Additive

AEROSIL® R 972

AEROSIL® R 972 is a fumed silica after-treated with DDS (dimethyldichlorosilane). It is suitable for a broad range of applications.

Product information

Type

Additive

Sub type

Rheology control

Sustainability

VOC reduction

Next generation solution

Life Cycle Assessment available

Markets

Technologies

High solids (solventborne)
Powder
Radiation curing systems
Solventborne
Solventfree
Waterborne

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Coatino Campus

Meeting decorative coating regulations with digitalisation ​

Offering vital insights into chemical compliance within the decorative coatings market, this webinar will focus on the growing demand for greener and more sustainable products. It will explore regulatory trends and innovative digital solutions that address the increasing communication needs across the value chain.

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Rheology Basics

This Learning was awarded with the prestigious Comenius EduMedia Award 2023. The award honors outstanding digital innovative educational media.

Enjoy this excellent course!

In this comprehensive interactive eLearning you will learn the basics of rheology, how rheology modifiers work and how to select and test the appropriate rheology modifier. You can stop and return any time.

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Launch AEROSIL® Easy-to-disperse

Rheology made Easy. Introduction of our new product group AEROSIL® Easy-to-disperse for Industrial & Transportation coatings and many more application fields. Technical background and benefits in regard to save your time, effort and costs.

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Cost Savings Calculator for AEROSIL® E2D

Recorded Webinar: Saving time, energy & money - with our new COATINO® Cost Savings Calculator for AEROSIL® E2D individual parameter for your formulations can be calculated and compared.Using the example of AEROSIL® E2D, we show how the new tool compares process parameters of high-shear milling with standard fumed silica vs. dissolver milling. Furthermore we do a deep dive for more sustainability aspects and present a detailed LCA analysis for our new technology Easy-to-disperse AEROSIL®.

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Unleash the Full Power of Your Powder Coatings

Recorded Webinar: Learn how Evonik’s versatile powder coating additives can take your formulations to the next level. Effects like free-flow, matting and pigment wetting will be in the focus. Beside well established brands like AEROXIDE® our experts explain technical benefits of the new TEGO® Powder Aid D01.

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Rheology Week 3: Control the flow with AEROSIL® Fumed Silica

Recorded Webinar: Fumed Silica are a very versatile tool to adjust the rheology profile and other characteristics of your coating formulations. Learn more about Fumed Silica in general and how specific grades can help you to create optimized waterborne, solventborne and powder coatings.

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Unlock new possibilities by using engineered silica in printing inks

Recorded Webinar: As the printing industry advances towards higher printing speeds and a broader range of graphic effects, the utilization of both fumed and precipitated silica in printing inks has become prevalent. The choice of particle sizes and surface treatments plays a crucial role in influencing the ink formulation's matting effect and rheology behavior. This presentation aims to explore the benefits of using engineered silicas such as AEROSIL®, ACEMATT®, SIPERNAT®, and SPHERILEX® in printing inks applications. The discussion will focus on how these silicas can enhance key properties like Rheology Control, Matting, Anti-block, and scratch resistance in the ink formulations.

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Technical Fact Sheets: AEROSIL® fumed silica

Overview and benefits of AEROSIL® fumed silicas for rheology control. Specialized synthetic amorphous fumed silica to enhance coatings performance.

You can find supplementary content, such as links or documents ready for download, in the “Resources” tab. 

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Automotive Filler & Putties

Automotive Refinish Coatings – Part II: Background, chemistry, and product recommendations for automotive refinish coatings in regarding to Filler & Putties.

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Automotive Refinish Coatings

Automotive Refinish Coatings – Part I: A General Overview Background, chemistry, market requirements, and future of automotive refinish coatings are discussed.

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Boosting our Jetting and Testing Capabilities

In less than 7 minutes we would like to tell you about our latest investment for Inkjet applications, what it can do for us and what we could do for you. 
Belief in the potential that inkjet represents for the printing industry is reflected in our continued efforts to provide our customers with specific recommendations, custom solutions and even specifically developed products. Find out more about the technical capabilities of our drop watcher and print station, and about modes of collaboration we offer that may assist you on your path of developing inkjet inks.

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Conference Paper, jointly with Krüss, IJC 2019

What are the important physico chemical parameters when formulating inks and how to characterize and optimize them. Recording kindly provided by Krüss.

