Provided is a light transmitting member including: a base material; a first porous layer formed on a first surface of a base material; and a second porous layer formed on a second surface opposed to the first surface of the base material, wherein the second porous layer has a pore volume larger than a pore volume of the first porous layer.

This wet coating agent for fine particles comprises a latex including particles that comprises a (meth)acrylate copolymer and have a 50% diameter of 10 nm to 150 nm in a volume-based particle size distribution, said (meth)acrylate copolymer being obtained by including a monomer unit derived from ethyl acrylate, a monomer unit derived from methyl methacrylate, and a monomer unit derived from 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate.

The present invention is related to a method for obtaining an organometallic (zinc flake) coating in an aqueous solution. More specifically, the present invention is related to obtaining a zinc flake type coating comprising a nanometric colloidal silica layer. Within the scope, the present invention suggests a method for obtaining a coating for metallic parts with improved surface hardness and high performance against corrosion. The present invention is further related to a method for applying the organometallic coatings thus obtained to metal parts and to the organometallic coatings.

Compositions for deposition of ultrathin layers of nanoparticle films are provided. Ultrathin nanoparticle films and methods for deposition thereof involving applying the nanoparticle-metal alkoxide solution to a substrate, such that a formed metal oxide is anchored on a surface of the substrate to form an ultrathin nanoparticle film are also provided.

Provided is a coating composition containing: a hydroxyl group-containing resin (A), a curing agent (B), and cellulose nanocrystal particles (C), where a viscosity (V.sub.1) measured under conditions of a temperature of 25 C. and a shear rate of 1500 sec.sup.1 is in a range from 10 to 70 mPa.Math.s, and a viscosity (V.sub.2) measured under conditions of a temperature of 25 C. and a shear rate of 0.1 sec.sup.1 is in a range from 10000 to 50000 mPa.Math.s.

A material and method are disclosed such that the material can be used to form functional metal pieces by producing an easily sintered layered body of dried metal paste. On a microstructural level, when dried, the metal paste creates a matrix of porous metal scaffold particles with infiltrant metal particles, which are positioned interstitially in the porous scaffold's interstitial voids. For this material to realize mechanical and processing benefits, the infiltrant particles are chosen such that they pack in the porous scaffold piece in a manner which does not significantly degrade the packing of the scaffold particles and so that they can also infiltrate the porous scaffold on heating. The method of using this paste provides a technique with high rate and resolution of metal part production due to a hybrid deposition/removal process.

A reflective coating that is substantially or fully absent of TiO.sub.2, and which coating is capable of meeting the ASTM D6083 specification for acrylic roof coatings, and which coating has suitable hide to achieve an average resulting solar reflectively of at least 60% or an SRI of at least 60.

Metal-free compositions for solar-reflective infrared-emissive coatings and methods of producing the same. The paints are suitable for reducing the temperatures of objects below ambient temperatures between sunset and sunrise (nighttime) and part or full daytime (between sunrise and sunset) when such objects are subjected to direct sunlight. Such a solar-reflective infrared-emissive paint may include a particle-polymer composite containing particles in a polymeric matrix, wherein the particles are nanoparticles or microparticles, the paint does not contain a metallic component, and the paint exhibits high reflectance for the solar spectrum wavelengths of 0.3 to 3 micrometers and high emissivity for wavelengths of 8 to 13 micrometers.

A method of printing a hydrogel-based device includes contacting a monomer, a crosslinker, a photoinitiator, and a precursor salt with a solvent to form an ink solution, printing the ink solution onto a substrate, exposing the ink solution to light, sufficient to form a hydrogel, and contacting the hydrogel with a reducing agent sufficient to precipitate nanoparticles from the precursor salt in the hydrogel.

Coating compositions that may be used in combination with UV light for sterilization include a polyurethane component and nanoparticles having an average particle size of from about 30 nm to about 400 nm. The nanoparticles absorb light having a wavelength of from about 100 nm to about 290 nm, and are present in an amount of less than about 25 weight percent of total solids in the coating composition.