Structure factors of dispersible units of carbon black filler in rubbers.
Structure factors of dispersible units of carbon black filler in rubbers.
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10.1021/la051352s
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2005-10
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T. Koga;M. Takenaka;K. Aizawa;M. Nakamura;T. Hashimoto
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T. Koga;M. Takenaka;K. Aizawa;M. Nakamura;T. Hashimoto
We report the structures of dispersible units, a most fundamental but minimal dispersible structural unit of a carbon black (CB) filler that is formed in two kinds of rubber (polyisoprene and styrene-butadiene random copolymer) matrices under a given processing condition. The results obtained from various small-angle scattering techniques showed that the CB aggregates, as observed after the sonification of a CB/toluene solution, were a spherical shape composed of approximately nine primary CB particles fused together. In the rubber matrices, the aggregates clustered into higher order structures defined in this work as the dispersible units, which are the fundamental structural elements (or the "lower cutoff structures") that build up a higher order mass-fractal structure. Furthermore, we found that the morphology of the dispersible units strongly depended on the rubber matrix, although the mass-fractal dimensions remained unchanged.