Liquid rubber components

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Thermosets are generally used in advanced composites due to their excellent thermal and dimensional stability, high modulus, and good mechanical properties. Because thermoset resins are inherently brittle, however, some applications require improved fracture resistance. Toughening of thermosets has been achieved through various methods, such as incorporation of reactive liquid rubber [1-9], elastomer [10], or rigid thermoplastics [11-25], and IPN formation with ductile component [26]. 

The value of Tg is important, since rigidity decreases in the glass transition region, Tg is closely related to the structure and crosslinking density of the cured resin. The structure of the cured resin can be derived from the initial starting materials, the epoxy prepolymer and hardener, and reaction conditions. However, the structures of many cured resins is still unclear which prevents to establish the structure-mechanical properties relationships. Further studies are needed. Furthermore, the commercial epoxy formulations may contain several components and also diluents, plasticizers, liquid rubbers, etc. which makes a prediction of Tg and mechanical properties even more difficult. 

Elastomeric materials find use as vial closures, as syringe plungers, and as liquid delivery components. Elastomers, called sometimes simply rubber, are also polymeric materials, and are known by their common names, halobutyl, silicone, urethane, neoprene, polybutadiene, etc. Elastomers themselves... 

Another type of rubber that is used frequently is thermoplastic rubber. Components are fabricated in a process that is similar to that used for common hard plastics, such as polyethylene or polystyrene, but the final product is an elastic material with properties otherwise equivalent to those of thermoset rubbers. No chemical reactions are involved in the processing of a thermoplastic rubber. The fabrication process consists of heating the rubber compound until it liquefies, injecting the liquid into a mold, cooling the mold, and finally removing the closure from the mold. The process is reversible. Closures can be remelted and remolded into different shapes or sizes as desired. 

Molded articles, which are conventionally manufactured in presses with high viscosity rubber, have been recently manufactured in automatic injection molding machines using liquid silicone rubber, which enables the mass production of silicone rubber components with short cycle times. 

The polyester resin used in this study, MR 13006 (Aristech Corporation), was supplied as a 60-wt% solution in styrene monomer. The epoxy resin, a digly-cidyl ether of bisphenol A (Epon 828), was obtained from Shell Chemical Company. The reactive liquid rubber, an amino-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer (ATBN 1300 x 16), was provided by the BFGoodrich Company. The resin was mixed with additional styrene monomer to maintain the ratio of reactive unsaturation in the polyester-to-styrene monomer at 1 to 3. We added 1.5 wt% of tert-butylperbenzoate initiator to the solution, which we then degassed under vacuum. The mixture was poured between vertical, Teflon-coated, aluminum plates and cured under atmospheric pressure at 100 °C. In the modified compositions, the rubber was first dissolved in the styrene monomer, and then all the other components were added and the solution cured as described. In all the compositions, the ratio of the amine functions with respect to the epoxy functions was kept at 1 to ensure complete cure of the epoxy. 

Commercially available liquid rubber (CTBN, ATBN)-toughened epoxy often shows outstanding fracture properties, and the technology is exploited in engineering adhesives [58]. However, because the butadiene component of the elastomer contains unsaturation, it would appear to be a site for premature thermal and/or oxidative instability, and such modified resins are not suitable for application at high temperature. One would imagine that excessive crosslinking could take place with time which would detract from otherwise desirable improvements accomplished with these structures. Second, there is some limitation in its use due to a possibility of the... 

Yu and co-workers [59] discussed liquid chromatographic interfaces for bench-top single quadruple LC-MS. The two most popular interfaces are particle beam and atmospheric pressure ionisation types. The system was applied to the analysis of additives in PP. Dilts [60] used a photodiode array detector coupled with particle beam LC-MS to characterise the degradation of Isonox 129, Irganox 1010, Ii anox 1076, andirgafos 168 in polyolefins. Sidwell [61] examined extractables from plastic and rubber components of medical products by LC-MS and GC-MS. 

Components were mixed in a ratio determined by the specification of the planned experiment (Table 1) in a 0.2-dm laboratory mixer Werner-Pfleiderer. At first, epoxide and liquid rubber were mixed together. Then a catalyst and buffing dust were added, and after further mixing, diisocyanate... 

In the case of UP and VE resins complete miscibility with liquid rubbers or elastomers is unusual. Initial compatibility of two polymer components, i.e., the resin and the liquid rubber, will depend on a number of factors such as the molecular weight of each component, the molecular weight distribution of each component, the chemistry of each component. 

The level of measured improvements in toughness attributed to liquid rubber additives is somewhat dependent on the type of test performed as well as the specific SMC recipe. The toughening mechanisms in effect for rubber modified SMC materials have not been well documented. The presence of a low profile additive (LPA), mineral filler, and glass fibers affects the dispersion of the rubbery additive and its effectiveness in toughening the polyester matrix. Interactions between the rubbery additive and each of the typical SMC components have not been well researched. 

Polyurethane elastomers (PUE) are of great practical importance in various fields [ 1 ]. In particular, in developing PUE of molding compositions for sports and roofing the liquid rubbers (oligomers) of diene nature with a molecular weight of 2000-4000 are widely used as a polyol component. Usually these are homopolymers of butadiene and isoprene, the products of copolymerization of butadiene with isoprene or butadiene with piperylene and isocyanate prepolymers based on these oligomers. 

C150H186 hexabenzocoronene derivative polymantanes acenaphthofluoranthenes c/s-polyisoprene -[CH2C(CH3)=CHCH2].-isoprene—isobutylene copolymer styrene—butadiene copolymer ethylene—propylene copolymer liquid crystal (component for photovoltaic films) new material hydrocarbons built from fused adamantine units conductive ladder polymer natural rubber synthetic rubber... 

The moduli of metals, ceramics and glassy polymers below Tq reflect the stiffness of the bonds which link the atoms. Glasses and glassy polymers above are leathers, rubbers or viscous liquids, and have much lower moduli. Composites have moduli which are a weighted average of those of their components. 

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