Surfactant behavior and its influence on the viscosity of associative thickeners solutions, thickened latex dispersions, and waterborne latex coatings |
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Authors: | David M Mahli Mark J Steffenhagen Lin-lin Xing and J Edward Glass |
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Affiliation: | (1) North Dakota State University, USA |
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Abstract: | Surfactants, varying in their chemical composition and hydrophobic behavior, are used in the formulation of a waterborne coating.
These differences influence their aggregation in micellar structures, their interaction with associative thickeners, and in
particular, the synergies present in their competitive adsorptions on the disperse phases in a waterborne coating. Adsorption
of HEUR thickeners on latexes and the ability of surfactants to displace them from those surfaces is an important variable
in the dispersion’s viscosity. With large particle latexes, viscosity increases arise primarily from the network built through
the interaction of HEURs with surfactants in the aqueous phase. Fluorescence is used to verify the mechanism by which surfactants
enhance associative thickener viscosities. That is best achieved with nonionic surfactants, because of their synergies with
large hydrophobe HEURs at low concentration. With decreasing latex particle size the adsorbed species is an important contributor
to the dispersion’s viscosity through its contribution to the latex’s effective volume fraction increase and when the size
of the adsorbed HEUR is matched to the separation distances of the latex at 0.25 volume fraction. Achieving controlled shear-thinning
behavior in small particle size latex paints with the economic constraints on the amount of HEUR required to obtain 90 KU
viscosities are discussed.
Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology, October 30–November 1, 2002,
in New Orleans, LA.
Polymer and Coatings Dept., Fargo, ND 58103. |
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