Cassava starch filled linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) films are made in order to make plastics which environmentally friendly. The use of compatibilizer ethylene-acrylic ester-maleic anhydride polymerized is needed to obtain a compatible mixture of starch which is hydrophilic and LLDPE which is hydrophobic. In this study LLDPE films obtained were tested for tensile strength and elongation before and after accelerated aging and density. Melt flow index (MFI) of the film was also measured to determine the rheological properties. Crystallinity has been done by an X-Ray diffraction. The results showed that the addition of thermoplastic starch tended to reduce the tensile strength, elongation, and MFI values but increase the density of LLDPE films. The aging process at a temperature of 70 °C ± 2 °C for 168 hours ± 2 hours tends to increase the tensile strength but decrease the extension of the break.
The observation of this research consist of curing characteristic, morphology property and swelling equilibrium. Curing characteristic was determined from cure rate index (CRI), vulcanizates morphology was studied by SEM and swelling equilibrium was conducted by immersion test using benzene. The data were analyzed qualitatively to see the respond of the variable on physical properties. The curing characteristic of double filler vulcanizates was higher than those with single filler. Solvent uptake for double filler present in between to those with HAF or SRF. All of vulcanizates indicate the anomalous mass tranfer, with n>0,5 and constant k showed the same trend. The intrinsic diffusivity (D*), sorption and permeation coefficient showed similar trend and the maximum was obtained by the ratio HAF/SRF 0/70.
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