@inproceedings{db9fbfd63ea24886be84046aef72ac27,
title = "The improvement in functional characteristics of eco-friendly composites made of natural rubber and cellulose",
abstract = "We investigated the efficient use of cellulose to resolve the problem of the depletion of fobil resources. In this study, as the biomab material, the green composite based on natural rubber (NR) and the flake-shaped cellulose particles (FSCP) was produced. In order to further improvement of functional characteristics, epoxidized natural rubber (ENR) was also used instead of NR. The FSCP were produced by mechanical milling in a planetary ball mill with a grinding aid as a cellulose aggregation inhibitor. Moreover, talc and mica particles were used to compare with FSCP. NR and ENR was mixed with vulcanizing agents and then each filler was added to NR compound in an internal mixer. The vulcanizing agents are as follows: stearic acid, zinc oxide, sulfur, and vulcanization accelerator. The functionalities of the composites were evaluated by a vibration-damping experiment and a gas permeability experiment. As a result, we found that FSCP filler has effects similar to (or more than) inorganic filler in vibration-damping and O2 barrier properties. And then, vibration-damping and O2 barrier properties of the composite including FSCP was increased with use of ENR. In particular, we found that ENR-50 composite containing 50 phr FSCP has three times as high vibration-damping property as ENR-50 without FSCP.",
keywords = "Cellulose, Composites, Gas Barrier, Natural Rubber, Vibrasion-damping",
author = "Kunihiro Araki and Shonosuke Kaneko and Koki Matsumoto and Asahiro Nagatani and Tatsuya Tanaka and Yoshihiko Arao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.; 30th International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society, PPS 2014 ; Conference date: 06-06-2014 Through 12-06-2014",
year = "2015",
month = may,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1063/1.4918506",
language = "English",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Jana, {Sadhan C.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of PPS-30",
}