The increasing pressure from consumers and policy makers to reduce the use of synthetic polymers, whose production contributes to the depletion of non-renewable resources and are usually non-biodegradable, has prompted the ...

There is a great concern about the indoor microbial colonization especially in places that should have high standards of environmental hygiene. Besides, due it shortened the useful life of the coating by discoloration and ...

In this work the synthesis of waterborne polyurethane/nanosilica nanocomposites by using two different strategies is presented, starting from a vinyl terminated polyurethane prepolymer (PUP) based on isophorone diisocyanate ...

In this study, two different bio-based waterborne polyurethanes (WBPUs) that use castor oil and tartaric acid in their formulations were modified by the incorporation of a renewable reinforcement, cellulose nanocrystals ...

Grafting of alkyd resin to the acrylic polymer is needed to fully exploit the possibilities of these hybrids; but in the current technology, grafting is accompanied by an important reduction of the unsaturated groups of ...

Two different water-borne dispersions (latex) containing different amounts of vinyl acetate and a commercial vinyl ester monomer (VeoVa10) were evaluated by incorporating them in paint formulations for wall protection. ...