SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Design of a new generation of sustainable SBR compounds with good trade-off between
mechanical properties and self-healing ability

Marianella Hernández Santana*, María Huete, Patricia Lameda, Javier Araujo, Raquel Verdejo
and Miguel A. López-Manchado

Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP-CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, Madrid 28006,
Spain

*corresponding author: marherna@ictp.csic.es

S1. Tensile curves of SBR compounds

3.0 20
C2_p
a) C1_p
C1_h 18 C2_h
b)
2.5 C2_p C2-10CB_p
16
C2_h C2-10CB_h
A/S ratio C2-20CB_p
Stress (MPa)

Stress (MPa)

C3_p 14
2.0 C3_h C2-20CB_h
12 C2-30CB_p
C2-30CB_h
1.5 10
8 CB content
1.0
6
4
0.5
2
0.0 0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600
Strain (%) Strain (%)
3.0 3.0
C2_p
c) C2_h d)
2.5 C2-2.5_p 2.5
C2-2.5_h
C2-5_p
Stress (MPa)

Stress (MPa)

2.0 C2-5_h 2.0

Si69 content C2-10_p
C2-10_h
1.5 1.5

C2_p
1.0 1.0 C2_h
C2-as-received-GTR1_p
C2-as-received-GTR1_h
C2-cryoGTR1_p
0.5 0.5 C2-cryoGTR1_h
C2-5-cryoGTR1_p
C2-5-cryoGTR1_h
0.0 0.0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600
Strain (%) Strain (%)

Figure 1S. Stress-strain curves of pristine and healed SBR compounds: a) effect of A/S ratio; b)
effect of CB content; c) effect of TESPT content; d) effect of GTR type. In all curves “p” stands
for pristine and “h” for healed compounds.

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S2. Schematic reaction of TESPT with SBR

S3. Tg values obtained by DSC

Compound Tg (oC)
C1 -50
C2 -49
C3 -45
C2-10CB -47
C2-20CB -47
C2-30CB -47

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S4. Characteristic Raman and NMR spectrum of sulfur-cured SBR compounds

Figure 2S. Raman spectrum of sulfur-cured SBR.

Figure 3S. 13C NMR spectrum of sulfur-cured SBR.