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Styrene-Butadiene Copolymers (styrene-butadiene + copolymer)

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Polymers and Materials Science	100%

Selected Abstracts

Design and Synthesis of Functionalized Styrene-Butadiene Copolymers by Means of Living Anionic Polymerization

MACROMOLECULAR SYMPOSIA, Issue 1 2004
Mayumi Hayashi
Abstract Styrene-butadiene copolymers (SBR) end-functionalized with dimethylamino groups at the initiating and terminating chain-ends were successfully synthesized by a one-step methodology based on living anionic polymerization using 1-(4-dimethylaminophenyl)-1-phenylethylene. The expected structures of the resulting copolymers were confirmed by 1H-NMR, SEC, and SLS analyses, titration, and model reactions. Furthermore, the possible synthesis of tri-functionalized styrene-butadiene copolymer with dimethylamino groups in a chain by extending the methodology is described. [source]

Blends of bitumen with polymers having a styrene component

POLYMER ENGINEERING & SCIENCE, Issue 7 2001
A. H. Fawcett
The properties of a 100 penetration grade bitumen are modified considerably, and in a number of ways by the addition of 10 to 40 parts per hundred (pph) of a homopolystyrene and graft, block and random copolymers of styrene with butadiene and acrylonitrile. At low temperatures some blends have a similar stiffness to or even lower stiffness than the bitumen, but generally the blends are more than one order of magnitude stiffer, even when a rubber is added. The contrasting behavior is displayed by a polystyrene and a high impact polystyrene, ,3% to 4% of grafted rubber on the latter being sufficient to cause the enhancement, even at the 10 pph level, by two different random styrene-butadiene copolymers, and also by blends consisting of different amounts of SBS block copolymer. Some polymers apparently trigger a Hartley inversion of the micellar structure of the asphaltene micelles. High low temperature stiffness correlates roughly with a lower Tg' as measured by the peak maximum in the E, plots of the dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA) and by the steps in the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curves at temperatures below O°C. Tan , maxima and DSC traces detected the glass transition in the continuous phase and in the dispersed phases, but none of these amorphous polymers formed a crystalline phase, though the DSC traces of the polystyrene and the SBS blends suggested that the polymer-rich phases underwent an aging/ordering process on cooling. Our SBS blends differ in phase inversion behavior and the pattern of loss processes from others that had a smaller asphaltene component. [source]