Increasing Stickiness with Tackifiers
Tackifiers are low molecular weight component used in adhesive formulations, especially in tacky adhesives such as hot melt adhesives and pressure sensitive adhesives. As the...
Consumer friendly adhesive – Pressure Sensitive Adhesive
Pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) are permanently tacky products which adhere to substrates under the application of slight pressure (this may also be referred to as...
Diving into Functional Coatings: Self-Cleaning & Self-Healing coatings
The term “functional coatings” has been used as a buzz word in the industry just like “smart phones” in the tech industry. Functional coatings can...
Roller coating application techniques
In this Tech-File, we will be discussing primarily about the roll coating application technique. Roll coating is one of the many types of coating techniques...
White powdery stuff on the wall : Efflorescence
One need not be a keen observer to have spotted an efflorescence. It might only be that you don’t know what it’s called. Efflorescence is...
Formulator’s guide for Film Formation in Polymeric Emulsions
Film formation can be regarded by many as the most important phase/parameter/property when working with coatings and adhesives. Decades ago, when aqueous emulsion-based systems were...
Basics of Emulsion Polymerization: Raw Materials and Mechanism
In the early days, emulsion polymerization technique was explored in the effort for producing synthetic rubber latexes (e.g., Styrene butadiene rubber), but the versatility of...
Understanding TiO2 through Light Scattering
When working with white pigments, it is very important to have a basic understanding about light scattering and its different effects. Since titanium dioxide (TiO2)...