Paper: SBR/Carbon Nanotube Nanocompsites Using Polystyrene Coated Carbon Nanotubes As A Master Batch (Fall 182nd Technical Meeting)


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P4 SBR/Carbon Nanotube Nanocompsites Using Polystyrene Coated Carbon Nanotubes As A Master Batch

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

East Concourse-2nd Flr (Duke Energy Center)

Lingling Wang¹, Joey L. Mead², Nuthathai Warasitthinon³ and Rui Jian³, (1)Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, (2)Plastics Engineering, Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Lowell, MA, (3)Department of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA

Styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR)/carbon nanotube (CNT) nanocomposites were prepared by using Polystyrene (PS) coated CNTs as a master batch. The effect of coated CNT loading on the mechanical properties and electrical conductivity of the nanocomposites was investigated and compared with the pristine CNT. The dispersion of the CNT was evaluated using FESEM. It shows the coating of PS improved the dispersion of CNTs in SBR at low loadings and further increased the mechanical properties and volume resistivity.

P4 SBR/Carbon Nanotube Nanocompsites Using Polystyrene Coated Carbon Nanotubes As A Master Batch

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