Workshop Smart Coatings Application Lab - Natchemische Coatings - 14-01-2014 - High Throughput Screening of High Throughput Coating - Agfa Labs

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2. Agfa-Gevaert Group
HealthCare
No 1-2
Prepress
No 1-2
Other
Asia and ROW
16%
Agfa-Gevaert Group
Latin America
7%
Parent Company
Europe
55%
NAFTA
22%
Corporate Centre
Sales by region
Specialty Products
7%
Agfa
Graphics
Agfa
HealthCare
Agfa
Materials
HealthCare
40%
Graphics
53%
Specialty
Products
Sales per business group
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3. High Throughput Screening of High
Throughput Coating
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4. High Throughput activities @ Agfa-Labs
 FORMULATION
 SCREENING OF FORMULATION
 COATING OF FORMULATION
 TESTING OF COATING
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5. High Throughput formulation and
screening
 Formulation
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Powders (many-to-many)
Viscous Liquids (one-to-many)
Viscous Liquids (many-to-many)
Homogenization
 Screening
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Viscosity
Surface Tension
Curing
Filtration
Particle size and sedimentation
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6. High Throughput Formulation
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7. High Throughput Formulation
 Making a manifold of
Formulations
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8. High Throughput Screening
Surface
Tension
96well
plate
wire probes and
micro-balances
Particle Size
probes
cleaning unit
(PCU)
Colloidal Stability via HSP
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Degree of curing

9. High Throughput coating and testing
 Coating
 Braive coat system
 Amis-blade or HTE-blade segmented coat system
 Coating simulation
 Dispensing using robot
 Spraying techniques
 Ink Jetting
 Screening
 Abrasion, adhesion, scratch resistance
 Run length testing
 Pressroom chemistry influence, chemical resistance,
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 Accelerated weathering
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10. High Throughput Coating
 Multiple coatings on 1 sheet
by dispensing + bar coating
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11. High Throughput Coating
 Coating Simulation: Dispensing
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12. High Throughput Coating
 Parallel Segmented coating on Alu plate
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13. HT Coating testing
 Automated scratching
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14. Automated scratching
 Based on DIN 50539
Various scratching geometries :
•Different hardness
•Different angle
Sample holder
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•Different radius of curvature
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15. Automated scratching at Agfa-Labs
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Different indenter
diamant indenter (r 76µm, 30°; 45°;60° of 90°) or steel ball (d 1; 2 ... 5 mm)
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Different speed
10 t/m 100 mm/sec
100µm
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Linear increasing or constant load
Linearly increasing from 0,10 N tot 50,00 N (accuracy +/-0,05 N up to 10N and +/- 0,10 N
up to 50N) or constant pressure from 1 N to 50 N
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Measuring length and width
Standard length 300 mm / width 35 mm
Minimum length 100 mm / minimum width 15 mm
Standard 10 parallel scratch spurs with a distance of 0.2 mm
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Dry or wet
Wet in various solvents at temperatures up to 50°C
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16. Automated scratching at Agfa-labs
 Visual inspection of pressure and scratch spurs
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17. Automated scratching at Agfa-labs
 Evaluation
100µm
Force measured
Hardness
100µm
Microscopy
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Interferometry
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18. HT Indentation
 Ball indentation
 5 mm steel ball
 Different depth
 Different loads
Hardness
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19. HT Abrasion testing
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20. HT Abrasion testing
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21. HT Adhesion testing
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22. HT Chemical Resistance testing
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23. HT Chemical resistance testing
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24. HT Friction coefficient
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25. HT Swelling
 Dimensional stability
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26. Conditioning of the samples
 21 °C (+/- 1 °C) and 50% RH (+/- 2%) for 24h
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27. Accelerated weathering
•Weathering : T, %RH, UV, ozone
•Light fastness : Xe-arc, fluorescence
•Thermal stability (Arrhenius testschema’s)
according to international protocols :
ISO 12040, ISO 18930 (Printing)
ISO 4892-1 & -2, JIS K7350-1 & -2 (Plastics)
ISO 11341 (Paints)
ISO 105 B02 & B04 (Textile)
ISO 18909 (Photography)
IEC 61215/IEC61646 (Photovoltaics)
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28. Agfa-Labs: contact us
Newsletter
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29. Agfa-Labs: Where we are…
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Customer Service (3190)
Agfa-Gevaert NV
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