1-Chloro-butadiene-styrene-butadiene terpolymer (CB-SBR) was prepared by emulsion polymerization at 5°C. Thus synthesized CB-SBR was hydrolyzed by heating the latex under alkaline conditions to afford a novel styrene-butadiene rubber carrying OH groups (HCB-SBR). Both CB-SBR and HCB-SBR showed much better processability on a two- roll mill than 1-chloro-butadiene-butadiene copolymer (CB-BR). The new rubbers were compounded with sulfur(S) or sulfur-diisocyanate(SI) as curing agent to prepare the vulcanizares. The crosslinking by S cure system were faster than that of commercial SBR, and HCB-SBR compounded with SI system showed the fastest cure rate. Tensile strength (
TB) of the carbon black stock vulcanizates of CB-SBR cured with S or SI system was 19.6 or 20.1 MPa, respectively. These values are higher than those of CB-BR (12.1 and 13.6 MPa), and almost equal to that of SBR vulcanizate with S system (19.1 MPa). On the other hand, HCB-SBR vulcanizate with SI system displayed the highest
TB (25.6 MPa), which also showed better anti-aging properties than CB-SBR ones. Analyses of crosslinking structure revealed that the polysulfide bond ratio was higher for HCB-SBR vulcanizates with SI cure system than that for the vulcanizate with S system. This finding suggest that the vulcanizate with SI cure system is expected to show higher
TB and heat aging resistance and lower compression set than that of the former by decreasing polysulfide bond ratio by optimizing the cure condition.
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