"toughening agent" is a valid term used in written English.It can be used to refer to a substance that is added to a material to increase its strength, durability, or hardness.
For example: The manufacturer added a toughening agent to the plastic to make it sturdier.
The thermoplastic may serve as a toughening agent although other properties may also be improved.
This work attempts to introduce polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane compounds as a novel toughening agent for thermosetting systems.
However, the most efficient toughening agent was PMMA, in particular when present as a co-continuous PMMA-rich phase within the epoxy-rich matrix.
The SBM formed a nanostructured thermoset and thus was a more efficient toughening agent than CTBN, which forms micron scale, rubbery inclusions in the epoxy.
The blends were to be used as a toughening agent for interlayer toughened VE/glass composite material.
Carbon black is a product used in the manufacture of printing inks and as a toughening agent in making rubber.
This virtually eliminates them as toughening agents, so that the ceramic matrix reverts to brittle behaviour.
Novel reactive core/shell-type hyperbranched blockcopolyethers were tailored as new class of liquid rubbers useful as flexibilizers and toughening agents of anhydride-cured epoxy resins.
The extraordinary mechanical properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have generated interest in incorporating them as toughening agents in ceramics.
This paper reported such a high performance epoxy system modified by a hybrid of toughening agents, block copolymer particle (BCP) and core-shell particle (CSP), was successfully prepared via a two-step processing method.
The use of structural core/shell latex particles as toughening agents provides a model system which allows independent control of several key factors that influence the fracture toughness of modified plastics.
