Coatings Additives, Part VII: Rheology control additives
Clays such as non modified attapulgite, bentonite, hectorite are limitly useful, mainly in low cost high PVC decorative paints. Two classes of non associative conventional thickeners which traditionally have been used and presently remain popular are water soluble cellulosics and alkali soluble polyanionic carboxylated acrylic copolymers.


































