BEST PAPER AWARDS CEREMONY
At the Best Paper Awards ceremony, from left to right, Robert Miller of Troy Corp. presented the Elias Singer Outstanding USM
Student Paper Award to Rahul Misra for “Low friction highly hydrophobic polyderal oligomeric silsesquiozane/polymer films.”
Rob Storey of USM presented the Shelby F. Thames Best Paper Award to Ward Brown of Rohm and Haas for “Hollow latex particles; binders that provide opacity” and the Outstanding Paper Award in New Coatings Technology to Michael Lowry of Air
Products for “Assessment of UV permeability in nano-ZnO filled coatings via high throughput experimentation.”
want to learn more about them.
Federal employees have an even
greater familiarity than the general
public when it comes to bio-based. The
USDA wants to establish the agency
as a leader in bio-based purchases,
with plans to increase its bio-based
purchasing contracts by 50% in the
next five years.”
“Sustainable technology for semitransparent deck stains,” presented by
Greg Monaghan of Rohm and Haas
Company, addressed the need for new
binder approaches as a result of new
types of decking being introduced and
pressure to formulate using greener,
sustainable technology. According to
Monaghan, many conventional acrylic
waterborne semitransparent stains
have poor adhesion to the new types of
wood treatments, such as copper azole,
leading to early failures on exposure.
There is also a need for a highly UV
resistant coatings which will help preserve the colors and appearance of
exotic wood species. “At the same time
that these substrates are being introduced, environmental initiatives have
created a demand for a binder that is
free of APEO surfactants, low or zero
VOC, and which can be formulated
without heavy metal driers,” said
Monaghan. He then went on to describe
the development and testing of a new
semitransparent stain binder which
meets these environmental goals and
offers improved performance.
“Enhancing the performance of
aqueous low VOC coatings with a
unique no VOC wetting additive” was
presented by Robert Miller of Troy
Corp. According to Miller, wetting
additives improve aqueous coating
performance with regards to properties such as substrate wetting, surface
flow and leveling, gloss and color
2009 CALL FOR PAPERS
The School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at The University of
Southern Mississippi has issued a call for papers for presentation at the 36th
Annual International Waterborne Symposium, Feb. 18-20, 2009 in New
Orleans. Papers should relate to waterborne, high-solids, powder and radiation-curable coating systems; stimuli-responsive and “smart” coating systems;
renewable raw materials for coatings and high-throughput methodologies for
formulation. All papers should be original and represent recent advances in
coatings science. Title, abstract and author’s names (speaker’s name underlined) should be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail no later than Aug. 14 to School
of Polymers and High Performance Materials, The University of Southern
Mississippi, Box 10063, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0063; (601) 266-4475; Fax: (601)
266-6265; E-mail: waterborne@usm.edu; Web: www.psrc.usm.edu/waterborne.
acceptance. The importance of these
additives increase as solvent is
removed from coatings and the surface
tension of the coating approaches that
of water. He described a surfactant
that improves substrate wetting, surface flow and leveling, gloss and color
acceptance in zero and low VOC coatings. “This unique additive contributes
no VOC to the finished coatings and
has proven effective in a variety of
resins systems and coating types,” said
Miller. “Improved performance is
demonstrated compared to two commercial, no VOC wetting additives.”
Other presentations included
“Designing a new performance additive to meet the challenges in the
VOC compliant refinish clearcoat
market” presented by John Allen of
Eastman Chemical Company;
“Advancements in novel encapsulated
light stabilizers for waterborne coatings: presented by Kurt Davidson of
Ciba Specialty Chemicals; and “New
regulations demand new test methods” presented by Jim Berry of Berry
Environmental.
In addition to the main technical
program, the Waterborne Symposium
also included a student poster session
and a two-day Technology Showcase
consisting of tabletop technical
exhibits. The Showcase focused on
emerging technologies, new materials,
innovative services and new equipment in an exhibit-type format. CW
