The Disordered Structure of Carbon Black

Reinforcement of elastomers by colloidal fillers, like carbon black or silica, plays an important role in the improvement of mechanical properties of high performance rubber materials. The reinforcing potential is mainly attributed to two effects  

The formation of a physically bonded flexible filler network 

Both of these effects refer to a high surface activity and specific surface of the filler particles [26, 27, 47]. In view of a deeper understanding of such structure-property relationships of filled rubbers it is useful to consider the morphological and energetic surface structure of carbon black particles as well as the primary and secondary aggregate structure in rubber more closely- 

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