Features of Today'S Nitrile-Butadiene Rubber Market

Abstract

Nitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR) is the most important rubber for the production of mechanical rubber goods and is second only to ethylene-propylene rubber in terms of volumes of consumption among the specialpurpose rubbers.

Industrially applied and relevant transformations of 1,3-butadiene using homogeneous catalysts

“…With the rapid development of the electronic industry, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) has become the largest engineering thermoplastic resin, widely used in mobile phones, household appliances, computers, and office products. 26,27 Simultaneously, numerous chemicals produced from 1,3-butadiene are also widely used to manufacture paper coatings, turf, carpets, gloves, wetsuits, toys and other consumer products. Considering there are already various reviews/books on industrial polymers based on 1,3-butadiene for readers to refer, [21][22][23][24][25][26][27] this review will not duplicate this section but center at industrial transformation examples and some promising progress in recent research to produce other bulk chemicals.…”

“…26,27 Simultaneously, numerous chemicals produced from 1,3-butadiene are also widely used to manufacture paper coatings, turf, carpets, gloves, wetsuits, toys and other consumer products. Considering there are already various reviews/books on industrial polymers based on 1,3-butadiene for readers to refer, [21][22][23][24][25][26][27] this review will not duplicate this section but center at industrial transformation examples and some promising progress in recent research to produce other bulk chemicals. Particularly, we will focus on the development of catalytic systems achieving transformations of 1,3-BD towards functionalized products with high atom economy and avoiding environmental pollution.…”

“…With the rapid development of the electronic industry, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) has become the largest engineering thermoplastic resin, widely used in mobile phones, household appliances, computers, and office products. 26,27 Simultaneously, numerous chemicals produced from 1,3-butadiene are also widely used to manufacture paper coatings, turf, carpets, gloves, wetsuits, toys and other consumer products. Considering that there are already…”

“…26,27 Simultaneously, numerous chemicals produced from 1,3-butadiene are also widely used to manufacture paper coatings, turf, carpets, gloves, wetsuits, toys and other consumer products. Considering that there are already various reviews/books on industrial polymers based on 1,3-butadiene for readers to refer to, 21–27 this review will not duplicate this section but center on industrial transformation examples and some promising progress in recent research to produce other bulk chemicals. In particular, we will focus on the development of catalytic systems achieving transformations of 1,3-BD towards functionalized products with high atom economy and avoiding environmental pollution.…”

Modification of nitrile‐butadiene rubber surface by immersion into 1,1,2‐trifluoro‐1,2,2‐trichlor‐ethane and its physio‐chemical properties

“…The two potential approaches to modify the major rubber properties are bulk modification and surface treatment. Bulk modification of rubber is technologically attractive and relatively simple, typically achieved by adding various additives to the crude rubber before vulcanization or modifying the rubber at the latex stage 10 . These additives can include substances like inorganic fillers (such as silica, 11,12 calcium carbonate), plasticizers (e.g., paraffinic oils), tackifiers (resins, rosin esters), antioxidants, zinc dimethylacrylate, 13 ethylene‐acrylic base, 14 foaming agents (e.g., azodicarbonamide), organoclays, 15 rubber ash, 16 graphene particles, 17 bentonite nanoparticles, 18 polyolefins, 19 expanded graphite, 20 carbon nanotubes, 21 or coloring agents (organic and inorganic compounds) 22 .…”