Carbon-black-filled rubber structure

This behavior can be understood if a superimposed kinetic aggregation process of primary carbon black aggregates in the rubber matrix is considered that alters the local structure of the percolation network. A corresponding model for the percolation behavior of carbon black filled rubbers that includes kinetic aggregation effects is developed in [22], where the filler concentrations and c are replaced by effective concentrations. In a simplified approach, not considering dispersion effects, the effective filler concentration is given by ... 

Equation (70) predicts a power law behavior G cp3-5 for the elastic modulus. Thereby, the exponent (3 + d ) / (3 - df) 3.5 reflects the characteristic structure of the fractal heterogeneity of the filler network, i.e., the CCA-clusters. The predicted power law behavior at higher filler concentrations is confirmed by the experimental results shown in Fig. 15, where the small strain storage modulus of a variety of carbon black filled rubbers is plotted against carbon black loading in a double logarithmic manner. It also agrees with older experimental data obtained by Payne [1] as shown in [63,64]. 

Applications . NMR has found the following applications in filled systems carbon black adsorption of SBR, the effect of carbon black loading on cure rate of natural rubber, gel-like behavior of polybutadiene/carbon black mixtures, structure and dynamics of carbon black filled rubber vulcanizalcs, " interaction of... 

Applications. Numerous uses of x-ray analysis were reported for filled systems. They include orientation of talc particles in extruded thennoplastics, particle size deteimination in nanocomposites, crystallinity of talc nucleated PP, crystallinity of polymerization filled PE, diffraction pattern of filled PVA, structure of nanocomposites based on montmorillonite, degree of filler mixing, structural characteristics of fillers, structure of carbon black filled rubber, the effect of apatite concentration on the structure of wood pulp, and graphite as template. " This list shows the versatility of the method in applications to filled systems. 

The flow of carbon black filled rubbers in the unvulcanized state is of obvious technological importance. Qualitatively, the principal effects of carbon black particle size and structure on the plasticity of... 

Even this definition needs to be classified [7, 8]. To some researchers it is still too broad because it includes many materials that are not usually thought of as composites such as concrete, copolymers and blends, reinforced plastics, and carbon-black-filled rubber. On the other hand, some of the more recent composites are excluded from the category of composites if this definition is strictly applied. For example, many particulate-type composites such as dispersion-hardened alloys and cermets have composite structures that are microscopic rather than macroscopic [2,8]. In some cases, the composite structures are nano-scopic, with the physical constraint of several nanometers as the minimum size of the components [9-16]. The terms... 

As in carbon-black-filled EPDM and NR rubbers, the physical network in silica-filled PDMS has a bimodal structure [61]. A loosely bound PDMS fraction has a high density of adsorption junctions and topological constraints. Extractable or free rubber does virtually not interact with the silica particles. It was found that the density of adsorption junctions and the strength of the adsorption interaction, which depends largely on the temperature and the type of silica surface, largely determine the modulus of elasticity and ultimate stress-strain properties of filled silicon rubbers [113]. 

H NMR transverse magnetisation relaxation experiments have been used to characterise the interactions between NR, isoprene rubber, BR, EPDM and polyethylacrylate rubbers with hydrophilic silica and silicas modified with coupling agents [124-129]. These studies showed that the physical interactions and the structures of the physical networks in rubbers filled with carbon black and rubbers filled with silicas are very similar. In both cases the principal mechanism behind the formation of the bound rubber is physical adsorption of rubber molecules onto the filler surface. 

The distance between aggregates is a value which correlates with many properties of filled rubber. Figure 7.35 gives an example of the correlation with tanb. " Other applications were made with these properties ball rebound, effect of graphitization on properties of carbon black and parameters of carbon black which characterize structure. 

There is some controversy over the mechanical stability of the primary structure aggregates. Voet and associates (11,12) have presented evidence to show that primary structure is not broken by the shearing action of mixing carbon black into rubber, or during deformation of filled vulcanizates. Others have reported fracture of primary structure aggregates (13,14). While there is no doubt that attrition can be produced... 

It is well known that the tensile strength of carbon black filled hydrocarbon rubbers increases with black structure at elevated temperatures, but not at room temperature or below (175). Since primary structure in carbon black increases modulus, hysteresis, and stress-softening (Section VII), an increase of the strength with structure might be expected on consideration of Eq. (32). The conditions under which tensile strength becomes independent of carbon black structure correspond to the regime... 

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