Sulfur Curing Systems

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Because of the different vulcanization chemistry involved in each commercial ACM, a vulcanization system specific to the cure site present has to be adopted. Many cure systems for labile chlorine containing ACM have been proposed (45). Among these the alkali metal carboxylate—sulfur cure system, or soap—sulfur as it is called in the United States, became the mainstay of acryflc elastomer technology in the early 1960s (46), and continues to be widely used. 

Although these curative systems may also be used with the polyepichlorohydrin elastomers containing AGE, the polymers were developed to be cured with conventional mbber curatives, sulfur, and peroxides. These polymers containing the pendent aHyl group are readily cured with a typical sulfur cure system such as zinc oxide, and sulfur along with the activators, tetramethylthiuram mono sulfide [97-74-5] (TMTM) and... 

Some of the terpolymers containing high levels of AGE give superior sour gasoline and ozone resistance, particularly dynamic ozone resistance. Since the unsaturation is not in the polymer backbone, it can be, and apparentiy is, sacrificed under sour gasoline or ozone aging. This protection scheme is limited with the peroxide and sulfur cure systems as they involve the aHyl functionaUty of the polymer. The protection is maximized when a dinucleophilic curative, such as trithiocyanurate, is used. 

There are no known practical peroxide cure systems for the PO—AGE polymers. Apparentiy the peroxide attacks the polymer backbone at a rate that is unfavorably competitive with the cross-linking rate. A typical sulfur cure system consists of zinc oxide [1314-13-2] tetramethylthiuram mono sulfide (TMTM), 2-2-mercaptobenzothiazole [149-30-4] (MBT), and sulfur. A sulfur donor cure system is zinc oxide, di-o-tolylguanidine [97-39-2] (DOTG) and tetramethylthiuram hexasulftde. 

Figure 8 shows the SEM images with a low level of strain (50%). It is clear that even with a low-strain level defects are initiated in the sulfur cured system with the formation of large cracks at the boundary layer between the two phases. However, in the peroxide cured system the mechanism of crack initiation is very different. In the latter case the NR-LDPE interface is not the site for crack initiation. In this case, stress due to externally applied strains is distributed throughout the matrix by formation of fine crazes. Furthermore, such crazes are developed in the continuous rubber matrix in a direction... 

High Sulfur-Cure Systems for Nitrile Rubber ... 

Coated materials are evaluated in S-SBR and in 50 50 blends of S-SBR and EPDM rubbers. In blends, the partitioning of fillers and curatives over the phases depends on differences in surface polarity. In S-SBR, polythiophene-modified silica has a strong positive effect on the mechanical properties because of a synergistic reaction of the sulfur-moieties in the polythiophene coating with the sulfur cure system. In S-SBR/EPDM blends, a coating of polyacetylene is most effective because of the chemical similarity of polyacetylene with EPDM. The effect of... 

These post-polymerization reactions are very expensive so HNBRs usually command a premium price. HNBR is usually cured with peroxides, similar to ethylene-propylene elastomers, because it has no unsaturation for a conventional sulfur cure system. 

The proven compounding practice for the natural rubber layer is to load it with 30 phr of graphite, 30 phr of semi-reinforcing carbon black filler and 50 phr of inert filler, china clay. A low sulfur curing system is adopted for heat resistance with a suitable antioxidant to prevent flex-cracking. A typical chlorine resistant soft natural rubber compound formula is given in Table 3.2. 

Tetraethoxy-3,16-dioxa-8,9,10,11-tetrathia-4,15-disilaoctadecane. Filler for sulfur-cured systems. Hoffmann Mining. 

Cure characteristics of EPDM/PP blends were investigated by Sengupta and Konar (27). They calculated the state of cure in blends containing conventional sulfur curing system under variable time-temperature conditions. They found that the activation energy for the cross-linking is almost similar for the virgin EPDM and EPDM/PP mixtures. Cross-link densities in TPVs can be analyzed by swollen-state... 

A sulfur-curing system thus has basically four components a sulfur vulcanizing agent, an accelerator (sometimes combinations of accelerators), a metal oxide, and a fatty acid. In addition, in order to improve... 

In sponge production, 1, 2-PBD can be loaded with fillers and cured with sulfur, while EVA cannot be cured with sulfur, only with peroxide. Figure 3 shows the cure curves obtained with a JSR Curelastometer using sulfur curing system. The cure rate of 1, 2-PBD is similar to that of SBR. 

The antiozonant should have no adverse effects on the rubber processing characteristics (mixing, fabrication, vulcanization, physical properties). In general purpose rubbers, this implies that the antiozonant must be compatible with sulfur curing systems. 

Figure 5.16 Tearing energy versus crack propagation rate of vulcanized (conventional sulfur cure system) HAF (N330) black-filled (50 pphr) NR at 23 °C. (Reproduced from ref 8.).

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