Rheological perspectives of industrial coating process

  • Kim, Sun-Hyung (School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Hong (School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Ahn, Kyung-Hyun (School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Seung-Jong (School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2008.09.20
  • Published : 2009.06.30

Abstract

Coating process plays an important role in information technology such as display, battery, chip manufacturing and so on. However, due to complexity of coating material and fast deformation of the coating flow, the process is hard to control and it is difficult to maintain the desired quality of the products. Moreover, it is hard to measure the coating process because of severe processing conditions such as high drying temperature, high deformation coating flow, and sensitivity to the processing variables etc. In this article, the coating process is to be re-illuminated from the rheological perspectives. The practical approach to analyze and quantify the coating process is discussed with respect to coating materials, coating flow and drying process. The ideas on the rheology control of coating materials, pressure and wet thickness control in patch coating process, and stress measurement during drying process will be discussed.

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