Article: Application of statistical experimental strategies to the process optimization of waterborne polyurethane.

INTRODUCTION

A queous polyurethane (PU) dispersions have received considerable attention in the past few decades due to their successful applications in coatings and adhesives (1, 2). An aqueous PU dispersion is a binary colloidal system in which PU particles are dispersed in a continuous water phase. Particle size (particle diameter) is var-iable from approximately 10 to 5000 nm and dependent upon a number of parameters. Particle size has a direct impact on PU dispersion stability, with dispersions possessing relatively large average particle sizes (> 1000 nm) being generally unstable with respect to sedimentation. Smaller average particle sizes (

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