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Associative thickeners represent an important class of rheology modifiers used in waterborne coatings. Understanding molecular level interactions between associative thickeners and surfactants has been the subject of a number of prior studies. Our recent studies focused on the behavior of a hydrophobically modified, aminoplast ether (HEAT) associative thickener and a highly hydrophobic ethoxylated...