Enhanced Fatigue and Durability Properties of Natural Rubber Composites Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Oxide

Hao Guo; Peizhi Ji; István Zoltán Halász; Dávid Zoltán Pirityi; Tamás Bárány; Zongchao Xu; Long Zheng; Liqun Zhang; Li Liu; Shipeng Wen

doi:10.3390/ma13245746

Enhanced Fatigue and Durability Properties of Natural Rubber Composites Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Oxide

Materials (Basel). 2020 Dec 16;13(24):5746. doi: 10.3390/ma13245746.

Authors

Hao Guo^{1

2}, Peizhi Ji^{1

2}, István Zoltán Halász³, Dávid Zoltán Pirityi³, Tamás Bárány³, Zongchao Xu^{1

2}, Long Zheng^{1

2}, Liqun Zhang^{1

2}, Li Liu^{1

2}, Shipeng Wen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
² Beijing Engineering Research Center of Advanced Elastomers, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
³ Department of Polymer Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3., H-1111 Budapest, Hungary.

Abstract

Fibrous carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and lamellar graphene oxide (GO) exhibit significant advantages for improving the fatigue properties of rubber composites. In this work, the synergistic effect of CNTs and GO on the modification of the microstructure and fatigue properties of natural rubber (NR) was comprehensively investigated. Results showed that CNTs and GO were interspersed, and they formed a strong filler network in the NR matrix. Compared with those of CNT/NR and GO/NR composites, the CNT-GO/NR composites showed the smallest crack precursor sizes, the lowest crack growth rates, more branching and deflections, and the longest fatigue life.

Keywords: carbon nanotubes; crack precursor; fatigue properties; graphene oxide; natural rubber.

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