Strain Effects in Filled Rubber Nanocomposites (Continuation)

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Our overall aim is to understand the origins of energy dissipation mechanisms in filled rubbers. These effects are responsible for much of the carbon footprint associated with road transport today. We have so far successfully used QENS and SANS to study the dynamics and structure of model silica filled polybutadiene nanocomposites. QENS shows little impact of crosslinking on dynamics, but a significant reduction in polymer mobility when silica nanoparticles are added. We now focus on the dynamics of these systems whilst under an imposed strain, which mimics the process responsible for rolling resistance in tyres. In our refined setup, a motorised clamp and force transducer will allow QENS will be carried out on a series of filled rubber samples in which the filler and loading and applied stress and strain are systematically varied.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82360399
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82360399
Provenance
Creator Dr Richard Thompson; Dr Victoria Garcia Sakai; Dr Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay; Professor Nigel Clarke; Mr James Hart
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-10-18T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-23T08:00:00Z