Stress relaxation of cured phenylethynyl-terminated polyimides was used to estimate their equilibrium rubbery moduli. The corresponding concentrations of elastically effective chains derived from classical rubber elasticity theory were less than one-fifth what would be expected if every chain end participated in a crosslink. A model is proposed to allow the calculation of the average crosslink functionalities.
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