Affiliation:
1. 1Monsanto Company, Rubber Chemicals Division, 260 Springside Drive, Akron, Ohio 44313
Abstract
Abstract
The swelling of thermoplastic vulcanizates in immersion fluids is constrained. The amount of swelling is less than the average swelling of the rubber and plastic. The constraint in swelling increases with the difference between the swelling of vulcanized rubber and that of the plastic, per se. However, the swelling constraint decreases with increases in the amount of fluid imbibed by the plastic or hard phase material. The thermoplastic vulcanizates prepared by dynamic vulcanization swell less than do the thermosetting (less thermoplastic) compositions prepared by static vulcanization. Swelling is anisotropic, especially for the compositions containing major proportions of rubber.
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Polymers and Plastics
Cited by
34 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献