Rapid and unambiguous determination of the open time for waterborne paint films with Laser Speckle Imaging

Slav A. Semerdzhiev, Hanne M. van der Kooij, Remco Fokkink +1

In drying coatings, the time span between the deposition of the wet film and the formation of an uniform solid harbors a procession of complex phenomena each of which carves the fi…