Tionox 104

Specific performance properties:
  • Strong surface tension reduction
  • Highest dynamic surface tension reduction
  • Destabilizing foam
  • Extreme low CMC
  • Lowest water sensibility
  • Non-ionic surfactant
  • Hydrophobic nature, HLB 4
  • Multifunctional: acts as a wetting agent, defoaming agent, dispersing agent, leveling agent.
  • Supplied as a 50% active liquid in various solvents

Surfactant 400-Series

  • Chemically modified 104
  • ionic surfactants
  • Increasing water solubility with increased number

Tionox 400- Series

  • SURFACTANT 420: lowest degree of ethoxylation, for best defoaming
  • SURFACTANT 440: low degree of ethoxylation
  • SURFACTANT 465: medium degree of ethoxylation, watersoluble ++
  • SURFACTANT 485: highest degree of ethoxylation, for highest hydrophilicity

Tionox additives

Application industry:
  • Coatings
  • Printing materials
  • Adhesives
  • Latex
  • Digital materials
  • Agriculture
  • Dye synthesis
  • Pigment grinding
  • Emulsion polymerization

Paper industry

Features &  Benefits Tionox 104
  • Low dynamic surface tension
  • Efficient wetting agent and emulsifying agent for pigments and substrates
  • No influence on the water quality
  • Low viscosity increase
  • Thermally stable
  • Defoaming properties

Printing inks

Features & benefits Tionox 104
  • Used are Tionox 104-NP, -E, -H, -PG
  • Used in Flexo and offset inks
  • Effective wetting agent, for pigments and substrates
  • Unlike other surfactants: defoaming properties
  • Low dynamic surface tension, optimizing printability
  • Applied onto low surface tension substrates (plastics)

Adhesives

Features & Benefits Tionox 104
  • Used are Tionox 104-E, -H, DPM, -PG
  • Used in WB adhesives, pressure sensitive adhesives
  • Effective substrate wetting agent
  • Unlike other surfactants: defoaming properties
  • Low dynamic surface tension, optimizing roller and spray application
  • Enhances flow and levelling
  • Applied onto low surface tension substrates (plastics)

Characters of Tionox

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The importance of surface tension

  • Promoting wetting quickly during high speed processing.
  • Enhancing the efficiency of production and quality
  • Suit well in new processing method, such as spraying, rolling coating etc.
  • Better defoaming. wetting and leveling, no defects on surface film.

Surface tension and Tionox

Traditional defoamer:
Defoaming by incompatibility of hydrophobic materials, which can attract surfactant on the bubbles, so as to make foam breaking.
Tionox performance:
Tionox adhes at the surface of bubbles, so as to change the surface tension of bubble, and knockdown foam then. Also, anti foaming for long time.

Performance properties

  • Quick migration, leading to low dynamic surface tension
  • Ability to wet contaminated substrates
  • Non-micelle forming
  • Thermal and chemical stability over a broad range of conditions
  • Prevents surface defect problems such as fisheyes, crawling, and cratering
    on low-energy substrates

Tionox products

Acetylenic diols non-ionic surfactant Cas no. 126-86-3
Both solid additives and diluted with various solvent are available.
Grades:
  • Tionox 104
  • Tionox 104 A
  • Tionox 104 E
  • Tionox 104 H
  • Tionox 104 PA
  • Tionox 104 PG
  • Tionox 104 BC
  • Tionox 104  DPM

Performance properties

  • Reduces microfoam in spray-applied systems
  • Improves pigment grind efficiency
  • Reduces water sensitivity
  • Defoams, deairentrains, and improves flow
  • Enhances leaf and soil penetration while improving bloom and stability in agricultural chemical formulations
  • Lubricates, wets, and prevents smut formation while eliminating hot spots in metalworking fluids

Applications

  • Aqueous coatings
  • Printing inks
  • Factory-applied and DIY wood coatings
  • Industrial maintenance coatings
  • Overprint varnishes and paper coatings
  • Fountain solutions
  • Pressure sensitive adhesives
  • Agricultural chemicals
  • Dye processing
  • Metalworking fluids
  • Concrete and drymix mortars

Surface tension and wetting

For aqueous systems:
  • Surface area will increase quickly during high speed processing.
  • The surface energy rising with the concentration decrease of surfactant
  • Wetting will be hard to meet the requirement under such situations. And
    caused many problems, such as shrinking, organic peel etc.

Recoatability comparation with different additives

  • Oil based additives adhes at the surface of coating, which caused inhomogeneous
    surface tension. It’s hard to recoat.
  • Silicon based additives dry and fix in coatings surface with methyl molecular film.
    The surface tension of such methyl film is very low (lower than 30N/M). It’s hard to recoat.
  • Fluorine based additives stay at the surface with fluorinated alkyl molecular film.
    Such films also have very low surface tension (lower than 30N/M). It’s hard to recoat.
  • Tionox additives based on acetylenic diols. There is a molecular film with C6H12 when the
    coatings dried. The surface tension of such films is close to various resins’ surface tension
    (＞35N/M). So, no effect to recoatability.

Packages

Available in:
  • 170 kg iron drums
  • 25 kg drums
  • 1000kg IBCs

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