Provided is a powder coating material composition which can simultaneously satisfy both of excellent electroconductive performance and surface smoothness. The powder coating material composition contains a fluorine-containing ethylenic polymer and an electroconductive material, wherein the electroconductive material is at least partially a carbon nanotube, and the carbon nanotube is contained in a proportion of 0.01 to 0.35% by mass to the total amount of the fluorine-containing ethylenic polymer and the electroconductive material.

A composition and method for a microtexture hydrophobic or superhydrophobic coating. The microtexture coating includes a coating layer disposed on a substrate with hydrophobic or superhydrophobic particles dispersed on top of or partially embedded in the coating layer to form an outer layer. The outer layer exhibits water repellant properties. Use of the microtexture coating permits large scale, durable hydrophobic or superhydrophobic coating applications. The microtexture coating is a useful for application on wind turbines, airplanes, solar panels, windows, or cooling systems.

A hard coating film comprising a base layer including: a polymer binder resin; first inorganic particles dispersed in the polymer binder resin and having an average particle size of 5 nm or more and less than 70 nm; and second inorganic particles which are dispersed in the polymer binder resin and have an average particle size of 70 nm to 150 nm is provided.

The invention provides articles and methods for making such articles including a substrate coated on at least one region thereof with a layer of nanocomposites nano-cellulose materials and nanoparticles.

The present invention relates to a flexible plastic film, and more specifically to a flexible plastic film having excellent flexibility while exhibiting high hardness. According to the present invention, the flexible plastic film exhibits flexibility, bending property, high hardness, scratch resistance and high transparency, and hardly has a risk of damaging the film even in a state of being warped for a long period of time, and thereby can be usefully applied to flexible mobile devices, display devices, front face and display unit of various instrument panels, and the like.

Methods and compositions related to subsurface modified silica materials are described. The silica materials include silicon- and carbon-containing groups covalently bonded to the silicon-oxygen matrix. The silica materials have tunable permeability, modulus, hardness, flexibility, and elongation. The silica materials are suitable for use as polymer fillers and as functional coatings.

A layered tetravalent metal phosphate composition (e.g., a layered zirconium phosphate composition) and a first corrosion inhibitor (e.g., cerium (III), a vanadate, a molybdate, a tungstate, a manganous, a manganate, a permanganate, an aluminate, a phosphonate, a thiazole, a triazole, and/or an imidazole) is dispersed in an aqueous solution and stirred to form a first solution. A precipitate of the first solution is collected and washed to form a first corrosion inhibiting material (CIM), which includes the first corrosion inhibitor intercalated in the layered tetravalent metal phosphate composition. The first CIM is added to a first sol-gel composition to form a first CIM-containing sol-gel composition. The first CIM-containing sol-gel composition is applied on a substrate to form a CIM-containing sol-gel layer, cured by UV radiation, and thermally cured to form a corrosion-resistant coating. One or more additional sol-gel composition may be applied on the substrate.

Material for surface treatment, mainly with thermo-reflexive and/or thermoinsulative characteristics, and with high water resistance level, contains first hollow glass bodies (1) with size fraction ranging from 65 to 110 ?m, second, filler hollow glass bodies (2) intended to fill the spaces within main fraction of the bodies (1) and these second, filler hollowed glass bodies (2) have size fraction ranging from 30 to 105 ?m, it also contains silicon dioxide processed to form of the nanoparticles and a binder (3). Hollow glass bodies (1, 2) will be mainly shaped as hollow, vacuumed microballs. A mixture forming the material can contain hollow glass bodies (1) making up 3 to 30% of its mass, filler hollow glass bodies making up 3 to 15% of its mass and silicon dioxide making up 1 to 17% of its mass. The material for surface treatment is health friendly, it can be used especially on the house fa?ades and in industry, where it is applied on the surface (4), the heath transfer and incandescence of which is to be diminished.

Paint configured to provide a hydrophilic paint surface comprising a paint base and a texture imprinting additive (TIA) that provides sacrificial particles upon drying of the paint. Loss of the sacrificial particles increases roughness and reduces the contact angle with water, providing a hydrophilic surface that is wettable and hence self-cleaning. Also described are specific types of TIA, methods of making the paint, methods of making a hydrophilic surface, and kits.

Mosaic tesserae comprising a substrate having a visible face covered with a coating layer of transparent material are provided. This coating layer has a fire resistance of at least CLASS B according to standard EN ISO 11925, improved abrasion resistance and transmittance of radiation with a wavelength between about 400 and about 800 nm equal to at least 80%. Methods of making mosaic tesserae which exhibit these features are also provided.