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UV cured coatings for household appliances and decorative panels

• AFP-coated stainless steel is a high-end “design” product.• The trend for the adoption of AFP stainless is growing (future?)• Quality and function requirements are extremely high.• UV-cured coatings help reduce the “plastic-like” effect of AFPs.• Also: reduction of surface defects, energy consumption, emissions.

UV Curable Textile Finishes: superhydrophobic and oleophobic, side-specific, dual finish treatment of cotton for apparel, home, technical and sport textiles

Cellulose-based materials are one of the most widely used materials provided by nature to mankind. In particular, cotton fibres have been used for millennia to produce clothing items due to its properties such as hydrophilicity and permeability to water vapour. However, increasingly sophisticated uses for cotton-based clothing (e.g.

Using the method of atomic layer deposition (chemical assembly of coatings on the metal surface) for high-performance anti-corrosion coatings of UV-curing

Coil coating - a modern way of applying paint to the metal roller facing materials. Coating process is carried out on automated production lines. The technology was invented in the U.S. 60 years ago. In the production of profiled metal sheets there are practically no competitors.

Transparent and conductive UV-cured coatings

Graphene, a new class of two-dimensional sp2 carbon nanostructure, holds great promise for potential applications in many technological fields such as optoelectronics. One of the most common preparation method of graphene starts from the oxidation and exfoliation of graphite oxide to graphene oxide (GO). raphene oxide sheets consists

The secrets of matting 100% radiation curable coatings

Over the last years, there have been many publications and presentations dealing with the subject of matting 100% radiation curable coatings.The following presentation was compiled within the scope of a bachelor paper and deals less with the specific statements about potential matting materials and more with the connections between m

Study the curing and mechanical properties of a pigmented UV curable epoxy acrylate system

In this research the effect of the presence of a micro tio2 pigment on the curing behavior and mechanical properties of a UV curable epoxy system was studied. The formulations contained different acrylate monomers with different structures and functionalities. The results showed that there were significant interactions between pigmen

Structural, morphological and mechanical studies of UV cured organic-inorganic sol-gel based nanocomposite films on polycarbonate

Polycarbonate (PC) is one of the most usable thermoplastic engineering plastics because of its high toughness and transparency. However, low crystallinity of PC makes it low scratch resistant, resulting in reduced clarity during its service life. Use of highly cross-linked thermosetting polymeric coatings such as UV curable resins, i

Speeding up the development of coated textile products

Globalisation and environmental awareness is forcing the textile industry to innovate and to work more cost-effectively. Therefore technologies that can reduce the time-to-market of new products are of tremendous interest of this industry. As a competence centre in highthroughput methodologies, Flamac supports research for the materi