A way to toughen up the latex particles used to make emulsion paints has been developed by UK chemists. The approach involves adding tiny slivers of clay armor to make the particles more hard wearing and fire resistant.
Until now, latex emulsion paints have been made by adding a soap-like surfactant molecule to allow the hydrophobic, [...]
Read the full story here...
Post by David Bradley Science Writer. You can get in touch with David via email or check out his CV on the Sciencebase.com site.
If you're lucky, the following quote may be relevant in some way to the post above, but then again...
Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.
- Siddhartha Gautama
Popular Posts