Research Article

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

Table 7

The activation energy and pre-exponential factor for MWS and β-relaxations in EPDM.

Type of relaxationsEa (kJ/mol) (Hz)Ea in prior result [39] (kJ/mol)

β20.8 ± 22.2 × 10829.7
MWS113 ± 36.0 × 1017