Classifications

• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C08—ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
  • C08C—TREATMENT OR CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF RUBBERS
  • C08C19/00—Chemical modification of rubber
  • C08C19/30—Addition of a reagent which reacts with a hetero atom or a group containing hetero atoms of the macromolecule
  • C08C19/42—Addition of a reagent which reacts with a hetero atom or a group containing hetero atoms of the macromolecule reacting with metals or metal-containing groups
  • C08C19/44—Addition of a reagent which reacts with a hetero atom or a group containing hetero atoms of the macromolecule reacting with metals or metal-containing groups of polymers containing metal atoms exclusively at one or both ends of the skeleton
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60C—VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES
  • B60C1/00—Tyres characterised by the chemical composition or the physical arrangement or mixture of the composition
  • B60C1/0016—Compositions of the tread
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C08—ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
  • C08K—Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients
  • C08K9/00—Use of pretreated ingredients
  • C08K9/02—Ingredients treated with inorganic substances
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
  • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
  • Y02T10/80—Technologies aiming to reduce greenhouse gasses emissions common to all road transportation technologies
  • Y02T10/86—Optimisation of rolling resistance, e.g. weight reduction 

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a rubber composition which can be used in particular for the manufacture of tire covers, having improved hysteretic and physical properties in the vulcanized state, comprising a diene polymer functionalized or modified with silanol functions and as filler reinforcing, carbon black having silica attached to its surface.
• compositions containing silica were noted with the publication of patent application EP-A-0 501 227 which discloses a sulfur-vulcanizable rubber composition obtained by the thermomechanical work of a copolymer of conjugated diene and d 'a vinyl aromatic compound and the use of a particular precipitated silica obtained according to the process detailed in patent application EP-A-0 157 703.
• This composition which presents an excellent compromise between several contradictory properties, allows the manufacture of tires having a tread loaded with particular silica.
• EP-A-0-556 890 in the form of an addition of specific conductive polymers to the rubber composition constituting the tread of the tires.
• the invention relates to a vulcanizable rubber composition
• a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising at least one functionalized or modified diene polymer, carbon black having silica attached to its surface as reinforcing filler and the other usual constituents of such compositions, characterized in that the diene polymer is a functionalized diene polymer carrying at the chain end a silanol function or a polysiloxane block having a silanol end or a diene polymer modified along of its chain by silanol functions.
• R - R, and R 2 identical or different, represent an alkyl group having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms
• die polymers capable of being used in the composition in accordance with the invention means any homopolymer obtained by polymerization of a conjugated diene monomer having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms, any copolymer obtained by copolymerization of one or several dienes conjugated together or with one or more vinyl aromatic compounds having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms.
• conjugated dienes 1,3-butadiene, 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene, 2,3-di (C 1 -C 5 alkyl) -1,3-butadiene such as, for example, are suitable.
• Suitable vinyl aromatic compounds include styrene, ortho-, meta, para-methylstyrene, the commercial mixture "vinyltoluene", para-tertiobutylstyrene, methoxystyrenes, vinyl mesitylene, divinylbenzene, vinylnaphthalene, etc.
• the copolymers can contain between 99% and 20% by weight of diene units and from 1% to
• the functionalized diene polymers carrying at the chain end a silanol function or a polysiloxane block having a silanol end, or modified along the chain by silanol functions can have any microstructure which is a function of the polymerization conditions used.
• the polymers can be block, statistical, block, microblock, etc. and can be prepared in dispersion or in solution. When it is an anionic polymerization, the microstructure of these polymers can be determined by the presence or not of a modifying and / or randomizing agent and the quantities of modifying and / or randomizing agent employed.
• polybutadienes are suitable and in particular those having a content of 1,2 units between 4% and 80%, polyisoprenes, butadiene-styrene copolymers and in particular those having a styrene content between 4 and 50 % by weight and more particularly between 20% and 40% by weight, a content of -1,2 bonds of the butadiene part of between 4% and 65%, a content of trans-1,4 bonds between 30% and 80 %, butadiene-isoprene copolymers and in particular those having an isoprene content of between 5 and 90% by weight and a glass transition temperature (Tg) of - 40 ° C to -80 ° C, isoprene-styrene copolymers and in particular those having a styrene content of between 5 and 50% by weight and a Tg of between -25 ° C and - 50 ° C.
• Tg glass transition temperature
• butadiene-styrene-isoprene copolymers those having a styrene content of between 5 and 50% by weight and more particularly of between 10% and 40% and of isoprene of between 15% and 60% by weight and more are suitable.
• the functionalized functionalized diene polymers carrying at the chain end a silanol function or a polysiloxane block having a silanol end used in the invention can be obtained by analogy by various methods.
• a first way consists in react as described in Journal of Polymer Science, Part A, Vol. 3, p. 93-103 (1965) the living diene polymer with an organosilane functionalizing agent, preferably at the outlet of the polymerization reactor and at an identical or different temperature and preferably close to the polymerization temperature, to form a diene polymer having at the end to chain a halosilane function and to submit it, as described in the manual “Chemistry and Technology of Silicones, Académie Press, New York, NY (1968) p.
• R - R ] and R 2 which are identical or different, represent an alkyl group having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms,
• dihalosilane compounds mention may be made of dichlorodimethylsilane, dichlorodiethylsilane, dichlorodiphenylsilane, dichlorophenylmethylsilane, dichlorovinylmethylsilane.
• silica As nonlimiting examples of such silica, mention may be made of Perkasil KS 430 silica from AKZO, Zeosil 1165 MP and 85 MP silica from Rhône-Poulenc, HI-Sil 2000 silica from PPG, Zeopol silicas 8741 or 8745 from Huber.
• composition Cl comprising SBR-C (stopped methanol) at low (G " max 23 "; tg ⁇ max 23 ° ) and at high (PH 60 ° C) deformation without degrading the other properties compared to mixing with the
• composition Al (with SBR-A functionalized with silanol) comprising the black ECOBLACK CRX2000 exhibits a very large reduction in hysteresis (at low and high deformation) of the order of 30% compared to that obtained from the composition B2 based on carbon black without damaging the other properties.
• composition A3 using SBR-A (functionalized silanol) has a low hysteresis level (G " max 23 ; tg ⁇ max 23 ° ) and f ° ⁇ e (PH 60 ° C) very low deformation compared to the two other compositions which also include carbon black having silica fixed to its surface as reinforcing filler, without there being any degradation of the other properties.
• any functionalized polymer suitable for carbon black does not make it possible to obtain an improvement in hysteretic and physical properties when it is used in a composition based on black silica treated (here l 'ECOBLACK CRX2000), no more than the transposition of any polymer functionalized specifically for silica to a composition comprising black treated silica as reinforcing filler.

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