Preparation of Positively Charged Membrane from Natural Rubber Latex Blending with Chitosan

Wirach Taweepreda, Supawadee Tuaybut, Sineenart Puangmanee, Tran Dang Khoa
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  • Wirach Taweepreda Department of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat-Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand
  • Supawadee Tuaybut Department of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat-Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand
  • Sineenart Puangmanee Faculty of Environmental Management, Prince of Songkla University, Hat-Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand
  • Tran Dang Khoa Department of Bionanotechnology, Faculty of Physic engineering and Nanotechnology, University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15625/0868-3166/24/3S1/5145

Keywords:

natural rubber, chitosan, magnetic, dielectric, AFM

Abstract

Film formation of natural rubber latex (NRL) blended with various concentrations of chitosan was investigated. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) images clearly showed that the NRL film covered chitosan phase. Roughness of the films which was calculated from AFM image increases with increasing chitosan concentration. Miscibility of NRL and chitosan in solution was investigated by using dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA) and found that chitosan incorporated with NRL less than 40 weight percentage (wt%) was partially miscible. Films  of the chitosan blending with higher NRL contents exhibited two peaks of glass transition temperatures. Interfacial polarization and dielectric properties of polymer films were improved with increasing NRL contents. Chemical structure of the blends was characterized by using attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR).

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Published

07-11-2014

How to Cite

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W. Taweepreda, S. Tuaybut, S. Puangmanee, and T. D. Khoa, “Preparation of Positively Charged Membrane from Natural Rubber Latex Blending with Chitosan”, Comm. Phys., vol. 24, no. 3S1, pp. 51–56, Nov. 2014.

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Published 07-11-2014