Adsorption properties of polydimethylsiloxane on the surface of silica aggregates are studied from chemical microanalysis combined with proton magnetic relaxation measurements and from swelling measurements performed on mixtures. It is shown that polymer molecules, observed right after the preparation of mixtures, are strongly adsorbed on about 1/4 of the silica surface, only; they form islets. It is also shown that the number of contact points of a chain with the surface is proportional to √N during the progressive saturation of the silica surface; N is the number of monometric units in one chain.
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J. P. Cohen Addad (1996) studied this question.