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Wetting agents & additives

Tionox 104

Specific services:

  • Strong reduction in surface tension

  • Greatest reduction in dynamic surface tension

  • Destabilizing foam

  • Extremely low CMC (critical micelle concentration)

  • Non-ionic surfactant

  • Hydrophobic nature, HLB 4

  • Multifunctional: acts as a wetting agent, defoamer, dispersant and leveling agent.

  • Supplied as a liquid (50% active TMDD) in various solvents

Tensid 400 series

  • Tionox 400 = Ethoxylated 104

  • Ionic surfactants

  • Increasing water solubility with increased number

Tionox 400 series

  • Surfactant 420: lowest degree of ethoxylation, for the best defoaming

  • SURFACTANT 440: low degree of ethoxylation

  • SURFACTANT 465: medium degree of ethoxylation, water solubility ++

  • TENSID 485: highest degree of ethoxylation, for highest hydrophilicity

Tionox additives

  • Application industry:

  • Coatings

  • Printing materials

  • Adhesives

  • latex

  • Digital materials

  • Agriculture

  • Dye synthesis

  • Pigment grinding

  • Emulsion polymerization

Paper industry

  • Functions & advantages Tionox 104

  • Low dynamic surface tension

  • Effective wetting agent and emulsifier for pigments and substrates

  • No influence on the water quality

  • Little increase in viscosity

  • Thermal stability

  • Defoaming properties

Printing inks

  • Functions & advantages Tionox 104

  • Tionox 104-NP, -E, -H and -PG are used

  • Used in flexographic and offset printing inks

  • Effective wetting agent for pigments and substrates

  • In contrast to other surfactants: defoaming properties

  • Low dynamic surface tension, optimization of printability

Adhesives

  • Functions & advantages Tionox 104

  • Tionox 104-E, -H, -A, -DPM, -PG are used

  • Used in water-based adhesives, PSA adhesives (Pressure sensitive adhesives)

  • Effective substrate wetting agent

  • In contrast to other surfactants: defoaming properties

  • Low dynamic surface tension, optimization of the rollers and when spraying

  • Improves stability

Properties of Tionox

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Properties of Tionox

  • Functions & advantages Tionox 104

  • Tionox 104-E, -H, -A, -DPM, -PG are used

  • Used in water-based adhesives, PSA adhesives (Pressure sensitive adhesives)

  • Effective substrate wetting agent

  • In contrast to other surfactants: defoaming properties

  • Low dynamic surface tension, optimization of the rollers and when spraying

  • Improves stability

Surface tension and Tionox

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Traditional defoamer:
Defoaming due to incompatibility of hydrophobic materials that can attract surfactants to the bubbles to break foam.

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Tionox performance:
Tionox sticks to the surface of the bubbles in order to change the surface tension of the bubble and consequently completely knock down the foam. Also an anti-foaming effect for a long time.

Performance characteristics

  • Fast migration, which leads to a low dynamic surface tension

  • Ability to wet contaminated substrates

  • No micelle formation

  • Thermal and chemical stability over a wide range of conditions

  • Prevents surface defect problems such as fish eyes, crawling and cratering on low energy substrates

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Tionox products

Acetylene diols nonionic surfactant Cas no. 126-86-3
Both solid additives are diluted with different solvents.

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Types:

  • Tionox 104

  • Tionox 104 E.

  • Tionox 104 H

  • Tionox 104 PA

  • Tionox 104 PG

  • Tionox 104 BC

  • Tionox 104 DPM

Performance characteristics

  • Reduces microfoam in spray borne systems

  • Improves pigment grinding efficiency

  • Reduces sensitivity to water

  • Defoams and improves the flow

  • Improves leaf and soil penetration while improving flowering and stability in agricultural
    chemical formulations

  • Lubricates, wets and prevents the formation of dirt while at the same time eliminating hot spots in metalworking fluids

Applications

  • Aqueous coatings

  • Printing inks

  • Factory-bound and DIY wood coatings

  • Industrial maintenance coatings

  • Overprint varnishes and paper coatings

  • Well solutions

  • Pressure sensitive adhesives

  • Agricultural chemicals

  • Dye processing

  • Metal working fluids

  • Concrete and dry mortar

Surface tension and wetting

For aqueous systems:

  • The surface area will increase rapidly in high speed processing.

  • The surface energy increases as the concentration of the surfactant decreases

  • Wetting will be difficult to meet the requirement under such situations
    and causes many problems such as shrinkage, biological peeling

Recoating comparison with different additives

  • Oil-based additives stick to the surface of the coating, resulting in an inhomogeneous
    Surface tension led. It is difficult to recoat.

  • Silicon-based additives dry and fix the coating surface with a methyl molecule film.
    The surface tension of such a methyl film is very low (less than 30 N / M). It is difficult
    to paint over.

  • Fluorine-containing additives remain on the surface with fluorinated alkyl molecular film. Have such foils
    also a very low surface tension (less than 30 N / M). Recoating is difficult.

  • Tionox additives based on acetylenic diols There is a molecular film with C6H12, though
    the coatings have dried. The surface tension of such films is close to
    Surface tension of the various resins (> 35 N / M). So no effect on recoating.

Packaging sizes

Available in:

170 kg iron barrels

  • 25 kg plastic drums

  • 1000kg IBCs

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