Disclosed herein are processes for preparing a resin-extended rubber by mixing at least one thermoplastic resin with a resin-rubber-solvent cement comprising at least one conjugated diene monomer-containing rubber and the resin-extended rubber resulting from such processes. Also disclosed is a resin-extended rubber-solvent-cement comprising at least one conjugated diene monomer-containing rubber, at least one non-polar solvent, and at least one thermoplastic resin as well as a rubber composition comprising a resin-extended rubber.

A cross-linked SBR microsphere binder and a preparation method, and a lithium-ion battery containing the binder, the cross-linked SBR microsphere binder has a porous cross-linked structure, the cross-linked SBR microsphere has a particle size of 10 nm-1 μm, and a porosity of 0.01%-40%, and a pore diameter of the pore is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 200 nm. The lithium-ion battery containing the binder has advantages of better rate performance, low temperature performance, fast charge performance, and long cycle performance, compared with a lithium-ion battery containing a conventional SBR binder.

Disclosed are a hydrogenated styrene/conjugated diolefin copolymer, a foaming material thereof, and application thereof. The copolymer contains a styrene structure unit and a hydrogenated conjugated diolefin structure unit; by taking the total content of the copolymer as a reference, the content of the styrene structure unit is 15-50 wt %, the content of 1,2-polymerization structure unit in the hydrogenated conjugated diolefin structure unit is 8-32%, the degree of randomness of the styrene structure unit in the hydrogenated conjugated diolefin structure unit is 30-80%, and the degree of hydrogenation of conjugated diolefin in the copolymer is 85-100%. The tensile strength at break of the hydrogenated styrene/conjugated diolefin copolymer is 30-60 MPa, the elongation at break is 300-600%, and the hardness (Shore A) is 70-98. Moreover, a foaming body having excellent performance including more than 60% rebound and less than 30% compression deformation can be manufactured by using a supercritical carbon dioxide foaming process.

The present disclosure provides a novel and practical alcohol and derivatives thereof which have more industrial value than existing petrochemical raw materials. The present disclosure further provides ethanol, characterized in that a peak in gas chromatography measured by gas chromatograph mass spectrometry (GC/MS) has at least one peak with a retention time selected from (A) a peak of 5 minutes 25 seconds to 5 minutes 35 seconds and two peaks of 2 minutes 55 seconds to 3 minutes 5 seconds; (B) a peak of 12 minutes 30 seconds to 12 minutes 40 seconds; (C) a peak of 6 minutes 36 seconds to 6 minutes 45 seconds; and (D) a peak of 15 minutes 00 seconds to 15 minutes 15 seconds.

A thermoplastic elastomer composition having: at least one elastomer component selected from the group made of elastomeric polymers (A) each of which has a side chain containing a hydrogen-bond cross-linkable moiety having a carbonyl-containing group and/or a nitrogen-containing heterocycle and has a glass-transition point of 25° C. or below, and elastomeric polymers (B) each of which contains a hydrogen-bond cross-linkable moiety and a covalent-bond cross-linking moiety in a side chain and has a glass-transition point of 25° C. or below; an organically modified clay, a content ratio of which is 20 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the elastomer component; and a polymer (Z) which is a polymer other than the elastomeric polymers (A) and (B), and an SP value of which is 9.0 or more and is greater by 0.5 or more than an SP value of the elastomer component.

A roof laminate (10) includes a roof membrane (12, 100, 200, 300) and a protective sheet (14, 114, 214, 314) removably affixed thereto. The surface (20) of the roof membrane (12, 100, 200, 300) can be protected from dirt, scratches and scrapes by a protective sheet (14, 114, 214, 314) which also provides other beneficial attributes that aid an installer. The membrane (12, 100, 200) and the sheet (14, 114, 214) are heat laminated together in the absence of adhesive and tackifiers. Alternatively, the membrane (12, 300) and the sheet (14, 314) are surface treated and then brought into contact with one another in the absence of adhesive and tackifiers. The sheet (14, 114, 214, 314)) may be single layer or include at least a first layer (30) directly secured to a second layer (32). The first layer (30) provides at least one of UV protection, anti-slip, and anti-glare to the roof laminate (10) and so aids the installer in at least one of those respects. The second layer (32) is removably affixed to the roof membrane (12, 100, 200, 300).

The disclosure relates to a composition for use in tires. The rubber composition comprises a blend of a rubber component and based on 100 parts by weight (phr) of the rubber component, from 50 to 200 phr of a filler, from 0 to 25 phr of a plasticizer, and from 5 to 90 phr dimeric decarboxylated rosin (DDCR). The DDCR resin comprises 50 to 100 wt. % of polycyclic hydrocarbon compounds having one or more aliphatic, unsaturated, or aromatic groups, and 34-80 carbon atoms, with a molecular weight M.sub.n of 250-900 Da, a polydispersity index of 1.0-1.35, and an oxygen to carbon ratio of <5%.

A rubber composition manufacturing method comprising an operation in which an intermeshing internal kneader is used to knead at least rubber, silica, and silane coupling agent, wherein the operation comprises a first step in which kneading which is accompanied by increase in kneading temperature is carried out during an initial phase of the operation; kneading is carried out during the first step while a ram is maintained in a state in which it is at a first position which is higher than a lowermost position within a range of movement of which the ram is capable; and during the first step, an effective volume when the ram is at the first position is 105% to 120% relative to a value of 100% for an effective volume when the ram is at the lowermost position.

Crumb rubber obtained from recycled tires is subjected to an interlinked substitution process. The process utilizes a reactive component that interferes with sulfur bonds. The resulting treated rubber exhibits properties similar to those of the virgin composite rubber structure prior to being granulated, and is suitable for use in fabricating new tires, engineered rubber articles, and asphalt rubber for use in waterproofing and paving applications.

It has been found that certain silica/cellulose hybrid compositions can be incorporated into rubber formulations with excellent compatibility between the filler and the rubber being attained. These rubber formulations also offer excellent rubber performance characteristics for utilization in tires and other rubber products. These silica/cellulose compositions are made by (1) dispersing sodium silicate or an alkoxy silane into an aqueous cellulose slurry to make an aqueous cellulose dispersion; (2) maintaining the aqueous cellulose dispersion under agitation for a time which is sufficient to allow the sodium silicate or the alkoxy silane to react with the cellulose; (3) adding an acid to the cellulose dispersion in an amount which is sufficient to reduce the pH of the cellulose dispersion to no more than about 8 to produce the silica/cellulose hybrid; and (4) recovering the silica/cellulose hybrid from the water.