Thermoplastic Elastomer Vulcanizates (TPEV) prepared by dynamic vulcanizing process, is a material which has both the properties of a vulcanized rubber (elasticity) and thermoplastics (processibility). TPEV is cost effective for its good processibility and eco-friendly for its recyclability. TPEV/layered silicate nanocomposites can give a greater advantage of weight reduction which is a key issue in automotive industry because of fuel efficiency. Applying TPEV/layered silicate nanocomposites, the amount of reinforcement mineral filler can be reduced greatly compared to general TPEV which is reinforced by talc or kaolin clay. The mechanical strengths of TPEV/layered silicate nanocomposites using small amounts of MMT is similar to those of general TPEV using larger amounts of general filler. Various evaluations such as degree of crosslinking, degree of filler dispersion (XRD and TEM), surface hardness and tensile properties were carried out for the TPEV/layered silicate nanocomposites. 相似文献
A novel method is described for the preparation of nanocomposites comprising a high performance rubber for tire application and layered silicates clay. In this work nanocomposites of solution‐styrene butadiene rubber (S‐SBR) with montmorillonite layered silicate were prepared with carboxylated nitrile rubber (XNBR), a polar rubber, as a compatibilizer. A sufficient amount of organomodified layered silicate was loaded in carboxylated nitrile rubber (XNBR) and this compound was blended as a master batch in the S‐SBR. Mixed intercalated/exfoliated morphologies in the nanocomposite are evinced by X‐ray diffraction measurements and transmission electron microscopy. Dynamic mechanical analysis also supports the compatibility of the composites. A good dispersion of the layered silicate in the S‐SBR matrix was reflected from the physical properties of the nanocomposites, especially in terms of tensile strength and high elongation properties. 相似文献
The academic and industrial aspects of the preparation, characterization, mechanical and materials properties, crystallization behavior, melt rheology, and foam processing of pure polylactide (PLA) and PLA/layered silicate nanocomposites are described in this feature article. Recently, these materials have attracted considerable interest in polymer science research. PLA is linear aliphatic thermoplastic polyester and is made from agricultural products. Hectorite and montmorillonite are among the most commonly used smectite‐type layered silicates for the preparation of nanocomposites. Smectites are a valuable mineral class for industrial applications because of their high cation exchange capacities, surface area, surface reactivity, adsorptive properties, and, in the case of hectorite, high viscosity, and transparency in solution. In their pristine form, they are hydrophilic in nature, and this property makes them very difficult to disperse into a polymer matrix. The most common way to overcome this difficulty is to replace interlayer cations with quaternized ammonium or phosphonium cations, preferably with long alkyl chains. In general, polymer/layered silicate nanocomposites are of three different types: (1) intercalated nanocomposites, in which insertion of polymer chains into the layered silicate structure occurs in a crystallographically regular fashion, regardless of polymer to layered silicate ratio, with a repeat distance of few nanometer; (2) flocculated nanocomposites, in which intercalated and stacked silicate layers are sometimes flocculated due to the hydroxylated edge–edge interactions between the silicate layers; (3) exfoliated nanocomposites, in which individual silicate layers are uniformly distributed in the polymer matrix by average distances that totally depend on the layered silicate loading. This new family of composite materials frequently exhibits remarkable improvements in its material properties when compared with those of virgin PLA. Improved properties can include a high storage modulus both in the solid and melt states, increased flexural properties, a decrease in gas permeability, increased heat distortion temperature, an increase in the rate of biodegradability of pure PLA, and so forth.
Illustration of the biodegradability of PLA and various nanocomposites. 相似文献
The study describes the effect of the layered silicate content and its dispersion on the mechanical behavior of poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) nanocomposites and their corresponding changes during the degradation in a phosphate buffer at 37 °C. Two nanocomposite systems were compared: intercalated and exfoliated nanocomposites. They were prepared by melt-compounding of a high-molecular-weight PCL with in situ polymerized silicate masterbatches or an organophilized montmorillonite. It has been shown that Young modulus increases with the increasing silicate content and at the same time, the highest increase in the modulus is observed for the exfoliated system. The stiffness enhancement is predominantly caused by the dispersed inorganic phase but also supported by the contribution of the low-molecular-weight PCL fraction, which comes from the masterbatch, to the total degree of crystallinity. In contrast, the increase in the yield stress is driven mainly by the present low-molecular-weight PCL fraction with higher crystallinity. The degradation behavior reflects both the presence of the layered silicate as well as the low-molecular-weight PCL fraction. Their presence accelerates the degradation in the phosphate buffer at 37 °C. 相似文献
