Properties of Polymer Composites with Acidic or Basic Fillers

As shown so far, the acid-base interactions significantly affect polymer formation when adding solid acids or bases. Besides, those interactions affect also polymer and composite characteristics. Regarding the character of the occurring acid-base interactions, their effect may be either positive or negative, i.e. they may either improve, or make the properties of the composite material worse. The effect of those interactions depends on the composition of each particular system — acidic or basic filler added to basic or acidic monomer, oligomer or polymer.