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Conference Paper: IJC Düsseldorf 2019

This is a re-recording of the paper given at Inkjet Congress 2019. "Promoting Curing Speed: Ideal Surfactants for LED Curing Inkjet Inks"

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ECS 2021: Water based wood coatings - novel learnings pushing performance higher

Analytical methods to describe the performance of silicone based surface control additives in waterborne wood and furniture coatings. Learn more about current trends in wood coatings, performance profile of surface control additives based on silicone chemistry in waterborne wood coatings,  the results based on analytical methods and capability of spherical precipitated silica particles to enhance the mechanical resistance of coating surfaces.

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How to prevent blocking in Printing Inks

This webcast shows you various factors that lead to blocking defects in printing inks, and more importantly demonstrate 3 different formulating approaches. Lab videos and pictures are illustrated to show you how additives could help you achieve flawless finish.

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Introduction to wood coating technologies

This course provides some insights on the different types of wood coating technologies. For each technology, we will describe its advantages, disadvantages and key functionalities.

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Paper: Fine-tuning coating surface control through the use of modified siloxanes

Siloxane-based additives are critical tools in coating applications because their structures can be varied in order to provide a broad range of performance benefits in many types of formulations and chemistries. An attempt is made to clarify the general structure-property relationships that drive the performance attributes of siloxane additives and detail the continuum that exists between wetting, leveling, defoaming and slip within this chemistry class.

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Printing Inks Service Offerings - Interactive video

This is an interactive video that showcase different service offerings to support printing inks customers thru innovations and efficiency. Come explore to take advantage of our competencies in regulatory guidance, sustainability, technical expertise and trainings.

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Siloxane-based additives for inks and varnishes, composition, performance and limitations

Recorded Webinar: Siloxane-based additives show unique effects in waterborne, radiation-curing and also solventborne inks and varnishes. This webinar related structural motives to effects in inks and varnishes. It had displayed how to improve ink performance by the use of highly active siloxane-based additives, but also mentioned possible limitations. Can they potentially replace fluorosurfactants?

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Additive solutions for HS, UHS, SF coatings

Recorded Webinar: Evonik coating additive portfolio for high solid, ultra high solid and solvent-free systems.

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Controlling image quality of inkjet inks - the most important 1% of an ink formulation

Recorded Webinar: This webinar had introduced the know-how related the structure-property relationship of substrate wetting agents and their impact on the quality of the printed image as an integral part in enabling hight throughput digital printing.

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Discover our portfolio for coil coating applications

Recorded Webinar: Discover our portfolio for coil coating applications with a deep dive for specific effects, such as defoaming, matting, adhesion and durability aspects while meeting your regulatory needs.

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Entering the World of Regulatory for Printing Inks / Advanced

Recorded Webinar: Staying compliant with regulations is becoming more crucial than ever when it comes to creating new printing inks. This webinar is designed to offer advanced knowledge and comprehensive insights on key compliance matters.

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Entering the World of Regulatory for Printing Inks / Basic

Recorded Webinar: It is essential to have a basic understanding of regulations when creating a new printing ink. While the term "regulatory" may evoke negative connotations for some, this webinar aimed to provide fundamental knowledge on the topic in a relaxed manner.

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High performance ink additives with broad regulatory compliance and food contact status.

Recorded Webinar: Printing processes are getting faster and faster, substrates more and more diverse and global regulatory requirements more and more stringent. In this webinar, you will learn how Coating Additives copes with these requirements and proactively builds a portfolio of suitable high performance additives. Trends, star products and latest developments has been discussed along with practical examples and recommendations.

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How to solve challenges in Wood Coatings

Recorded Webinar: Coating defects can cause severe headaches in wood coating applications. We have several options of additives in our portfolio to get rid of these defects or solve challenges like wetting of difficult substrates easily. In this webinar we had provided you with recommendations for water based, solvent based & UV coatings.

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Our Solutions for UV Inkjet Inks

Recorded Webinar: UV inkjet inks develop fast in recent years in the application of label, tobacco packaging and PCB etc. In this webinar we had shared our additive solutions for UV inkjet ink application, we had introduced our high performance dispersants for different type of pigments dispersing, surface control additives especially crosslinkable product series which can help to improve substrate wetting, slip property and scratch resistance etc, and our Co-binders which can help to boost the curing speed, improve adhesion and pigment wetting etc.

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Outperformulate your waterborne inks - Part I

Recorded Webinar: Inks are often produced from semi-finished to address the application complexity and reduce the final production step to a blending operation. Semi-finished must not only be intermixable and compatible but also stable over the time. In this mini webinar series, challenges and solutions are presented. The first part presented solutions for pigment preparations and particle stabilization, so how to control the color and appearance of an ink. Part 2, will be related to foam, slip, release and substrate wetting - so control of the physical parameters of an ink.

