This book offers an overview of the most important aspects and applications of additives for waterborne systems in diverse market segments. Wernfried Heilen helps to understand how additives work and elucidates all kinds of mechanisms in great detail. Furthermore he dispels a lot of myths surrounding paint additives with an excellent combination of theory and practice. This enables a deep insight into all the different application areas for additives in waterborne paint systems.
Wernfried Heilen
Slip Wetting and dispersing additives Wax additives Influence of the pigment volume concentration Improving performance with co-binders Light stabilisers Influence of additives in the continuous phase Requirements for rheology modifiers Deaerators Coatings Wetting and dispersing additives Flow and levelling additives Synthetic rheology modifiers Substrate wetting additives Alkali-swellable emulsions: ASEs and HASEs