Effect of fly ash silica and precipitated silica fillers on the viscosity, cure, and viscoelastic properties of natural rubber

Polymers for Advanced Technologies

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1296-1304

  Thongsang, S ^a   Sombatsompop, Narongrit ^a   Ansarifar, A ^b  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filler dispersion; Fly ash; NR; Silica; Viscoelastic properties

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAL ASH; CURING; DISPERSION (WAVES); DRYING; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FLY ASH; GLASS TRANSITION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MIXING; RUBBER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY EMISSION; SILANES; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SULFUR; SURFACE TREATMENT; TANNING; VISCOSITY;

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; CURE PROPERTIES; FILLER DISPERSION; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE TG; HIGH TEMPERATURES; LOSS MODULUS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MIXING TIME; NATURAL RUBBER; NR; ORGANOSILANE; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATED SILICA; REACTION MECHANISMS; RUBBER MATRIX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES;

FILLERS;

DISPERSION; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; NATURAL RUBBER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 52949138617     PISSN: 10427147     EISSN: 10991581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pat.1129     Document Type: Article

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