Mechanical properties of natural carbon black reinforced polymer composites

Abstract

This article describes the development of new carbon black material from agricultural waste (wood apple shells) by usingpyrolysis method at various carbonization temperatures (400, 600, and 800 C) and used as reinforcement in polymer composites.The wood apple shell carbon black (WAS-CB) particulates are characterized by proximate analysis, energy dispersive spectroscopy(EDS), and scanning electron microscope (SEM). Results showed that due to increases in carbonization temperature the percentageof carbon improved in the carbon black particles. Furthermore, various tests were performed to determine the effect of new carbonblack material on the mechanical properties of composite at different filler loading. The results indicated that mechanical propertieslike tensile strength, tensile modulus, flexural strength, and flexural modulus are improved as the increase in the carbonization tem-perature and filler loading. The filler-matrix bonding was analyzed by SEM.