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Zinc oxide with various surface characteristics and its role on mechanical properties, cure-characteristics, and morphological analysis of natural rubber/carbon black composites

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Owing to the ecological concern about the ZnO release and its toxicity towards the marine environment leads to the minimization of ZnO amount in rubber compounding. The present study explores and optimizes the amount of various ZnOs used in rubber compounding. It is carried out by investigating the impact of various ZnOs such as conventional ZnO, active ZnO and nano ZnO on Natural Rubber matrix filled with Carbon Black filler. The whole study is conducted without any processing aid, and ZnOs are characterized by using SEM, TGA and XRD. The prepared composites are evaluated for their rheo-characteristics, physical properties and morphologies. The study concludes that 1.5 phr of nano ZnO and 3 phr of active ZnO offers equivalent performance to 5 phr conventional ZnO in the Natural Rubber matrix giving excellent properties with a reduction of about 70 and 40% usage of ZnO respectively in the formulation of elastomeric product.

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Authors are grateful for IIT Kharagpur for providing financial support for the research work. We also like to thank the research co-workers, Anagha M.G, Aswathy T.R, Sanjay Pal, Asit Baran Bhattacharya, Midhun Das and Jeevanandham N for their valuable suggestions.

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T.K, S., Naskar, K. Zinc oxide with various surface characteristics and its role on mechanical properties, cure-characteristics, and morphological analysis of natural rubber/carbon black composites. J Polym Res 28, 183 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-021-02536-8

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