期刊
JOURNAL OF SOL-GEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
卷 70, 期 3, 页码 378-384出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10971-014-3293-9
关键词
Sol-gel method; Nanostructured zinc oxide; Cure activator; Mechanical properties; Thermal stability
资金
- DST-PURSE programme, Govt. of India
Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles are synthesized by polymeric sol-gel method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, field-emission scanning electron microscopy. The cure characteristics, mechanical properties and thermal behaviour of natural rubber (NR) systems containing nano ZnO are investigated and compared to those of NR with micro-sized (conventional) ZnO. The NR vulcanizate with 0.5 phr (parts per hundred parts of rubber) sol-gel derived nano ZnO shows improvement in the curing and mechanical properties in comparison to the NR vulcanizate with 5 phr conventional ZnO. Thermogravimetric analysis reveals that nano ZnO impose better thermal stability than conventional ZnO in the NR vulcanizates. Thus, nano ZnO not only acts as a curing activator but also nano filler to improve the resulting properties of the NR vulcanizates. More essentially nano ZnO leads to the reduction of ZnO level in the NR compounds. Therefore, sol-gel derived nano ZnO diminishes the pollution of aquatic environment due to higher amount of conventional ZnO in rubber compounds.
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