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.

How does rubber antioxidant work?

To prolong the service life of rubber composites by retarding their aging processes, rubber antioxidant initially relies on the use of a coating, such as paraffin, and coal tar, to physically isolate oxygen, but this protective layer would quickly lose the utility due to wear.

Are rubber antioxidants harmful?

As shown in Table 1, many commonly used rubber antioxidants are damaging to human health and the environment. For example, the antioxidant MB (2-mercaptobenzimidazole), which is widely used in the manufacture of light-colored rubber products, is harmful to aquatic organisms and has a continuous effect.

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.

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) .

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.