Surface Phenomena and Additives in Water-Based Coatings and Printing Technology

Additives and Water-Based Coating/Ink Systems.- Advances in Water-Based Coatings and Printing Technology.- The Effect of Conventional and Hydrophobically-Modified Cellulosic Thickeners on the Rheology of Latex Paints.- Water-Based Flexo and Gravure Inks Containing Eastman AQ Polyesters.- Foaming and Crawling of Aqueous Industrial Coatings.- Silicones in the Coating Industry: Flow, Levelling and Defoaming.- Organosilicone Surfactants: Properties, Chemistry, and Applications.- UV Curable Silicone Release Coatings.- Surface Modifications and Wettability.- Surface Treatment of TiO2 Pigments and Aqueous Slurry Stability.- Titanium Dioxide Particle Size Control for Designed Performance in Water-Borne Coating Systems.- Pigment Wetting and Dispersinig Additives for Water-Based Coatings and inks.- Surface Characterization of Polymer Substrates, Flexographic Printing Plates and Dried Ink Films Printed with Water-Based Ink Systems.- A Dynamic Approach to Surface Energy and Wettability Phenomenon in Flexography.- Hydrotrope Effect in Emulsion Polymers: Surface Properties, Particle Size and Coagulum.- Film Thickness Control for Chemically Synthesized Conducting Polypyrrole.- Ink/Coating Formulations and Their Characterization.- High Resolution Particle Size Analysis of Coating Materials: II. Achieving Accurate and High Resolution Results.- Comparison of New Methods of Laser Particle Analysis for the Range 0.0005 um to 700 um.- Rheological Property Measurment with the Falling Needle Viscometer: Theory.- A Multifunctional Falling Needle Viscometer to measure Thermophysical Properties of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids: Applications.- Fundamentals of the Dispersion Process and Characterization of Coating Marterials Using Different Types of Dispersion Equipment.- Surface Tension Measurement (Ring Method) and Characterization of Coating Materials.- Ink Formulations Through Statistically Designed Mixture Experiments.- Author Index.