Reactive diluents are substances which reduce the viscosity of a lacquer or resin for processing and become part of the lacquer or coating during its subsequent curing via copolymerization. A non-reactive diluent would be a solvent or plasticizer.
Diluents (or thinners) are usually added to lacquers or other resins, to reduce their viscosity and rheology). In thermal cured lacquers, such diluents added are volatile substances which evaporate from the lacquer during drying. In the case of radiation-curing lacquers (for example UV lacquers), those diluents should be avoided. The addition of reactive diluents facilitates the processing of the lacquers, allows the addition of more fillers and improves the wetting behavior on the substrate.[1] If volatile diluents are replaced by reactive diluents, flammability, smell, skin irritation and environmental compatibility (by lower or no VOC emissions) can be improved.[2]
^Bodo Müller, Walter Rath: Formulierung von Kleb- und Dichtstoffen – das kompetente Lehrbuch für Studium und Praxis. 2. Auflage. Vincentz Network, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-86630-862-6, S. 149–150
^Reinhold Schwalm (2007), UV Coatings (in German), Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 112–114, ISBN 978-0-444-52979-4
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