The flexographic printing is the fastest growing printing technique nowadays [1]. The principal advantages of flexography are reflected in the markets where it is most often used. The advantages of flexographic printing are low cost and short circle time, precise ink transfer with minimum on-press adjustments, and ability to print one layer and laminate another layer over it in a continuous pro...

Ultraviolet (UV)-curable nail lacquers, also called ‘gel polishes’, are novel popular manicure agents that are designed to be applied onnatural nails. They aremarketed under different brands, oneofwhich is Shellac®, launched by CND®, San Diego, CA, in 2010. These products have the advantages of being odourless, harden rapidly, and offering a wide spectrum of glossy colours. They are resistant a...

The challenge for studying fast changing systems with rheology such as UV initiated polymerization and crosslinking is multifold. These materials react within seconds and the moduli change over 2 to 3 decades. UV light must irradiate the sample homogeneously over a short time period and fast data acquisition is required to capture the modulus change during the reaction. An option for UV curing,...

Approximately 100 billion aluminum cans are produced annually, mainly for the beverage industry. Early technologies for decorating the cans often used solvent-based coatings containing solvents at concentrations of -70% to 75% by volume (Randall 1992). The solvent composition was typically a mixture of aliphatic hydrocarbons, aromatics, ethers, cellosolves, and acetates. Unfortunately, this met...

UV patternable high refractive index inorganic–organic hybrid materials prepared by sol–gel process can be nanoimprinted in order to get photonic crystal nanopatterns. Non-hydrolytic sol–gel process can make a UV curable and relatively high refractive index hybrid material, which can be cured without a significant shrinkage for nanoimprinting. Sol–gel process of heterogeneously functionalized s...

Glass (GFR) and carbon fiber-reinforced (CFR) dual-cure polymer composites fabricated by UV-assisted three-dimensional (UV-3D) printing are presented. The resin material combines an acrylic-based photocurable resin with a low temperature (140 °C) thermally-curable resin system based on bisphenol A diglycidyl ether as base component, an aliphatic anhydride (hexahydro-4-methylphthalic anhydride) ...