Volume 140, Issue 10 e53605
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Interfacial adhesion of immiscible component polymers of isoprene rubber and α-olefin copolymer by chemical reaction using peroxide crosslinking agent

Yuka Komori

Corresponding Author

Yuka Komori

Materials Engineering R&D Division, DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya-shi, Aichi, Japan

Department of Organic and Polymer Materials Chemistry, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Correspondence

Yuka Komori, Materials Engineering R&D Division, DENSO CORPORATION, 1-1 Showa-cho, Kariya-shi, Aichi 448-8661, Japan.

Email: [email protected]

Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (lead), Funding acquisition (lead), ​Investigation (lead), Methodology (lead), Project administration (lead), Resources (lead), Validation (lead), Visualization (lead), Writing - original draft (lead), Writing - review & editing (supporting)

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Masanori Sunagawa

Masanori Sunagawa

Materials Engineering R&D Division, DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya-shi, Aichi, Japan

Contribution: Formal analysis (supporting), ​Investigation (supporting), Validation (supporting)

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Haruhisa Shibata

Haruhisa Shibata

Materials Engineering R&D Division, DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya-shi, Aichi, Japan

Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Funding acquisition (supporting), Methodology (supporting), Supervision (lead)

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Shinya Goto

Shinya Goto

Materials Engineering R&D Division, DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya-shi, Aichi, Japan

Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Funding acquisition (supporting), Methodology (supporting), Supervision (lead)

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Hiromu Saito

Hiromu Saito

Department of Organic and Polymer Materials Chemistry, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Contribution: Supervision (lead), Writing - original draft (supporting), Writing - review & editing (lead)

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First published: 05 January 2023

Abstract

We investigated the interfacial adhesion of immiscible component polymers of isoprene rubber (IR) and α-olefin copolymer (αOC) by chemical reaction using peroxide crosslinking agent which was used for the crosslinking of IR. Fibrillar structure of the IR elongated from the αOC domains was observed by scanning electron microscope and the tensile stress of the IR was enhanced without sacrifice of the excellent elongation in the two-phase blends of IR and αOC obtained after crosslinking reaction, suggesting that adhesion exists at the interface. The confocal-Raman imaging of the bilayer films of IR and αOC revealed that mixed layer having a distance about 358 nm was formed at the interface by the chemical reaction. Owing to the existence of the mixed layer at the interface, the adhesion strength was larger as the mixed layer at the interface was thicker. Thus interfacial adhesion exists in the immiscible component polymers of IR and αOC by the chemical reaction and the tensile stress was enhanced without sacrifice of the excellent elongation.

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