Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives
and Applications
Second Edition
by Istvan Benedek

Inclusively examining the science and technology behind pressure-sensitive products, this Second Edition hails recent discoveries in contact physics and mechanics and newly debuted raw materials and coating technologies to remain the preferred information source of engineers, chemists, academics, and students.

Further, Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives and Applications is skillfully rendered by a single expert author-lending its contents a unity and applicability lacking in other reference compilations on the subject.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Rheology of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives
3. Physical Basis for the Viscoelastic Behavior of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives
4. Comparison of PSAs
5. Chemical Composition of PSAs
6. Adhesive Performance Characteristics
7. Converting Properties of PSAs
8. Manufacture of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives
9. Manufacture of Pressure-Sensitive Labels
10. Test Methods

Abbreviations and Acronyms
Index

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