Filled elastomers: polymer chain and filler characterization by a SANS–SAXS approach

A Botti, W Pyckhout-Hintzen, D Richter and E Straube

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 304, issue 1, 230-234

Abstract: One of the important features of filled elastomers in general is the so-called strain amplification, or the enhancement of the local deformation of the rubbery matrix in comparison to the macroscopic deformation of the sample. This is due to the presence of the filler, taken as an indeformable substance, that changes the properties of the system, both macroscopically like the stiffnesss or the Young modulus, and microscopically like the local overstrain of chains. We used commercially interesting fillers, all of them based on silica particles showing different surface properties, while the rubbery matrix was a blend of protonated and deuterated polyisoprene (PI). We varied the filler volume fraction and the applied strain.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00512-X

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