Jonathan Martens¹, Ed Terrill¹, James Lewis¹, Richard Pazur² and Robert Hoffman², (1)Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Akron, OH, (2)Department of National Defence, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Lewis Tunnicliffe, BSc, (Hons), MRes¹, John Stuart, PhD², Kevin Young, PhD², Alan Thomas³ and James Busfield⁴, (1)Department of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Sibelco Research, Development and Innovation, Sibelco Research, Development and Innovation, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, (3)Queen Mary University of London, London, England, (4)Department of Materials, Queen Mary University of London, London, England

Marly Jacobi, Instituto de Química/ UFRGS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil and Marcus Braum, Department of Materials Engineering, Pyrelli Tyre, Santo André, Brazil

Avraam Isayev, Department of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH and Jaesun Choi, Institute of Polymer Engineering, Akron, OH

Robert H. Schuster¹, Harish Chogule² and Heike Wittek¹, (1)Dik, Deutsches Institut für Kautschuktechnologie, Hannover, Germany, (2)Dik, DIK, Hannover, Germany

Markus Möwes¹, Manfred Klüppel² and Frank Fleck¹, (1)Material Concepts and Modeling, Deutsches Institut für Kautschiktechnologie, Hannover, Germany, (2)DIK, Hannover, Germany

Maurizio Galimberti¹, Valeria Cipolletti¹, Michele Coombs², Vineet Kumar³, Marco Mauro⁴, Gaetano Guerra⁵, Lucia Conzatti⁶ and Luca Giannini⁷, (1)Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, (2)Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, (3)Scienze dei Materiali, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, (4)Chimica, Università di Salerno, Fisciano (Salerno), Italy, (5)Chimica, Universita di Salerno, Fisciano (Salerno), Italy, (6)CNR-ISMAC UOS Genova, Genova, Italy, (7)Pirelli Tyre, Milano, Italy