Pretreatment of Liquid Silicone Rubbers to Remove Volatile Siloxanes

Liquid silicone rubbers (LSR) are widely used to create devices with complex shapes for various commercial and consumer applications, because of their many beneficial properties including lubricity, thermal and electrical stability, and aesthetic feel. Regulatory bodies require postcure thermal treatment of silicone elastomers to remove volatile materials: the rate and efficiency of these processes depends on the specific elastomer properties …