The University of Akron

Gary Hamed

Roderic Paul Quirk

Li Jia

Frank Kelley

Xin Tan

A thermoset rubber composition includes a thermoset rubber having crystallized domains dispersed therein, the crystallized domains being formed of supramolecule building blocks forming a plurality of sheet-like structures through hydrogen bonding, the sheet-like structures interacting through non-covalent interactions to form the crystallized domains within the thermoset rubber. The supramolecular building blocks may be peptides, &#x3b2;-peptides, aramid oligomers, and bis-ureas.

Thermoset rubber reinforced by supramolecule building blocks

A self-reinforced polymeric composition of matter comprising a plurality of hard domains dispersed throughout an elastomeric matrix, wherein the plurality of hard domains are formed by thermodynamic phase separation and crosslinking of at least one thermosettable domain block of a polymeric precursor and are substantially bonded to the elastomeric matrix.

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Cuyahoga Falls, OH, United States of America

Gary Hamed