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Weather and UV-resistance: Exploring the Resilience of Paints and Coatings
Discover how UV resistance is a crucial aspect of weather-resistant paints and coatings by delving deep into their reactions, factors promoting resistance, test methods, and more...
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Microbial Resistance: The Protective Shield for Coatings
Explore the mechanism of various antimicrobial paints and coatings to understand how they help enhance longevity and act as a protective barrier against microbial contamination...
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Paint Drying and Curing: A Journey to Flawless Finish
Discover how drying and curing in paints or coatings convert wet paint into a fully cured film. Also, learn more about the factors, applications, and test methods related to these processes...
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Film Hardness: Enhancing Durability & Protection in Thin Paints & Coatings
Discover how film hardness confers durability to paints & coatings with insights into the factors affecting it, applications, tests, and analytical methods used to measure hardness...
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Pot Life versus Shelf Life: Improving the Workability of Paints and Coatings
Explore the key factors & test methods to differentiate between pot life and shelf life of paints and coatings that can vary depending on the type of base resin used and specific formulation...
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Tinting Strength of Paints, Coatings, and Inks - All You Need To Know
Get answers to all your queries about tinting strength in paints, coatings, and inks - its definition, the mechanism to develop pigment strength, factors affecting it, evaluation methods along...
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Hiding Power of Paints - Everything You Want to Know
Get answers to all your queries about hiding power in paints - mechanism, factors affecting hiding, technologies that improve it, quantification methods, and how it is directly related to opacity...
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Mastering Film Formation in Paints, Coatings, & Inks
Clear all your doubts related to film formation in coatings, paints, and inks – its mechanism & types, factors affecting it, advantages, instruments, and test methods involved in this process...
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Fineness of Grind
Learn what makes the fineness of grind a critical control parameter in coatings, paints, and inks for optimization and standardization processes and master various test methods for its accurate...
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Importance of Yield Stress in Paints and Coatings
Discover the importance of yield stress in paints and coatings, its types, and common approaches to measuring it in order to study the flow behavior of complex structured fluids...
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Pigment Dispersion: The Science Principles You Should Know
Develop stable dispersions of pigments and fillers with complete understanding of underlying science - dispersion process, particle stabilization, etc. associated with paint formulations...
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Glass Transition Temperature: An Important Thermal Property of Coatings
Get hands-on information on glass transition temperature (Tg) of coatings, how it is measured, and its importance while selecting the right resin depending upon the end-use of coatings...
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Brittleness: How to Determine the Performance of Coatings?
Discover how brittleness governs the performance & durability of coatings by exploring the role of additives & binders along with factors & test methods that affect the embrittlement of coatings...
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Haze: An Important Appearance Attribute in Paints and Coatings
Learn more about the types of haze and several factors that cause hazy appearance in coatings & paints. Also, understand how haze can be quantified to assess the quality of coated parts...
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Surface Tension: A Property to Determine Coating’s Effectiveness
Learn about the role played by surface tension on surface properties, contact angle, substrate wetting, and surfactants for determining the coating’s effectiveness along with the standards to...
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Minimum Film Forming Temperature (MFFT): A Characteristic Property of Coatings
Explore how minimum film-forming temperature (MFFT) & coalescing agents govern the performance of coating film formation and the methods to measure it...
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Opacity – How to Get the Desired Hiding in Your Coatings?
Explore the basics of opacity and how various ingredients, factors & test methods play an important role in determining the desired opacity of your paints and coatings...
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How to improve gloss in paints and coatings?
Learn about the factors playing the important role in gloss enhancement and retention in coatings. Also, understand about the various paint finishes and standards methods to measure gloss in...
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Importance of Leveling in Paints and Coatings
Explore the factors, test methods and additives that impact the leveling and flow of your painted surface in order to reduce surface tension and other surface defects...
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Matting in Paints and Coatings - All You Need To Know
Learn how to impart a matt finish to your coatings by understanding the various types of matting agents, parameters that influence the quality of matting, and test methods to measure gloss...
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