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Outperformulate your waterborne inks - Part II

Recorded Webinar: Inks are often produced from semi-finished to address the application complexity and reduce the final production step to a blending operation. Semi-finished must not only be intermixable and compatible but also stable over the time. In this mini webinar series, challenges and solutions were presented. In the first part we have presented solutions for pigment preparations and particle stabilization, so how to control the color and appearance of an ink. Part 2, have been related to foam, slip, release and substrate wetting - so control of the physical parameters of an ink.

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Overcome your thermal challenges with TEGO® Therm for insulation coatings

Recorded Webinar: In this webinar we present the new product group, TEGO® Therm, of high-performance granules and heat-resistant binder for insulation coatings.

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Rheology Week 1: Be in control of your waterborne decorative coatings with our TEGO® Viscoplus rheology modifiers

Recorded Webinar: This webinar presents Evonik's rheology modifier portfolio for waterborne decorative coatings. It includes some product highlights to guide the formulator to the optimum selection and usage. Watch the recording and find out how our highly efficient thickeners with ultra-low VOC can solve your problems.

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Rheology Week 2: Rheology & Rheometry: Take control of the characteristics of your coating

Recorded Webinar: We were delighted to offer a joint webinar with Anton Paar Germany GmbH, producer of highly accurate laboratory instruments and a world leader in the field of rheometry measurements.

The rheology of coatings is a key property to control and understand material behavior during production, transport, storage and application. In this course, you learn about important rheological terms and rheometric tests. How do they contribute to understand your product and how do they help to improve process design? 

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Rheology Week 4: ASK the EXPERT

Recorded Webinar:

In our new format "ASK the EXPERT", we devote ourselves to your questions.

Two Evonik experts take the opportunity to give thorough answers and in-depth explanations. This format allows more questions and greater detail than usually possible in a short Q&A session typically offered at the end of a webinar.

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Silica technology for waterborne matt wood coatings

Recorded webinar: This recorded webinar presents Evonik’s special silica products and explains the main benefits of each product in waterborne matt coating systems.  The webinar covers fumed silica, matting agent and spherical silica products.

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Solutions for reaction foam & matting in WB wood coatings

Recorded Webinar: This webinar focuses on solutions to eliminate reaction foam in WB 2K PU systems. It also covers the topic of matting of waterbased wood coatings.

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Surface Week 1: Metal Coatings

Recorded Webinar: We were delighted to offer a joint webinar with  Synthomer, one of the world’s leading suppliers of sustainable water-based and differentiated polymer solutions.

This webinar has focused on the importance of pre-treatment of metal surfaces. The session has coved the application of 1K anti-corrosion primers and direct-to-metal (DTM) coatings, highlighting their benefits in protecting against environmental factors. Additionally, we have discussed the film formation process and common surface defects that can impact performance.

This webinar was part of the Surface Weeks. 

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Sustainable Marine & Protective Coatings

Recorded Webinar: The Importance of Sustainable Solutions: Defoaming, Anti-Corrosion, and Anti-Fouling effect for Marine & Protective Coatings. During this live webinar we had focused on various sustainable topics for Marine & Protective Coatings.  

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What CAN we do for can coatings?

Recorded Webinar: Discover our portfolio for can coating applications with a deep dive for specific effects, such as defoaming, matting, adhesion while meeting your regulatory needs.

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Star products for packaging inks - Cobinders

In this module of our webcast series  you can learn how cobinders work and should be selected for their use in (packaging) inks. Our star products for this application are presented and compared to each other for best possible selection. More modules on other product groups available here on COATINO® Campus.

You can find supplementary content, such as links or documents ready for download, in the “Resources” tab.

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Star products for packaging inks - Rheology Control Additives

In this module of our webcast series, you can learn the theory of rheology and its influences on ink's stability, transfer properties, printability and final print quality. Our star products for packaging inks, how they work and how they differ. More modules on other product groups are available here on COATINO® Campus.

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TEGO® Therm for BEV

This course provides an overview on the new TEGO® Therm product range for EV battery housings and covers.

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TEGO® Therm in General

This course provides an overview on the new TEGO® Therm product range for thermal insulation coatings. Technical background and benefits in regard to handling, performance and sustainability will be explained within the course.

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The basics of wood coatings

This learning journey provides a very complete overview about the basics of wood coatings and will answer any questions you have on wood coatings. Our expert Heike Semmler is taking you through this journey beginning with the history of wood coatings up to the different technologies, application and test methods. The journey also explains the functionalities and characteristics of wood coatings and much more.