Abstract:
Provided is a rubber material that is well-balanced in terms of tensile strength, low hysteresis loss property, wet grip property, and abrasion resistance. A hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer which is a hydrogenation product of a conjugated diene-based polymer including butadiene-derived structural units is produced by a method comprising a step of preparing a conjugated diene-based polymer having, at a side chain moiety thereof, a functional group capable of interacting with silica; and a step of hydrogenating the conjugated diene-based polymer so as to achieve a hydrogenation rate of 80 to 99% of butadiene-derived structural units included in the conjugated diene-based polymer.
Abstract:
A conjugated diene-based polymer comprising a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound and having, at a terminal of the polymer, at least one nitrogen-containing group represented by formula (1) is used. In formula (1), R1 is a hydrocarbyl group, and the symbol “*” is a bonding site.
Abstract:
Provided is a hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer which is a hydrogenated product of a conjugated diene polymer comprising a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound and a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound, wherein the conjugated diene compound includes butadiene, the hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer is obtained by hydrogenating a polymer in which a vinyl bond content in structural unit derived from butadiene is 55 mol % or more, and a hydrogenation rate of the structural unit derived from butadiene is 91% to 99%.
Abstract:
There is provided a hydrogenated conjugated diene-based rubber which can give a crosslinked rubber having high strength and excellent low fuel consumption performance and can give a rubber composition having excellent formability. A hydrogenated conjugated diene-based rubber having a hydrogenation rate of butadiene unit of 90% or more, wherein, in the molecular weight distribution of the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based rubber as determined by a gel permeation chromatographic method, when a peak area of a molecular weight of 1,000 to 250,000 is taken as AL and a peak area of a molecular weight of 250,000 or more is taken as AH, the ratio of AL to the total area of AL and AH is 0.5% to 20%.
Abstract:
Provided is a hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer which is a hydrogenated product of a conjugated diene polymer having a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound and a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound, wherein the conjugated diene compound includes butadiene, an amount of the structural unit derived from the aromatic vinyl compound is 30 mass % or more with respect to entire structural units derived from monomers of the polymer, and a hydrogenation rate of the structural unit derived from butadiene is 80% to 99%.
Abstract:
A modified conjugated diene-based polymer is produced by reacting a conjugated diene-based polymer having an alkali metal or an alkali-earth metal at a terminal of the polymer with a compound represented by formula (1). R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrocarbyl group having 20 or fewer carbon atoms. R3 represents a substituted alkyl group having 20 or fewer carbon atoms prepared through substitution of at least one of a hydrogen atom and —CH2— of an alkyl group by a group containing only at least one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, and sulfur, or a monovalent aromatic group having 20 or fewer carbon atoms and containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, and sulfur, with the proviso that R3 does not have active hydrogen. R4 represents an alkanediyl group having 20 or fewer carbon atoms. n is 1 or 2
Abstract:
Provided is a tire member which is satisfactory in low fuel consumption performance and exhibits higher strength and more excellent abrasion resistance as compared with conventional ones. The tire member is a tire member obtained by subjecting a composition containing a hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer and a crosslinking agent to a crosslinking treatment, wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer is a hydrogenated product of a conjugated diene polymer that has a structural unit derived from butadiene and has a functional group at one end or both ends and the functional group is one or more groups selected from the group consisting of an amino group, an imino group, a pyridyl group, a phosphino group, a thiol group, and a hydrocarbyloxysilyl group.
Abstract:
A hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer which has a structure formed by bonding a nitrogen-containing compound having two or more alkoxysilyl groups and two or more nitrogen atoms with a plurality of conjugated diene-based polymer chains, wherein: when a composition ratio (molar ratio) in the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer of each of a structural unit represented by formula (1), a structural unit represented by formula (2), a structural unit represented by formula (3), and a structural unit represented by formula (4) is p, q, r, and s, respectively, a value a represented by formula (i) is 0.80 or more and 0.97 or less, and an equilibrium storage modulus E′ of the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer is 2.4 MPa or more, α=(p+(0.5×xr))/(p+q+(0.5×xr)+s) . . .(i)
Abstract:
The present invention has as its object the provision of a polymer composition from which a rubber elastic body having high strength is obtained and in which excellent processability is achieved, and a tire having excellent strength. The polymer composition according to the present invention includes: a polymer (A) having a 1,2-polybutadiene chain (provided that a polymer falling within the definition for the below-described polymer (B) is excluded); and a polymer (B) having a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound and a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound, in which the structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound contains a structural unit derived from butadiene, and the following mathematical formula (i) is satisfied when the composition ratios of a structural unit represented by the following chemical formula (1), a structural unit represented by the following chemical formula (2), a structural unit represented by the following chemical formula (3) and a structural unit represented by the following chemical formula (4) are p mol %, q mol %, r mol % and s mol %, respectively. 0.70≤[(p+0.5r)/(p+q+0.5r+s)]≤0.99 Mathematical Formula (i)
Abstract:
A rubber composition contains: (A) a polymer having a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond and exhibiting a value α of 0.6 or more as obtained by the following formula (i): α=(p+(0.5×r))/(p+q+(0.5×r)+s) (i) wherein p, q, r, and s are the proportions by mole of structural units represented by the following formulae (1), (2), (3), and (4), respectively in the polymer: and (B) modified silica.