PREFACE Τ η the late 1950's, as a consultant to F o r d M o t o r C o . , I c a l l e d to the attention of m y supervisor, G . L . B u r n s i d e , the c o n c e p t of e l e c t r o p h o r e t i c d e p o s i t i o n of w a t e r - b o r n e p a i n t c o m p o s i t i o n s . S o o n the m a g n i t u d e of this project b e c a m e apparent, a n d o u r thoughts a n d experimentations w e r e d i s c l o s e d i n confidence to some l e a d i n g p a i n t m a n u f a c t u r e r s .
For
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m e , this r e s u l t e d i n a most pleasant c o o p e r a t i o n w i t h m a n y f a r s i g h t e d leaders i n research a n d d e v e l o p m e n t . I n d e e d , at that t i m e farsightedness was n e e d e d to e m b a r k o n the project of e l e c t r o d e p o s i t i o n of p a i n t . F o r t u nately, the investigations w e r e successful:
e l e c t r o d e p o s i t i o n is n o w a
w o r l d w i d e operation. A b o u t t w o years ago, I was asked b y the officers of the A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l Society D i v i s i o n of O r g a n i c C o a t i n g s a n d Plastics C h e m i s t r y to p r e s i d e at the S y m p o s i u m o n E l e c t r o d e p o s i t i o n of C o a t i n g s at the 161st N a t i o n a l M e e t i n g of the A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l Society, M a r c h - A p r i l , 1971, i n L o s A n g e l e s . T h e papers p r e s e n t e d at this m e e t i n g , together w i t h short i n t r o d u c t o r y r e v i e w s of the t o t a l field, are the subject of the present volume. Sincere thanks go to the authors of these papers f o r a c c e p t i n g m y i n v i t a t i o n to p a r t i c i p a t e i n this p u b l i c a t i o n . T h e i r w o r k is p u b l i s h e d i n excellent c o m p a n y . B e y o n d the authors, c r e d i t goes to t h e i r supervisors a n d organizations w h o h a v e so g e n e r o u s l y f u r n i s h e d g u i d a n c e a n d s u p p o r t i n g services w h i c h m a d e this v o l u m e possible. W h i l e I cannot a t t e m p t to single out a l l these i n d i r e c t c o n t r i b u t o r s i n a l l the o r g a n i z a t i o n s i n v o l v e d , m y o w n thanks go to G . L . B u r n s i d e , Η . N . B o g a r t , a n d P . H . P o n t a of F o r d M o t o r C o . , a n d last, b u t not least, to L . J. N o w a c k i a n d L . H . P r i n c e n of the A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l Society, D i v i s i o n of O r g a n i c C o a t i n g s a n d Plastics C h e m i s t r y . GEORGE E. F . BREWER
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Brewer; Electrodeposition of Coatings Advances in Chemistry; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1973.
