{"id":174183,"date":"2023-10-14T06:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-observe-interaction-of-components-in-tire-rubber-at-the-atomic-scale"},"modified":"2023-10-14T06:11:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:11:02","slug":"scientists-observe-interaction-of-components-in-tire-rubber-at-the-atomic-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-observe-interaction-of-components-in-tire-rubber-at-the-atomic-scale","title":{"rendered":"Scientists observe interaction of components in tire rubber at the atomic scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-observe-interaction-of-components-in-tire-rubber-at-the-atomic-scale3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have observed the molecular motion of rubber components typically used in automobile tires\u2014polybutadiene and carbon black\u2014with the world\u2019s fastest time resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/apl\/article-abstract\/123\/10\/101601\/2909339\/Direct-observation-of-890-ns-dynamics-of-carbon\">Applied Physics Letters<\/a>, reveals a clear interaction between the two components on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+scale\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic scale<\/a>, paving the way towards improved diagnostics of tire rubber degradation and the development of materials with enhanced durability.<\/p>\n<p>Tire rubber is a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/composite+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">composite material<\/a> that typically includes <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/synthetic+rubber\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">synthetic rubber<\/a>, such as polybutadiene, and added nanoparticles, such as carbon black, to improve its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/physical+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physical properties<\/a>. During driving, strong forces act on the tire, causing its components to move against each another, which can lead to wear and degradation of the material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have observed the molecular motion of rubber components typically used in automobile tires\u2014polybutadiene and carbon black\u2014with the world\u2019s fastest time resolution. The study, published in Applied Physics Letters, reveals a clear interaction between the two components on the atomic scale, paving the way towards improved diagnostics of tire rubber degradation and the development of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}