Session: Basic Research on Materials and Characterization Techniques for Materials-PM Session (Spring 187th Technical Meeting)

Basic Research on Materials and Characterization Techniques for Materials-PM Session

Tuesday, April 28, 2015: 1:30 PM-5:15 PM

Hyatt Regency Greenville

Chair:

J. Cal Moreland, Michelin North America Inc

Co-Chair:

Robert H. Schuster, German Institute for Rubber Technology / Consultant to Lanxess

1:30 PM

Effect of Polydispersity on the Properties of 1,4-Polybutadiene

C. Michael Roland¹, Carl Giller², Terrence Hogan³, Debjani Roy⁴ and Tom Popp³, (1)Chemistry Division, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, (2)Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, (3)Bridgestone Americas Center for Research and Technology, Akron, OH, (4)Naval Research Lab, Code 6126, Washington, DC

2:00 PM

Preparation and Properties of Natural Rubber with Filler Nanomatrix Structure

Seiichi Kawahara, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan

2:30 PM

Polyisoprene Grafted Silica Nanoparticles for Designed Interfaces in Rubber Nanocomposites

Brian Benicewicz and Mohammad Mohammadkhani, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

Highly Reinforced blends Based on in-situ Synthesized Polyurethane-urea and Nitrile Butadiene Rubber

Muhammad Tahir, Institut für werkstoffwissenschaft, Leibniz-institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Dresden, Germany, Klaus Werner Stöckelhuber, Department of Elastomers, Leibniz-institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Dresden, Germany, Nasir Mahmood, Institut für Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Sven Wießner, Department of Elastomers, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Germany, Dresden, Germany and Gert Heinrich, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Dresden, Germany

3:45 PM

Novel PTFE Nanocomposites Reinforced with Artificially Stacked Hybrid Graphene/h-BN Nanostructures

Kousaalya Bakthavatchalam, Department of Automotive Engineering, Clemson University, Greenville, SC, Sai Pradeep, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC and Srikanth Pilla, Department of Automotive Engineering & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research, Greenville, SC

4:15 PM

Water-Based Elastomeric Gas Barrier Nanocoatings

Kevin M. Holder, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX