Ethylene glycol

Ethyl Acrylate (EA)

Ethyl Acrylate (EA) serves as a crucial component in various industries due to its versatile applications and beneficial properties:

Features & Benefits:

Flexibility: Provides flexibility to polymers and coatings, allowing them to adapt to different surfaces and environments.
Elasticity: Imparts elasticity to materials, enhancing their resistance to deformation and improving durability.
Adhesion: Promotes strong adhesion to substrates, ensuring the stability and longevity of coatings, adhesives, and binders.
Stickiness: Offers tackiness, facilitating adhesion in applications such as adhesives and sealants.

Application Areas:

Acrylic Dispersions: Used as a comonomer in the synthesis of acrylic dispersions for adhesives, binders, and impregnating compositions in industries such as leather, printing, paint, varnish, pulp and paper, and more.
Paint & Varnish: Incorporated into formulations to enhance flexibility, adhesion, and durability of paints and varnishes, ensuring long-lasting performance.
Textiles: Utilized in textile coatings to impart flexibility, elasticity, and adhesion, enhancing the quality and functionality of textile products.
– Pulp & Paper: Used in coatings and treatments for pulp and paper products, improving their strength, flexibility, and printability.
Leather: Employed in leather coatings and treatments to enhance flexibility, adhesion, and durability, ensuring high-quality leather products.
Adhesives: Used as a key component in adhesive formulations to provide strong bonding capabilities and tackiness in various bonding applications.
Binders: Utilized in the production of binders for paints, coatings, and adhesives, ensuring cohesive strength and adhesion.
Inks, Caulks & Sealants: Incorporated into formulations to enhance adhesion and tackiness in inks, caulks, and sealants, ensuring reliable performance in sealing and bonding applications.

Ethyl Acrylate (EA) plays a critical role in numerous industries by contributing to the development of high-performance products with tailored properties to meet specific application requirements.

Specifications

PropertiesTypical
AppearanceClear, colorless
Physical formLiquid
OdorPungent
Density @ 20 °C0.922 g/cm2
Refractive index no @ 20 °C1,404
Boiling point @ 5 hPaapprox. 100 °C
Freezing pointapprox. -72 °C
Viscosity @ 25 °C0.55 mPa . S
Vapor pressure @ 20 °C39 mbar
Specific heat of liquid1.98 kJ/(kg K)
Heat of evaporation at boiling point346.1 kJ/kg
Heat of polymerization655 kJ/kg