This book summarizes the preparation, characterization and applications of rubber based nano blends. Rubbers from natural and synthetic polymers and their blends are discussed in the individual chapters, including nitrile, polyurethane, chlorosulphonated, polybutadiene, styrene butadiene, polychloroprene rubbers. In each chapter, contributors from academia and industry describe the preparation and characterization of the rubber blends. Therefore, a variety of characterization methods like tensile testing, differential scanning calorimetry, dynamical mechanical analysis, thermogravimetric analysis, electron microscopy, scattering and diffraction techniques, and rheology measurements are utilized. The authors evaluate the properties of the different materials and discuss numerous fields of application, ranging from biomedicine, packaging, coatings and automobile to aerospace.

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Gordana Markovic has received her PhD in 2004 at the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Nis. She is employed as a engineer of quality in the factory "Tigar Technical Rubber" in Pirot, Serbia since 1990. In 2010, she became Senior Researcher. She published 138 publications, 2 book chapters and 12 reviews. She presented on more than 20 conferences. Her research interests include rubber, polymer nanocomposites and polymer blends.
Dr. Visakh P.M. (MSc, MPhil, PhD) is a prolific editor with more than 20 books already published. Currently he is working as Research Associate (under the guidance of Prof. Olga B. Nazarenko) in the Department of Ecology and Basic Safety, Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Tomsk, Russia. He obtained his PhD, MPhil and MSc degrees from the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He edited 20 books with Springer, Wiley, Royal Society of Chemistry and Elsevier, and more than 12 books are in press. He has been invited as a visiting researcher in Russia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Italy, Argentina, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Slovenia, France, Belgium and Austria for his research work. He published 13 articles, 3 reviews and more than 18 book chapters. He has attended and presented on more than 28 conferences. He has 304 citations and his h-index is 9. He acts as guest editor for four international journals. His research interests include polymer nanocomposites, bio-nanocomposites, rubber-based nanocomposites, fire retardant polymers, liquid crystalline polymers and silicon sensors.

Inhalt
Rubber Nano Blends.- Natural Rubber Nano Blends.- Nitrile Rubber Latex Blends.- Polyurethane Rubber-Based Nano Blends.- Chlorosulphonated Rubber-Based Nano Blends.- Polybutadiene Rubber-Based Nano Blends.- Styrene Butadiene Rubber-Based Nano Blends (SBR-nB).- Polychloroprene Rubber-Based Nano Blends.- Ethylene Propylene Diene Rubber-Based Nano Blends.