Comprehensive Rheological Characterization to Optimize Electrode Manufacturing
Summary Electrode manufacturing for lithium-ion batteries is a complex, multistep process that requires comprehensive material characterization to ensure quality and consistency in the final electrodes. Electrode processing involves combining active materials with binders and conductive additives to form a coating on the current collector, either as a slurry or dry coating. The mixing and coating…
Rheology for Topical and Personal Care Formulations
Rheology for Topical and Personal Care Formulations
Strategies for Rheological Evaluation of Adhesives
Overview Adhesives are widely used across a broad range of industries and are a regular part of consumers’ daily lives. A quantitative understanding of the performance of such materials, such as adhesion, cohesion, tack, and peel performance is important for quality control and guiding formulators. Rheology is a powerful tool that provides direct measurement…
Rheology of Coatings and Inks
Rheology of Coatings and Inks Coatings and inks are two of the most common structured fluids that are characterized on rotational rheometers. Rheometers offer experimentalists many opportunities to perform selected tests that can reveal information about the properties of the fluids and allow one to predict the processability of these systems. Of particular interest are…
Catalysis R&D with High Pressure Thermogravimetry – Instruments and Applications
Overview Catalytic reactions are of tremendous commercial importance. Over 90% of all chemicals worldwide are manufactured with the aid of solid catalysts. Developing improved catalysts and optimizing the reaction conditions are key for improving commercial and ecological efficiency of catalytic processes. High-pressure thermogravimetric analysis (HP-TGA) allows investigating reactions of a catalyst with the gas…
Melt Viscosity Measurements at High Temperatures
Overview Maintaining the optimum viscosity of a molten material is key for efficiency and product quality of many industrial processes. Processing of melts at high temperatures is the basis for classical or additive manufacturing of many materials like glasses or metals. Molten slag or ash viscosity is essential for economically operating industrial gasification processes…
Applications of Tribo Rheometry in Material Characterization
Overview Tribology is the study of friction between two interacting surfaces. Traditionally encompassing friction-based studies of lubrication and wear, the applications of this field has expanded into different industries such as food and beverage (e.g: quantify mouthfeel and texture), personal care (e.g: quantify skin-feel), asphalt (e.g: development of warm mix asphalt technologies) and rubbers…
Rheology Workflow Automation with TRIOS AutoPilot: Enhanced Measurement with Reduced User Training
Overview Discover how the new TRIOS AutoPilot software system enables you to standardize rheology workflow processes and decision-making. Combining thorough user-guidance, automated data processing, and decisional logic, AutoPilot reduces measurement variation, expedites tedious operations, and drives actionable decisions. Learn how you can join other organizations that have implemented these techniques to accelerate efficiency and…