PVC Ink Formulation
PVC Ink Formulation
Original Russian Text © G.V. Rybachuk, I.I. Kozlova, V.B. Mozzhukhin, V.V. Guzeev, 2006, published in Klei. Germetiki. Tekhnologii, 2006, No. 1, pp. 30–31; No. 2, pp. 2–6.
Abstract—The engineering issues of plastisol preparation, composition, properties, and application are con-
sidered. Special attention has been paid to the adhesion characteristics of plastisol coatings.
DOI: 10.1134/S181123820701002X
The processing of poly(vinyl chlorides) (PVCs) To appreciably increase the viscosity of plastisols
through plastisols is one of the most efficient proce- and to render them thixotropic (pseudoelastic) [10–14],
dures. Plastisols are multicomponent heterophase sus- gel-forming agents, such as salts of fatty acids and mul-
pensions of solid ingredients (PVC, fillers, thermosta- tivalent metals (soaps) and various fillers with high oil
bilizers, and pigments) in mixtures of liquid functional absorption, are added. The colloidal silicon dioxide
additives (plasticizers, adhesives, diluents, surfactants). (aerosils) or bentonites are among such fillers [10–14].
Plastisols are prepared via component mixing in a On the contrary, fillers with low oil absorption, for
certain sequence [1] and subsequent degassing of the example, chalk and barium sulfate (up to 20 wt %),
resulting paste. have almost no effect on the viscosity of plastisols [3].
The viscosity of plastisols is frequently decreased with
In the plastisol preparation, paste-forming homo- the use of special suspension PVC extenders as fillers
and copolymers of vinyl chloride with molecular [10, 15–17].
masses from 55000 to 100000 (Fickenscher’s constants
Fillers are incorporated into almost all plastisol for-
are 65–100) are employed. These homo- and copoly-
mulations because, along with modification of proper-
mers are produced by emulsion and microsuspension
ties, they also reduce the cost of the articles.
processes.
The thermal stabilization of plastisols is achieved
The size, structure, and distribution of paste-form- with the same stabilizers as in the case of other PVC-
ing PVC particles, the nature and amount of emulsifiers based materials. Preference is given to liquid stabilizers
and other additives used in the PVC synthesis, and the that, in contrast to powderlike ones, do not raise the vis-
tendency of particles toward agglomeration are factors cosity of plastisols [18].
governing the rheological and processing features of
Pigments, fire retardants, antistatic agents, and other
plastisols [2–6].
additives used for preparation of various PVC-based
The composition of plastisols includes 40–150 phr compositions are also employed in the manufacture of
of primary and secondary plasticizers that are usually plastisols.
used in PVC-based formulations. The plasticizers are Sometimes, substances affecting the processing
esters of o-phthalic, adipic, sebacic, trimellitic, and, behavior of materials are introduced into plastisol for-
rarely, of o-phosphoric acids, polyester compounds, mulations. For example, the addition of a powderlike
and liquid chlorinated paraffins [7–9]. polyethylene (15%) decreases the percolation of a plas-
Diluents or thickeners are used to control the viscos- tisol through a stockinet, whereas calcium or magne-
ity of plastisols. Viscosity is reduced most efficiently sium oxide absorbs moisture [19–21], which worsens
when volatile diluents or polar organic liquids are used. the properties of plastisols and the related products.
In the former compounds, polymers do not swell even Organosilicon liquids reduce the surface tension of
under heating, whereas the latter compounds are capa- plastisols and thus facilitate a more rapid removal of air
ble of polymer solvation. For this purpose, paraffin, ter- bubbles [2, 22]. In order to render plastisols adhesive to
pene, and aromatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, and different materials, unsaturated, epoxy, and nitrogen-
ketones [2, 3] are used and their concentrations may be containing compounds, phenolic resins, and other addi-
as high as 10 wt %. Plastisols with a higher content of tives may be used [23].
