Disperse-and-Mix: Oil as an 'Entrance Door' of Carbon-Based Fillers to Rubber Composites.

ABSTRACT: Oil was employed as an 'entrance door' for loading rubber with carbon-based fillers of different size and dimensionalities: 1D carbon nanotubes (CNTs), 2D graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs), and 3D graphite. This approach was explored, as a proof of concept, in the preparation of tire tread, where oil is commonly used to reduce the viscosity of the composite mixture. Rubber was loaded with carbon black (CB, always used) and one or more of the above fillers to enhance the thermal and mechanical properties of the composite. The CNT-loaded system showed the best enhancement in mechanical properties, followed by the CNT-GNP one. Rubber loaded with both graphite and GNP showed the best enhancement in thermal conductivity (58%). The overall enhancements in both mechanical and thermal properties of th

SUBMITTER: Shachar Michaely G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8619991 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature