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Photooxidation of BR Vulcanizate Using High Pressure Mercury Lamp

Author(s) -

Eunha Kim,

SungSeen Choi

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

elastomers and composites

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2288-7725

pISSN - 2092-9676

DOI - 10.7473/ec.2015.50.1.001

Subject(s) - mercury vapor lamp , irradiation , polybutadiene , ultraviolet , photochemistry , mercury (programming language) , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , chemistry , materials science , nuclear chemistry , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , polymer , optoelectronics , physics , computer science , nuclear physics , engineering , copolymer , programming language

Polybutadiene rubber (BR) has been well known that its physical and chemical properties are changed when it is exposed to ultraviolet light undergoing photooxidation. In this study, photooxdiation process of BR vulcanizate was inves- tigated using a high pressure mercury lamp used as an outdoor lighting, which has high UV radiation efficiency and rea- sonable cost. Discoloration and crack formation of photooxdized BR vulcanite surface were examined using an image analyzer. Change of chemical functional groups of BR vulcanite surface by photooxidation was investigated using ATR- FTIR, and variation of the crosslink density with the UV irradiation time was investigated. By increasing the UV irradiation time, the crosslink density steeply increased after a period of time and did not increase any more. Formation of hydroxyl (~OH) and carbonyl (~C=O) groups on the BR vulcanizate surface increased and the1,4-cis unit was converted to the 1,4- trans unit as the photooxidation was proceeded.

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