Comparative studies of Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide as a potential filler in Polypropylene reinforced rice husk composite

International Conference on Innovative Technology, Engineering and Sciences 2018

工业技术;自然科学

Awang, M.^1 ; Wan Mohd, W.R.^1

School of Ocean Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu Kuala Terengganu

21300, Malaysia^1

关键词: Comparative studies;    Environmental issues;    Fractured surfaces;    Green composites;    Morphological images;    Titanium dioxides (TiO2);    Universal testing machines;    Zinc oxide (ZnO);   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/342/1/012046/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/342/1/012046

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Arising global environmental issues have triggered the search of new products and processes that are compatible with the environment while maintaining novel properties of materials. In this work, green composites containing rice husk (RH), polypropylene (PP), and incorporated with two different fillers namely titanium dioxide (TiO2) and zinc oxide (ZnO) were prepared using an internal mixer and were injected into desired specimen by using an injection molding method. Mechanical properties of the composite were studied using Instron universal testing machine with load cell of 30kN capacity. Morphological of tensile fractured surface of composites was observed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results show that the composites with the addition of TiO2gave an excellent mechanical properties than the composites filled with ZnO. Furthermore, morphological image of PP/RH/TiO2also shows a good interaction occurred between polymer matrix and RH particles as compared to that of PP/RH/ZnO.