The Reason Why Inorganic Coatings Eventually Replace Organic Coatings

With people's emphasis on healthy housing and ecological home furnishing, the market structure of the coatings industry may change. The trend of inorganic coatings will gradually rise and will occupy a place in the ecological wall material market and become a new mainstream market in recent years.

So what is the difference between inorganic coatings and organic coatings? Why choose inorganic coatings? Let's take a look at the editor below!

Development History

In the later period of primitive society, the early inorganic paints were born with the birth of human civilization. Primitives used animal blood or plant slurry to stir mineral powders and used them to smear the materials on the body and face to dress up ghosts or gods, which belonged to the earliest Inorganic coatings.

The variety and quantity of organic coatings before large-scale oil extraction were very small. Chinese lacquer and Tung oil are typical representatives. They are used in the decoration of high-end furniture and art and the anti-corrosion of ships. The high price is a national strategic material.

The large-scale exploitation of petroleum and the invention of the film-forming substances of petroleum extracts gave birth to modern organic coatings. The birth of modern organic coatings has had a great impact on organic coatings. Organic coatings account for most of the coatings market due to their simple and fast production, strong price competitiveness, superior performance and rich colors.

Film-forming Substance

In the classification of coatings, the types of coatings can be divided into organic coatings and inorganic coatings according to film-forming substances.

Definition of organic coatings: coatings composed of high-molecular compounds as the main film-forming substances. Apply it to the surface of the object to form a film with firm adhesion.

Paint used to be called paint. It was named after mostly using vegetable oil as raw material in the early days. With the development of the synthetic material industry, most vegetable oil has been replaced by synthetic resin, so it was renamed paint. Organic coatings can be divided into: Water-soluble coatings, solvent coatings, and latex coatings.

Definition of inorganic coating: Inorganic coating is a kind of coating with inorganic coating as the main film-forming substance. It is the abbreviation of all-inorganic mineral coating. Because of its high performance, it is widely used in construction, painting and other daily life fields.

Inorganic coatings can be divided into: silicate inorganic coatings, silica sol inorganic coatings and alkali metal inorganic coatings.

Differentiate organically

Inorganic coatings are one of many inorganic materials. Even in terms of coatings, inorganic coatings only occupy a small proportion, but they should be highly valued by people.

First of all, the base materials of inorganic coatings are often directly derived from nature, so the source is very rich. For example, the main raw materials of Coating Materials such as silica sol and silicate solution are derived from quartz ore, which are extremely abundant materials in nature.

Secondly, compared with some organic paint base materials, the production and use of inorganic paint base materials have little environmental pollution, and most of the products use water as the dispersion medium, which has no adverse effects on the environment and health.

The third is that the aging resistance and certain physical and chemical properties of inorganic coatings are difficult to achieve by most organic coatings with the same production cost, so it has better technical and economic performance.

Fourth, most inorganic coatings are alkaline, which is more suitable for application on the same alkaline cement and lime sand, and can chemically react with the lime in these substrates to form calcium silicate crystals, which can be integrated with the base, that is also why its adhesion is particularly good.