Items Tagged with 'Surfactants'

Innovative reactive surfactants enhance water resistance and stability in waterborne coatings, marking a significant technological advancement in emulsion polymerization.

Silicone surface additives enhance wetting, leveling, and surface tension control in coatings, improving performance across various industrial applications.

Locus Fermentation Solutions gains TSCA expansion, enabling U.S. production of sustainable biosurfactants for agriculture, personal care, and industrial applications.

One of the key performance properties formulators use fluorocarbon surfactants for is early hot block resistance. To address this need in architectural coatings, a study of alternative technologies was conducted and revealed that modifying a specific phosphate ester could provide a straightforward solution.

This article, the conclusion of a five-part series, covers work done on using reactive surfactants to make styrene acrylic emulsions with better water resistance.

This article, the fourth in a series, covers work done to improve the water resistance of water-based emulsions by replacing conventional emulsion surfactants with surfactants that will react into the polymer matrix.

A new wetting agent enhances wetting behavior, particularly in wood coatings. The innovative approach is based on a comparative evaluation of silicone-free and silicone-based surfactants, focusing on surface tension and contact angle.

A novel polymerizable surfactant was developed and utilized to prepare latex polymers and resins through emulsion polymerizations. These polymers were then evaluated in PSA and architectural waterborne coating formulations. The results showed that the new surfactant almost fully reacted during the emulsion polymerization, and reduced or even eliminated the free surfactant migration during film formation.

This article, the third in a series, covers work done to improve the water resistance of water-based emulsions by replacing conventional emulsion surfactants with surfactants that will react into the polymer matrix.

The triple-digit, million-euro facility is the first worldwide to manufacture industrial-scale quantities of rhamnolipid bio-surfactants.