Journal
POLYMER TESTING
Volume 71, Issue -, Pages 115-124Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2018.08.032
Keywords
Vulcanizate; Degradation; Bound rubber; Carbon black; Crosslinked structure
Funding
- Jiangsu Science and Technology Project [BA2016002]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51478211]
- Opening Project of the Key Laboratory of Polymer Processing Engineering (South China University of Technology), Ministry of Education
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The covalently crosslinking structure between rubber matrix and carbon black (CB) fillers present a significant challenge to analyze the structure and properties of bound rubber in vulcanizate. This work provides a layered exfoliation method to destruct cross-linked network and separate bound rubber encapsulated CB particles out of vulcanizate. A layer of loosely bound rubber was observed by using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and the existence of tightly bound rubber layer was proved by thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA), atomic force microscopic (AFM) and dispersion experiment. The chemical components of studied layers were further analyzed by using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), where the detection of S, N and Zn elements indicated the vulcanization reaction occurred in it, and the content of polysulfide and disulfide bonds was higher than that of monosulfide. The existence of oxygenic groups is resulted from the occurrence of oxidative scission reaction.
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