antistatic agent

It also serves as an antistatic agent in hair conditioners.

Antistatic agents, which make the surfaces slightly conductive, can be used on fabrics.

It has uses as a foam booster, viscosity builder, and an antistatic agent.

Since the mid-1980s, an antistatic agent was added to the fuel to lower the charge buildup and decrease the corresponding risk of fires.

It does not contain antistatic agents.

In addition to being used as a surfactant, hydroxysultaines are often used as antistatic agents.

Lapyrium is a cationic surfactant that is used in personal care products as a biocide and antistatic agent.

Application of carbon black as an antistatic agent has provided uses as an additive for fuel caps and pipes for automobiles.

It is also used as in process industries as release agents, antistatic agents, and antifoaming agents for the production of thermoplastics, wiring, and paper.

Quaternary ammonium salts are used as disinfectants, surfactants, fabric softeners, and as antistatic agents (e.g. in shampoos).

Internal antistatic agents are designed to be mixed directly into the material, external antistatic agents are applied to the surface.

It looked like a wad of putty, but was actually a pliable, moisture-free blob that cleaned the computer screen using a combination of ammonia and antistatic agents.

Fabric softeners and dryer sheets used in washing machines and clothes dryers are an example of an antistatic agent used to prevent and remove static cling.

Anionic softeners and antistatic agents can be, for example, salts of mono esters and diesters of phosphoric acid and the fatty alcohols.

An antistatic agent is a compound used for treatment of materials or their surfaces in order to reduce or eliminate buildup of static electricity generally caused by the triboelectric effect.

Antistatic agents are also added to some military jet fuels, to impart electrical conductivity to them and avoid buildup of static charge that could lead to sparks igniting fuel vapors.

JP-8 is formulated with icing inhibitor, corrosion inhibitors, lubricants, and antistatic agents, and less benzene (a carcinogen) and less n-hexane (a neurotoxin) than JP-4.

Items that are particularly sensitive to static discharge may be treated with the application of an antistatic agent, which adds a conducting surface layer that ensures any excess charge is evenly distributed.

Polar covalent compounds can attract moisture like antistatic agents, forming a thin layer of conductive moisture between the traces; ionic compounds like chlorides tend to facilitate corrosion.

Other commercial uses are a preignition additive for gasoline, anti-foaming agent, plasticizer, stabilizer, textile conditioner, antistatic agent, and an additive for solvents and low-temperature hydraulic fluids.

Dinonylnaphthylsulfonic acid is a component of Stadis 450 which is an antistatic agent added to distillate fuels, solvents, commercial jet fuels, and to the military JP-8 fuel to increase the electrical conductivity of the fluid.

Common antistatic agents are based on long-chain aliphatic amines (optionally ethoxylated) and amides, quaternary ammonium salts (e.g., behentrimonium chloride or cocamidopropyl betaine), esters of phosphoric acid, polyethylene glycol esters, or polyols.

Due to this important characteristic of polyelectrolyte layers they are used extensively in industry as flocculants, for solubilization, as supersorbers, antistatic agents, as oil recovery aids, as gelling aids in nutrition, additives in concrete, or for blood compatibility enhancement to name a few.

The molecules of an antistatic agent often have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas, similar to those of a surfactant; the hydrophobic side interacts with the surface of the material, while the hydrophilic side interacts with the air moisture and binds the water molecules.

For example, AGFA coats 200 million photographic films per year with a thin, extensively-stretched layer of virtually transparent and colorless PEDOT:PSS as an antistatic agent to prevent electrostatic discharges during production and normal film use, independent of humidity conditions.