, a reaction product of a carboxyl- or amine-terminated butadiene polymer or copolymer and a bisphenol F-based epoxy resin, a elastomeric toughener containing capped isocyanate groups, one or more epoxy curing agents a moisture scavenger and a heat activatable catalyst comprising a mixture of a solid or liquid tertiary amine compound that has a boiling temperature of at least 130 C. and a novolac resin. The structural adhesive develops excellent bonding properties when cured at moderate temperatures, especially from 120 to 170 C., and in addition performs very well in environmental aging stress testing. The adhesive is particularly good for bonding aluminum to another metal, or bonding aluminum to aluminum.

A rubber composition is based on at least one predominant elastomer comprising epoxide functional groups, silica as predominant reinforcing filler, an agent for covering the silica, and a system for crosslinking the elastomer comprising an imidazole and a polycarboxylic acid of general formula (I):

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and an imidazole of general formula (II):

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An adhesive composition comprising an aromatic epoxy resin, an epoxy resin rubber adduct, an amine curing agent; and optionally one or more of an oil absorbent, a corrosion inhibitor and a urone accelerator, wherein the adhesive composition is curable at 150 C. in no more than 210 seconds.

An epoxy adhesive that is adapted to enable spray delivery and seamless polymerization during epoxy resin vacuum infusion techniques is disclosed. The epoxy adhesive can include one or more epoxy resins and one or more solvents that are used to dissolve the one or more epoxy resins. An adduct, a tackifier, and fumed silica can also be added to the adhesive.

The invention relates to an adhesive composition having an added component of rubber-epoxy such as XNBR-epoxy adducts. It was found that the new adhesive composition significantly reduces meander formation in the making of automotive parts.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an epoxy resin composition which exhibits a high level of deforming capacity and fracture toughness and from which a resin cured product maintaining heat resistance can be obtained. The epoxy resin composition according to the present invention satisfies condition 1 or condition 2 below, wherein the resin cured product obtained by reacting the epoxy resin composition at 150 C. for 60 minutes has a tensile elongation at break of 7% or more. Condition 1: including all the following components [A], [B], and [C], component [A]: a bifunctional aliphatic epoxy resin having a specific structure, component [B]: a terminal carboxy-modified acrylic rubber, and component [C]: a dicyandiamide. Condition 2: including the following components [D], [E], and [F] and satisfying conditions [a] and [b] below, component [D]: core-shell type rubber particles, component [E]: a boric ester compound, component [F]: a curing agent, condition [a]: including 9-18 parts by mass of component [D] with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total epoxy resin, and condition [b]: 0.003(the content of component [E]/the content of component [D])0.05.

A material comprising an epoxy/elastomer adduct, a polymeric particle, from about 0.05 to about 20 weight percent of an epoxy/diacid adduct, and optionally, an amine reaction product.

A material comprising at least about 10% by weight polyvinyl butyral, a thermoplastic epoxy, wherein the ratio of polyvinyl butyral to thermoplastic epoxy is about 1 to 10 to about 1 to 4, and at least 2% but less than 15% by weight adducted carboxyl-terminated polymer, wherein the material has a strain to failure of greater than 2% and a modulus of at least 700 MPa.

This invention relates to a curable epoxy composition comprising an epoxy resin, a core-shell rubber, a capped polyurethane prepolymer, a hardener, a multifunctional epoxy-terminated prepolymer, along with related methods of making and using the same. The curable epoxy compositions could be used as structural adhesives after curing, for example, in automotive industrial bonding applications, which provides very good toughening performance, high low temperature impact peel strength, good water resistance and good corrosion resistance.