Acrylic Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives Containing SiO2 Nanoparticles

The use of acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs) is increasing in a variety of industrial fi elds. They have been applied in the manufacture of mounting tapes, self-adhesive labels, protective fi lms, mas king tapes, splicing tapes, carrier-free tapes, sign and marking fi lms, and in diverse medical products, such as pads or self-adhesive bioelectrodes. In this study, the application of SiO2 nanoparticles in acrylic PSA was investigated. The properties of the newly synthesized and modifi ed PSA were evaluated via the tack, peel adhesion, shear-strength and shrinkage. It has been found that the nanotechnologically-reinforced systems consisting of monodisperse non-agglomerated SiO2 nanoparticles and self-crosslinked acrylic PSAs showed a great enhancement in tack, peel adhesion, shear resistance and shrinkage, without showing the disadvantages known to result from the use of other inorganic additives. In this paper we evaluate the performance of SiO2 nanoparticles with a size of about 30 nm as inorganic fi ller into the synthesized solvent-borne acrylic PSA.