Elastomers…Focus on Innovation-AM, Session A
Thursday, October 16, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:15 AM
Session A-Rm #206 (Nashville Convention Center)
Chair:
Jim McGraw, Managing Director & CEO, IISRP
8:00 AM
RECENT ADVANCES IN EPDM and DYNAMICALLY VULCANIZED THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS
P.S. Ravishankar, ExxonMobil Chemical Co, Baytown, TX, Maria D. Ellul, ExxonMobil Chemical Co., Global Specialty Polymers Technology, Akron, OH and Guy Wouters, Global Polymers Technology, ExxonMobil Chemical Europe,Inc - Belgian Branch, Machelen, Belgium
9:45 AM
Improving the Crack Growth Resistance in EPDM Compounds with Butyl Ionomer
Jon Bielby1, Dana Adkinson, Ph.D.
2, Sean Malmberg
2 and Kevin Kulbaba, Dr.
3, (1)Butyl Rubber Global Reseach and Development, LANXESS, London, ON, Canada, (2)Butyl Rubber Global Research and Development, LANXESS, London, ON, Canada, (3)Butyl Rubber Business Unit, LANXESS, London, ON, Canada
10:45 AM
Novel Blends of Nitrile Butadiene Rubber and in-Situ Synthesized Thermoplastic Polyurethane-Urea: Preparation Method, Characterization and Properties
Muhammad Tahir, Institut für werkstoffwissenschaft, Leibniz-institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Dresden, Germany, Klaus Werner Stöckelhuber, Elastomers Department, Leibniz-institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Dresden, Germany, Nasir Mahmood, Technische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) and Gert Heinrich, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. (IPF), Dresden, Germany