Dr. Darlene Brezinski presented the Outstanding Coatings Technologies First Place Paper Award, sponsored by PCI, for $3,000 to Bret Chisholm at the 30th Annual International Waterborne, High-Solids, & Powder Coatings Symposium in New Orleans.
Dr. Darlene Brezinski presented the Outstanding Coatings Technologies First Place Paper Award, sponsored by PCI, for $3,000 to Bret Chisholm at the 30th Annual International Waterborne, High-Solids, & Powder Coatings Symposium[R] in New Orleans.
For many applications, thermoplastics possess many desirable properties such as low weight, high impact strength and good processability. However, a major drawback of thermoplastics over metals, ceramics, or thermosets is low scratch and mar resistance. As a result, many thermoplastic applications require a hard coating to impart abrasion resistance to the article. As a means to increase the hardness and abrasion resistance of coatings for plastic substrates, the addition of organically modified silica particles to organic coatings has been investigated.1