Structural Characterization of Composites Based on Butadiene Rubber and Expanded Perlite

Abstract

The article presents a method for obtaining new composites using the well-known mineral expanded perlite (EP), and the industrial polymer butadiene rubber (BR). For the design of composites, a joint oxidative chlorophosphorylation reaction of BR and EP (as well as BR and modified EP) was carried out, and the modifications resulting from these reactions were further hydrolyzed. The structure and morphology of the obtained samples were characterized in detail using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, as well as scanning electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis. EP and BR were separately modified with a similar reaction and characterized for data interpretation.