ABSTRACT
It is assumed when developing a model that the van der Waals interaction within a colloid is constant in the sense of a statistical averaging. The interaction on the surface is, however, reduced because there is always a lower number of bonding partners with adjacent colloids than with the colloidal atoms in the interior. This is outlined in Figure 1 (left) and can be caused by gas inclusions between the colloids or impurities, plasticizers, short or incompatible chain sections, etc. A deformation now
1 INTRODUCTION
Elastomers are indisputably made up of long, atomic chains. But how are these chains arranged? The textbook opinion assumes (without any known exceptions) a chaotic distribution of the chains. As will be demonstrated, a colloidal arrangement of the individual molecules can explain the nonlinarity at least just as well.
