https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/s10189-024-00432-9
Regular Article - Soft Matter
Effect of internal structure and resin deformability on drying rate and stress in convective drying of silica–latex coatings
1
Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1, Rokkodai-Cho, Nada-ku, 657-8501, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
2
Department of Chemical Engineering, Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-1 Gakuen-Cho, Nakaku, 599-8531, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Received:
7
November
2023
Accepted:
15
May
2024
Published online:
4
July
2024
Latex paint is an aqueous dispersion of nano-sized polymer particles that can form a thin film by itself or mixed with rigid particles. We have developed an apparatus that can simultaneously measure drying rate and stress generation and have investigated the film formation process of a latex-only coating layer under convection drying. In the present study, we adopted the same method to investigate the film formation process of the silica–latex coating layer. As a result, we were able to systematically correlate the drying rate change by the equivalent thickness of latex particles accumulated with silica particles at the drying surface. Furthermore, it is unveiled that the drying rate in the former stage depends on drying temperature, while the drying rate changed to be dominated by silica content after the particle-packing layer was formed over the entire coating layer. On the other hand, the model we proposed for stress generation, considering the temperature effect on latex deformability, was found to be applicable to the present experimental system by replacing a portion of deformable particles with rigid particles.
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