Researchers recently improved paint adhesion of environmentally friendly paint film on wood surface by plasma treatment. Taking beech decorative veneer as the substrate, after low-temperature…

A current paper aims to examine the corrosion resistance of epoxy coating incorporated with aminobenzoate intercalated Mg-Al layered double hydroxides (LDH) on steel reinforcement in…

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The availability and prices of raw materials pose challenges for the coatings industry. Stay up to date with the European Coatings Price Ticker and receive…

Renewable resource based polyol derived from undecylenic acid, a by-product of castor oil, was successfully synthesised by three consecutive reactions: methylation, thiol-ene addition, and amidation.…

In a recently published work, various fluorinated polysiloxane coatings with hydrophobic characteristics were fabricated and coated on phosphatised Q235 carbon steel (PCS) to improve the…

Researchers report that mechanisms of grafting butyl acrylate onto model alkyds were dependent on the structure of fatty acids in the model alkyds. In a…

Will titanium dioxide be classified? This question has been on the minds of the European coatings industry for a long time. The fact that there…

Complexity is one of the main hurdles for coating formulators. We spoke with Yannick Nabil-Moreau, Global Technical Manager at Arkema about the role of additives…

Researchers have presented a snail epiphragm-inspired adhesion mechanism where a polymer gel system demonstrates superglue-like adhesion strength (up to 892 N⋅cm−2) that is also reversible.…