Monitoring Network and Interfacial Healing Processes by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy:: A Case Study on Natural Rubber

Broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) is introduced as a new and powerful technique to monitor network and macroscale damage healing in an elastomer. For the proof of concept, a partially cured sulfur-cured natural rubber (NR) containing reversible disulfides as the healing moiety was employed. The forms of damage healed and monitored were an...