Applications of gas chromatography in the paint & allied industries. Part 3: Binder resins

Abstract

The majority of binders used in paint manufacture are either highly‐viscous or solid materials in their own right. The identification of their chemical constituents has been reported by Haken (71) using infrared spectroscopy at liquid nitrogen temperature. However, the procedure proved to be very expensive since a great deal of breakage of the equipment occurred owing to the need to keep cooling and then reheating to room temperature. A better procedure was considered to be fragmentation of the initial polymer samples to give volatile fractions better suited to GC examination, which was just as accurate as the spectroscopic approach and far simpler and cheaper to carry out.

Citation

Walton, A.J. (1981), "Applications of gas chromatography in the paint & allied industries. Part 3: Binder resins", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 10-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb041667