Paper: Morphology and Tensile Properties of Nitrile Rubber/Carbon Black/Nano-Cellulose Compounds (Fall 184th Technical Meeting )

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Morphology and Tensile Properties of Nitrile Rubber/Carbon Black/Nano-Cellulose Compounds

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Show Floor (The International Exposition (I-X) Center)

Minne Xie¹, Nuthathai Warasitthinon², Joey L. Mead³, Artee Panwar, Doctorate, of, Philosophy⁴ and Carol M.F. Barry³, (1)Plastics engineering, University Massachusetts of Lowell, Lowell, MA, (2)Department of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, (3)Plastics Engineering, Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Lowell, MA, (4)Center for high-rate Nanomanufacturing, University of Massachusettes Lowell, Lowell, MA

Morphology and Tensile Properties of Nitrile Rubber/Carbon Black/Nano-cellulose Compounds

Minne Xie¹, Nuthathai Warasitthinon¹, Artee Panwar¹, Carol Barry¹, Joey Mead¹

¹University Massachusetts of Lowell

ABSTRACT

Nanocellulose is a novel lightweight, strong, and conductive nanofiller. These properties lend the filler to use in a variety of applications. In this work, nanocellulose was added into a carbon black filled nitrile rubber as a function of different ratios of nanocellulose to carbon black. The thermal properties, morphology and tensile properties were investigated using dynamic mechanical analysis, scanning electron microscopy standard tensile tests.

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Morphology and Tensile Properties of Nitrile Rubber/Carbon Black/Nano-Cellulose Compounds