Renewable conjugated acids as curatives for high-performance rubber/silica composites

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Sulphur-cured diene-based rubbers generally suffer from insufficient anti-ageing properties, and the curing process involves the use of toxic additives. Renewable conjugated acids are demonstrated to effectively cure epoxidized natural rubber into a high-performance elastomer, without the use of any toxic accelerators or antioxidants.

Renewable conjugated acids as curatives for high-performance rubber/silica composites

Tengfei Lin,^a   Xuhui Zhang,^a   Zhenghai Tang^a and   Baochun Guo*^a  

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^aDepartment of Polymer Materials and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P. R. China
E-mail: psbcguo@scut.edu.cn
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Green Chem., 2015,17, 3301-3305

 

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/gc/c5gc00834d#!divAbstract
DOI: 10.1039/C5GC00834D
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