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Elastomer based nanocomposites with reduced graphene oxide nanofillers allow for enhanced tensile and electrical properties

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Here, flexible nanocomposites based on reduced graphene oxide (RGO) and commercial elastomers such as poly (acrylonitrile-ran-butadiene) (PANB) and poly (styrene-block-isoprene-block-styrene) (SIS) have been developed with enhanced electrical and mechanical properties due to the RGO fine dispersion. The RGO incorporation via stepwise addition resulted in well-dispersed RGO platelets in all polymer matrices. This allowed us to attain a comparatively low percolation threshold concentration (4.2 wt.% for all nanocomposites), at which the conductivity and current flow through the nanocomposites appreciably increased. The nanocomposite conductivity further increased with the increase of the RGO loading independently of the polymer type (PANB or SIS) or PANB molecular weight and acrylonitrile content. The highest conductivities obtained in this work are in the range 7.5–8.0 × 10–5 S/cm. Mechanical properties measured for SIS and PANB nanocomposites showed that tensile strength increases (in the case of SIS, by a factor of three) with the increase of the RGO content most likely due to physical crosslinking of the polymer with RGO. Improved electrical and mechanical properties of these nanocomposites make them promising as microwave absorbers or antistatic coatings.

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Acknowledgements

S. M. gratefully acknowledges the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan for the financial support under “International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP 24 PS-31)” to pursue a part of this research work at Indiana University, USA. The authors thank the IU Nanoscale Characterization Facility for access to the instrumentation as well as NSF grant #CHE-1048613 which funded the Empyrean from PANalytical. IU Bloomington XPS facility was funded by NSF MRI grant (NSF DMR 1126394). We also thank Dr. Yaroslav Losovyj for help with XPS measurements and Prof. Olga A. Serenko for an advice on mechanical properties.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan

    Sumaira Mazhar & Muhammad Ilyas Sarwar

  2. Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 E. Kirkwood Av., Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

    Sumaira Mazhar, Bret P. Lawson, Maren Pink & Lyudmila M. Bronstein

  3. Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 E. Third St., Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

    Barry D. Stein

  4. Department of Physics, Indiana University, 727 E. Third St., Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

    John Carini

  5. A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 28 Vavilov St., Moscow, 119991, Russia

    Aleksandr Polezhaev & Lyudmila M. Bronstein

  6. N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Str,.5/1, Moscow, 105005, Russia

    Aleksandr Polezhaev & Evgeny Vlasov

  7. Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences & Engineering, The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt

    Sonia Zulfiqar

  8. Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Lyudmila M. Bronstein

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Mazhar, S., Lawson, B.P., Stein, B.D. et al. Elastomer based nanocomposites with reduced graphene oxide nanofillers allow for enhanced tensile and electrical properties. J Polym Res 27, 105 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-020-2039-3

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