Who is PMC rubber chemicals?

PMC Rubber Chemicals is a state of the art developer, producer and marketer of rubber chemicals offering a comprehensive range of products including accelerators, antioxidants, antiozonants, retarders, and peptizers. Our well-known trademarks Accicure, Accinox, Accitard and Accimel which have been workhorses of the global industry for decades.

Which antioxidants are used in rubber vulcanization?

The amine and phenolic antioxidants are the most widely used rubber antioxidants (Fig. 1 b and c). Generally, the phenolic antioxidants have poor antioxidative efficiency (compared to amine antioxidants) and they can delay vulcanization, but they cause little discoloration problems.

Are rubber antioxidants a rational design?

The development of medical antioxidants also inspires the rational design of rubber antioxidants. Recently, Sun, et al. synthesized a novel antioxidant (APPT) containing aromatic amine, thiourea and allyl groups by the reaction between N-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine and allyl isothiocyanate (Fig. 3 b) .

What are the future trends of rubber antioxidants?

The perspectives on the future trends of rubber antioxidants have been presented. Elastomers, especially diene-rubbers containing unsaturated double carbon bonds in the main chains, are vulnerable to thermal/oxygen aging, which would make the elastomers less elastic and result in earlier failure of the elastomer products.

Why do we need antioxidants for rubber composites?

Therefore, for a real application, the antioxidants are indispensable to retard the thermal-oxidative-aging process of the rubber composites and then prolong the service life. In this review, we systematically review the recent progress of antioxidants for rubber.

Can rubber antioxidants contain rare-earth ions?

The recently reported rubber antioxidants containing rare-earth ions are summarized in Fig. 4, for instance, Sun et al. prepared a novel hindered phenol rare-earth complex (DTSm) (Fig. 4 f) by a simple and green method using 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxybenzoic acid (DT) and samarium chloride hexahydrate (SmCl 3 ·6H 2 O) via coordination reaction.