CN1420146A - Antibacterial health ecologic nanopaint - Google Patents

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CN1420146A
CN1420146A CN 01139937 CN01139937A CN1420146A CN 1420146 A CN1420146 A CN 1420146A CN 01139937 CN01139937 CN 01139937 CN 01139937 A CN01139937 A CN 01139937A CN 1420146 A CN1420146 A CN 1420146A
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An antibacterial health-care nano paint is characterized by that the antibacterial agent (nano particles of the oxides of Ag, Zn and copper) is added to basic material, the far infrared particles (nano particles of aluminium oxide, calcium oxide and zinc oxide) are added to filler, and the photocatalytic TiO2 and RE activated zinc oxide are added to solidifying agent. Its advantages are low cost and durable action on bactericiding and cleaning air.

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Antibacterial health ecologic nanopaint
The present invention relates to a kind of novel antibacterial health care coating, particularly a kind of nano ecological paint.
Enhancing along with people's environmental consciousness, that Building Decoration Material has occurred in succession is nontoxic, harmless, the pollution-free green finishing material is come out one after another, the green environmental friendly coatings of Chu Xianing, nano paint have become a kind of new fashion of people's green consumptions in the market, promptly nontoxic, tasteless, free of contamination environmental protection coating material, and coating products such as nanometer latex knee.But to meet the healthy and safe requirement of people's the Working environment of living for a full due; only be that environmental protection also is nowhere near; the environment of work because people live; particularly growing a lot of able-bodied pathogenic bacterium of harm humans, virus in the atmospheric environment; and obnoxious flavour because of causing in producing, living; make people's giddy, headache, feel sick and produce multiple disease, as SO 2NO 2, NO xMultiple nuisance such as VOC, formaldehyde still as not being eliminated, does not gather in very serious to the mankind and organic sphere environment.The present invention provides a kind of new environmental ecology antibiotic health care dress and is coated with material for this reason, not only had high performance environmental protection, but also can kill harmful germ, the virus that suppresses in the environment, can also purify air, eliminate, decompose airborne nuisance, and produce negative oxygen ion and make people reach the ecologic coating of the multiple function of healthy and safe health care.
The objective of the invention is to be to utilize the environmental-protecting performance of nano material, adopt the environment-protecting health-care material, material for air purification, anti-biotic material, compound a kind of antibiotic health care nano ecological paints that have such as active lean soil material, with the required safety of the existence of satisfying people, health environment, the high-performance that had both had building materials and ornaments, and environmental protection, have the various germs virus of killing in air and the environment simultaneously and purify air, eliminate stink, discharge multiple functions such as negative oxygen ion, room for people, living environment brings up good indoor and outdoor weather condition and bioclimate regulation system preferably, to satisfy people's required a home from home of living, make the people, building, the room, form an eucyclic ecosystem between the environment.
The present invention for achieving the above object, mainly be except that adopting nontoxic water-based not have the sill in the base-material, filler, auxiliary agent etc. at coating, in auxiliary agent, increased simultaneously the nano-antibacterial oxidation material, visible light catalytic material, far-infrared radiation oxide material, active rare-earth active material etc., and technology is opened in the production in conjunction with the science technical recipe, has very high coating performance and antibiotic health care ecological, environmental protective characteristic thereby coating is originally removed.
Antibiotic health care nano ecological paint provided by the present invention is made up of base-material, filler, auxiliary agent, dispersion agent, solidifying agent etc.Comprise nano antibacterial agent (silver ions, zinc are from forming in, copper Guo Zi oxide components) in the base-material, it is characterized in that containing far infrared aluminum oxide, zinc oxide, and calcium oxide composition.
Feature of the present invention also is: be added with photochemical catalysis thing titanium dioxide or zinc oxide in described auxiliary agent and the solidifying agent, and active rare earth (need contain La, Ce, Nd) composition, described solidifying agent comprises: sodium bentonite, OK powder, potassium alum.
The present invention can be made up of following raw material: (weight percent)
Base-material: modified polyvinyl alcohol 15-35%
Nano zine oxide 0-1.8%
Aluminium sesquioxide 0.2-0.42%
Filler: talcum powder 4-6%
Coarse whiting 10-20%
Fine particle calcium carbonate 4-8%
Auxiliary agent: Tai-Ace S 150 0.01-0.03%
Organosilicon crylic acid latex 0.02-0.50%
Whitening agent (VBL) 0.01-0.02%
Nano titanium oxide 0-0.180%
Rhenium oxide 0.02-0.150%
Thickening material: polyacrylamide 0.01-0.03%
Solidifying agent: sodium bentonite 1.2-5.8%
OK powder 8-11%
Potassium alum 1.2-1.8%
Production antibacterial health ecologic nanopaint of the present invention can adopt conventional coating producing process and equipment making.
