Masturi, Anggi Puspita Swardhani, Euis Sustini, Minsyahril Bukit, Mora, Khairurrijal, Mikrajuddin Abdullah
The issue of waste problems needs innovative efforts to solve. One of them is solid waste utilization as nanocomposite using polyurethane (PU) polymer as matrix. Beside using solid waste as filler, nanosilica is also added to improve the material strength of composite-produced. These materials were mixed by simple mixing with variative compositions, and then hot-pressed at 30 MPa and 100°C for 30 minutes. From compressive strength test, it was found that composite with composition 2:8 of PU and solid waste has optimum compressive strength, i.e. 160 MPa. Into this optimum composition, nanosilica then is added to improve the compressive strength and found that at composition 1:40:160 of nanosilica, PU and solid waste, the composite has optimum compressive strength 200 MPa, or increases 25% of that without nanosilica. The composite-produced is also lightweight material with the density is 0.69g/cm3. © 2010 American Institute of Physics.
Physics Department, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung 40132, Jalan Ganeca 10, Indonesia; Physics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
