• 文献标题:   Effects of vulcanization accelerator functionalized graphene on the co-vulcanization kinetics and mechanical strength of NR/SBR blends
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DONG HH, LUO YF, ZHONG BC, BAI J, JIA DM
  • 作者关键词:   rubber blend, graphene, vulcanization kinetic
  • 出版物名称:   POLYMER TESTING
  • ISSN:   0142-9418 EI 1873-2348
  • 通讯作者地址:   South China Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.polymertesting.2019.106169
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Rubber blends are widely used for combining the advantages of individual rubber component. However, to date, how to determine and distinguish the vulcanization kinetics for each single rubber phase in rubber blends during the co-vulcanization process are still a challenge. Herein, high resolution pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (PyGC-MS) was employed for the first time to investigate the vulcanization kinetics of natural rubber (NR) and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) in their blends filled with graphene. It is shown that the crosslinking rate of NR chains (k(NR)) was much lower than that of SBR chains (k(SBR)) in the unfilled blends and blends with untreated graphene. Interestingly, the gap between k(SBR) and k(NR) was narrowed effectively in the blends with vulcanization accelerator grafted graphene, showing a better co-vulcanization of NR and SBR. In addition, the vulcanization accelerator grafted graphene was uniformly dispersed in rubber matrix and endowed rubber blends with higher mechanical strength and thermal conductivity did the untreated graphene.