Affiliation:
1. Bridgestone Americas Center for Research and Technology, 1200 Firestone Parkway, Akron, OH 44317
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Bulk viscoelasticity and tensile behavior are examined for cross-linked compounds made of mussel-mimetic elastomers of varied functionality design. During polymerization, the mussel-mimetic functionalities containing the 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl (or catechol) group can be incorporated at the molecule chain head, along the backbone, and/or at the molecule chain tail. The compounds are either unfilled or filled to the same filler volume fraction with a single filler chosen among carbon black (hydrophobic), precipitated silica (hydrophilic), and titanium oxide (hydrophilic). For polymers bearing multiple mussel-mimetic functional groups, the polymer cold flow resistance becomes significantly enhanced, arising from the strong intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions. Such strong intermolecular hydrogen-bonding interactions also affect the bulk viscoelasticity and tensile behavior for the cross-linked gum compounds. Because the mussel-mimetic functional groups exhibit obvious affinity to all three types of filler particles, the extent of modification to bulk viscoelasticity and reinforcement for the filled compounds is observed to vary with the distribution of such functionalities along a polymer molecule, the chemical groups immediately next to the catechol group, and the specific type of filler. As expected, microscale filler dispersion is improved from the strong polymer–filler interactions.
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Polymers and Plastics
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