Q: Why does water-based leveling agent thicken?

Question:Water based Leveling agent Why does it thicken?

Answer:In the chemical industry, leveling agents are indispensable because they can achieve highly uniform, glossy, and smooth surfaces. We can see technicians adjusting water-based leveling agents to natural thickeners, but the resulting moisture content is very good. The definition of rheological additives is some additives that can change the rheological properties of fluids, such as changing from Newtonian fluids to plastic, pseudoplastic fluids, or vice versa. These additives may be polymers, natural thickeners, inorganic, organic solvents, or various organic, inorganic electrolytes or dispersants.

Leveling agents are used to achieve a highly uniform, glossy, and smooth surface when applied to materials such as inks, ink pastes, coatings, etc. These leveling agents are mainly high-efficiency surface, interfacial active agents, and polymer electrolytes. Their mechanism of action is dispersion, defoaming, dilution, which makes the coating and ink highly fluid (without changing the solid content of the coating and ink) and has good surface wettability (including its own system and between it and the material). The use of these leveling agents can greatly reduce pinholes and volcanic crater effects on the surface of the print.