Modern sealants are equipped with unique material characteristics. They bond any surface to any other surface, deliver enviable elastomeric properties, and they can withstand any number of intrusive factors. That latter feature includes everything from acoustic attenuation to thermal resistivity. Reliable by design, we should note that the chemical stuff is still reactive to heat…

Adhesives are infused with key fixative attributes that target binding prowess and sealant incorruptibility. In short, the chemical binding compound discharges promptly, cures quickly, and anchors with undeniable strength. Now, a purchasing agent is bound to ask about both of these features and more, but the underlying principle driving these queries always comes back to…

Chemical bonding technology is dominated by two adhesive families, two distinctly different surface-joining formulations. There’s the viscous and potentially toxic group, a series of compounds we call solvent based adhesives. In the other corner of the adhesion ring, water based adhesives provide an alternative bonding option. The two groups are undoubtedly both accomplished joining agents,…

A design engineer’s job is to fabricate substances for specific applications and ensure the properties of the substance match a job at hand. Now, of all these material attributes, the high and low modulus of elasticity is tougher than most to quantify because substance elasticity is a dynamic property. In measuring elasticity, we need to…

New words cause a flash of consternation to darken a user’s face, but a keenly practiced term dismemberment technique quickly clarifies the matter. Let’s try the technique out by forcing UV curable adhesives and sealants to submit to our methodology.   What is a UV Curable Product? On breaking the term apart, the product is…

Thermally conductive adhesive sealants, as the terminology implies, are products that transfer heat. Designed to pass thermal energy through the bonded substrates of the material, the sealants turn insulating properties on their head by favouring heat exchange over heat isolation. Used in computers, electronics, and many industrial applications, the material dissipates potentially damaging thermal events….

The evolution of a product or material always starts out the same way. There’s the evolution of the form to satisfy function. The shape is refined, and enhancements are added to the product to grant it superior features. Chemical sealants work in much the same way. The compounds improve over time and add new and…

The commitment of significant resources is required to pull back the curtain and reveal how thermal and acoustic events behave inside buildings. In turn, manufacturers have an intimate understanding of just how the air flows and sound propagates within a structure. Open cell and closed cell polyurethane compounds are the spray-in-place formulation of choice here,…

Environmental responsibility drives a newly ascendant market, one that conscientiously provides state-of-the-art products and space-age materials. The products satisfy stringent eco-regulations, of course, and they satisfy a specific function, that of economically insulating a room or entire home, but features must also meet form. In other words, the exhaustively tested products must add value in…

On speeding past the carefully listed features of an insulating product, we miss out on the multiple attributes of the material, perhaps even condemning the product with binary-like qualities. The word insulating is then wrongly interpreted as stopping heat from escaping or preventing sound from travelling, but a multipurpose insulating foam sealant provides an inviolable…