Scope

To assure continued consumer satisfaction the following stability issues of paint products have to be minimized or avoided:

These stability issues have to be addressed not only during development of new paint products but also for quality assurance during production on a regular basis. This application note demonstrates that multisample analytical centrifugation can be used as an efficient tool for the accelerated evaluation of separation stability of paint products.
In addition this technique provides for high resolution data of particle size distributions of pigments or emulsions.

In part II the application of multi-sample analytical centrifugation for optimization of deagglomeration of pigment particles will be addressed.