Specialty materials company Rohm and Haas (NYSE:ROH) is pleased to
announce that Dr. Zhenwen Fu, a distinguished scientist with the
company’s Paint and Coatings Materials division, was awarded ‘Best
Paper’ recognition during the 2009 European Coatings Show Congress held
in Nürnberg, Germany. Dr. Fu’s paper presented findings related to a new
diffusion technology in latex paint film formulations. In latex based
coatings, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are used as coalescents to
ensure film formation. This new technology significantly improves early
property development of waterborne latex coatings in a reduced, low VOC
formulation that maintains coalescence performance to achieve required
hardness, block, print and dirt pick-up resistance necessary for
industrial coatings.
“Producing industrial coatings in reduced VOC latex paint formulations
has been increasingly difficult to achieve while still meeting required
environmental regulations,” said Dr. Fu. Designed Diffusion technology
as advanced by Dr. Fu is a paradigm shift in film formulation that
balances coatings properties through careful design of the polymer
system and the selection of a coalescent package with unique partition
coefficient and diffusion rate between different phases of the polymer
system. This paper presents detailed evidence of this Designed Diffusion
technology with analytical, physical and application data.
Dr. Fu has contributed to over 50 patents and publications in the areas
of metal and semiconductor clusters, analytical method development and
instrumentation, latex film formation, colloidal science, paper coatings
and inkjet ink technology. He received a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from
Jilin University in Changchun, China and a Ph.D. degree in Physical
Chemistry from the University of Utah in the United States.
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About Rohm and Haas Company
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solutions for the specialty materials industry. Based in Philadelphia,
PA, the company generated annual sales of approximately $9.6 billion in
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Specialty Materials
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Rohm and
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