The presence of sulfites in ‘natural rubber latex’ and ‘synthetic’ rubber gloves: an experimental pilot study

2019 ◽  
Vol 182 (4) ◽  
pp. 1054-1055
Author(s):  
E. Dendooven ◽  
A.‐S. Darrigade ◽  
K. Foubert ◽  
L. Pieters ◽  
J. Lambert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Natural Rubber Latex ◽  
Rubber Latex ◽  
Synthetic Rubber

Optimisation of Tensile Strength and Weight Loss via Taguchi and Response Surface Method for Natural Rubber Latex Film Consisting Cassava Peel as a Bio-Based Filler

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahiratul Husna Mustaffar ◽  
◽  
Aliff Hisyam A. Razak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Natural Rubber Latex ◽  
Rubber Latex ◽  
Synthetic Rubber ◽  
Surface Method ◽  
Prepared Composite ◽  
Cassava Peel

Disposal latex and synthetic rubber gloves is troublesome such that disposal via incineration and land fill may release poisonous gasses and contaminate soil and water, respectively. As solution to latex and synthetic rubber, biodegradable glove is extensively studied. A bio-based filler is extracted from food waste and blended into natural rubber latex (NRL) as a composite NRL. The effect of biodegradability of composite NRL was studied by varying the loading of bio-based filler in a form of starch dispersion and blended into NRL mixture. Herein some amount of starch can be extracted from cassava peel to be incorporated in NRL for a sustainable and yet biodegradable glove. Previous work on incorporation of cassava-peel filler in NRL has shown a biodegradability without compromising the pristine strength of NRL film at 50% loading starch. In this project, tensile strength and weight loss of prepared composite NRL films were optimised via Taguchi and Response Surface Method (RSM) by means of Design Expert software by varying starch/filler loading, curing temperature and curing drying duration. Due to inadequate data, the optimisation from that previous prepared composite NRL was compared with similar work which utilising NRL and bio-based filler. For Pulungan (2020) study, it can be concluded that the tensile strength of cassava peel starch biodegradable film has the best condition at 50°C to 60°C at approximately 5.5 hours. Elongation optimum conditions shows contrast value of temperature and time. Meanwhile, for Wendy (2020) study, it shows the best percentage loading of cassava-peel starch is at 20% to achieve high stress and strain at break. The optimised mechanical properties via Taguchi and RSM are rather different and hence validation on mechanical properties at above mentioned conditions need to be performed experimentally.

Preparation Polyisoprene (NR) and Polyacrylonitrile Rubber Latex Glove Films by Dipping Ceramic Hand Molds Process and their Properties

2018 ◽  
Vol 382 ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puwitoo Sornsanee ◽  
Vichasharn Jitprarop ◽  
Nuchnapa Tangboriboon
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Natural Rubber Latex ◽  
Film Surface ◽  
Rubber Latex ◽  
Elongation At Break ◽  
Latex Glove ◽  
Bone China ◽  
Synthetic Rubber ◽  
High Flexibility

Both synthetic and natural rubber latex can be used to form rubber latex glove films for medical and dental applications. The objective in this research is to study the natural and synthetic rubber latex glove films formation by dipping process with the bone china ceramic hand molds for 5, 10, and 15 min. From the experimental, the obtained natural rubber latex glove films are good appearance and good physical-mechanical properties i.e. smooth film surface, light pale yellow color, soft, translucent, high tensile strength, high elongation at break, and high flexibility better than those of synthetic rubber latex glove films. When the dipping time of bone china hand mold into natural rubber latex compound increases effect to tensile strength, thickness, and elongation at break increase. Tensile strength, elongation at break, and tensile stress of natural rubber latex films dipped for 15 min are equal to 12.82 ± 1.19 MPa, 1090.91 ± 4.92%, and 39.23 ± 3.63 N, respectively.

Film from Mixtures of Natural and Synthetic Rubber Latex. Physical Properties

1952 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 983-994
Author(s):  
R. M. Pierson ◽  
R. J. Coleman ◽  
T. H. Rogers ◽  
D. W. Peabody ◽  
J. D. D'Ianni
Keyword(s):  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Natural Rubber Latex ◽  
Synthetic Polymers ◽  
Rubber Latex ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Synthetic Rubber ◽  
Mooney Viscosity ◽  
The One ◽  
Rubber Stock

Abstract When tested in a single standardized procedure for cast latex films, the type of synthetic-rubber latex employed in latex blends containing 70 per cent or more natural-rubber latex had little effect on the stress-strain properties of the mixture. Cold-rubber latexes imparted higher stress-strain values to blends with natural rubber than did the corresponding hot-rubber latexes. The improvement was particularly noted on comparison of tensile product values. Low-conversion synthetic polymers produced higher stress-strain properties than high-conversion polymers in blends with natural rubber, even though their tensile strengths in 100 per cent synthetic stocks were approximately equal. Optimum physical properties were obtained by use of blends with synthetic polymers of medium Mooney viscosity. It is believed that the appearance of an optimum Mooney viscosity is tied in with the necessity of having quite high molecular weight on the one hand, and, on the other, the ability of the particles to knit well, the latter in turn requiring a comparative freedom from tight gel. Tensile product values increased with increasing styrene content in the synthetic polymer, but, correspondingly, the low-temperature stiffening increased. The physical properties of a natural rubber stock are far superior to those of any of the synthetic-rubber latexes tested to date. Cold-rubber latexes now in production are an improvement over high-temperature latexes, for example, in wet gel strength but do not approach natural rubber latex in stress-strain properties.

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