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Interface construction and properties of polyester fibers reinforced acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber coordination composites

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Polyester (PET) fibers are widely used in tire skeleton materials, conveyor belt and other fields for theirs high strength, good elasticity and other advantages. In this work, PET fibers were firstly modified to introduce phenolic hydroxyl and epoxy ligand groups by polydopamine deposition and ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether (EGDE) grafting. Then the modified PET fibers were filled into acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR)/Fe2(SO4)3 coordination composites to further reinforce the performance of the composites. The focus was to construct the interface between fibers and NBR by forming the –CN–Fe3+-phenolic hydroxyl/epoxy coordination bond and improve the properties of the composites significantly. FTIR, TG and SEM were used to confirm the successful modification of PET fibers by polydopamine deposition and EGDE grafting. The results of DMA, SEM and EDS showed that the modified fibers had good interfacial combination with the rubber matrix through the interfacial coordination chemical bond. The tensile test results showed that the modified fiber reinforced rubber coordination composites have good modulus, tensile strength and elongation at break. Compared with NBR/Fe2(SO4)3 composites, the tensile strength, 100% and 300% fixed elongation modulus of NBR/Fe2(SO4)3 composites reinforced with PET fibers modified by poly(dopamine) deposition were increased by 32.8%, 85.5% and 71.4%, and the tensile strength and elongation at break of NBR/Fe2(SO4)3 composites reinforced with PET fibers modified by EGDE grafting were significantly increased by 35.8% and 31.9%.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51973059).

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    Dekun Liu, Xifei Li, Julan Zhao, Zhuoyan Shao, Shaohua Wei, Qiuying Li & Chifei Wu

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Liu, D., Li, X., Zhao, J. et al. Interface construction and properties of polyester fibers reinforced acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber coordination composites. Polym. Bull. 81, 4677–4693 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-023-04908-0

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