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Characteristic of elastomers is that they have a glass temperature below ambient temperature; however, in contrast to thermoplastics, the most obvious property of cross-linked elastomers is their almost completely reversible elastic behavior. Some cross-linked elastomers can be stretched to up to seven times their original length and still return almost immediately to their original length. On account of this, this chapter is dedicated to this class of materials.
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Koltzenburg, S., Maskos, M., Nuyken, O. (2017). Elastomers. In: Polymer Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49279-6_18
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