Q&A: Whats in a Word? Notes on the RadTech UV Glossary
by R.W. Stowe, Director of Applications Engineering, Heraeus Noblelight America LLC
In the English language, it's quite common for one word to mean any of...
Artist Taps UV to Create ‘Time and Matter Photography’
By Liz Stevens, writer, UV+EB Technology
In addition to its value in commercial curing applications, UV’s scientific and medical values are well established, and this...
Association News
RadTech Offers Free UV/EB E-Course
In an effort to continue the mission to develop educational opportunities for UV+EB, RadTech has launched the first course in...
Inaugural Amplify Event Inspires Print Finishing and Embellishment Industry
By Dianna Brodine, managing editor, UV+EB Technology
The inaugural Amplify event took place June 14-16, 2022, at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the...
UV Source and Chemistry Options for Metal Can Coating
By Mike J. Idacavage, PhD, Technical Marketing Adviser, and John Arnold, PhD, Director of Research and Development, Miltec UV
Introduction
Many commercial sheet-fed litho printing presses...
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...
Mitigation of Oxygen Inhibition in UV-LED, UVA and Low-Intensity UV Cure
By Dr. Jo Ann Arceneaux, Allnex USA Inc.
Introduction
Oxygen inhibition is an age-old problem for coatings that cure via free-radical polymerization. Molecular oxygen can physically...
Molecular Mass and Molecular Mass Distribution
A key objective for this column is to provide technical personnel in the UV/EB industry with some of the fundamentals of polymer science so...
LED Boosters to Improve Surface Cure by LED for Litho or Flexo Applications
By Tong Wang, Ph.D., allnex USA Inc.; Steven Cappelle, Ph.D., allnex Belgium; and Paul Gevaert, Ph.D., allnex Belgium
Poor surface cure due to oxygen inhibition...
Neural interface device research leads to new material for display technology
By Nancy Cates, contributing editor, UV+EB Technology
Ares Materials, based in Plano, Texas, was born in 2014 out of an idea conceived by three graduate...
