Melt compounding with graphene to develop functional, high-performance elastomers

• Main Authors: Araby, Sherif, Zaman, Izzuddin, Meng, Qingshi, Kawashima, Nobuyuki, Michelmore, Andrew, Kuan, Hsu-Chiang, Majewski, Peter, Ma, Jun, Zhang, Liqun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2013
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery; TA401-492 Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4571/1/AJ%202017%20%28192%29%20Melt%20compounding%20with%20graphene.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4571/; http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-4484/24/16/165601

Rather than using graphene oxide, which is limited by a high defect concentration and cost due to oxidation and reduction, we adopted cost-effective, 3.56 nm thick graphene platelets (GnPs) of high structural integrity to melt compound with an elastomer—ethylene–propylene–diene monomer rubber (EPDM)...