Why are antioxidants used in rubber production?

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Do rubber antioxidants affect ozone oxidative degradation?

Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 4.0/). mance, delay aging, and extend service life. However, recent studies have revealed that their impacts of rubber antioxidants and their TPs. In this review, we first summarize the category and their TPs in the environment, emphasizing their influence on the ozone oxidative degradation. The

Do antioxidants and their TPS increase environmental risk awareness of rubber products?

To our knowledge, this is the first review on antioxidants and their TPs in the environment, which may elevate the environmental risk awareness of rubber products and their TPs in the near future.

Are rubber antioxidants harmful to the environment?

However, recent studies have revealed that their transformation products (TPs) could adversely affect environmental organisms and even lead to environmental events, which led to great public concern about environmental occurrence and potential impacts of rubber antioxidants and their TPs.

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.

What causes oxidative aging of rubber?

Various external factors, including oxidative agents (such as oxygen), heavy metals, UV rays, ozone, mechanical stress, heat, and aggressive chemicals, etc., could accelerate rubber aging. This review mainly focused on thermo-oxidative aging because it is the most common aging type for rubbers.