The invention provides a resin-thin-film-forming composition employed in hydrofluoric acid etching, which composition contains a hydrogenated polybutadiene compound having a (meth)acrylic group and a radical polymerization initiator.

The invention provides a resin-thin-film-forming composition employed in hydrofluoric acid etching, which composition contains a hydrogenated polybutadiene compound having a (meth)acrylic group and a radical polymerization initiator.

Processability of a paint film is improved and a water-soluble paint in which coloring during heating to a high temperature is minimized and which has excellent productivity and a coated can having a paint film of such a water-soluble paint are provided. A water-soluble paint including a polymer emulsion (C) and a phenolic resin (D) is provided; wherein the polymer emulsion (C) includes a shell part containing an acrylic polymer (A) having a carboxyl group and a core part containing an acrylic polymer (B) having an amide group, wherein the phenolic resin (D) includes a bifunctional phenolic resin (D2) based on a bifunctional phenol and a trifunctional phenolic resin (D3) based on a trifunctional phenol, and a mass ratio ((D2)/(D3)) between the bifunctional phenolic resin (D2) and the trifunctional phenolic resin (D3) is 95/5 to 40/60.

An actinic radiation curable composition comprising a carboxylated acrylate, a urethane acrylate, a monomer, and a photoinitiator is disclosed herein, which both provides satisfactory adhesion to a substrate surface and may be effectively removed by caustic wash. Also provided is a method of printing, comprising applying an actinic radiation curable composition as disclosed herein onto a surface of a substrate, curing the applied composition, and applying an ink on the cured composition.

A resin emulsion for a coating material, which contains emulsion particles each having an inner layer and an outer layer, and wherein: each emulsion particle has a resin layer containing a polymer (I) that is obtained by emulsion polymerizing a monomer component A containing 80 to 100% by mass of a styrene monomer and 0 to 20% by mass of a monomer other than the styrene monomer and a resin layer containing a polymer (II) that is obtained by emulsion polymerizing a monomer component B containing 70 to 100% by mass of a (meth)acrylic acid ester and 0 to 30% by mass of a monomer other than the (meth)acrylic acid ester; and the content of the styrene monomer in all monomer components used as starting materials for the emulsion particles is 10 to 55% by mass.

An aqueous dispersion comprising a tetrafluoroethylene core-shell polymer and at least one surfactant corresponding to the general formula R.sub.10-[CH.sub.2CH.sub.20].sub.n[R.sub.20].sub.m-R.sub.3 wherein R.sub.1 represents a linear or branched aliphatic hydrocarbon group having at least 8 carbon atoms, preferably 8 to 18 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkylene having 3 carbon atoms, R3 represents hydrogen, a C1-C3 alkyl group, or a C1-C3 hydroxyalkyl group, n has a value of 0 to 40, m has a value of 0 to 40 and the sum of n+m is at least 2, wherein the dispersion is free of fluorinated emulsifiers or contains them in an amount of less than 50 ppm based on the weight of the dispersion and wherein the core-shell polymer contains an outer shell of tetrafluoroethylene homopolymer. Further provided are methods of making the dispersions, coating compositions comprising the dispersions and article coated by the coating composition.

An article, comprising a food or beverage container, or a portion thereof, that includes a metal substrate and a coating disposed on at least a portion of the metal substrate. The coating is preferably formed from a coating composition that comprises a latex emulsion having a first-stage emulsion polymerized copolymer and a second-stage emulsion polymerized copolymer.

The invention relates to thin metal electrode films for use in high-performance device systems comprising: a substrate; an underlayer; and a primer layer coated with metal coating. The thin metal electrode film has metal wiring with high resolution on a substrate and thus has excellent electrical properties. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing thin metal electrode film.

An object is to provide an aqueous coating material composition having high viscosity expression property as well as a viscosity property of decreasing viscosity with increase in shear velocity; in particular, to provide an aqueous coating material composition that can form a multilayer coating film having excellent smoothness, clarity, flip-flop property, adhesion, and water resistance; in addition, to provide a method for forming a multilayer coating film using such aqueous coating material composition, as well as a coated article that has been coated with such aqueous coating material composition. As a solution, an aqueous coating material composition is provided that contains a polyester resin (A), acrylic resin particles (B), a curing agent (C), and a coloring pigment (D), wherein the polyester resin (A) is a resin containing a trifunctional or higher polyfunctional polycarboxylic acid (a1) and a polyol (a2) as monomer components.

First embodiment of a (meth)acrylic copolymer in the present invention includes following: a (meth)acrylic copolymer having at least one kind of constitutional unit selected from the group consisting of a constitutional unit (A1) having at least one kind of structure (I) selected from the group consisting of structures represented by the following formula (1), formula (2), or formula (3) and a constitutional unit (A2) having a triorganosilyloxycarbonyl group and a constitutional unit (B) derived from a macromonomer (b):

##STR00001## (where, X represents —O—, —S—, or —NR.sup.14—, R.sup.14 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R.sup.3 and R.sup.5 each represent an alkyl group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group, or an aryl group, and R.sup.4 and R.sup.6 each represent an alkylene group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms).