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Industrial Wood Coatings: Numerous Applications with Diverse Needs

The industrial wood coatings segment of the paint and coatings industry comprises a wide range of coatings applied at the factory to a broad array of wood and wood composite ... Read More…

  • Topic: Industrial & Protective Coatings, Polyurethanes, Resins
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Enzymatic Polymerization for Engineered Polysaccharides in Coatings

Enzymatic polymerization is emerging as a scalable process to polymerize sucrose into engineered polysaccharides. Polymer architecture and material properties can be controlled selectively to provide the foundation for novel differentiated biomaterial ... Read More…

  • Topic: Industrial & Protective Coatings, Raw Materials
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Improving Astronomical Observations with Coating Technology

While the first thought about telescopes is that they are instruments designed to look at objects in outer space, the truth is that they are instruments designed to gather light. ... Read More…

  • Topic: Industrial & Protective Coatings
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Novel CNSL-based Waterborne Zn-rich Primer Systems for Protective Coatings

Low-VOC waterborne (WB) Zn-rich primers and high performance WB epoxy primers have been developed based on novel Cashew Nutshell Liquid (CNSL)-derived curing agents for industrial and protective coating applications. These ... Read More…

  • Topic: Industrial & Protective Coatings
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New Coating Could Prevent Gas and Oil Pipeline Clogging

Clogging of oil and gas pipelines can have significant consequences. One notable example—clogging of an outlet pipe in the large containment dome intended to block the leak from the broken ... Read More…

  • Topic: Coatings Xperience, Corrosion Control, Industrial & Protective Coatings
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