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Thermoplastic rubber is truly a useful and versatile class of polymer. It has the solubility and thermoplasticity of polystyrene, while at ambient temperatures it has the toughness and resilience of vulcanized natural rubber or polybutadiene. This characteristic results from its unique molecular structure. Visualize the simplest thermoplastic rubber molecule: a rubbery midblock with two plastic endblocks. This situation is pictured schematically in Fig. 1 where the diamonds represent monomer units in the plastic endblocks and the circles represent monomer units in the rubbery midblock. Such a molecule is called a block copolymer.
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Harlan, J.T., Petershagen, L.A. (1990). Thermoplastic Rubber (A-B-A Block Copolymers) in Adhesives. In: Skeist, I. (eds) Handbook of Adhesives. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0671-9_13
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