Research Article

Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy in Synthetic Rubber Polymers: Nitrile Butadiene Rubber and Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer

Table 4

Activation energies and pre-exponential factors for α’-, β-, and γ-relaxations in NBR.

Type of relaxationEa (kJ/mol) (Hz)Ea in previous study [39] (kJ/mol)

α82.7 ± 3.41.1 × 1016
β22.4 ± 3.21.2 × 10521.9
γ10.2 ± 6.26.6 × 10515.5