Polymeric materials having good mechanical properties combined with flexibility are requirements to meet changing needs of the industry. These requirements can be met with the production of dynamically vulcanized/crosslinked ...

This study aims at analysing the ideal rate of two stabilizers in elastomeric compounds, used in tires that require a long-term performance, submitted to different kinds of aging. The resistance to the aging can be achieved ...

One of the major challenges in the rubber industry today is related to the relationship between durability, safety and economy for tire applications. Important progress on rolling resistence reduction with good wet grip ...

In this study thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) composites were obtained with different nanoclay contents (0, 1, 3 for all cases and 10 wt% in some cases). The nanoclay Cloisite 30B (C30B) was dispersed in the TPU matrix ...

Zinc oxide nanoparticle (nano ZnO) is a kind of inorganic multifunctional filler, which has extensive uses in rubber additives. Notably, most of relevant researches about nano ZnO focused on using them as a substitute of ...

The aim of this study was to obtain, characterize and determine the technical viability of terpolymer of ethylene-propylene-diene (EPDM) compounds with the addition of vegetable oil derived from soybean (MD600), vulcanizing ...

In this work, three different microcellular polyurethanes elastomers (EMPU) based on 4,4-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) with different rigid phase contents were prepared (Formulations 1, 2 and 3 with 32, 35 and 42% of ...

The objective of this work was to obtain an EPDM elastomeric formulation for application at high temperatures. The influence of characteristics such as the ethene, propene, and diene content and Mooney viscosity, the use ...

Vulcanization is a crosslinking process in which the chemical structure of the elastomer is changed by the interlinking of the long chains of the polymer, resulting in a three-dimensional network. The tire repairing industry ...