Zhang, H.; Yang, Q.; Zhang, X. Q.; Liu, H. Efficient chemical degradation of styrene‐butadiene rubber vulcanizate to liquid rubber by a synergistic catalytic system of Cp2ZrCl2/LiAlH4. Polym. Bull. (in Chinese), 2026, 39(8), 1484–1492.
Zhang, H.; Yang, Q.; Zhang, X. Q.; Liu, H. Efficient chemical degradation of styrene‐butadiene rubber vulcanizate to liquid rubber by a synergistic catalytic system of Cp2ZrCl2/LiAlH4. Polym. Bull. (in Chinese), 2026, 39(8), 1484–1492.DOI: 10.14028/j.cnki.1003-3726.2026.26.121.
Efficient Chemical Degradation of Styrene‐butadiene Rubber Vulcanizate toLiquid Rubber by a Synergistic Catalytic System of Cp2ZrCl2/LiAlH4
A simple and efficient synergistic catalytic system consisting of Cp
2
ZrCl
2
/LiAlH
4
was developed for the chemical degradation of styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) vulcanizate
yielding liquid styrene-butadiene rubber with various molecular parameters as the final recycled product. By tuning the reaction conditions
including the catalyst loading and molar ratio of the components
the degradation behavior of the catalytic system toward unfilled SBR
carbon-black-filled SBR
and waste tire tread rubber was systematically investigated. The degradation efficiency of SBR vulcanizates was positively correlated with the concentration of the Cp
2
ZrCl
2
/LiAlH
4
catalyst: higher catalyst concentrations resulted in enhanced degradation efficiency and improved yield of liquid styrene-butadiene rubber (up to nearly 100%)
accompanied by a lower molecular weight of the product (as low as 1.74×10
3
g/mol). Microstructural characterization of the degraded products indicated that their structure was generally consistent with that of pristine SBR
with only a small amount of newly formed saturated sequences.
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