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How to choose the appropriate defoamer for low viscosity acrylic adhesive?

How to choose the appropriate defoamer for low viscosity acrylic adhesive

What is defoamers?defoamer for acrylic adhesive

Antifoaming agents are substances with lower surface tension and higher surface activity, which can inhibit and eliminate foam in liquids, which means that antifoaming agents can reduce the surface tension of water, solutions, suspensions, etc. Some bubbles are eliminated. The long-term defoaming is also called anti-foaming. The length of the anti-foaming time is the main symbol of the quality of the antifoaming agent. In most cases, the use of anti-foaming agent is to use his anti-foaming properties, rather than the initial anti-foaming properties. Defoaming and foam suppression are relative. Products with good defoaming performance will have relatively poor foam suppressing performance. In actual application, it depends on the specific situation. Therefore, from the perspective of defoaming effects, defoamers include defoamers, defoamers, and defoamers, which are collectively called defoamers.

How to choose defoamer for low viscosity acrylic adhesive correctly?

Some components of water-based adhesives are easy to produce bubbles and have a tendency to be stable and lasting. In addition, the rapid stirring during production and the high-speed brushing construction during use also contribute to the generation of foam, which prevents the production from proceeding normally and affects the product quality. The formation of foam is very difficult to produce and apply tape, and the pores of the adhesive layer appear, which affects the outside of the product and the adhesive performance. Therefore, it is necessary to try to destroy the foam or prevent the generation of foam. The most effective method is to use an antifoam agent.

There are many types of defoamers used in the water-based adhesive industry, but there are two main categories:

Polysiloxane defoamers and non-siloxane defoamers.

Polysiloxane defoamers

Polysiloxane defoamers have strong defoaming and anti-foaming capabilities, and are widely used in the coating industry. In the water-based adhesive industry, especially emulsion-type low-viscosity systems, such as laminating adhesives and pressure-sensitive adhesives, it is easy to cause problems such as shrinkage and fish eyes. In addition, after the film formation of the emulsion, due to the surface migration of silane, it will cause a decrease in the bonding strength at a later stage and affect the bonding effect, so it is generally rarely used.

Non-siloxane defoamers.

Mineral water-based defoamers are commonly used in the water-based pressure-sensitive adhesive and laminating adhesive industries. It is mainly composed of mineral oil, hydrophobic particles, low-carbon alcohol, emulsifier, etc. The quality of these products is susceptible to mineral oil grades and batch differences. Because the entire system is a thermodynamically unstable system, it is easy to delaminate. It mainly depends on its dispersion in the emulsion to provide defoaming effect. 1. The effect of surfactants, mineral oil defoamers are easy to slick in these systems, which will cause the defoaming effect to decrease seriously, and the uneven distribution of mineral oil will also affect the coating effect, which gives our production And application cause great trouble.

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