Research Article

Improvement of Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Vietnam Deproteinized Natural Rubber via Graft Copolymerization with Methyl Methacrylate

Table 3

The cure characteristics for DPNR and DPNR-graft-PMMA samples.

Samples (dN.m) (dN.m) (dN.m) (min) (min) (min-1)

DPNR1.955.713.767.1310.8926.52
DPNR-g-PMMA 5 wt.%3.228.675.450.702.8945.66
DPNR-g-PMMA 10 wt.%3.028.855.830.823.0445.05
DPNR-g-PMMA 15 wt.%2.679.026.350.822.9446.30
DPNR-g-PMMA 20 wt.%3.038.985.950.772.8947.17