Premium
Properties of montmorillonite‐containing natural rubber
Author(s) -
Jurkowska B.,
Jurkowski B.,
Oczkowski M.,
Pesetskii S. S.,
Koval V.,
Olkhov Y. A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.26657
Subject(s) - montmorillonite , compounding , natural rubber , nanocomposite , materials science , composite material , amorphous solid , polymer science , chemistry , organic chemistry
A melt compounding process was used to prepare hybrid nanocomposites based on natural rubber (NR) and montmorillonite (MMT) modified with octadecylamine. Cured rubber was subjected to complex testing. Most likely modified MMT participates in physical networking of a low‐temperature topological region (soft amorphous fraction) of NR networked by low energy junctions. There was a significant difference between behavior of NR containing modified and neat montmorillonite and also those measured at low strain (5–50%) and above 150–170%. Because of this, to optimize compounding process of nanocomposite it is necessary to apply properties those determined under conditions as much as possible close to the usage conditions. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 2007