Cracking of drying latex films: An ESEM experiment

Langmuir

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 7747-7751

  Dragnevski, Kalin I ^a   Routh, Alexander F ^b   Murray, Martin W ^c   Donald, Athene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c AKZONOBEL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE PACKING; CRITICAL LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; LATEX FILMS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; GLASS TRANSITION; HUMIDITY CONTROL; LATEXES; MAGNETIC FILMS; MOISTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRACKING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 77952817040     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la904512q     Document Type: Article

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