also verified that alkali treatment result in improvement in the interfacial bonding, giving rise to additional sites of mechanical interlocking, there by promoting more polymer-filler interpenetration at the interface.
this article therefore aim at investigating the feasibility of using unmodified PSP and alkali treated PSP of two difrrent particle size as filler in NR matrix and evaluation of their physicomechanical properties,
sodium hydroxide was used as received