A chromium-free insulation coating composition includes 100 parts by weight of a phosphate solution, 1-5 parts by weight of molybdate, 50-150 parts by weight of silica sol, 3-13 parts by weight of selenium dioxide, 1-10 parts by weight of metal oxide and/or metal hydroxide, 5-15 parts by weight of organic acid, 1-6 parts by weight of boric acid, and 100-300 parts by weight of water.

The present invention describes a pigment dispersion and a printing ink and coating employing the pigment dispersion. The pigment dispersion includes a pigment, binder and solvent. The pigment dispersion has a mean particle size less than about 120 nm. The printing ink or coating includes the pigment dispersion in addition to a solvent. The printing ink or coating has a solid binder to pigment ratio greater than about 1.5.

In one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an antireflective coating composition comprising (a) hydrophilic spherical silica nanoparticles; (b) hydrophilic elongated silica nanoparticles, wherein the coating composition exhibits a pH-value in the range of from 7 to 12.5 and the ratio between the hydrophilic spherical silica nanoparticles (a) and the hydrophilic nonspherical silica nanoparticles (b) is in the range of from 10:1 to 1:10. In a further aspect of the present disclosure there is provided a method for coating a substrate, comprising the steps (i) providing a substrate having at least one surface; (ii) providing the antireflective coating composition according to the present disclosure; (iii) coating the substrate on at least one surface; (iv) drying the coating, thereby obtaining a coated substrate, wherein step (iv) is carried out at a temperature in the range of from 5 C. to 300 C.

The invention relates to a method for obtaining a magnesium fluoride (MgF.sub.2) sol solution, comprising the steps of providing a magnesium alkoxide precursor in a non-aqueous solvent and adding 1.85 to 2.05 molar equivalents of non-aqueous hydrofluoric acid to said magnesium precursor, characterized in that the reaction proceeds in the presence of carbon dioxide. The invention further relates to sol solutions, method of applying the sol solutions of the invention to surfaces as a coating, and to antireflective coatings obtained thereby.

An antibacterial spectacle part comprises a spectacle part, and a film formed on at least one surface of the spectacle part. The film is formed by a self-polymerization reaction of dopamine, and comprises a plurality of silver nano particles deposited on a surface of the film away from the spectacle part. The disclosure also provides an antibacterial treatment method.

The instant invention provides a coating composition, a process of making a coating composition, a coated article, and a method of forming such articles.

The coating composition according to the present invention comprises a dispersion comprising: (a) a core comprising a base polymer; (b) a shell at least partially surrounding said core, wherein said shell comprising a polar polymeric stabilizing agent; and (c) one or more hydrophobic particulate fillers embedded at least partially in said shell.

The process for making a coating composition according to the present invention comprises the steps of: (1) selecting a base polymer; (2) selecting a polar polymeric stabilizing agent; (3) selecting one or more hydrophobic particulate fillers; (4) melt-blending said base polymer, said polar polymeric stabilizing agent, and said one or more hydrophobic particulate fillers; (4) contacting said melt-blended base polymer, polar polymeric stabilizing agent and one or more hydrophobic particulate fillers with water and optionally in the presence of a neutralizing agent; (5) thereby forming said dispersion comprising: (a) a core comprising said base polymer; (b) a shell at least partially surrounding said core, wherein said shell comprising said polar polymeric stabilizing agent; and (c) said one or more hydrophobic particulate fillers embedded at least partially in said shell.

The coated article according to the present invention comprises: a substrate comprising cellulose base material; and a dispersion on at least one surface of said substrate, wherein said dispersion comprises: (a) a core comprising a base polymer; (b) a shell at least partially surrounding said core, wherein said shell comprising a polar polymeric stabilizing agent; and (c) one or more hydrophobic particulate fillers embedded at least partially in said shell.

The method of making a coated article according to the present invention comprises the steps of: (1) providing a substrate comprising cellulose base material (2) providing a coating composition comprising a dispersion comprising: (a) a core comprising a base polymer; (b) a shell at least partially surrounding said core, wherein said shell comprising a polar polymeric stabilizing agent; and (c) one or more hydrophobic particulate fillers embedded at least partially in said shell; (3) applying said coating composition to at least one surface of said substrate; and (4) thereby making said coated article.

The present disclosure provides a cesium tungsten bronze-based self-cleaning nano heat-insulation coating material, and method of preparing the same. Cesium tungsten bronze nanoparticles are prepared by hydrothermal method using WCl.sub.6 and CsOH.5H.sub.2O as raw materials, PVP as a surfactant and acetic acid as an acid catalyst. TiO.sub.2 nanoparticles are prepared from TiCl.sub.4. Subsequently ball milling and dispersing of the cesium tungsten bronze nanoparticles, the TiO.sub.2 nanoparticles, and a silane coupling agent with water to obtain an aqueous slurry containing cesium tungsten bronze/TiO.sub.2 composite particles is performed. The concentration of the aqueous slurry containing cesium tungsten bronze/TiO.sub.2 composite particles is adjusted to obtain a self-cleaning nano heat-insulation coating material.

A polymeric coating composition comprising a polymeric binder composition, a plurality of nanoparticles, a solvent and a polymeric evaporative droplet templating agent that is different from the polymeric binder is provided. The coating composition can be spray applied to a wide variety of substrates and the as-applied coating composition is then dried and cured into a coating that exhibits a droplet-shaped morphology. The coating provides a highly effective anti-fingerprinting coating with a unique droplet-shaped morphology that can be seen using scanning electron microscopy and provides a cost-effective means to coat substrates having many different surface contours to hide fingerprints.

An electrical device capable of water-resisting, vapor resistant and electrically conducting in a moisture-containing environment and a method for making such electrical device are provided. The present invention for use in electrically conductive aqueous solutions enables the electrical device to be electrically conductive in any direction because of quantum tunneling effect. The electrical device includes a device body having at least one surface, and a plurality of nano-particles embedded in one of surface pores of the at least one surface of the device body. The particle size of the nano-particles is less than tens of nanometers.

The present invention is related to a thermo-shielding window coating composition having improved thermo-shielding and weathering resistant properties when applied to glass surfaces. The composition is made by first mixing an infrared absorbing pigment in amount of up to 5 wt. % with first dosage of an aqueous or alcoholic sulfonate group grafted fluoropolymer resin in amount of up to 10 wt. %, and water in amount of up to 10 wt. % to obtain a mixer, then dispersing the mixer by a disperser, and simultaneously adding second dosage of the sulfonate group grafted fluoropolymer resin in amount up to 90 wt. % to the above mixer until homogenous solution is obtained, wherein the weight % is calculated based on the total weight of the coating composition.