Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Foreword 4
3. Contents 6
4. Part I General information about paint analysis
5. 1 The surface 11
6. 2 Why paint analysis? 14
7. 3 Relevance of modern analytical techniques to paint analysis 15
8. 4 General considerations 16
9. 5 Chemical mapping 19
10. 6 Depth profiling 22
11. 7 Instrumentation 24
12. Part II Coating failure analysis
13. 1 The bumpy road to knowledge 25
14. 2 The analytical procedure 27
15. 3 The power of sampling 40
16. 4 Paint failures and their analytical approach 54
17. Part III Quality control and process analysis
18. 1 Quality control of raw material 112
19. 2 Quality control of paint production 124
20. 3 Field analysis 140
21. Part IV Methods of coating analysis
22. 1 Optical light microscopy 161
23. 2 Fluorescence microscopy 164
24. 3 Infrared spectroscopy 165
25. 4 Surface infrared spectroscopy 176
26. 5 Infrared microscopy 204
27. 6 Raman spectroscopy 215
28. 7 Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry 222
29. 8 Scanning electron microscopy 235
30. 9 Electron microanalysis 241
31. 10 X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy 247
32. 11 GC-MS 254
33. 12 Thin layer chromatography TLC-ATR-FT-IR 261
34. 13 References 264
35. Author/Acknowledgements 267
36. Index 268