Today, synthetic polymers occupy a veryimportant position in the life of all mankind. They are used in various areas of our daily life: from clothes, dishes, toys to airplanes, rockets, cars. And one of the most interesting and indispensable for a number of unique properties is synthetic rubber. The formula of the natural analogue has a regular structure, while the synthetic one is irregular.
Already after the war, due to the lack of naturalproduct, a synthetic version began to produce in the US. From that time to the present, the production of various materials, based on synthetic rubber, as well as all rubber products, belongs to large-scale production. Automotive, aerospace and aviation, engineering, construction, electrical engineering, medicine, footwear, consumer goods - none of these industries can exist without this unique polymer. Such widespread use is due to the complex of unique physicomechanical characteristics of various types of rubber and rubber based on them.
Synthetic rubber is an elastomer, forwhich are characterized by elasticity, water resistance and electrical insulating properties. Using a vulcanization process, polymers of this type are capable of being processed into rubber and ebonite.
All polymeric materials of this classsubdivided into areas of application for rubbers of special and general purpose. General purpose synthetic rubber is one that is characterized by a complex of high-tech properties (elasticity, strength, wear resistance, etc.). General purpose rubbers are successfully used for a wide range of mass-produced products, mainly for automobile tires. These include butadiene, butadiene-methylstyrene, isoprene rubbers, and isobutylene-isoprene copolymer (butyl rubber).
Despite this diversity of polymeric typesmaterials on the structure and properties, to date, the development continues in this area so that you can meet the ever-growing demands of different consumers in various fields of activity.
