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Liquid Analysis: Viscosity, Density
News Release from: Fullbrook Systems | Subject: Horus
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 May 2007
Horus uses adaptive speckle image
interferometry!
The Horus spectroscopy technique offers a new insight into film formation in all kinds of dispersed systems, in water-borne and solvent-borne systems of all types
Fullbrook Systems have launched Horus technology, developed by Formulaction, which is based on the technique called diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS), an extension of the classical dynamic light scattering (DLS), for concentrated and opaque media The Horus offers a new insight into film formation of kinds of dispersed systems, water-borne and solvent-borne systems of all types
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a result, the Horus offers new possibilities to analyse film formation of complex colloidal systems.
Recent EU environmental legislation on the emission of VOCs has forced coatings manufacturers to re-formulate their products to decrease the VOC content more and more.
Manufacturers are looking to develop more water-borne coatings, reformulating their solvent-borne products in water.
These new formulations may meet the European requirements for low VOC content but pose other performance issues due to different drying processes.
Water-borne coatings have different drying times, poorer gloss, and are more prone to defects such as sagging, blisters and orange peel.
The control and understanding of the film-formation process therefore remains of great importance.
Coatings manufacturers use different techniques to evaluate drying times or to test the drying or curing properties of coatings.
The length of a line, left by a needle drawn through the drying film at a known rate, gives the drying time.
However, this technique is subjective and suffers from poor reproducibility.
Standard methods such as the solvent scrub test, the paper test, the cotton fibre test etc, are other alternatives but remain labour-intensive, tedious to carry out, or show user variability.
The Horus film formation analyser is being applied across industry, in areas such as pharmaceuticals, paints, inks, resin systems etc.
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