Photoinitiators

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Istanbul Technical University mourns Prof. Yusuf Yağcı

 One of the pioneers in photopolymer sciences passed away on 30 January.

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News Production & Lab

Soybean protein isolate instead of petrochemicals

During a recently conducted study, researchers have achieved highly efficient self-initiated UV curing of water-based coatings. They used soybean protein isolate as co-initiator instead of petrochemicals....

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News Coatings Technologies

Low migration type I photoinitiators of radical polymerisation

A recently published study focues on new acyl phosphine oxides as high-performance and low migration type I photoinitiators of radical polymerisation.

News Coatings Technologies

Photoinitiating systems for acrylate and thiol-ene photopolymerisation

A new study describes phenothiazine-based charge-transfer complexes as visible-light photoinitiating systems for acrylate and thiol-ene photopolymerisation.

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News Coatings Technologies

The role of the ketyl radical in type II photoinitiators

Scientists have evaluated the influence of the photoinitiating system on the properties of photopolymerised methylmethacrylate.

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News Production & Lab

Photoreactivity study of photoinitiated free radical polymerisation

Researchers have studied photoinitiated free radical polymerisation using Type II photoinitiator containing thioxanthone initiator as a hydrogen acceptor and various amine-type co-initiators as hydrogen...

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IGM Resins successfully produces first batch of photoinitiator in Anqing

Precisely 13 months after the formal groundbreaking ceremony, IGM Resins has produced the first batch of photoinitiator in Anqing, China.

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Donor–acceptor–donor structured thioxanthone derivatives as visible photoinitiators

Three thioxanthone derivatives differing by their peripheral groups have been investigated as visible light photoinitiators of polymerisation.

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Photoinitiators: A “run” on substitutes

The shortage of photoinitiators poses challenges for the printing ink industry. We spoke to Dr Jörg-Peter Langhammer of EuPIA about the supply shortages and ...