A liquid vinyl silicone resin was prepared. Its structure was confirmed by FT-IR
GPC
1H NMR
29Si NMR. The curing kinetics of vinyl silicone resin/ phenyl hydrogen silicone oil system was studied by isothermal DSC. The activation energy of this system was obtained by the Kissinger method and advanced iso-conversional method proposed by Vyazovkin. The non-isothermal reaction kinetics was investigated based on the model-fitting Málek method. The curing parameters were obtained by the T-b extrapolation method. The results showed that the apparent activation energies of the curing reaction were 85.3 kJ·mol-1 and 84.0 kJ·mol-1 calculated by Kissinger method and Vyazovkin method
respectively. The Šesták-Berggren(m
n) model was found to be appropriate to describe the curing kinetics of the studied silicone resin system and the theoretically calculated curve agreed well with the experimental data. The characteristic temperatures of the resin system were approximate gelling temperature of 89.1℃