THE INFLUENCE OF RESIDUE MONOMERS ON SELECTED PROPERTIES OF ACRYLIC PRESSURE- -SENSITIVE ADHESIVES

Self-adhesive materials manufactured from acrylic polymers, especially acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSA) are widely used in different industrial applications. The wide ranges of self-adhesive products comprise self-adhesive tapes which are used for the mounting of composite plates in the furniture industry. The goal of the investigations was the synthesis of solvent-based acrylic PSA used as furniture tape and the testing of the influence of free residue monomers on their properties (tack, peel adhesion, shear strength, shrinkage). The best performance for self-adhesive tapes in the form of polymeric films with 30 g/m² and 60 g/m² coating weights and containing less than 0.3 wt.% residue monomers was observed.