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Relationships between Chemical Structures of Crosslink Sites and Physical Properties of Vulcanized Rubbers. Part VI. Oxidative Degradation of EPDM Vulcanizates

1970; American Chemical Society; Volume: 43; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5254/1.3547265

1943-4804

Minoru Imoto, Yuji Minoura, Kunio Gotō, H. Harada, K. Nishihira, H. Fujita, Kunihiko FUJIMOTO, T. Izuta, K. Kono, K. Fujioka, Atsushi Shiota, Makoto Oba, H. Oshita, T. Usamoto,

Polymer crystallization and properties

Abstract Relationship between the chemical structures of crosslinks and the degree of oxidative degradation of EPDM vulcanizates was studied by stress relaxation and oxygen absorption measurements. It was found that the vulcanizates having C—Sx—C crosslink showed slower stress relaxation than the vulcanizate having other crosslink structures, i.e., C—S—C, C—C, and C—R—C. It was thought that C—Sx—C bond would reduce the scission of the network in oxidative degradation, since some polysulfide compounds had the same effect of protecting scission as antioxidant. The similar results were obtained in oxygen absorption measurements. In the case of heat aging, the vulcanizate having C—Sx—C linkage increased in crosslinks during aging and the rate of crosslinking was equal to the rate of scission of the network in the early stages, but the vulcanizates having other types of crosslinks did not show such behavior.