EU RESEARCH INTO COLLOIDS COULD OPEN DOOR TO NEW COATINGS DEVELOPMENT
July 2nd, 2020
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is funding an international research project that is developing new fast ways of making colloids – mixtures of one substance comprising insoluble microscopic particles suspended in another substance – the building blocks of most coatings. It is the nature of paints and coatings are that they are colloids – liquids that contain ingredients that give paints and coatings their colours, textures and functional abilities. The problem that the paint and coating sector has often wrestled with is that the process of making certain ordered ...
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