| Summary: | Edible oils are becoming popular as crosslinkers to produce inverse vulcanized polysulfides. Waste palm cooking oil can be a suitable alternative as it is inexpensive and abundant in Malaysia. In the current work, the physicochemical properties were studied to analyze the potential of using waste palm cooking oil as a crosslinker. FTIR and GC-MS were done for molecular study, functional group analysis, and percentage of constituents. Data interpretation and comparison between fresh and waste palm cooking oil shows no significant structural and spectroscopic change. TGA was done to study the thermal stability and decomposition of both fresh and waste cooking oil. It is concluded that waste palm cooking oil can be a potential feedstock for inverse vulcanized polysulfides based on the experimental results.
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