Carbon black composite material and method of producing the same, and composite elastomer

1. A method of producing a carbon black composite material, the method comprising:

(a) mixing an elastomer and carbon black to obtain a composite elastomer; and

(b) mixing the composite elastomer and a matrix material to obtain a carbon black composite material in which the carbon black is uniformly dispersed in the matrix material, and decomposing and removing the elastomer in the composite elastomer.

2. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 1 ,

wherein the step (a) includes mixing and dispersing the carbon black in the elastomer by a shear force.

3. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 1 ,

wherein the carbon black has an average constituent particle diameter of 100 nm or less.

4. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 1 , wherein the carbon black has a DBP absorption of 50 cm 3 /100 g or more.

5. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 1 , wherein the elastomer has a molecular weight of 5,000 to 5,000,000.

6. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 1 ,

wherein at least one of a main chain, a side chain, and a terminal chain of the elastomer includes at least one of a double bond, a triple bond, α-hydrogen, a carbonyl group, a carboxyl group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a nitrile group, a ketone group, an amide group, an epoxy group, an ester group, a vinyl group, a halogen group, a urethane group, a biuret group, an allophanate group, and a urea group.

7. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 1 ,

wherein a network component of the elastomer in a noncrosslinked form has a spin-spin relaxation time (T 2 n ) measured at 30° C. by a Hahn-echo method using a pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique of 100 to 3,000 μsec.

8. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 1 ,

wherein a network component of the elastomer in a crosslinked form has a spin-spin relaxation time (T 2 n ) measured at 30° C. by a Hahn-echo method using a pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique of 100 to 2,000 μsec.

9. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 1 , wherein the matrix material is a metal.

10. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 9 , wherein the metal is aluminum or an aluminum alloy.

11. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 9 , wherein the step (b) includes powder-forming the composite elastomer.

12. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 9 ,

wherein the step (b) includes mixing the composite elastomer and the metal in a fluid state, and causing the mixture to solidify.

13. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 9 ,

wherein the step (b) includes causing the metal that has been melted to permeate the composite elastomer to replace the elastomer with the melted metal.

14. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 1 , wherein the matrix material is glass.

15. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 14 , wherein the step (b) includes powder-forming the composite elastomer.

16. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 14 ,

wherein the step (b) includes mixing the composite elastomer and the glass in a fluid state, and then causing a mixture of the composite elastomer and the glass to solidify.

17. The method of producing a carbon black composite material as defined in claim 14 ,

wherein the step (b) includes causing the glass that has been melted to permeate the composite elastomer to replace the elastomer with the melted glass.