This invention provides a coating composition that contains an aromatic adhesion promoter. Containers and other articles comprising the coatings and methods of making such containers and other articles are also provided. The invention further provides compositions including the adhesion promoter, which have utility in a variety of coating end uses, including, for example, valve and pipe coatings.

A brush composition used for phase-separation of a layer containing a block copolymer on a substrate, the brush composition including a resin component (N), the resin component (N) containing a hydrophobic structural unit (Nx) and a hydrophilic structural unit (Ny), the amount of the structural unit (Ny) within the resin component (N) being 5 mol % or less.

The present invention relates to a polymer dispersion obtainable by at least one two-stage emulsion polymerization, by 1) preparing a polymer A by a radical polymerization from a 1st composition comprising A) at least one monomer, B) at least one anionic copolymerizable emulsifier, 2) admixing the polymer A prepared at 1) with a base, 3) in the presence of the polymer A treated at 2), preparing a polymer B by radical polymerization from a 2nd composition comprising A) at least one monomer, B) at least one anionic copolymerizable emulsifier. The present invention also relates to a process for preparing the polymer dispersion of the invention, to coating materials in the form of an aqueous composition comprising the polymer dispersion of the invention, and to the use of the polymer dispersion of the invention for coating compositions or paints and varnishes.

An aqueous coating composition having an extended open time and capable of providing coating films with good properties including stain resistance and block resistance, a process of preparing the aqueous coating composition, and a method of extending open time of an aqueous coating composition.

The current invention relates to a process for preparing an aqueous binder composition free of organic solvent, the process comprising at least the following steps: A) preparing a hydrophilic vinyl polymer (Polymer A) by polymerisation of a monomer composition A that contains: Ai) at least one carboxylic acid functional olefinically unsaturated monomer; and Aii) at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer different than Ai); and Aiii) optionally at least one wet adhesion promoting olefinically unsaturated monomer different than Ai and Aii); where Polymer A has an acid value (AV) from 32 to 98 mg KOH/g of solid Polymer A; B) preparing a hydrophobic vinyl polymer (Polymer B) by emulsion polymerization of a monomer composition B in the presence of Polymer A where the monomer composition B contains: Bi) at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer; Bii) optionally carboxylic acid functional olefinically unsaturated monomer different than Bi); and Biii) optionally wet adhesion promoting olefinically unsaturated monomer different than Bi); where Polymer B has an acid value (AV) of no more than 23.4 mg KOH/g of solid polymer B, wherein at least a part of the carboxylic acid groups that are present in Polymer A and Polymer B are neutralized during or following the steps A and/or B to form a (partially) neutralized polymer emulsion; where the weight average molecular weight (Mw) of Polymer A is lower than the weight average molecular weight (Mw) of polymer B; and wherein the process is further characterized by the presence of a further step C) reacting at least 10 mol % of the carboxylic acid and/or carboxylate salt groups of the (partially) neutralized polymer emulsion with an iminating agent to produce an iminated polymer C; wherein the total amount of surfactant applied in steps A, B and C is at most 0.5 wt. %, based on the total weight of monomers charged for the preparation of polymer A and polymer B

A new primer for electroless plating for use in a pretreatment process of electroless plating, is environmentally friendly, can be treated in fewer process steps, and can facilitate formation of fine-pitch wiring with a width of a few μm by photolithography. A photosensitive primer for forming a metal plating film on a base material through an electroless plating process has (a) a hyperbranched polymer having an ammonium group at a molecular terminal and a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 5,000,000, (b) metal fine particles, (c) a polymerizable compound having three or more (meth)acryloyl groups in a molecule, and (d) a photopolymerization initiator.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing an aqueous dispersion of polymer particles by radical aqueous emulsion polymerization and also to the use thereof in paints, paper coatings, foams, crop protection compositions, cosmetic compositions, liquid inks, or thermoplastic molding compounds.

Provided are methods for surface-modifying a thermoplastic resin which produce surfaces that show not only low adsorption of proteins and cells but also selective adsorption or adhesion of specific cells such as cancer cells, and further have excellent durability. A method for surface-modifying an object made of a thermoplastic resin, the method including: step 1 of forming polymerization initiation points on the surface of the object; and step 2 of radically polymerizing at least a hydrophilic monomer starting from the polymerization initiation points by irradiation with UV light having a wavelength of 300 to 400 nm to form a graft layer having a thickness of 2 to 100 nm on the surface of the object.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a thermal transfer sheet which can prevent a kick and a scumming, and can form a photographic tone color image of high quality with a continuous tone image by sublimation transfer, while expanding the range of choices for colorants to be included in a colorant layer; a coating liquid for colorant layer to be used for forming the colorant layer of this thermal transfer sheet; a method for manufacturing this thermal transfer sheet; and image forming method employing this thermal transfer sheet. The problem is solved by a thermal transfer sheet (1) in which at least a colorant layer (3) is layered on a substrate sheet (2), wherein the colorant layer (3) contains a predetermined solvent, a colorant (10x) dispersible in the predetermined solvent, a dispersant, and a binder resin, and the dispersant being one or more selected from the group consisting of polyether-based dispersants, graft type polymer dispersants, acryl-based block type polymer dispersants, urethane-based polymer dispersants and azo-based dispersants.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a thermal transfer sheet which can prevent a kick and a scumming, and can form a photographic tone color image of high quality with a continuous tone image by sublimation transfer, while expanding the range of choices for colorants to be included in a colorant layer; a coating liquid for colorant layer to be used for forming the colorant layer of this thermal transfer sheet; a method for manufacturing this thermal transfer sheet; and image forming method employing this thermal transfer sheet. The problem is solved by a thermal transfer sheet (1) in which at least a colorant layer (3) is layered on a substrate sheet (2), wherein the colorant layer (3) contains a predetermined solvent, a colorant (10x) dispersible in the predetermined solvent, a dispersant, and a binder resin, and the dispersant being one or more selected from the group consisting of polyether-based dispersants, graft type polymer dispersants, acryl-based block type polymer dispersants, urethane-based polymer dispersants and azo-based dispersants.