Structure and Properties of Loaded Rubber Mditures. XII. Dielectric Properties of Natural Rubber-Carbon Black Mditures
Abstract 1. The temperature and frequency curves of dielectric constant ε′ and coefficient of dielectric loss ε″ of unvulcanized natural rubber and simple rubber-carbon black mixtures, and also vulcanizates of natural rubber containing various proportions of thermal black or channel black, were studied in the frequency range from 50 to 2.5×107 cycles per second at 20° C, and in the temperature range from −75° to 152° C at frequencies of 103 to 4×104 cycles per second. 2. As in the case of sodium-butadiene mixtures, the addition of carbon black to the rubber leads to three kinds of dielectric losses, viz., a loss due to the nonuniformity of the dielectric, a loss due to the passage of a direct current (conductivity), and a loss due to structure formation. Vulcanization of rubber leads to the appearance of dipolar dielectric losses, which can be explained by the orientation of the sulfur dipoles in the electric field. Loading of vulcanizates causes a change of the dipolar dielectric properties, which depend both on the content and type of filler and on the type of vulcanized rubber. 3. For all the types of vulcanizates, the dependence of the dielectric properties (a measure of the orientation processes in the rubber phase) on the form factor ( a measure of the structure-forming capacity of the carbon black) corresponds to the dependence of the physical-mechanical properties on the carbon black content.