Innovations of Rubber Chemistry and Technology for Sustainability

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-83767-257-8
Verlag: RSC Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 777 g

Rubbers are ubiquitous materials that play irreplaceable roles in modern society, from tires, seals, hoses, vibration/noise control, biomedical devices, and stretchable electronics to soft robotics. The traditional rubber manufacturing and vulcanization process is energy-intensive, and the end-of-life rubber products are hard to reuse and recycle due to the permanently crosslinked chemical structures and the variety of processing additives involved. Innovation of sustainable rubber chemistry and technology is urgently needed.

This book provides critical reviews of the latest developments in rubber technology, including energy-efficient devulcanization techniques, the dynamic crosslinking chemistry of rubbers, and an understanding of the trade-off between network dynamics and the properties of rubber. Further chapters explore the functionalization and hybridization of fillers and how blends, TPVs, and multiple networks influence the sustainability of rubber. The book concludes with an examination of new developments and real-world applications of rubber in the circular economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wan, Chaoying

Guo, Baochun

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie Polymerchemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Chemische Verfahrenstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Green Chemical Devulcanization Systems

- Dynamic Covalent Chemistry in Rubber Crosslinking

- Surface-functionalised Fillers as Dynamic Crosslinkers

- Dual-crosslinked Network Design

- Heterogeneous Network Design

- Bio-based Elastomers

- Biomass-derived Fillers

- Green Functional Ingredients

- Thermoplastic Vulcanizates (TPVs)

- Dielectric Elastomers for Energy Transduction

- Green Tyres

- Modification of Rubbers for Vibration Damping

- Modification of Nitrile Rubbers for High-performance Sealing Materials

Über Autor(innen)

Wan, Chaoying
Dr Chaoying Wan is an Associate Professor in multifunctional nanocomposites. She specialises in polymer synthesis and characterisation of multiphase/multicomponent nanocomposites, exploitation of multifunctionality for energy storage applications. She has expertise in developing reactive processing of thermoplastic-, thermoset- and elastomer-based blends/alloys and nanocomposites through in situ polymerisation and reactive extrusion. Dr Wan has edited or authored nine books published by Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley-VCH since 2015.