TY - JOUR
AU1 - Ohashi, Fumihiko
AU2 - Arai, Kenji
AU3 - Shibahara, Atsushi
AB - A non-crystalline aluminum silicate related to allophane (i.e., clay mineral) was synthesized by a hydrothermal reaction after which the synthetic mineral was mixed with clear or multicolored aqueous emulsion paint as a nanofiller. The nanofiller was revealed by X-ray diffraction to have an amorphous morphology, showed a narrow particle size distribution with a volume mean diameter of 1.2 µm and indicated a specific surface area of 228 m2/g. Clear films prepared with the nanofiller had significantly improved wettability compared to a blank film. The results of outdoor exposure tests exhibited that multicolored films with the nanofiller showed higher antifouling ability than films with a commercially available silica filler. A proposed antifouling mechanism is that the proportion of Si-OH and Al-OH active sites exposed on the nanofiller surface had a significant effect on the surface wettability of the films and exquisitely controlled the sliding of rain droplets.
TI - Effect of structure-controlled aluminum silicate nanofiller on surface properties of emulsion coating films
JF - Journal of Coatings Technology and Research
DO - 10.1007/s11998-021-00541-6
DA - 2022-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/effect-of-structure-controlled-aluminum-silicate-nanofiller-on-surface-mTkZEZHeDN
SP - 355
EP - 360
VL - 19
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -