Investigation of the physical abrasion of rubber polymer reinforced with nanoparticles used in fabrication of medical devices

摘要

With recent development in nanotechnology, nanocomposite materials have become of the most important polymeric materials which exhibit excellent biological, physical, chemical and thermal properties. Rubber based nanocomposites is one of the mast interesting field in the literatures and material science. In this paper preparation and characterization of rubber/ resin with nano iron oxide has been done. Two roll mills method have been used for mixing compounds. This route of mixing has been attracted in recent years especially for rubber and resin based nanocomposites. Effect of nano iron oxide on the abrasion properties of compounds has been investigated. The results show that with addition of nano iron oxide to acrylonitrile butadiene rubber/resin matrix, abrasion content of compounds has been decreased. Moreover the scanning electron microscopy and optical microscopy images have been used for better recognition of abrasion manner of compounds.