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Progress of research projects currently supported by the Dutch Rubber Foundation (Rubber-Stichting)

The Dutch Natural Rubber Foundation (Rubber-Stichting) currently sponsors 3 Thai PhD students under a joint program between Department of Rubber Technology and Polymer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Prince of Songkla University (PSU) and the Department of Elastomer Technology and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente (UT).  The students carry out their work and study both in Thailand and the Netherlands.

Two students just enter their third year and one starts her second year in 2011.  The research projects involve an in-depth study of PNA-free aromatic/naphthenic extender oils in natural rubber (NR)-based tire treads, and silica-reinforced NR tire tread compounds.  The output of the projects starts to come out to public through the presentations at international conferences and later on in a peer-reviewed related journal, as the following examples.

  • Petchkaew A., Noordermeer J.W.M., Sahakaro K. 2010.  Petroleum-based PAH-safe process oils in NR, SBR and their blends: study on unfilled compounds.  The 178th Technical Meeting, ACS Rubber Division, 12-14 October 2010, Milwaukee, USA.  
  • Kaewsakul W., Sahakaro K., Dierkes W.K., Noordermeer J.W.M. 2011. Optimization of mixing conditions for silica-reinforced naturalrubber compounds. The European Collaborative IRCO Conference - RubberCon 2011, 12-14 April 2011, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
  • Kaewsakul W., Sahakaro K., Dierkes W.K., Noordermeer J.W.M. 2011. Optimization of mixing conditions for silica-reinforced natural rubber tire tread compounds. The 180th Technical Meeting, ACS Rubber Division, 11-13 October 2011, Cleveland, OH, USA

For more information related to these research works, please contact Prof. Dr. Jacques W.M. Noordermeer (J.W.M.Noordermeer@utwente.nl ) and Asst.Prof.Dr. Kannika Sahakaro (skannika@bunga.pn.psu.ac.th).

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