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JOURNAL OF MACROMOLECULAR SCIENCE PART B-PHYSICS
Volume 50, Issue 8, Pages 1625-1636Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/00222348.2010.541006
Keywords
composites; mechanical properties; rubber; vulcanization; water absorption; wood flour
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- Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China [20080440111]
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The preparation of natural rubber/wood flour (NR/WF) composites and the influence of WF content, modification, and particle size on the vulcanizing behavior, mechanical properties, and water absorption of NR/WF composites are described. Results show that the addition of WF into NR delayed the scorching time and vulcanizing time of NR. The appropriate WF contents can improve the mechanical properties of NR. However, the overloading of WF destroys the mechanical properties of NR. The addition of WF increased the water absorption of NR. The silicone couple agents that were used to modify the WF had little effect on the water absorption of NR/WF composites. Decreasing the WF particle size enhanced the water absorption of NR/WF composites because the water-absorbing surface area increased with decreasing WF particle size. The water absorption of sisal-fiber-filled NR-based composites was larger than that of the WF-filled NR-based composites. A useful equation, w = kt(n), was inferred from the water absorption results to calculate the water absorption (w) of the NR/WF composites as a function of time (t), where k was a constant concerning the compounds' character that was primarily determined by the WF's character and n was the power of time that was related to the NR's inherent character, such as cross-linking density, and primarily determined the water absorption rate.
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