A tire exhibits an improved performance compromise, the tread of which comprises a rubber composition based on an elastomeric matrix comprising from 25 to 95 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight of elastomer, phr, of copolymer based on butadiene and on styrene having a glass transition temperature of less than −70° C., and from 5 to 75 phr of polybutadiene, the elastomeric matrix comprising less than 15 phr of isoprene elastomer; at least one reinforcing filler; from 25 to 100 phr of at least one plasticizing resin having a glass transition temperature of greater than 20° C.; and a vulcanization system.

The present invention relates to an oil-extended modified conjugated diene-based polymer having excellent tensile properties and abrasion resistance, a method for preparing same and a rubber composition including same, and provides an oil-extended modified conjugated diene-based polymer including a modified polymer chain including a repeating unit derived from a conjugated diene-based monomer and a functional group derived from an aminoalkoxysilane-based modifier; and a derived unit from a vegetable oil, wherein at least one of the modified polymer chain is coupled with the derived unit from vegetable oil, N and Si atoms are included in 100 ppm or more each based on a total weight of the polymer, two glass transition temperatures of Tg1 and Tg2 measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) are shown, Tg1 is −80° C. to −20° C., Tg2 is −50° C. to 30° C., and Tg2 is higher than Tg1, a method for preparing same and a rubber composition including same.

Rubber compositions comprising at least one diene based polymer, a precipitated silica, a coupling agent package comprising a mercapto-functional alkylalkoxysilane and a blocked mercapto-functional alkylalkoxysilane, a deblocking agent, a vulcanizing package comprising at least one vulcanizing agent comprising sulfur and at least one accelerator, and a scorch modifier are provided herein.

Rubber compositions comprising at least one diene based polymer, a precipitated silica, a coupling agent package comprising a mercapto-functional alkylalkoxysilane and a blocked mercapto-functional alkylalkoxysilane, a deblocking agent, a vulcanizing package comprising at least one vulcanizing agent comprising sulfur and at least one accelerator, and a scorch modifier are provided herein.

A binder for an all-solid-state secondary battery, including a polymer (A) that has an aromatic vinyl unit including an aromatic vinyl compound and a conjugated diene unit including a conjugated diene compound. The binder has a Mooney viscosity (ML.sub.1+4, 100° C.) from 10 to 100 and has a value α, which is represented by the following equation (i), of less than 0.7, where “p”, “q”, “r”, and “s” represent constituent ratios (molar ratios) of a structural unit represented by the following formula (1), a structural unit represented by the following formula (2), a structural unit represented by the following formula (3), and a structural unit represented by the following formula (4) in the polymer, respectively. α=(p+(0.5×r))/(p+q+(0.5×r)+s) • • • (i)

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The present invention relates to an oil-extended conjugated diene-based polymer or an oil-extended modified conjugated diene-based polymer, which has excellent wet skid resistance and abrasion resistance in a balanced way, and a rubber composition including the same, and by controlling the microstructure of the polymer such that a full width at half maximum (FWHM) value of a tan δ peak shown in a temperature range of -100° C. to 100° C. becomes 20° C. or higher in a tan δ graph in accordance with temperature, derived from dynamic viscoelasticity analysis by an Advanced Rheometric Expansion System (ARES), and by including a vegetable oil in a polymer, excellent viscoelasticity behavior properties may be shown, and accordingly, the improvement of overall physical properties may be expected.

The present invention relates to an oil-extended conjugated diene-based polymer or an oil-extended modified conjugated diene-based polymer, which has excellent wet skid resistance and abrasion resistance in a balanced way, and a rubber composition including the same, and by controlling the microstructure of the polymer such that a full width at half maximum (FWHM) value of a tan δ peak shown in a temperature range of -100° C. to 100° C. becomes 20° C. or higher in a tan δ graph in accordance with temperature, derived from dynamic viscoelasticity analysis by an Advanced Rheometric Expansion System (ARES), and by including a vegetable oil in a polymer, excellent viscoelasticity behavior properties may be shown, and accordingly, the improvement of overall physical properties may be expected.

A pneumatic tire includes: a rubber member A containing a rubber component containing 70 mass % to 100 mass % of a hydrogenated copolymer, sulfur, and a triazine-thiol compound; and a rubber member B containing sulfur and a rubber component containing a diene rubber. The hydrogenated copolymer is obtained by hydrogenating an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene copolymer, has a weight average molecular weight of 300,000 or more as measured by gel permeation chromatography, and has a hydrogenation rate of a conjugated diene moiety of 80 mol % or more, the rubber member A and the rubber member B are in contact with each other at an interface, and a content of the triazine-thiol compound is 0.1 parts by mass to 5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component in the rubber member A.

Disclosed herein are a terminal-functionalized polymer, rubber compositions containing the polymer, and related processes for preparing the polymer. The functionalizing compound used to prepare the terminal-functionalized polymer has a specified formula which includes a silicon atom and a moiety containing at least two carbon-carbon double bonds in a conjugated configuration.

Disclosed herein are a terminal-functionalized polymer, rubber compositions containing the polymer, and related processes for preparing the polymer. The functionalizing compound used to prepare the terminal-functionalized polymer has a specified formula which includes a silicon atom and a moiety containing at least two carbon-carbon double bonds in a conjugated configuration.