Thermoplastic Elastomer based on Recycled HDPE/Ground Tire Rubber Interfacially Modified with an Elastomer: Effect of Mixing Sequence and Elastomer Type/Content
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The effect of interfacial interaction and processing methods (one-step and two-step) on the structure–property relationships of ternary blends was investigated. The addition of ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) and ethylene octene copolymer (POE) resulted in homogeneous structure and greatly improved rubber-like properties of recycled high-density polyethylene (rHDPE) and regenerated tire rubber (RR) blends. Interfacial tension calculations revealed a high tendency of POE to encapsulate rubber particles (complete wetting). The two-step processing contributed to perfect encapsulation of the rubber phase via a soft/thick POE interface resulting in uniform RR particle dispersion, high elongation at break (138.5%), and impact strength (394 J/m) of rHDPE/(RR/POE) (20/80) ternary blend.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".