volatile diluents are referred to as organosols. Their The character of flow of plastisols may be varied in
preparation and processing into articles are character- a wide range as dependent on the composition, prepa-
ized by certain specific features that are beyond the ration conditions, and shear rate in the course of their
scope of this paper. processing. Hence, the rheological properties of plasti-
6
PVC PLASTISOLS: PREPARATION, PROPERTIES, AND APPLICATION 7
sols cannot be strictly characterized by viscosity at one size, come into contact with each other, and interfuse to
shear rate (the effective viscosity). Nevertheless, for form a homogeneous body [2, 3].
practical purposes, plastisols may be conditionally As is seen from the foregoing, there are many meth-
classified as low-viscosity (10–50 P), middle-viscosity ods useful for processing of plastisols into articles and
(50–150 P), and high-viscosity (150–10000 P). In this coatings. All of these methods requires that the adhe-
case, viscosity measurements are performed at a low sion phenomena occurring at the plastisol–substrate
shear rate, for instance, at 1 s–1 [3]. interface be taken into consideration. For example, in
Plastisols are processed into final products by dip- the case of cast or rotational molding, the final article
ping, cast molding, rotational molding, extrusion, must be easily taken out of a mold; hence, the adhesive
spraying, spreading, and screen printing. strength of the plastisol–substrate system should be
The dipping technique is employed for the process- minimal. On the contrary, in the sealing of weld seams,
ing of low- or middle-viscosity plastisols that begin to coating of body bottom plates of cars, and manufacture
flow at rather high shear stresses and possess a high pot of metal-based laminates, a high adhesive strength of
life. This technique is used for manufacture of gloves the plastisol coating is required.
(including gloves on the fabric base) [24], pipets, Numerous inventions deal with methods of increas-
bushes, and other articles, deposition of anticorrosive ing the adhesive strength of plastisol coatings. How-
coatings on spare parts of machines and instruments, ever, much less publications are available on the mech-
and application of protective coatings on glass aerosol anism of plastisol coating adhesion. Therefore, interest
flasks. in plastisols capable of adhesion remains rather high.
Cast molding is used in the case of low- or middle Studies in the field of plastisols with high adhesion
viscosity plastisols. These plastisols demonstrate the have long been performed at the Kargin Polymer
pseudoplastic character of flow or character of their Chemistry and Technology Research Institute. As a
flow is nearly the Newtonian one. The method is imple- result, means of controlling the adhesive properties of
mented in two variants: casting into open molds and plastisols through changes in the composition of plasti-
casting with pouring out (the inverse dipping). The sols and in the character of interaction between their
former variant allows one to fabricate monolithic arti- ingredients have been elaborated.
cles, while the latter variant makes it possible to pro- The adhesive strength of the plastisol coating, which
duce various capacities, boots, and other hollow goods. is characterized by the peel work of a film (Ap) depends
Hollow articles are also manufactured by the rotational
molding [3]. on three constituents [27]:
The extrusion technique is mostly applied for fabri- Ap = AA + AD – AS,
cation of wire covering and elastic profiles. In the
course of slow extrusion at a shear rate of 10–100 s–1, where AA is the equilibrium work performed against the
plastisols with a viscosity of 150–180 P may be action of intermolecular forces at the interface; AD is the
processed, while extrusion at a shear rate of work spent for deformation of the film during its peel-
1000−10000 s–1 is employed for processing of plasti- ing; and AS is the work of residual stresses.
sols with viscosities ranging from 200 to 250 P [3].
For plastisol-based adhesion coatings, a part of
The spraying processing is employed when the vis- work spent for deformation of coatings is the most sub-
cosities of plastisols are reduced from 10000 to 110 P stantial [27–32]. In some cases, the proportion of AA or
with an increase in the shear rate from 0.1 to 150 s–1. inherent adhesion may be also rather high and equal up
For example, anticorrosive and antinoise coatings are to 60% of the total adhesion strength of plastisol coat-
deposited on body bottom plates of cars via this method ings [17, 33–36, 38].
[3, 25, 26].
