Medical Elastomers

Swellable elastomers under constraint

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Reinforcement of Elastomers

1 Types of Fillers 1 2 Mixing and Dispersion 2 3 Rheology and Modulus of Filled Rubber 3 3.1 Hydrodynamic Effect 4 3.2 Rubber–Filler Interaction 4 3.3 Filler–Filler Interaction (Particle Network Formation) 5 4 Mechanical Hysteresis 5 4.1 Dynamic Properties 6 4.2 Strain Softening and the Mullins Effect 7 5 Failure Properties of Filled Rubber 7 6 Summary 9 Acknowledgment 9 References 9 Further Re...

Fluorine-containing Elastomers Introduction

Mechanochemically Responsive Viscoelastic Elastomers

Mechanochemically responsive (MCR) polymers have been designed to possess unconventional properties such as changing colors, self-healing, and releasing catalysts under deformation. These properties of MCR polymers stem from a class of molecules, referred to as mechanophores, whose chemical reactions can be controlled by mechanical forces. Although extensive studies have been devoted to the syn...

Liquid Crystal Elastomers

PREFACE Liquid crystals are unusual materials. As their name suggests, they inhabit the grey area between liquids and solids. They have long range orientational order, typically of the unique axes of their component rod-like or plate molecules. Spatial variations of this average direction of molecular orientation are resisted by so-called curvature (Frank) elasticity. On the other hand liquid c...