Advanced CB Characterizations to Better Understand Polymer-Filler Interaction A Critical Survey

摘要

For more than a century, elastomer and carbon black (CB) have played a central role in tire technology. At the onset, the usages of regular industrial soot and natural rubber have opened the way to an industry in continuous evolution. [1] To our best knowledge we can state that the progress in car industry and tire industry was paralleled by a substantial progress in CB technology and production facilities as well. With the ever increasing tire technology development costs and complexity, it became mandatory, especially in the second part of the last century, to replacethe trial and error development approach with a more rational way of obtaining competitive products. It then became obvious that a better and fundamental understanding and knowledge of the materials used was required. As far as CB is concerned, quite a lot of characterizations came from other industries where this material was used; for example the "tint test" which was used in the painting industry. Other procedures were derived from different domains in Chemistry, Physics and Technology and did indeed permit, at that time, to make considerable progress in tire quality and performances. [2]