Below just embodiment further describe the present invention.
Embodiment one:
Followingly expect respectively that by weight % is than metering:
Base-material: modified polyvinyl alcohol 35%
Nano zine oxide 1.8%
Aluminium sesquioxide 0.42%
Filler: talcum powder 6%
Coarse whiting 20%
Fine particle calcium carbonate 8%
Auxiliary agent: Tai-Ace S 150 0.03%
Organosilicon crylic acid latex 0.5%
Whitening agent (VBL) 0.02%
Nano titanium oxide 0.18%
Rhenium oxide 0.15%
Thickening material: polyacrylamide 0.03%
Solidifying agent: sodium bentonite 5.8%
OK powder 11%
Potassium alum 1.8%
Described nano zine oxide, titanium dioxide need possess good dispersiveness before adding prescription and consistency is handled.
The concrete production technique of the present invention is as follows:
1, with the modified polyvinyl alcohol in the base-material and an amount of 65-70 ℃ water in stirring tank fully after the dissolving, nano zine oxide, aluminium sesquioxide are added respectively stir again, be base-material.
2, at normal temperatures the base-material of making is added in the stirred pot, the water dissolution that Tai-Ace S 150 is added 4 times adds in the base-material, adds nano titanium oxide, rhenium oxide again, fully stirs.
3, go into fully stirring in the base-material after the water dissolution with 20 times of thick dose of addings again.
4, add solidifying agent again and fully stir, add coarse whiting, talcum powder, fine particle calcium carbonate at last again and stir, or in the sand mill dispersion grinding, final fineness≤5um is finished product after promptly becoming paste.
5, finished product is packed with plastic tank, or add after woven bag packs, with the carton packaging and warehousing of packing into plastics bag.
Embodiment two:
Followingly expect respectively that by weight % is than metering.
Base-material: modified polyvinyl alcohol 15%
Nano zine oxide 1%
Aluminium sesquioxide 0.2%
Filler: talcum powder 4%
Coarse whiting 10%
Fine particle calcium carbonate 4%
Auxiliary agent: Tai-Ace S 150 0.01%
Organosilicon crylic acid latex 0.02%
Nano titanium oxide 0.12%
Rhenium oxide 0.02%
Whitening agent (VBL) 0.01%
Thickening material: polyacrylamide 0.01%
Solidifying agent: sodium bentonite 1.2%
OK powder 8%
Potassium alum 1.2%
This antibacterial health ecologic nanopaint coating performance index provided by the present invention is pressed GB/T9756-1995 (GB) check by CMA, all meets all indexs, reaches primary standard, sees Table one: coating performance index test result: (table one)
Sequence number Interventions Requested Standard index Test value Judge
Acceptable end product Salable product
1 At condition in container Mix the no lump in back, be uniform state No lump is uniform state Qualified
2 Application property It is accessible to brush two roads The brushing road is accessible Qualified
3 Appearance of film Appearance of film is normal Appearance of film is normal Qualified
4 Time of drying ??≤2h 45min Qualified
5 Alkali resistance (24h) No abnormal (no foaming, efflorescence, peel off, variable color) No abnormal Qualified
6 The coating freeze-thaw resistance 3 circulations are never degenerated Never degenerate Qualified
7 Contrast ratio ??≥0.93 ??≥0.90 ≥0.95 Qualified
8 Abrasion resistance 〉=300 times 〉=100 times 15000 times are not show-through Qualified
The antibiotic and sterilizing performance index reach 100% by the CMA quality examination to streptococcus aureus, large intestine bar sterilizing rate in 6 hours, see Table two:
Streptococcus aureus and colibacillary sterilization effect are measured: (table two)
Monitoring is according to GB4789.2-94
1, the sterilization effect of streptococcus aureus is detected, killed in 6 hours and to press down rate and be: 100%
2, colibacillary sterilization effect is detected, killed in 6 hours and to press down rate and be: 100%
Above reference " sterilization and sterilization experimental technique standard " measurement result, qualification rate is 100%
After the present invention carries out application to the room, measure the harmful volatile gases in the space air, the decontamination effect improving of airborne (VOC) is measured with the contrast room compared, the purification rate of its VOC reaches more than 56%, sees Table three:
To VOC purifying measuring in the air in the room: (table three)
Project The contrast room Example one Example two Example three
??∑VOCppm ????545.4 ????434.1 ????381.2 ????326.2
Space factor ????1 ????1.1 ????1.13 ????1
Relative VOC ????1 ????0.77 ????0.63 ????0.44
