Coatings Technology : Fundamentals, Testing, and Processing Techniques

Drawn from the third edition of The Coatings Technology Handbook, this book focuses entirely on testing, experimental design, and strategies for selecting processing techniques in the coatings, adhesives, paints, and inks industries. Coatings Technology: Fundamentals, Testing, and Processing Techniques contains the latest coating and processing methods capable of satisfying increasingly precise, application-specific requirements.

The book contains analytical techniques used to elucidate surface chemistry, adhesion, and other physical properties. It also presents practical methods, such as accelerated light stability tests, to compare the resistance of different materials to wear, UV light/fading, and weathering. Subsequent chapters explore the most suitable techniques and the equipment for applying materials to different substrates, depending on material properties, service needs, and substrate types. Considering metal and nonmetal coatings and substrates, the book highlights the most recent advances on ink-jet printing, electrodeposition, vapor/chemical deposition technologies, high-speed dispersion, and other cutting-edge methods.

Coatings Technology: Fundamentals, Testing, and Processing Techniques provides the the necessary information for scientists and engineers to perform testing and determine what materials and processing technique is most suitable for their own applications.

Part I : Fundamentals and Testing
Chapter 1 : Rheology and Surface Chemistry
Chapter 2 : Coating Rheology
Chapter 3 : Structure-Property Relationships in Polymers
Chapter 4 : The Theory of Adhesion
Chapter 5 : Adhesion Testing
Chapter 6 : Coating Calculations
Chapter 7 : Infrared Spectroscopy of Coatings
Chapter 8 : Thermal Analysis for Coatings Characterizations
Chapter 9 : Color Measurement for the Coatings Industry
Chapter 10 : The Use of X-ray Fluorescence for Coat Weight Determinations
Chapter 11 : Sunlight, Ultraviolet, and Accelerated Weathering
Chapter 12 : Cure Monitoring : Microdielectric Techniques
Chapter 13 : Test Panels
Chapter 14 : Design of Experiments for Coatings
Chapter 15 : Top 10 Reasons Not to Base Service Life Predictions upon Accelerated Lab Light Stability Tests
Chapter 16 : Under What Regulation?

Part II : Coating and Processing Techniques
Chapter 17 : Wire-Wound Rod Coating
Chapter 18 : Slot Die Coating for Low Viscosity Fluids
Chapter 19 : Porous Roll Coater
Chapter 20 : Rotary Screen Coating
Chapter 21 : Screen Printing
Chapter 22 : Flexography
Chapter 23 : Ink-Jet Printing
Chapter 24 : Electrodeposition of Polymers
Chapter 25 : Electroless Plating
Chapter 26 : The Electrolizing Thin, Dense, Chromium Process
Chapter 27 : The Armoloy Chromium Process
Chapter 28 : Sputtered Thin Film Coatings
Chapter 29 : Vapor Deposition Coating Technologies
Chapter 30 : Cathodic Arc Plasma Deposition
Chapter 31 : Industrial Diamond and Diamondlike Films
Chapter 32 : Tribological Synergistic Coatings
Chapter 33 : Chemical Vapor Deposition
Chapter 34 : Solvent Vapor Emission Control
Chapter 35 : Surface Treatment of Plastics
Chapter 36 : Flame Surface Treatment
Chapter 37 : Plasma Surface Treatment
Chapter 38 : Surface Pretreatment of Polymer Webs by Fluorine
Chapter 39 : Calendering of Magnetic Media
Chapter 40 : Embossing
Chapter 41 : In-Mold Finishing
Chapter 42 : HVLP : The Science of High-Volume, Low-Pressure Finishing
Chapter 43 : A Practical Guide to High-Speed Dispersion
Chapter 44 : Fade Resistance of Lithographic Inks - A New Path Forward : Real World Exposures in Florida and Arizona Compared to Accelerated Xenon Arc Exposures