UV-LED Curing Efficiency of Wood Coatings

Coatings

Véronic Landry¹  Pierre Blanchet²  Gabrielle Boivin¹  Jean-François Bouffard¹  Mirela Vlad¹ 

[1] FPInnovations, 319 rue Franquet, Québec City, QC G1P 4R4, Canada; E-Mails:;NSERC Chair on Ecoresponsible Wood Construction, Laval University, 2425 de la Terrasse st, Québec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada; E-Mail:

关键词: UV-LED;    UV-curable coatings;    wood flooring;    acrylates;    photoinitiators;    mechanical resistance;    conversion percentages;   

DOI  :  10.3390/coatings5041019

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) have attracted great interest in recent years. They can be used to polymerize coatings, such as those used for prefinished wood flooring. In this project, two lamps were compared for their suitability to be used on a wood flooring finishing line: a UV-microwave and a UV-LED lamp. Low heat emission was found for the UV-LED lamp compared to the UV-microwave one. This study also reveals that the 4 W/cm² UV-LED lamp used is not powerful enough to cure UV high solids acrylate coatings while satisfactory results can be obtained for UV water-based formulations. In fact, conversion percentages were found to be low for the high solids coatings, leaving the coatings tacky. Higher conversion percentages were obtained for the UV water-based formulations. As a result, mass loss, hardness, and scratch resistance found for the samples cured by UV-LED were closed to the ones found for the samples cured using the UV microwave lamp.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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