New Rapid Method for Testing Thermoplastic Elastomers

In the last two decades, thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) and other thermoplastic Elastomers (TPEs) have significantly increased their usage in the rubber industry.
New concerns regarding variability in processing characteristics and product performance have emerged and new methods to effectively and quickly predict these
differences among different lots or different grades of TPEs have been developed using the Advanced Polymer Analyzer with parallel plate dies. Also this paper explores the
advantages of different sample preparation techniques.