Title

The Effect of Carbon Black Reinforcement on the Dynamic Fatigue and Creep of Polyisobutylene-based Biomaterials

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2014

Abstract

This paper investigates the structure–property relationship of a new generation of poly(styrene-b-isobutylene-b-styrene) (SIBS) block copolymers with a branched (dendritic) polyisobutylene core with poly(isobutylene-b-para-methylstyrene) end blocks (D_IBS), and their carbon black (CB) composites. These materials display thermoplastic elastomeric (TPE) properties, and are promising new biomaterials. It is shown that CB reinforced the block copolymer TPEs, effectively delayed the oxidative thermal degradation of the D_IBS materials, and greatly improved their dynamic fatigue performance. Specifically, the dynamic creep of a CB composite was comparable to that of chemically crosslinked and silica-reinforced medical grade silicone rubber, used as a benchmark biomaterial.

Publication Title

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volume

39

First Page

355

Last Page

365

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