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Volume 27, Issue 6
1 December 1998
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Technical Paper| December 01 1998

New simple method to measure polymer surface tension

Charles M. Hansen
FORCE Institute, Broendby, Denmark
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6941
Print ISSN: 0369-9420
© MCB UP Limited
1998
Pigment & Resin Technology (1998) 27 (6): 374–378.
https://doi.org/10.1108/03699429810246962

Surface tensions of polymers can be accurately determined by observing whether droplets of liquids spontaneously spread or not. The polymer surface tension will be higher than the surface tension of a liquid which spreads, and lower than that of a liquid which remains as a droplet.

Keywords: Polymers, Surface tension
© MCB UP Limited
1998
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