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Table 4 Degradation temperature at 5% weight loss (Td5) at various monomer content

From: Ultrafine fully vulcanized natural rubber modified by graft-copolymerization with styrene and acrylonitrile monomers

Sample

Monomer contents (phr)

ST/AN (wt%)

Irradiation doses (kGy)

Td5 (°C)

Unmodified NR

–

–

300

334

UFPNR-g-(PS-co-PAN)

15

20/80

300

351

UFPNR-g-(PS-co-PAN)

15

30/70

300

354

UFPNR-g-(PS-co-PAN)

15

50/50

300

356

UFPNR-g-(PS-co-PAN)

15

70/30

300

352

UFPNR-g-(PS-co-PAN)

15

80/20

300

349