Abstract
AbstractCarboxylated styrene- butadiene rubber (XSBR)/clay nanocomposites were prepared by mixing the XSBR latex with aqueous clay dispersion and cocoagulating the mixture. TEM and XRD were applied to characterize the structure of nanocomposites. Fully exfoliated structure was observed for the nanocomposites containing equal to or less than 10 phr (weight parts per hundred) clay. With increasing the clay content to 20 phr, both non-exfoliated (stacked layers) and exfoliated structures can be observed simultaneously in the nanocomposites. The results of mechanical tests on the vulcanized clay-free XSBR and XSBR/clay nanocomposites showed that the nanocomposites present better mechanical properties than clay-free XSBR vulcanizate. Furthermore, modulus, tensile strength, tensile strain at break and hardness (shore A) increased with increasing the clay content, indicating the nanoreinforcement effect of clay on the mechanical properties of XSBR/ clay nanocomposites.
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