Abstract: The present knowledge about the formation process of solvent-coated polymer films and its mechanism of drying are reviewed in this paper. In order to understand and analyze drying process, optimize the design of dryers, modeling the drying process has been an important research directions. However,it is very difficult to obtain all necessary data, especially the data of diffusion coefficients. Vrentas-Duda free-volume theory is regarded as an efficient tool in estimating the diffusion coefficient of solvents in a binary polymer-solvent system. According to the development in modeling the drying of polymer films, formation of drying defects, and measurement or calculation of solvent diffusion coefficients in coating systems, the areas which represent opportunities and needs for further study on the drying of coatings film are also discussed.

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