Apparently, the agitator bead
mill is effective in producing uniform dispersion of various
inorganic fillers suitable for many manufacturing
processes, for example, coatings, inks and ceramics.
However, its application for preparing rubber masterbatch
has been little used and reported. Thus, a laboratory
agitator bead mill was used in this work to de-agglomerate
the precipitated silica for further preparing the silica/
rubber masterbatch. Silica/rubber masterbatches containing
different silica loadings were prepared using NR latex