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Solving Engineering Challenges With Teflon

Solving Engineering Challenges With Teflon

Jeff Elliot
February 9, 2018
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Teflon and other functional coatings from an experienced applicator can solve design problems including excessive wear, sticking, noise and corrosion.


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New Technology and Advanced Controls Bring Energy Efficiency to Industrial Chiller Equipment

New Technology and Advanced Controls Bring Energy Efficiency to Industrial Chiller Equipment

Dan Brandenburg
February 8, 2018
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Recently introduced industrial chiller systems incorporate a significant series of hardware, software, material usage and design improvements. The combination of improvements in each of these domains has led to a significant overall performance improvement for this type of equipment.


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Current Trends of Cationic Coating Formulations, Production Methods and Apparatus Upon Formable Sheet Metal

Bruce Bachman
February 6, 2018
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UV cationic coatings present a viable and attractive option to OEMs, sheet metal mills and formable sheet metal fabricators for precoated deep draw steels to present-day conventional sheet metal forming, bending, stamping and/or fabrication operations that require secondary conventional industrial conformal coatings processing, as well as an effective delivery transport mechanism for new pathogen inhibition and biocidal efficacy technologies.


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The Impact of Film Properties on Corrosion Resistance

in Waterborne Acrylics and Next-Generation Low-VOC Resin Development
Allen S. Bulick Chris R. LeFever Glenn R. Frazee Matt L. Mellott Kailong Jin
February 5, 2018
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The adhesion/corrosion balance of the previous study yielded significant new insights into resin design. Polymers with good wet adhesion and good corrosion resistance could be isolated, and those properties correlated back to their monomer compositions and particle morphologies.


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Finding a Path to Smart Paints, Adhesives, Films and Alloys using Smart Materials

David Strumpf
February 2, 2018
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Smart materials are becoming an important part of our future, and in many cases they are right under (or above) our noses today. Every-day examples range from your child’s forehead thermometer to your sunglass frames.


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Epoxy Resins for Semiconductor Packaging Assemblies

Resolve Moisure and Heat Challenges
Mark Edwards Michael Scrivner
February 1, 2018
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Semiconductor packaging assemblies require immense durability to protect the finished device from heat, physical impact, warping, static electricity and moisture. Therefore, formulators of epoxy compounds for semiconductor packaging assemblies require epoxy resins that deliver multiple performance characteristics that are dependent upon the requirements of the application or location of the finished device.


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A Novel, Multipurpose Organic Coating System, Part 2

A Novel, Multipurpose Organic Coating System, Part 2

Hugh W. Lowrey
January 10, 2018
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In the 1960s a coating system formed by overcoating a molten hot-melt coating with a latex paint was conceived as an answer to a search by the wood siding industry for a primer to improve paint performance on its product. Performance testing, including weather exposure, had a positive outcome, but circumstances prevented commercialization. Thirty years later, the originator of the concept undertook a more thorough investigation. This article is a public a report on coating system composition and performance.


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Efflorescence: Substrate Wetting Additives Make a Difference

Efflorescence: Substrate Wetting Additives Make a Difference

Suvarna Dagli Larry Keyede Bhavesh Patel
January 9, 2018
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The introduction of new substrate wetting additives improves the spreading capacity of emulsion paints. Also the effectiveness in filling the crevices/pores of concrete substrates is highlighted by the results of accelerated efflorescence or alkali block testing.


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Lexus and VIAVI Solutions Crack the Code on Bioinspired Color

Lexus and VIAVI Solutions Crack the Code on Bioinspired Color

John Book
January 8, 2018
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After 15 years of development and countless hours of collaboration across a number of experts, this group of researchers was finally able to crack the code on structural color to develop "omnidirectional" structural color that does not change when viewed from different angles.


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Micronized Powders for Coatings and Inks

Micronized Powders for Coatings and Inks

Tobias Niederleitner
January 5, 2018
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These micronized innovations are based on renewable raw materials in different particle size distributions that support customers’ ambitions to offer more sustainable solutions to industrial markets without compromising performance.


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