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Altana wants to become carbon dioxide neutral by 2025
By 2025 the specialty chemicals group Altana wants to reduce its CO2 impact from production and energy procurement worldwide to zero.
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Epoxy adhesives containing recycled polymers and graphene oxide nanoflakes
Scienstists have designed epoxy adhesives based on recycled poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), ground rubber tire (GTR), and graphene oxide (GO) nanoflakes.
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Lone Star Funds to acquire BASF’s Construction Chemicals business
BASF and an affiliate of Lone Star signed a purchase agreement for the acquisition of BASF’s Construction Chemicals business.
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Measuring and modeling hydration kinetics of well cements
Scientists present a new method to measure the chemical shrinkage of cements, using an ultrasonic cement analyser coupled with an external pump.
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Electrophoretically deposited graphene oxide–polymer bilayer coating on Cu-Ni alloy with enhanced corrosion resistance
For an actual study an environmentally benign and facile bilayer coating comprised of graphene oxide (GO) and acrylic polymer has been fabricated over a cupronickel sample.
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Clariant sells masterbatches business to Poly One
The specialty chemical company Clariant is selling its entire masterbatches business to Poly One for around EUR 1.4 billion.
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Study on the concentration profiles in phase-separating photocuring coatings
Scientists directly measured the local composition profiles in phase-separating photocurable thin films using confocal Raman spectroscopy.
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UV-resistant and transparent hydrophobic surfaces by a facile dip-coating method
Hydrophobic surfaces were prepared with different chemistries by dip-coating. They showed excellent resistance to UV radiation after long-term exposure.
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VIS-optical reflectometry: a method to investigate latex-based coatings
A noninvasive technique can be used to study the film formation from aqueous mixtures layered up to 25 μm thickness.
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The top 10 coatings articles from 2019
What were the hot topics that the coatings industry discussed in 2019? We have collected the top 10 articles that you, our readers, found to be the most interesting.
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Effectiveness of non-Fickian diffusion model on the water uptake determination of organic coatings
Water diffusion in organic coatings were measured successfully in a study using EIS and wet-cup methods.
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Fabrication of transparent easy-clean coating formulations optimised from molecular dynamics simulation
Report on the impact of co-polymerising polyvinyl acetate with polydimethyl siloxane in developing an easy-cleaning coating material.
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A process model for slot coating of narrow stripes
In a new study, scientists develop a process model for slot coating of variable-width narrow stripes, as a fundamental and representative pattern feature for patterned slot coating.
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Surface-initiated Polymer brush as anti-scaling coating for plate heat exchangers
In a recently published study, researchers evaluated the feasibility of surface-initiated polymerisation (SIP) as thin coating technology to mitigate CaCO3 formation for heat transfer applications.