L-62 Poloxamer (CAS: 9003-11-6) is a nonionic polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymer surfactant. It plays a key role in various industrial fields due to its low foaming/foam control, efficient wetting, strong dispersing power, and excellent chemical stability. Its unique molecular structure ensures stable performance under acidic, alkaline, and hard water conditions, making it a core functional component in many industrial formulations.
The following application information is sourced from the product technical data of Haian Guoli Chemical Co., Ltd.
| Industry | Specific Application Process/Scenario | Functional Role |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Institutional Cleaning | Rinse aid for automatic dishwashers | Reduces the surface tension of rinse water, minimizes water spots and streaks, promotes rapid drying, and achieves a spot-free and streak-free finish |
| Hard surface cleaners | Low-foaming wetting and penetrating agent, enhancing the penetration and removal of oily soils on surfaces such as glass and ceramics | |
| Metalworking | Cutting fluids, grinding fluids | Low-foaming wetting agent and cooling component, ensuring machining precision and surface finish |
| Agrochemicals | Pesticide emulsifiers | Stably emulsifies oily pesticide active ingredients into oil-in-water emulsions, improving formulation uniformity |
| Pesticide wetting agents/spreaders | Increases the spreading area of the spray solution on leaf surfaces, enhancing absorption and utilization | |
| Polymer Industry | Emulsion polymerization | Primary or secondary emulsifier, stabilizing monomer droplets and latex particles, controlling particle size distribution |
| Coatings & Pigments Industry | Pigment dispersion | Deflocculates pigment agglomerates, improving color development and storage stability |
| Filler dispersion | Improves the dispersion of fillers in coatings and adhesives, enhancing formulation uniformity | |
| Defoaming Agents | Industrial defoamers (paper, water treatment, cleaning, etc.) | Rapid foam breaking and long-lasting foam inhibition, serving as a base component for low-foaming defoamers |
| Fermentation defoamers | Controls foam during microbial fermentation, improving aeration efficiency and product yield | |
| Textile Industry | Textile processing auxiliaries | Used as leveling agents, antistatic agents, or softening components, improving processing performance and hand feel |
L-62 Poloxamer is particularly suitable for process scenarios with stringent foam control requirements, such as automatic dishwasher rinse aids and metalworking fluids. In emulsion polymerization, it can be used as a primary or secondary emulsifier, providing a fine and stable emulsion system. As a pesticide spreader, it helps the spray solution spread evenly on leaf surfaces, enhancing pesticide efficacy utilization. At room temperature, this product is a colorless to light yellow transparent oily liquid, easy to pour and pump, suitable for continuous industrial production.