Rubber Technology

Sabu Thomas is a Senior Professor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, and also Chairman of the TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, India. He is known for his outstanding contributions in polymer science and nanotechnology. Abitha V.K. is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Her areas of research include rubber, polymer blends, fibre filled polymer composites, particulate filled polymer composites and their morphological and structural characterization. Dr. Abitha has written several book chapters, and has co-edited three books with Elsevier. KP Jibin is a Senior Researcher at the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He completed his Master of Science degree in Analytical Chemistry in 2016, and was ranked first in the MSc Analytical Chemistry at Mahatma Gandhi University. Jibin has presented several papers at national and international conferences. As part of his work on nanomaterials, he has been involved in projects on optical studies of samarium complexes, synthesized using curcumin, isolated from turmeric extract as ligand, and on the synthesis of Mg and Co co-doped ZnO-based diluted magnetic semi-conductors, for optoelectronic applications. Currently he is working in the area of hybrid polymer nanocomposites for engineering applications. He has published 10 journal articles, more than 10 book chapters and edited two books. Hanna J. Maria is a Senior Researcher at the School of Energy Materials and the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Her research focusses on natural rubber composites and their blends, thermoplastic composites, lignin, nanocellulose, bionanocomposites, nanocellulose, rubber-based composites and nanocomposites.

Part A: Fundamentals of Rubber and Rubber Technology
1. An Introduction to Rubber and Rubber Technology, Structure-Property Relationships, and Terminologies
2. Rubber Compounding and Processing
3. Rubber Testing and Mechanics

Part B: Synthetic, Natural, and Specialty Rubbers
4. Natural Rubber
5. Synthetic Rubbers
6. Concept of Self-Healing in Rubbers
7. Concept of Shape Memory in Rubbers
8. Concept of Functionalization in Rubbers
9. Liquid Rubbers

Part C: Rubber Composites, Nanocomposites, and Blends
10. Rubber-based Composites and Nanocomposites
11. Rubber-based Thermoplastic Blends, Composites and nanocomposites
12. Rubber-based Thermoset Blends, Composites and nanocomposites
13. Rubber-based Rubber Blends, Composites and nanocomposites

Part D: Engineering, Modelling, Quality Control, and Applications of Rubber
14. Modeling and Simulation with Rubbers
15. Engineering with Rubbers
16. Rubber Product Manufacturing
17. Plant Layout and Design for Manufacturing with Rubber
18. Entrepreneurship Development in Rubber Products
19. Quality Management and Quality Tools for Manufacturing with Rubber
20. Applications of Rubbers

Part E: Applications of Rubbers
21. Rubbers in Tyre Engineering
22. Rubbers in biomedical applications
23. 3-D printing of rubbers
24. Electrospinning of rubbers

Part F: Rubber Recycling, Life Cycle Analysis, and Future Outlook
25. Recycling of Rubbers
26. Utilization of Reclaimed Rubber
27. Life Cycle Analysis of Rubber-based Systems
28. Future Outlook of Rubber Materials and Technology