Faculty Publications
Permanent URI for this communityhttps://idr.nitk.ac.in/handle/123456789/18736
Publications by NITK Faculty
Browse
2 results
Search Results
Item Thermal degradation and swelling of thermoplastic vulcanizates from NBR/SAN and NBR/Scrap computer plastics blends(Huthig GmbH, 2009) Anandhan, S.; Rajeev, R.S.; De, S.K.; Bhowmick, A.K.Thermoplastic elastomeric blends of nitrile rubber (NBR)/poly(styrene- coacrylonitrile) (SAN) and NBR/scrap computer plastics (SCP) based on acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene terpolymer (ABS) were prepared. Thermoplastic elastomeric blends of NBR/SAN containing various amounts of a model waste nitrile rubber powder (w-NBR) were also prepared. Thermogravimetric analysis of the above blends was performed in a nitrogen atmosphere. Both Friedman and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa methods were used for the evaluation of activation energies of thermal degradation of these blends. The dynamically vulcanised blends exhibit higher amount of activation energies for thermal degradation than the unvulcanised ones. Swelling studies were performed in various solvents having different solubility parameter values and maximum swelling was found to occur in a solvent having a solubility parameter that was closer to that of the blend components, i.e., around 20MPa1/2. Dynamically vulcan-ised blends show excellent resistance to IRM #903 oil as well as four chosen solvents possessing different solubility parameters (E).Item Thermodynamic miscibility and thermal and mechanical properties of poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate-co-carbon monoxide)/poly(vinyl chloride) blends(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2015) SelvaKumar, M.; Mahendran, A.; Bhagabati, P.; Anandhan, S.This paper reports the miscibility and thermal and mechanical properties of solution cast binary blends of poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate-co-carbon monoxide) (EVACO) and poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC). The composition of these blends was varied from 10:90 to 90:10 of PVC/EVACO (w/w %). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy revealed an extensive intermolecular attraction between the blend components, which accounts for their mutual solubility. The differential scanning calorimetry study revealed that the blend components are miscible with each other in all proportions as they exhibited a single glass transition temperature. Tensile strength, moduli, and thermal stabilities of these blends significantly improved with increasing proportion of PVC. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
