In high-temperature environments, rubber materials often face severe challenges of thermal oxidation, which leads to performance degradation and shortened service life. Understanding and improving the antioxidant properties of rubber materials is crucial for their application under high temperature conditions.
Rubber materials are composed of long-chain polymers that have good elasticity and flexibility. However, a high-temperature environment will destroy its molecular structure and cause the material to embrittle, thereby reducing its mechanical properties and durability.
The antioxidant properties of rubber materials mainly depend on their molecular structure and additives. Certain elements and compounds in the material have the ability to capture free radicals and delay oxidation reactions, thereby protecting rubber materials in high-temperature environments.
By adding specific antioxidants, the antioxidant performance of rubber materials in high temperature environments can be significantly improved. These antioxidants can effectively neutralize free radicals in oxidation reactions and delay the breakage and degradation of molecular chains.
Multiple experimental results show that the rubber material with improved formula exhibits excellent antioxidant properties under high temperature conditions. For example, after 100 hours of continuous use at 150 degrees Celsius, the tensile strength of the new improved rubber material dropped by only 10%, while the conventional formula dropped by more than 30%.
By deeply understanding the composition and structure of rubber materials and introducing effective antioxidants, its antioxidant properties in high-temperature environments can be significantly improved. The new rubber material not only has better durability and mechanical properties, but also exhibits excellent oxidation resistance under harsh application conditions, which is of great significance to related industrial applications.