Editorial

Citation

(2003), "Editorial", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 32 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/prt.2003.12932daa.001

Editorial

This issue sees a major change to the style of the Pigment & Resin Technology. Thus, a photograph and a brief biography of each author are given in the contributors section. Such a change has been introduced in an attempt to provide the readers with more information about the contributing authors and, at the same time, to allow the contributing authors to be well-known for their research experience and interests.

Turning to the content of this issue, the contributed papers included several areas of research and development within the field of pigment and resin technology.

Rubber is one of the more widely used industrial polymeric materials. During the process of rubber manufacturing, antioxidants are added to the rubber mix to alleviate the undesired oxidation. Dr A.M. Youssef and her colleagues reported the synthesis and the characterisation of novel antioxidants based on itaconic acid/aromatic diamine adducts. Such antioxidants were found to be highly effective and more environmental-friendly than most currently used antioxidants.

It is the editorial team’s intention to broaden the scope of the Pigment & Resin Technology. Indeed, the editorial team has been encouraging the submission of papers covering a wider field of science and technology relevant to making and application of colorants and polymers. Printing is closely related to pigment and resin technology in the sense that printing involves the use of printing inks, which consists of both colorants and resinous binders, and the use of printing plates, often composed of photopolymers.

To this end, readers will notice, within the current issue, a paper (by Mr David Galton) dealing with the relationship between the properties of the photochemical polymer plates and the process parameters involved in the making of the printing plates. David is well-known in the UK printing industry. He has many years of experience in improving the quality of printed images through the optimisation of the properties of the printing plates and of the printing process. David’s paper is intriguing also in that it reports a successful application of statistical experimental design and statistical data analysis techniques in solving complex industrial problems.

Readers having organic chemistry background will find Dr Alqaradawi’s paper particularly of interest, in which Dr Alqaradawi reported her investigation into the synthesis and application of novel colorants based on cycloalkane ring-fused arylazopyrazolo-pyrimidine derivatives.

Dr Emira and his colleague reported their investigation into the dependence of the corrosion protection properties of water-borne coatings on the concentration of the anticorrosive pigments used. It was concluded that the effectiveness of the anticorrosion pigment was more dependent on the nature of the interactions between the pigment and the resinous binder than on the quantity of the pigment used. However, these two factors (i.e. type and quantity of pigments used) are inter-dependent.

The editorial team is committed to providing high quality papers within the Pigment & Resin Technology. As such, the editorial team would like to take this opportunity to encourage readers to submit their papers to the Pigment & Resin Technology. Any constructive feedbacks from readers would also be most welcome.