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Synthetic elastomers
Definition
In contrast to natural rubber obtained by coagulation from latex of plants such as Hevea brasiliensis, synthetic rubbers is a collective term for different elastomeric polymers of synthetic origin with properties tailor-made according to the application.
Historical Background
In 1900, J. Kondakow reported the potassium hydroxide initiated polymerization of 2,3-dimethyl-butadiene in ethanol upon treatment of the monomers for 5 h’s at 150 °C [1]. The same solvent free monomers were auto-polymerized in the presence of sunlight, yielding a white relatively high molecular weight rubber, which resembled natural rubber in terms of chemical resistance [2]. The development of a technically feasible rubber production technology was proposed by Fritz Hofmann in 1906. Germany, with no access to natural rubber plants, subsidized the technology development with 100,000 Reichsmark. An estimated total amount of 2.5 kt polydimethylbutadiene “Methyl-Kautschuk H”...
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Thiele, S., Roessle, M. (2015). Synthetic Rubbers. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29648-2_313
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