Fabrication Of Activated Carbon Filled Epoxidized Natural Rubber Composite Via Solvent Casting Method

'Aishah, Hassan (2013) Fabrication Of Activated Carbon Filled Epoxidized Natural Rubber Composite Via Solvent Casting Method. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Owing to the modifications of materials is by combining them with one another to exploiting their unique characteristic where the implementation of enhanced materials being the ultimate goal to be known. Despite of often using nanofiller materials, the existence of microfiller material may be give a potential in polymer composite. Therefore, this research means to fabricate activated carbon (AC) filled epoxidized natural rubber (ENR) composite through solvent casting method and to characterize fabricated AC filled ENR composite from the view point of mechanical (tensile) and morphological properties. In this research the polymer composite composed of ENR as the matrix and AC as the filler where different filler loading in the range 0 to 7 phr was used to fabricate the composites. Moreover, this research is intended to investigate the effects of AC loading on mechanical properties, filler dispersion and the interaction between filler and matrix by using solvent casting method. Drawback and advantageous effects of the composite has been identified by undergo various testing like tensile test, crosslink density test, water absorption test and density test. Scanning electron microscopy also has been employed to analyse the morphology of the fractured surface. Overall, the results show high improvement in mechanical properties by adding AC in ENR matrix with no obvious agglomeration that indicates a good distribution of fillers in ENR. Therefore, the use of AC as a filler may produce the same properties as others expensive carbon materials such as CNT and graphene and thus it will reduce the cost.

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