𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 With a lot of construction activities going on in the world, and especially in the APAC region, home to two of the most populated nations, China and India, mainly to provide housing to the increasing population. it will also have a positive impact on the demand of paints and coatings as well. When a structure is constructed, various paints and coatings need to be applied to improve the strength and also the appearance of the structures. Solvent is used in the formulation of paints and coatings, and this blog will focus on the role of solvents in the formulation of paints and coatings. 𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁: Solvents have an important role to play in many customer-use products for making paint, with a good consistency avoid clumps and for application, in paints, dissolve the components, which are used in the making of paints and coatings. Glycol ether esters are added to the paints for resisting them from drying in the mid-air. It is added to paints formulations dissolving additional compounds, such as, additives, pigments and binders. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀, 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁@ https://www.psmarketresearch.com/market-analysis/apac-paints-and-coatings-market Cyclic hydrocarbon, linear or branched chains for example pure solvent such as hexane are known as aliphatic solvents. 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲 Solvents are important in the formulation of coatings even if they’re not there at the final stage because of evaporation and control viscosity for the use. There are few characteristics of epoxy paints, such as performance. They impact the quality of the film as they are strongly reliant on the rate of evaporation throughout the process of drying. Talking about the solvating ability, ketones solvents are the finest for the same, because of carbonyl group, an acceptor of hydrogen. These are good for polar resins as they are important for higher ketones and favorable for non-polar resins when only tiny ketones are mixable with water. Esters have solvating power just as ketones as they also accept hydrogen and if small ester works well as a solvent for polar resins and their dissolving for non-polar boosts just as ketones. 𝗔𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 Alcohol is both hydrogen acceptor and donor that giving them an incredible solvating power for polar resins, OH group has its effect on it as it is in the same position. The is a decrease in the solvating power of resins as the span of hydrocarbon chain surges. Mixability decreases from the length of hydrocarbon chain are lengthy and, small alcohols, soluble in water. Alcohol reacting to isocyanates that can interfere with the process of drying of coatings can be reduced by the addition of secondary or tertiary alcohol. So, all in all solvents have a big role to play in the formulation of coatings and prevent them from drying. With the growing construction sector in the Asia Pacific, the demand for paints and coatings is on the rise and will reach USD 133.03 billion by the end of this decade.