| abstract |
The invention relates to the use as a thickener in formulations aqueous pigments, such as coating formulations such as waterborne paints such as dispersion paints, would, paperboard coating sauces, cosmetic formulations, detergent formulations, textile formulations and drilling muds, of a water-soluble acrylic copolymer constirue of at least one monomer a ethylenic and carboxylic unsaturation of at least one monomer ethylenically unsaturated nonionic, of at least one oxyalkyl monomer a ethylenic unsaturation ends with a hydrophobic and non-hydrophobic branch aromatic compound having from 10 to 24 carbon atoms, and optionally from at least one monomer comprising at least two ethylenic unsaturations. The invention also relates to aqueous formulations, if appropriate pigmentees obtained. |