Anke Blume

TL;DR: It is proved that the applied techniques—DSC, DMA, and PALS—can serve to provide information about the modifications to the polymer chains, and the usability of “part per hundred rubber” (phr) unit is questioned.

TL;DR: In this article, the partial replacement of silica by high specific surface area and high structure Carbon Black (CB) N134 as secondary filler, keeping the same total filler content at 55 phr, shows a clear synergistic effect on overall performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, two secondary fillers organoclay nanofiller and N134 carbon black were added to silica-based natural rubber compounds at a proportion of silica/secondary filler of 45/10

TL;DR: Precipitated silica is employed as a filler in vulcanizable mixtures for the production of tires as mentioned in this paper, where a process in which an alkali metal silicate is reacted with mineral acids (preferably sulfuric acid) at temperatures of 60-95° C. at a pH of 7.0-11.0 with continuous stirring, the reaction is continued up to a solids concentration of 40 g-110 g, the pH is adjusted to a value between 3 and 5, and the precipitated Silica is filtered off, washed, then

TL;DR: Precipitated silicas which have a broad pore size distribution of the pores with a pore diameter smaller than that of the maximum of the derivative of the pore volume distribution function are useful, for example, for tires as mentioned in this paper.