“…The cardanol-based novolac type phenolic resins may be synthesized to replicate the performance of conventional phenolic resins, which when epoxidised with epichlorohydrin (ECH), can produce polyepoxide resins with improved properties (Do et al, 1996;Unnikrishnan and Thachil, 2006;Campaner et al, 2009). To achieve some other important properties, epoxy resins are often modified with other polymeric compounds and cardanol (Schmolzer and Verdino, 1980;Tominaga and Hirata, 1980;Ramasri et al, 1985;Thien et al, 1996;Aggarwal et al, 2007;Li, 2008;Unnikrishnan and Thachil, 2008;Yu et al, 2009b;Chen et al, 2009;Hu et al, 2009;Yadav and Srivastava, 2010). Cardanol has been used with epoxy resins as cardanol-formaldehyde resins, and as a curing agent (Thien et al, 1996;Sato et al, 2008;Shi et al, 2009).…”