Thermal kinetics and thermo‐mechanical properties of graphene integrated fluoroelastomer |
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| Authors: | Junhua Wei Xin Zhang Jingjing Qiu Brandon L. Weeks |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas;2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas |
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| Abstract: | In this work, the thermal properties of a fluoroelastomer enhanced by graphene were systematically investigated. Although graphene oxide (GO) is the most popular and cheapest source for graphene, its chemical and thermal properties were quite different from reduced graphene oxide (RGO). By comparing their influences on the thermal properties of elastomer, the effects from chemical structures and morphologies of graphene were analyzed. As the vulcanization and decomposition determine the properties of the elastomer proved by significantly different thermo‐mechanical properties of the fluoroelastomer reinforced by GO and RGO presented, this work provides a method to ultimate utilize graphene to reinforce elastomer. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2015 , 53, 1691–1700 |
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| Keywords: | decomposition elastomer grapheme kinetics mechanical properties vulcanization |
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