Arkema Coating Resins, a business unit of Arkema, recently announced that a team of its researchers, led by Wenjun Wu, Ph.D., principle scientist, received the Roon Award from the American Coatings Association (ACA) at the 2015 Coatings Tech Conference in Louisville, Ky. The award is reportedly among the coating industry’s highest technical achievements and is used to recognize the best technical paper at the conference.
Entitled “Alkali-Soluble Resins (ASR) and Acrylic Blends: Influence of ASR Distribution on Latex Film and Paint Properties,” the paper was co-authored by a team of researchers including Wu, Christopher Miller, Ph.D.; professor Steven Severtson; Jihui Guo, Ph.D.; Gang Pu, Ph.D.; and Jilin Zhang, Ph.D.