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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

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

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

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

This presentation shows how the use of silicone based UV curing monomers is helpful to propose monocomponent primer-free protective coatings for plastic substrates. Thus, the importance of deep understanding the behaviour of these specific monomers in a formulation in order to reach different properties is stressed out. The balance b

This paper explains two different mechanisms of UV-curing: free radical curing and cationic curing.

A new approach to simulate the cross-linking reaction of UV-cured coatings and to generate realistic atomistic model structures in dependence of the formulation and the ambient conditions has been developed. With these models, the mechanical properties of UV-cured coatings can be related to the molecular network. At first, an extensi

Photo induced polymerization is utilized in stereolithography and rapid prototyping to provide 3D structures with greatly improved resolution in comparison to melt based 3D printing. Traditional stereolithography tends to be limited, however, to the diffraction limit of the light used. Achieving even smaller features is possible, and