Gradient sequence copolymers exhibit a gradual change in comonomer composition along the polymer chain. These novel materials are interesting because they exhibit unique properties compared to their random, alternatin...
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A novel mixed alkali metal hydrated borate NaCs[B10O 14(OH)4] was synthesized under hydrothermal conditions. Its structure was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and further characterized by FT-IR spectros...
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•Method is able to quantify concentrations of starch, latex, calcium carbonate, and kaolin dynamically. • Binder can migrate even after FCC. • Large pigment sizes enhances, not only latex migration, but starch migrati...
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(纸本)9781510801295
•Method is able to quantify concentrations of starch, latex, calcium carbonate, and kaolin dynamically. • Binder can migrate even after FCC. • Large pigment sizes enhances, not only latex migration, but starch migration. • CMC addition minimizes relative motion of pigment and latex.
During offset printing, delamination of the paper or paper coating can occur leading to serious print defects and press operation failure. A number of publications have reported tack forces that are measured during th...
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(纸本)9781935185062
During offset printing, delamination of the paper or paper coating can occur leading to serious print defects and press operation failure. A number of publications have reported tack forces that are measured during the printing of a solid region. However, often parameters are not clear the with regard to the effect of nip loading, speed, and ink rheology on this force. A device that simulates the press roll is used to characterize the pressure pulse of an ink layer as it travels through a nip. The loading of the nip is controlled by air pressure. The speed of the rolls is well controlled by the computer. The pressure distribution is obtained with a flush mounted piezoelectric sensor. A series of Newtonian fluids are used on the roll surfaces as well as a series of inks that were rated for different ink tacks. The pressure pulses are similar to past results with a positive pressure as ink goes into the roll, and a sub-ambient pressure as the ink splits. The magnitude of this sub-ambient pressure is called tack. Tack is a function of speed and nip loading, increasing to a point for both. However, at higher speeds, the tack becomes a constant value. This value must be related to the fluid being tested and its ability to withstand tensile force. A magenta ink had tack values that were three times the values of the viscous silicon oil. Inks with different tack ratings did not show the expected trend in terms of tack force in this device.
The forces that a paper web experiences during coating or printing are critical to understand for good design and operation of coating or printing processes. While it is routine to measure ink tack values with various...
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(纸本)9781510801288
The forces that a paper web experiences during coating or printing are critical to understand for good design and operation of coating or printing processes. While it is routine to measure ink tack values with various devices, it is not well understood what parameters determine the magnitude of the tack value. Others have recorded the pressure distribution in a lab scale printing nip for cases of printing a continuous layer. However, little is understood for patches of inks that are contacting a deformable web as typically encountered in offset printing where ink is transferred from the blanket to the paper surface. A mechanical tester (Instron) is configured with parallel plates to pull fluid in tension between two plates. Tests are conducted in various ways: starting from a known gap against a rigid plate, starting from a known compression against a rubber backed plate with and without shims to fix the gap. A web, with a known tension, is mounted in the test area. Fluid is pulled between the web and the top plate. The force is recorded as a function of web tension, crosshead velocity, fluid viscosity, and volume. At finer gaps, reduced forces are found compared to lubrication theory predictions. Repeated tests reduce tack, possibly due to increased nucleation sites, until a saturation threshold is reached. The force-displacement results are analyzed in terms of tack, energy, and cavitation. A new expression is developed that uses dimensionless groups to collapse data onto a single line. Tack as a function of web tension is predicted from an empirical relation based on energy conservation.
Cellulose Nanofibers (CNF) have the potential to be produced by mechanical methods at low cost in paper mills. One natural use of CNF would be as a component of a paper coating formulation, either as a thickener or co...
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(纸本)9781510801288
Cellulose Nanofibers (CNF) have the potential to be produced by mechanical methods at low cost in paper mills. One natural use of CNF would be as a component of a paper coating formulation, either as a thickener or co-binder. Preliminary results demonstrate strength improvements [1], but more work is needed to overcome some of the rheological challenges of using CNF and to document the properties of coating layers that contain CNF. CNF was produced with a bleached softwood kraft pulp, dispersed with a beater at 3.5% solids and sent to a single disk refiner. The pulp was circulated through the refiner until the fines content was over 90%. The suspension is increased to 15% solids by filtration. In all cases, the total solids of the mixtures remained at 60%. The rheological properties of the coating were characterized with a controlled stress rheometer using parallel plate geometries. The coatings were applied to wood free paper with a laboratory rod coater and a high speed cylindrical laboratory coater (CLC). Samples were calendered and tested for gloss, smoothness, brightness, stiffness, and pick velocity. Steady shear viscosities increase rapidly with CNF additions compared to starch. The coatings are highly shear thinning and have significant storage and loss moduli. One unexpected finding is that CNF increases the coating formulation viscosity, but it also increases the dewatering rate. All coatings could be applied with the rod coater, but coatings with 5pph or more of CNF, could not be applied with the CLC coater. This difficulty seems to be a result of the material not flowing to the blade-paper nip when the shutter was opened and not because of some flow problem under the blade itself. Coatings containing CNF had increased in brightness, but decreased in gloss, especially for rod coated samples. Stiffness increased about 40% for blade coated samples. At low levels of CNF, pick velocity increased, but at higher levels, pick velocity decreased. This result seem
Adding colloidal nanoparticles into liquid‐crystal media has become a promising pathway either to enhance or to introduce novel properties for improved device performance. Here we designed and synthesized new colloid...
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Adding colloidal nanoparticles into liquid‐crystal media has become a promising pathway either to enhance or to introduce novel properties for improved device performance. Here we designed and synthesized new colloidal hybrid silica nanoparticles passivated with a mesogenic monolayer on the surface to facilitate their organo‐solubility and compatibility in a liquid‐crystal host. The resulting nanoparticles were identified by 1 H NMR spectroscopy, TEM, TGA, and UV/Vis techniques, and the hybrid nanoparticles were doped into a dual‐frequency cholesteric liquid‐crystal host to appraise both their compatibility with the host and the effect of the doping concentration on their electro‐optical properties. Interestingly, the silica‐nanoparticle‐doped liquid‐crystalline nanocomposites were found to be able to dynamically self‐organize into a helical configuration and exhibit multi‐stability, that is, homeotropic (transparent), focal conic (opaque), and planar states (partially transparent), depending on the frequency applied at sustained low voltage. Significantly, a higher contrast ratio between the transparent state and scattering state was accomplished in the nanoparticle‐embedded liquid‐crystal systems.
A general, rapid and solvent-free approach is proposed to fabricate nanostructured polymer surfaces by coupling ultrasonic vi- bration and anodized aluminum oxide templating. With our approach, hollow nanorods or nano...
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A general, rapid and solvent-free approach is proposed to fabricate nanostructured polymer surfaces by coupling ultrasonic vi- bration and anodized aluminum oxide templating. With our approach, hollow nanorods or nanofibers with controlled diameter and length are prepared on polymer surfaces. The whole fabrication process is completed in ~30 s and equally applicable to polymers of different crystalline structures. The wettability of the as-fabricated polymer surfaces (being hydrophilic, hydro- phobic, highly hydrophobic or even superhydrophobic) is readily regulated by adjusting the welding time from 0 s to a maxi- mum of 10 s. Our approach can be a promising industrial basis for manufacturing functional nanomaterials in the fields of electronics, optics, sensors, biology, medicine, coating, or fluidic technologies.
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