Spreading is most widely used in the manufacture of Thus, the adhesion strength of plastisol coatings and
artificial leathers. This method consists in the smearing adhesives may be controlled by changing deformation
of a plastisol on a moving fabric by means of a roller or and adhesive constituents.
a knife. The screen printing technique is used for pro- On the basis of an analysis of patent publications,
cessing of low- and middle-viscosity plastisols. adhesives for plastisols may be divided into four main
Any method of plastisol deposition needs heat treat- groups, namely: unsaturated compounds, nitrogen-con-
ment as the final stage. In the course of heat treatment, taining additives, phenolic resins, and epoxy resins [23].
gelation and fusion of PVC particles proceed. As a Among unsaturated compounds, oligo(ester acry-
result, plastisols turn into a rather strong material lates) (OEAs) are widely applied as adhesives.
whose characteristics are primarily determined by their Earlier [28–33], we have studied plastisols contain-
composition. ing oligo(ester acrylates) TGM-3 (triethylene glycol
In brief, the mechanism of heat treatment may be α,ω-dimethacrylate) and 7-1 (α,ω-bis(trimethacryl
outlined as follows: with a rise in temperature, a plasti- pentaerythrite) adipinate) crosslinked with cumyl
cizer penetrates into PVC particles that, in turn, grow in hydroperoxide (CHP) as adhesive systems.
86 115
5 100 Chalk, phr
6 115
87
4
70 Chalk, phr
117°
96
40 Chalk, phr
4 97°
122 20 Chalk, phr
2'
1'
6 122
2
3' 2 103°
1 5 Chalk, phr
3 Without chalk
108°
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
Content of filler, phr Fig. 2. DTA curves for plastisols containing 20 phr of
OEA 7-1 and different amounts of chalk.
Fig. 1. Effect of fillers on the peel work (Ap) of plas-
tisol coatings from aluminum: (1, 4) chalk,
(2, 5) kaolin, and (3, 6) aerosil. (1–3) without OEA 7-1
and (4–6) in the presence of 20 phr of OEA 7-1, concentrated on the chalk surface, whereon their local
respectively; (1'–3') are theoretical curves (given the concentrations become higher compared to that in the
effects of the filler and OEA 7-1 on Ap are additive). bulk. As evidenced by the IR data, filling is accompa-
nied by the formation of H complexes between OH
groups of the filler surface, carbonyl groups of the oli-
When chalk, kaolin, or aerosil is added into such gomer, and hydroperoxide groups of CHP.
plastisols, the synergistic effect of fillers and polymer-
izing oligomers on the peel work of polymer coatings is Thus, oligomer cure occurs on the filler surface. As
observed (Fig. 1). a result, the polymer–oligomer boundary layer forms
around the filler particles and the rigidity of this layer is
In our opinion, this phenomenon may be explained higher than that of the matrix. It is of significance that
in the following way. the introduction of OEA into plastisols allows one to
The differential thermal analysis (DTA), IR spec- artificially create a polymer–oligomer jacket on parti-
troscopy measurements, and studies of the heat effects cles of even such inactive filler as chalk. In the absence
of wetting of fillers with liquid components have shown of reactive additives, no such a jacket was formed.
that, regardless of the PVC and OEA compatibility, the An increase in the rigidity of the polymer–oligomer
selective adsorption of a part of an oligomer and hydro- boundary layer around filler particles results in a rise in
peroxide on the surface of mineral fillers proceeds in the rigidity of the whole plastisol system. As a conse-
the course of filling. quence, the deformation constituent and, hence, the
Figure 2 depicts the DTA curves of plastisols con- total adhesion strength of the plastisol coating grow.
taining OEA 7-1 and different amounts of chalk as an
example. A somewhat different situation was observed when
the fillers were introduced into plastisols based on
As is seen, the addition of chalk initially leads to nitrogen-containing adhesives [17, 34–36].
splitting of the DTA peak corresponding to the poly-
merization of OEA. Upon a further increase in the As such adhesives in PVC-based plastisols,
degree of filling, the peak completely shifts toward poly(ethylenimines), modified poly(amino amides),
lower temperatures. Probably, in the course of plastisol polyalkylene polyamines, and other compounds were
filling, greater amounts of the oligomer and CHP are employed.
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