Time–temperature superposition of silicone rubber embedded with irregular-shaped magnetic particles under different magnetic fields
Nupur Rathod, Ramesh V. Upadhyay, Kinnari Parekh · 2026
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Description
Rathod and co-authors study a smart rubber in 2026 whose stiffness answers to both magnets and heat, a silicone filled with irregular flakes of electrolytic iron at 40 percent by weight. Unlike the round particles in standard magnetic elastomers, the flakes touch and grip more, which should sharpen the response to a magnetic field. The team swept temperature, strain, shaking frequency, and field strength across wide ranges to map the behavior.
Warming from 30 to 70 degrees Celsius softened plain silicone, dropping its storage stiffness 12.5 percent while its energy-absorbing loss measure climbed 67 percent over the same range. The filled rubber lost stiffness faster, down 18.9 percent, because heat loosened the grip that made the flakes reinforcing at cooler temperatures in the tests. The team also built a time-temperature master curve for the material and notes damping shifts with field strength too, pointing to vibration pads that can be tuned by temperature.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nupur Rathod, Ramesh V. Upadhyay, Kinnari Parekh |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |