TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarkawi SalinaS
AU  - Dierkes KWilma
AU  - Enschede
AU  - Noordermeer WMJacques
AU  - Selangor
TI  - The Effect of protein content in natural rubber on performance of silica filled compounds as influenced by processing temperature
PY  - 2013///
PB  - Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe
KW  - Natural Rubber
KW  - Protein
KW  - Silane Coupling Agent
KW  - Silica
KW  - Tyre
N2  - The use of a bi-functional silane coupling agent enhances the interaction between silica and apolar rubbers such as Natural Rubber (NR). The paper focusses on the influences of non-rubber constituents such as proteins on the properties of silica-filled NR compounds at varying mixing dump temperatures. The work demonstrates that when high amounts of proteins are present in NR, modification of the silica surface by silane is partially hindered. The rheological properties, Payne effect and rubber to filler interactions as well as physical properties of silica reinforced NR at varying protein contents with silane coupling agent are discussed
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