| abstract |
An objective of the invention is to provide a rubber composition which has satisfactory processability and dimension stability, and the like gives a vulcanized rubber exhibiting excellent wearing resistance and tensile strength, and the like and thus is useful in a belt, a hose and a tire, and the like. A rubber composition of the invention comprises [1] a crosslinked rubber particle component whose toluene-insolubles is 50 % by weight or more and whose number mean particle size is 3 to 1000 nm and [2] a non-crosslinked rubber component whose toluene-insolubles is less than 20 % by weight. This crosslinked rubber particle component is a polymer comprising at least one selected from (1) a conjugated diene unit, (2) a conjugated diene unit and an a, -unsaturated nitrile unit and (3) a conjugated diene unit and an acrylate unit as well as a monomer unit having at least 2 polymerizable unsaturated groups. The non-crosslinked rubber component described above is a polymer comprising at least one selected from (a) a conjugated diene unit, (b) (a) plus an aromatic vinyl unit, (c) (a) plus an α,β-unsaturated nitrile unit, (d) (a) plus an acrylate unit and (e) an ethylene unit and an α-olefin unit having 3 to 12 carbon atoms. |