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The properties of polymer films prepared from latex dispersions are influenced by the drying or film formation process. In order to investigate this process, various systems of aqueous latex dispersions were dried until a specific solid content was reached. The samples investigated were based on vinyl acetate, vinyl acetate/ethylene and pure acrylics employing different surfactants and polyelectrolytes as stabilisers of the dispersions. The role of water in these partially dried films was investigated using 1H and 2H solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Different types of water could be distinguished in the spectra. The drying latex films were found to contain interfacial external water, water at ionic and nonionic groups at surfactants in the polymer/water interface and also water inside the swollen polymer. These different types of water were examined separately using various NMR techniques.
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Received: 22 October 1999/Accepted in revised form: 19 November 1999
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Rottstegge, J., Landfester, K., Wilhelm, M. et al. Different types of water in the film formation process of latex dispersions as detected by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Colloid Polym Sci 278, 236–244 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003960050037
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003960050037