Microwave energy was used to cure polymer coatings on instrument-grade wood. A processing method was developed that included spray coating the polymer onto raw wood panels and pulling the coated panels through a 2.45GHz multi-mode microwave cavity by means of a low-power motor. Materials characterization and testing used to analyze the feasibility of using microwave processing as a coating meth...

We investigated in situ the growth of a sputter-deposited gold film (sputtering rate R = 3.2 nm/min) on top of a pre-structured colloidal polymer template using grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS [5]). The underlying colloidal polymer template was deposited by using the novel technique of airbrush-spray coating, allowing for the installation of stripe-like trapezoidal patter...

Coating of particulate solids by a thin film layer is of interest in many industrial applications such as seed and tablet coating. In seed processing, seeds are commonly coated with a protective coating layer consisting of fertilisers and crop protection products. Rotary drum batch coaters are typically used for this purpose. The coater consists of a cylindrical vessel with a rotating spray dis...

Spray coating paper with plasmonic aggregates/hydroxyethylcellulose solution allows fabrication of cheap SERS active substrates for direct analysis protein/mud samples.

In this study, the effects of heat-treatment temperature and hot-end coating (HEC) by spray on mechanical properties reliability lightweight glass bottles were investigated. When chemical strengthening occurred at Tg, hardness impact strength increased 163% 198%, respectively. All specimens exhibited improved with strengthening, regardless HEC. The effect was relatively large in absence However...

queous film-coating processes can influence many quality aspects of the final coated product, including coated-tablet moisture content, surface roughness, gloss, coating efficiency, and coating uniformity. Colorcon’s aqueous tablet-coating formulations must be capable of meeting these and other customer requirements in different application environments around the world using various types of c...

hosphating is one of the most widely used metal pretreatment P processes for ferrous metals. It gives a reasonably hard, electrically nonconducting surface coating of insoluble phosphate that is contiguous and highly adherent to the underlying metal and is considerably more absorptive than the The phosphate coating serves to anchor the paint film and prevents the induction and spreading of corr...

We report the production of an efficient anti-corrosive coating of cold-rolled (CR) steel in a seawater environment (∼3.5 wt% NaCl aqueous solution) using an oil-based graphene oxide ink. The graphene oxide was produced by heating Aeschynomene aspera plant as a carbon source at 1600 °C in an argon atmosphere. The ink was prepared by cup-milling the mixture of graphene oxide and sunflower oil fo...

High entropy alloys (HEAs) are novel materials that have been extensively studied in recent years. In this work, Al2O3 particles reinforced FeCoNiCrMn HEA composite coatings were fabricated by cold spray. The microstructure, mechanical and tribological properties of the composites coating compared with those pure coating. results indicate spray is a promising process to fabricate coatings. made...