Forschungsportal Sachsen-Anhalt

Filler reinforced elastomer blends play a key role in the design and optimization of high performance rubber goods like tires or conveyer belts. In most cases, a phase separated, anisotropic blend morphology develops during the last processing steps (extrusion, calendering, injection moulding), which lowers its free energy by coagulation and relaxation processes, before the morphology is frozen by cross-linking. The development of the detailed phase morphology and its influence on the