New effects of fumed silica in modern coatings.pdf

Progress in Organic Coatings 45 (2002) 139–144 New effects of fumed silica in modern coatings Gabriele Leder∗, Thorsten Ladwig, Vlasta Valter, Stephanie Frahn, Jürgen Meyer Degussa AG, Advanced Fillers and Pigments Division, P.O. Box 1345, D-63403 Hanau, Germany Received 1 September 2001; accepted 4 March 2002 Abstract The effects of fumed silica in coating systems are generally known. The particles of a fumed silica normally exist as agglomerated aggregates. A novel procedure makes it possible to destroy these agglomerates and even the aggregates of a fumed silica. Experiments have been performed concerning the change in rheology and mar resistance of UV-curing and solvent based coatings. It was shown that such modified silica have a surprisingly low influence on the rheological properties of the liquid coatings. It is possible to incorporate up to 15% fumed, structural modified silica into an UV-binder system without pseudoplastic behavior of the resulting liquid. Even the viscosity increase by such high amounts of fumed silica is acceptable. Furthermore the incorporation of 5–15% silica yields in an improvement of the mar resistance of 10–35%, referring to the remaining gloss after scrubbing. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Pyrogenic silica; Fumed silica; Active filler; Scratch resistance; Mar resistance; Rheology; UV-curing 1. Introduction 972, it was possible to achieve an increase in the mar resis- tance which was significant—about 10% relative to the loss It is well known that fumed silica produced by flame of gloss through marring. For these investigations 10% of hydrolysis of chlorosilanes do not exist as isolated primary