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A new approach to visualizing the carbon black/natural rubber interaction layer in carbon black-filled natural rubber vulcanizates and to elucidating the dependence of mechanical properties on quantitative parameters

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The viscoelastic behavior of carbon black (CB)-filled natural rubber (NR) vulcanizates is explained for the first time by applying a two-phase mixing law, excluding the CB phase, to the volume fraction of the CB/NR interaction layer (CNIL). For CB loadings of 20 phr or less, the CNIL of local CB aggregates induces the reinforcement effect of a series mechanical model of the mixing law. In contrast, for CB loadings of 30 phr or more, the CNIL that forms the CB network (CBN) generates the reinforcement effect of a parallel mechanical model of the mixing law. Therefore, the model of the mixing law presumably changes from a series mechanical model before CBN formation to a parallel one after the network forms. Additionally, employing this fraction, a transition caused by CBN formation was investigated.

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The authors would like to thank Miss Ayano Isoda and Yuko Oorui and Messrs. Hisahiro Sawabe, Toshiya Suda, Takanori Himeno, and Masaru Hashimoto of Nissan ARC, Ltd., and Mr. Yuki Kasahara of Kyoto Institute of Technology, and Professor Emeritus Shizo Kohjiya of the Kyoto University for their valuable cooperation with this research.

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    Atsushi Kato & Nobuo Kojima

  2. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Hashigami-cho, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8585, Japan

    Yuko Ikeda, Ryota Tsushi & Yota Kokubo

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Kato, A., Ikeda, Y., Tsushi, R. et al. A new approach to visualizing the carbon black/natural rubber interaction layer in carbon black-filled natural rubber vulcanizates and to elucidating the dependence of mechanical properties on quantitative parameters. Colloid Polym Sci 291, 2101–2110 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-013-2948-3

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