An efficient use of plasticizers in rubber compounds requires an understanding their miscibility behavior. Besides the chemical properties both and plasticizer, rigidity plasticizer plays important role for miscibility. The is investigated here using glass transition measured by differential scanning calorimetry broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS). Additionally, interfacial relaxation phase...

An innovative nanoscale ZnO/polybutadiene rubber composite (ZBRC) was developed as a valid alternative to TiO2 particles or immobilized TiO2 for the mineralization of chlorinated hydrocarbons without difficulties in the recovery of nanoscale photocatalyst particles. A synergistic increase in the removal of 1,1,2-trichloroethylene (TCE) through the coupled reaction processes (i.e., sorption, pho...

Herein, we present the results of systematic studies catalytic hydrogenation commercially available polybutadiene rubbers. The examination a wide range transition metal-based catalysts permitted us to study effect type metal, its loading, and presence phosphine ligands on process efficiency. detailed research allowed selection most active systems that can be successfully applied for synthetic r...

Submitted for the PSF13 Meeting of The American Physical Society Supported shock waves in hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene melts: A large-scale molecular dynamics study MARKUS FROEHLICH, THOMAS SEWELL, DONALD THOMPSON, University of Missouri-Columbia — Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) melts subjected to supported shock loading were studied by non-reactive all-atom molecular dynamics (M...