Thermoplastic vulcanizates

Thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) are a type of thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) that contain a chemically cross-linked rubber phase within a continuous matrix of thermoplastic. TPVs have properties that combine those of conventional vulcanized rubber and thermoplastics. They are also sometimes referred to as elastomeric alloys in earlier literature.From: Coatings Materials and Surface Coatings [2019], Mechanical properties, morphology, Mullins effect and its reversibility of thermoplastic vulcanizates based on ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer/chloroprene rubber blends [2019]

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Published in Jiri George Drobny, Radiation Technology for Polymers, 2020

Jiri George Drobny

Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) are either block copolymers (SBS, SEBS, SEPS, TPU, COPA, and COPE) or blends, such as TPO (elastomer/hard thermoplastic, also referred to as thermoplastic olefin) and TPV (thermoplastic vulcanizate, blend of a vulcanized elastomer and a hard thermoplastic). These types represent the majority of the TPEs; other types are either specialty or small-volume materials.

Mechanical properties, morphology, Mullins effect and its reversibility of thermoplastic vulcanizates based on ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer/chloroprene rubber blends

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Published in Soft Materials, 2019

Feifei Liu, Kerui Liao, Zhaobo Wang

Thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs), as a special kind of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs), have the properties of both conventional vulcanized rubber and thermoplastics (1–3). Dynamic vulcanization was ﬁrstly described by Gessler and Haslett (4) and then developed by Fisher (5,6) and Coran (7). TPVs have attracted both scientific and industrial attention because of their unique characteristics (8), which play the very important role in the areas of automotive, building and construction, wire and cable (9–12), etc.

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Mechanical properties, morphology, Mullins effect and its reversibility of thermoplastic vulcanizates based on ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer/chloroprene rubber blends