Abstract
In a sense, rubber reinforcement is very unique because it includes several functional properties other than mechanical ones. Among quite a number of compounding ingredients, reinforcing fillers, carbon black (CB) in particular, were focused in 1930s, and the effect has been actively researched for several decades. Ability of CB to immobilize rubber on its surface (known as bound rubber, CB-to-rubber interaction) and clustering tendency of CB in rubber matrix (known as CB structuring, filler-to-filler interaction) have been recognized and studied for many years. Together with the third, hydrodynamic volume effect, the three factors have been extensively researched, but the acting mechanism of the three factors for rubber reinforcement has remained unsolved up to the end of the twentieth century. This chapter presents the most recent elucidations related to the reinforcement mechanism.
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Kohjiya, S., Kato, A., Ikeda, Y. (2020). Filler and Rubber Reinforcement. In: Reinforcement of Rubber. Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3789-9_2
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