The effect of partial replacement of carbon black by carbon nanotubes on the properties of natural rubber/butadiene rubber compound

Minna Poikelispää; Amit Das; Wilma Dierkes; Jyrki Vuorinen

doi:10.1002/app.39543

The effect of partial replacement of carbon black by carbon nanotubes on the properties of natural rubber/butadiene rubber compound

Minna Poikelispää^*, Amit Das, Wilma Dierkes, Jyrki Vuorinen

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Abstract

The basic objective of this study is to investigate the mechanical properties of tyre tread compounds by gradual replacement of carbon black by multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) in a natural rubber–butadiene rubber-based system. A rapid change in the mechanical properties is noticed even at very low concentrations of nanotubes though the total concentration of the filler is kept constant at 25 phr (parts per hundred rubber). The correlation of the bound rubber content with MWCNT loading directly supports the conclusion that MWCNTs increase the occluded rubber fraction. Transmission electron microscopy reveals a good dispersion of the MWCNT up to a certain concentration. In the presence of MWCNT, a prominent negative shift of the glass transition temperature of the compound is found. Thermal degradation behavior, aging, and swelling experiments were also carried out to understand the resulting effect of the incorporation of MWCNT in the rubber matrix.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3153-3160
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of applied polymer science
Volume	130
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/app.39543
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2013

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