Additives to Improve Surface Performance of UV Coatings Utilizing Cross-Linkable, Nanoparticle Dispersions or Micronized...
By Mike Toth, BYK USA
In today’s throwaway society, a product that demonstrates quality and longevity is not only an anomaly, but a seemingly fortuitous...
Hurdles and Solutions to Matting of UV Wood Coatings: Part 1
By Hossein Riazi and K. Michael Peck, Evonik Corporation, USA
Achieving a matte finish in 100% solids energy-curable coatings can be a challenge. Viscosity increases...
Sneak Peek at the First-Ever ASTM Vat Photopolymerization Design Guide
By Callie Higgins, NIST
With the rapid advancement and adoption of vat photopolymerization (VPP) as an additive manufacturing (AM) technology, it naturally follows that discussions...
Cationic Curing Can Be a Sustainable Solution for Challenging Applications
By Vanessa Maurin, David Engberg, Stefan Lundmark, Pia Wennerberg and Martin Olofsson, Perstorp AB, and Guillaume Bano, Céline Croutxé-Barghorn and Xavier Allonas, Laboratory of...
When Choosing Lightweight Materials, Don’t Forget the Coatings
By Michael R. Bonner, St. Clair Systems
Advanced materials are forefront in virtually every design project today – most notably in the transportation sector, where...
The Structure of Color: Cypris Materials, Structural Color and Groundbreaking Colorant Materials
By Liz Stevens, writer, UV+EB Technology
Cypris Materials, Inc., San Leandro, California, is a new RadTech member poised to offer a novel, sustainably oriented...
Energy-Cost Reduction and No VOCs with UV LED Coatings Technology
By Michael Kelly, Chief Customer Officer, Allied UV
Companies today are aggressively exploring and implementing energy-savings programs within their manufacturing facilities, mainly due to the...
Regulatory News – 2024 Quarter 1
Monitoring Urethane Adhesives and Coatings for Primary Aromatic Amines
Whether the adhesive or coating is UV/EB or conventional, if it contains a polyurethane resin, it...
Top 5 Articles from 2023
While work on the first issue of 2024 is well underway, we paused to see which UV+EB Technology articles from 2023 caught the eyes...
Young Professionals Column – 2023 Quarter 4
YP Highlight #12: Samuel Leguizamon
Dr. Samuel Leguizamon grew up in rural South Carolina and attended Clemson University for his bachelor’s in chemical engineering, where...
