Coating colors are applied to the base paper in order to maximize the performance of the end product. Coating colors are complex colloidal systems, mainly consisting of water, binders, and pigments. To understand the behavior of colloidal suspensions, an understanding of the interactions between its components is essential.
The interactions between carboxylated polystyrene latex probe particles and ionically substituted starches have been investi-gated by fluorescence microscopy with image analysis. The degree of substitution of the starches was varied, as was also thepolyelectrolyte molecular weight and the probe size.