Curing process is an essential step in the preparation of silicone resin coating

in which polycondensation of multi-silanol mainly occurred in a non-solvent system. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was used to study this process. A curing polycondensation kinetic model of this process was presented and used to describe the curing polycondensation process. The parameters such as the extent of polycondensation

rate constants and activation energies were obtained for the cases with curing agents

such as 2-ethyl-4-methylimidazole

guanidine carbonate or guanidine acetate

and without curing agent. In this study

curing agents could promote the polycondensation of multi-silanol in the curing process and increase the final extent of polycondensation of the reactants at different temperatures.