“…Thurn et al [12] first discovered the use of silica in combination with bis(3-triethoxysilylpropyl) tetrasulfane (TESPT) and NR, and this was patented for practical 'green tire' application in 1992 [13]. Since then, considerable efforts have been made on studies of silica-silane reinforcement in rubber compounds [14], silica dispersion [15][16][17][18][19], silica-silane reaction [15,16,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28], silane-rubber reaction [29][30][31], zinc ion- [26,[32][33][34][35], moisture- [36,37], temperature- [38], and accelerator effects on vulcanization properties [39,40], effects of processing geometry [19], and effects of polymer blends [27,28,41,42].…”