Coatings Technology focuses entirely on testing, experimental design, and strategies for selecting processing techniques in the coatings, adhesives, paints, and inks industries.

Features:

• Explains how to design experiments to identify properties, test and compare coatings based on environmental factors, and predict service life
• Highlights useful calculations for the formulation of coatings
• Details nearly 30 coating and processing techniques that can be applied to different products
• Presents the latest advances in vapor deposition coating technologies and high-speed dispersion
• Discusses various pretreatments, heat treatments, and finishing techniques
• Contains an up-to-date chapter on key regulations governing the coatings and inks industries

Contents

Fundamentals and Testing

• Rheology and Surface Chemistry
• Coating Rheology
• Structure-Property Relationships in Polymers
• The Theory of Adhesion
• Adhesion Testing
• Coating Calculations
• Infrared Spectroscopy of Coatings
• Thermal Analysis for Coatings Characterizations
• Color Measurement for the Coatings Industry
• The Use of X-ray Fluorescence for Coat Weight Determinations
• Sunlight, Ultraviolet, and Accelerated Weathering
• Cure Monitoring: Microdielectric Techniques
• Test Panels
• Design of Experiments for Coatings
• Top 10 Reasons Not to Base Service Life Predictions upon Accelerated Lab Light Stability Tests
• Under What Regulation

Coating and Processing Techniques

• Wire-Wound Rod Coating
• Slot Die Coating for Low Viscosity Fluids
• Porous Roll Coater
• Rotary Screen Coating
• Screen Printing
• Flexography
• Ink-Jet Printing
• Electrodeposition of Polymers
• Electroless Plating
• The Electrolizing Thin, Dense, Chromium Process
• The Armoloy Chromium Process
• Sputtered Thin Film Coatings
• Vapor Deposition Coating Technologies
• Cathodic Arc Plasma Deposition
• Industrial Diamond and Diamondlike Films
• Tribological Synergistic Coatings
• Chemical Vapor Deposition
• Solvent Vapor Emission Control
• Surface Treatment of Plastics
• Flame Surface Treatment
• Plasma Surface Treatment
• Surface Pretreatment of Polymer Webs by Fluorine
• Calendering of Magnetic Media
• Embossing
• In-Mold Finishing
• HVLP: The Science of High-Volume, Low-Pressure Finishing
• A Practical Guide to High-Speed Dispersion
• Fade Resistance of Lithographic Inks - A New Path Forward: Real World Exposures in Florida and Arizona Compared to Accelerated Xenon Arc Exposures

Index

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