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Rational design of aromatic surfactants for graphene/natural rubber latex nanocomposites with enhanced electrical conductivity.

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Abstract
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Graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) can be dispersed in natural rubber matrices using surfactants. The stability and properties of these composites can be optimized by the choice of surfactants employed as stabilizers. Surfactants can be designed and synthesized to have enhanced compatibility with GNPs as compared to commercially available common surfactants. Including aromatic groups in the hydrophobic chain termini improves graphene compatibility of surfactants, which is expected to increase with the number of aromatic moieties per surfactant molecule. Hence, it is of interest to study the relationship between molecular structure, dispersion stability and electrical conductivity enhancement for single-, double-, and triple-chain anionic graphene-compatible surfactants.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Journal of colloid and interface science
Volume
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516
Number of Pages
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34-47
Date Published
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2018
ISSN Number
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0021-9797
URL
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http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0021-9797(18)30050-X
DOI
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10.1016/j.jcis.2018.01.041
Short Title
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J Colloid Interface Sci
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