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The Key to Hybrid Adhesive Properties is in the Balance
June, 2013

While simplicity and elegance are highly desirable in science and manufacturing, in making adhesives we often have to move beyond basic formulations to deliver the necessary performance. Hybrid formulations that combine different polymers are an extreme example of this. Bringing together different backbones in a single adhesive can be complex, but can also help escape compromises that are common with simpler combinations. Having written about a few examples of hybrid formulations, I wanted to know what the biggest challenges Specialchem4Adhesives readers faced with them were.

Past Community Insights

	June, 2010 - Hybrid sealants: Choice construction characteristics Combining different polymer chemistries to develop new products can be challenging, but the potential benefits of success are making this a hot topic in the adhesive and sealant industry. This much is clear from the high level of interest recently shown by Specialchem readers in a technical article and opinion space concerning hybrid construction sealants. Readers' comments a provide valuable picture of the status of this area.

	May, 2010 - Sustainability Trends Pull Packaging Adhesives Hardest Developing packaging adhesives can be a thankless task. Despite being the most important end market for adhesives, the effort and ingenuity used to create packaging products can go almost ignored as they are discarded to get to the contents that they protect. Nevertheless, packaging adhesives have important roles to play in helping ensure that products are supplied in good condition, and are continually improving their ability to do so.

	April, 2010 - Where do you see your new product development focus linked to the "bio" trend ? The cynical may see developing renewable raw materials for adhesives as verging on greenwash, merely pandering to a growing call from consumers and governments for sustainable products. Yet adding the unique chemical properties of biologically derived materials to fossil fuel chemicals can make adhesives more versatile.

	March, 2010 - Adhesive research: Cleaner, stronger, but most importantly, cheaper In recent weeks, some companies have reported improved profits from their adhesive businesses, even while sales remain comparatively depressed. This may reflect the perennial challenge put by executives to researchers...

	February, 2010 - Non-isocyanate polyurethane for Adhesives & Sealants An initiative to protect the health and safety of a chemical material user is always good news. After years of tests and discussions about the danger related to the use of MDI-base products, the new legislation concerning classification and labeling of MDI and the new Global Harmonized System (GHS) will be implemented in December 2010.

	January, 2010 - Challenge in applying nanotechnologies to adhesives Even if there are several industrial applications, from pigments to oxides, catalysts, clays, calcium carbonate, etc, the number of formulators who have really experienced formulation with nanomaterials is still very low.

	December, 2009 - Growth in Waterborne Adhesives: the move will not be that easy and quick ... Waterborne Adhesives appeared in the first half of last century. Since then, technical improvement and expansion into a lot of applications have made of this technology the largest one used in the world, in terms of volume. Of the 11.8 Millions Tonnes of Adhesives and Sealants produced in the world each year, there is close to 5 Millions Tonnes of Waterborne Adhesives (wet formulated products).

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