The present invention carries out producing the negative oxygen ion mensuration with health properties, promptly every square centimeter about 100 after the application to indoor room.See Table four: contrast room and example room negative ion are measured: (table four)
The room Ionic concn is (individual/cm 3) Ion is electrical Remarks
1 #(contrast room) ????150 ????+
2 #(example one) ????105 ????- ????2-4 #Example ray of light is poor
3 #(example two) ????105 ????- Back of the body sun
4 #(example three) ????105 ????-
The present invention has excellent positively effect according to above example detection:
1, antibiotic health care nano ecological paint of the present invention is to adopt water-based not have the antiseptic-germicide of sill and nano zine oxide, ag material and have the titanium dioxide of photocatalysis, infrared aluminium sesquioxide, and the rhenium oxide of rare-earth activated effect is formed the Multifucntional coating that purifies air.Owing in prescription, adopt the joint effect of metal oxide nanoparticles and rare earth element, overcome titanium dioxide under the fainter situation of visible light (and not needing ultraviolet lighting) can both produce good sterilization, antibacterial, purify air and produce the ecologic effect of multiple functions such as the health care of negative oxygen ion, self-cleaning, antifouling, anti-electrostatic.
2, has higher coating performance index (being the GB one-level).
3, antibacterial effect is good, and sterilizing rate was 100% in 6 hours.
4, good effect for purifying air, the VOC purification rate reaches 56%.
5, produce negative oxygen ion, about 100/cm 3
6, be widely used in the application of interior exterior wall, decorations such as various building furnitures.
Novelty of the present invention and creative just in the building materials industry that at first paint industry, the environment of the functional substance of the characteristic of nano material and optimum metal oxide and the multiple joint effect of the compound generation of rare earth element kept healthy, it replaced do not possess ecological, environmental protective at present, the common coating of functions such as antibiotic, health care, purifying air, and belong to water-based and do not have based raw material, nontoxic, low-cost, high-performance can not change existing manufacturing technique equipment simultaneously and can satisfy products production of the present invention.
Creativeness of the present invention is to be to adopt the technology of the present invention finally to realize the effective way of ecotope, ecological residence, solution health of people, safety and Economic development and environmental pollution, particularly make indoor and outdoor have good ecoclimate condition and stronger bioclimate regulation system, satisfy people's required a home from home of living to greatest extent, form between a people, building, the environment space and have an eucyclic ecosystem.

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1, a kind of antibacterial health ecologic nanopaint is characterized in that: described prescription is made up of base-material, filler, auxiliary agent, dispersion agent, solidifying agent.
2, according to the described antibacterial health ecologic nanopaint of claim 1, it is characterized in that: comprise the silver ions, zine ion, the cupric ion metal oxide that contain nanoparticle in the described base-material, and aluminium sesquioxide, zinc oxide, the calcium oxide of far-infrared radiation characteristic.
3, antibacterial health ecologic nanopaint according to claim 1 is characterized in that: comprise titanium dioxide or zinc oxide in the described auxiliary agent with photocatalysis performance, and the rhenium oxide with rare-earth activated performance.
4, antibacterial health ecologic nanopaint according to claim 1 is characterized in that: contain sodium bentonite, OK powder, potassium alum in the described solidifying agent.
5, antibacterial health ecologic nanopaint according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described prescription is:
Base-material: modified polyvinyl alcohol 15-35%
Nano zine oxide 0-1.8%
Aluminium sesquioxide 0.2-0.42%
Filler: talcum powder 4-6%
Coarse whiting 10-20%
Fine particle calcium carbonate 4-8%
Auxiliary agent: Tai-Ace S 150 0.01-0.03%
Organosilicon crylic acid latex 0.02-0.5%
Nano titanium oxide 0.12-0.18%
Whitening agent (VBL) 0.01-0.02%
Thickening agents: polyacrylamide 0.01-0.03%
Solidifying agent: sodium bentonite 1.2-5.8%
OK powder 8-11%
Potassium alum 1.2-1.8%
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