Environmentally sound aqueous binders for paints and surface coatings are increasingly replacing solvent-based formulations. To prevent reduced performance and maintain the same level of properties as solvent-based systems, unsaturated silanes are directly incorporated into the polymer as comonomers during preparation of the resin.
Binders – such as acrylates and polyvinyl acetates, which are silanized with GENIOSIL® during manufacture – permit coatings to be formulated that offer excellent wet adhesion and abrasion resistance along with good pigment and filler binding. The most widely used GENIOSIL® grades are vinyl and methacrylosilanes.