@article{oai:soar-ir.repo.nii.ac.jp:00013438,
 author = {Jiang,  Hong-Xia and Ni,  Qing-Qing and Natsuki,  Toshiaki},
 issue = {6},
 journal = {POLYMER COMPOSITES},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {This is a preprint of an article published in Polymer Composites. 31(6):1099-1104 (2010) JOHN WILEY & SONS INC URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1548-0569, Natural rubber (NR) composites with different contents of 1, 3, 10, and 20 wt% vapor-grown carbon nanofibers (VGCFs) were synthesized using a solvent casting method. The initial modulus of composites was improved by 26.5 %/wt% as the VGCFs were added, and the NR/3 wt%VGCF composite had the largest tensile strength. The experiment values of initial moduli agreed well with the values predicted by the Halpin-Tsai theory. The reinforcement mechanisms of the composites were investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD). It was found that an efficient stress transfer occurred from NR to VGCFs under the uniaxial stretching. The addition of 10 wt% VGCFs could promote the nucleation process of NR, which resulted in the characteristic of the strain-induced crystallization (SIC) in NR/10 wt%VGCF composite even for low strain., Article, POLYMER COMPOSITES. 31(6):1099-1104 (2010)},
 pages = {1099--1104},
 title = {Tensile Properties and Reinforcement Mechanisms of Natural Rubber/Vapor-Grown Carbon Nanofiber Composite},
 volume = {31},
 year = {2010}
}