A rubber composition is provided that contains an ethylene-butene-diene terpolymer, silica having a CTAB specific surface area of 30 m.sup.2/g or more and 150 m.sup.2/g or less, a silane coupling agent, and a crosslinking agent, in which a content of the silica per 100 parts by weight of the ethylene-butene-diene terpolymer is 25 parts by weight or more and 90 parts by weight or less.

The present invention provides a modified diene copolymer composition having a modified A-B-C or C-B-A copolymer comprising at least one conjugated diene monomer and at least one unsubstituted vinyl aromatic monomer and at least one substituted vinyl aromatic monomer, wherein each block or segment in the modified A-B-C or C-B-A copolymer is either a homopolymer or a copolymer comprising at least one conjugated diene monomer and/or at least one unsubstituted vinyl aromatic monomer and/or at least one substituted vinyl aromatic monomer, wherein any of the copolymers have a distribution configuration that is tapered, counter tapered, random or controlled, and wherein any of the homopolymers or the copolymers comprising at least one conjugated diene monomer and/or at least one unsubstituted vinyl aromatic monomer may be in-chain and/or chain-end modified with at least one unit of at least one substituted vinyl aromatic monomer; optionally having a block copolymer made from the modified A-B-C or C-B-A copolymer, wherein the block copolymer comprises at least two of the modified A-B-C or C-B-A copolymers. The invention also provides a process for making the modified diene copolymer composition.

An acrylic rubber includes 20 to 35% by weight of ethyl methacrylate units (a), 0 to 20% by weight of ethyl acrylate units (b), 50 to 75% by weight of n-butyl acrylate units (c), and 0.5 to 4% by weight of carboxyl group-containing monomer units (d).

A composition with improved storage viscosity is provided. The composition contains a (meth)acrylic-based copolymer (A′) and an epoxy compound (C). A molecule of the (meth)acrylic-based copolymer (A′) includes an XY diblock structure or an XYX triblock structure therein. A number of repeating units which are derived from a (meth)acrylic ester monomer having an alkoxysilyl group and are included in an X block is 1.0 or more on average; an amount of repeating units which are derived from a (meth)acrylic ester monomer having an alkoxysilyl group and are included in a Y block is 0% by weight to 3% by weight, with respect to a weight of all repeating units included in the Y block. A molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of the (meth)acrylic-based copolymer (A′) is 1.8 or less.

An aspect of the present invention is an acrylic rubber containing an alkyl acrylate, an alkyl methacrylate and ethylene as monomer units, wherein a content of a polyvinyl alcohol in the acrylic rubber is 0.5 to 2% by mass.

An aspect of the present invention is an acrylic rubber containing an alkyl acrylate, ethylene and vinyl acetate as monomer units, wherein a content of a polyvinyl alcohol in the acrylic rubber is 0.5 to 2% by mass.

An acrylic rubber contains a copolymer of a monomer mixture of: 25 to 46 wt. % of alkoxyalkyl acrylate, 23 to 37 wt. % of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, 9 to 17 wt. % of alkyl methacrylate, 1 to 3 wt. % of monoalkyl fumarate and the remaining amount is ethyl acrylate. This acrylic rubber improves hydrolysis resistance by introducing a specific alkyl acrylic monomer with extremely low hydrolysis property i.e. low hydrophilicity, and at the same time satisfies all of oil resistance, cold resistance, and hydrolysis resistance in a well-balanced manner.

A pressurised dispensing container (10) comprising a container (11) for product to be dispensed, and a valve fixed to the container, wherein the container contains a propellant comprising 1,1-difluoroethane or a derivative thereof and optionally ethanol. The valve comprises a valve stem (15), a valve body (16, 18) and one or more seals (20, 21), the valve stem being slidable within the valve body, the one or more seals co-operating with the valve stem for regulating discharge of a fluid. The valve further comprises a sealing gasket (14) for sealing the valve to the dispensing container. The one or more seals (20, 21) is/are formed from (i) an elastomeric composition, preferably an elastomeric composition comprising an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer. The sealing gasket (14) is formed from (ii) an elastomeric composition comprising an isobutylene polymer or co-polymer thereof.

An acrylic rubber composition includes an acrylic rubber and a specific antioxidant, wherein the acrylic rubber includes 15 to 55% by weight of methacrylic acid alkyl ester monomer units (a), 44.5 to 84.5% by weight of acrylic acid ester monomer units (b), and 0.5 to 4% by weight of carboxyl group-containing monomer units (c), and the content of the antioxidant is 0.1 to 5 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the acrylic rubber.

A sealing body for dynamic applications has a Shore A hardness of between 60-100, comprising an elastomer material and carbon nanotubes distributed in the elastomer material in an amount of between 0.1-20 phr, with respect to the total amount of elastomer material.