Properties and Structures of Thermoplastic Elastomer Composites with Fullerenes

Mechanical, Electrical and Electro-Mechanical Properties of Thermoplastic Elastomer Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene/Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes Composites

Composites of styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) block copolymer with multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) were processed by solution casting in order to investigate the influence of filler content, the different ratio of styrene/butadiene in the copolymer and the architecture of the SBS matrix on the electrical, mechanical and electro-mechanical properties of the composites. It was found that fille...

Properties of agave fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites

Biocomposites have attracted a great deal of interest in research and industry sectors because they are typically lightweight, sustainable, environmentally friendly, and their thermomechanical properties can be designed to fit specific applications by tuning of their composition. In this study, mechanical properties of natural-fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite films were explored. Thermo...

Thermal and Morphological Properties of Thermoplastic Elastomer Nanocomposites Based on PA6/NBR

Structural Dynamics and Interfacial Properties of Elastomer Nano-composites

The combined effect of filler networking and reduced chain mobility close to the filler interface on the dynamic-mechanical properties of elastomers is analyzed based on investigations of the relaxation dynamics of solution styrene butadiene rubber filled with different loadings of silica. Dynamic-mechanical and dielectric spectra are studied in a wide frequency and temperature range. For the c...

Flexural Properties and Orthotropic Swelling Behavior of Bagasse/thermoplastic Composites

The flexural properties of commercial bagasse-filled polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) composites were determined as a function of strain rate at room temperature. The applied strain rates were 1.5 ×10, 3.75×10, 7.5×10, and 1.5×10 s. The flexural modulus tended to increase linearly for the two types of composites with the logarithm of strain rate. The bending strength of polypropylene co...