Environment-Friendly Acrylic Pressure Sensitive Adhesives (PSAs) with Improved Antistatic Property

Abstract

A series of acrylic PSAs were synthesized by pre-emulsion addition method and characterized by FT-IR spectroscopies. Electrical and mechanical properties of antistatic waterborne acrylic PSAs containing electrically conductive fillers were investigated in this paper depending on the component of monomers, reactive emulsifiers, and the type of conductive fillers. PSA synthesized by reactive emulsifier showed higher physical properties and its composite with 1wt% of conductive fillers showed good dispersity with optimal peel strength.

Keywords:

• Pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs)
• Reactive emulsifier
• Conductive fillers
• Acrylic polymer
• Pre-emulsion addition method
• Antistatic property

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through the Human Resource Training Project for Regional Innovation (No. 2015H1C1A1035709) and Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) under the program “ASTI Knowledge Research Group” from Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP).