Fabrication of nanostructured kaolinite doped composite films from silicone rubber with enhanced properties

Abdullah Muhammad Zakaria; Shaikat Chandra Dey; Muhammad Mominur Rahman; Mithun Sarker; Md Ashaduzzaman; Sayed Md Shamsuddin

doi:10.3390/jcs3020050

Fabrication of nanostructured kaolinite doped composite films from silicone rubber with enhanced properties

Abdullah Muhammad Zakaria, Shaikat Chandra Dey, Muhammad Mominur Rahman, Mithun Sarker, Md Ashaduzzaman, Sayed Md Shamsuddin

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Abstract

Naturally occurring nanomaterials are finding growing interests in tailoring properties of engineering polymers for advanced applications. The objective of this study was to develop environment-friendly nanocomposite films by reinforcing kaolinite nanofillers (1–10 wt%) in silicone rubber (SR) matrix using a simple solvent casting technique. Kaolinite-reinforced films showed substantial improvement in mechanical (tensile strength, Young’s modulus, and elongation at break) and thermal properties at very low filler loading (5 wt%). The improvement of solvent resistance nature of the fabricated films was another critical aspect of this study. Unfilled SR film showed ~19% weight loss when immersed in toluene for 4 h at 25^◦C, whereas only ~4% weight loss was recorded in the case of 5% (w/w) kaolinite loaded film. Therefore, kaolinite has the potential to bring significant improvement in the properties of SR. This study indicates that there is plenty of room at the bottom for proper utilization of the potential of kaolinite for developing SR-based composite materials for potential applications in many industries, such as textile, household cleaning, construction, electronics, automotive, medical, etc.

Original language	English
Article number	50
Journal	Journal of Composites Science
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs3020050
State	Published - Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes

Funding

This research was funded by Ministry of Science and Technology (Bangladesh), grant number advancement of research in materials science. The NCP films fabricated from nonhazardous kaolinite 39.00.0000.09.06.79.2018-19/309 (EAS-8). are expected to replace the existing expensive films used worldwide for numerous applications.

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Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Keywords

Kaolinite
Nanocomposite
Nanomaterials
Reinforcing
Silicone rubber
Solvent casting

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