The effect of temperature on the radiolysis of some special purpose, and ordinary elastomers

Effect of electron beam irradiation on structure and properties of styrene-butadiene rubber

“…Polybutadiene rubber (cis-1, 4) (BR) (Kozlov et al, 1969) 0.549 0.055 0.10 Ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM) (Geissler et al, 1978) 0.226 0.059 0.26 Polychloroprene (CR) (Hill et al, 1993) 0.332-0.497 --…”

“…Nowadays, the most commonly used type of radiation-induced modification of polymers is crosslinking (Clough, 2001). Among polymers prone to crosslink, there is a large group of rubbers, including hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (HNBR) (Bik et al, 2004;Zagórski, 2004;Das et al, 2005), acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR) (Hill et al, 1996;Yasin et al, 2002;Stephan et al, 2007;Vijayabaskar et al, 2008), styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) (Witt, 1959;Anderson, 1960;Shaltout, 2009;Wang et al, 2009;Ali et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2016;Moustafa et al, 2011), natural rubber (NR) (Moustafa et al, 2011;Charlesby and von Arnim, 1957;Bauman, 1960;Mullins and Turner, 1960;Minoura and Asao, 1961;Manaila et al, 2014), ethylenepropylene copolymer (EPM) and ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer (EPDM) (Geissler et al, 1978;Vroomen et al, 1991;Zaharescu and Podinǎ, 2001;Chowdhury and Banerji, 2005), polybutadiene (BR) (Parkinson and Sears, 1967;Kozlov et al, 1969;Hayashi et al, 1980;Shen et al, 1995), chloroprene rubber (CR) (Hill et al, 1993), silicone rubber (Frounchi et al, 2006). The properties of rubbers, such as hardness, tensile strength and elongation at break, are strongly dependent on the presence of crosslinks (Coran, 2013), therefore irradiation of rubbers has a profound effect on their performance.…”