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Alginate as Dispersing Agent for Compounding Natural Rubber with High Loading Microfibrillated Cellulose

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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Department of Materials Science and Technology, School of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan
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Polymers 2021, 13(3), 468; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13030468
Received: 24 December 2020 / Revised: 27 January 2021 / Accepted: 28 January 2021 / Published: 1 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functional Alginate-Based Materials)
Natural rubber (NR) reinforced with high loading of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) was fabricated in the presence of sodium alginate as a thickening and dispersing agent in NR latex. The tensile strength and Young’s moduli of the 50% wt. MFC loading-NR composites were 13.6 and 1085.7 MPa, which were about 11.3- and 329-times enhanced compared with those of the neat NR film. The maximum elongation at 313.3% was obtained from 30% MFC loading, which was a 3.3-fold increase of that of the NR film. The thermal stability of MFC–NR films was slightly reduced, while the glass transition temperature remained unchanged at −64 °C. The MFC–NR films exhibited high water adsorption ability, toluene resistance, and biodegradability. View Full-Text
Keywords: natural rubber; microfibrillated cellulose; alginate; green composite; reinforcement natural rubber; microfibrillated cellulose; alginate; green composite; reinforcement
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Supanakorn, G.; Varatkowpairote, N.; Taokaew, S.; Phisalaphong, M. Alginate as Dispersing Agent for Compounding Natural Rubber with High Loading Microfibrillated Cellulose. Polymers 2021, 13, 468. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13030468

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Supanakorn G, Varatkowpairote N, Taokaew S, Phisalaphong M. Alginate as Dispersing Agent for Compounding Natural Rubber with High Loading Microfibrillated Cellulose. Polymers. 2021; 13(3):468. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13030468

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Supanakorn, Goragot, Nanthaphak Varatkowpairote, Siriporn Taokaew, and Muenduen Phisalaphong. 2021. "Alginate as Dispersing Agent for Compounding Natural Rubber with High Loading Microfibrillated Cellulose" Polymers 13, no. 3: 468. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13030468

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