A coating including a substrate and a plurality of hydrophobic silver particles disposed on the substrate. The contact angle of the coating with water at room temperature is between 152 and 162 and the resistance value of the coating is between 10.sup.1 and 10.sup.3.

The present invention relates to an aqueous dispersion of neutralized multistage polymer particles comprising an alkali metal base or a high boiling point amine salt of a carboxylic acid functionalized first stage, and a low T.sub.g second stage (shell). The dispersion is useful as an open time additive.

The present invention relates to a radiation curable composition. In particular, the present invention relates to a radiation curable composition with hydrophilic nanoparticles for use in barrier stacks for protection of sensitive devices against moisture.

In a photocurable resin composition containing a polyfunctional radically polymerizable compound (A), a monofunctional radically polymerizable compound (B), and a curing agent (D), the polyfunctional radically polymerizable compound (A) has an ethylenically unsaturated group equivalent of 700 g/eq or more and 7,000 g/eq or less, and fluororesin particles (C) are added in an amount of 5 parts or more by mass and 30 parts or less by mass based on a total of 100 parts by mass of the polyfunctional radically polymerizable compound (A) and the monofunctional radically polymerizable compound (B).

A coating includes at least one coating layer containing first particles, second particles, and third particles distributed throughout a cross-linked, continuous polymer matrix. An outer surface of the coating layer includes surfaces of at least first particles extending outward from a top periphery of the polymer matrix. The outer surface exhibits a property of delaying ice formation compared to the coating layer without the first particles. A method includes applying a coating composition in one application step. The one-step coating composition contains first particles, second particles, and third particles in a base containing a polymer. A coating composition includes first particles, second particles, and third particles distributed in a matrix precursor.

An anti-corrosive coating for a substrate surface comprises an insulation layer positioned over the substrate and a cured epoxy layer positioned on the insulation layer, the cured epoxy layer including a plurality of nanoparticles having diameters within a range of about 200 nm to about 350 nm. Water droplets positioned on an external surface of the cured epoxy layer form a contact angle of at least 130 degrees.

The invention relates to aqueous dispersions comprising multistage-prepared polymers, and also to coating material compositions comprising them, preparable by multistage polymerization of olefinically unsaturated monomers, using an emulsifier and a water-soluble initiator, under conditions of starved feed polymerization, and using particular monomer mixtures in the individual stages. The invention also relates to a pigmented aqueous basecoat material comprising the aqueous dispersion of the invention, to the use of the aqueous dispersion of the invention in aqueous basecoat materials for improving adhesion, to a process for producing a multicoat paint system on a substrate, and to a multicoat paint system produced in accordance with the stated process.

There is provided a technique for producing a quinacridone solid solution pigment, the technique making it possible to obtain a quinacridone solid solution pigment which produces a colored product having high chroma and a bluish hue, more preferably which has controlled particle diameters. Specifically, a method for producing a quinacridone solid solution pigment, the method including a crude quinacridone solid solution production step of subjecting a diarylaminoterepththalic acid and a dialkylarylaminoterephthalic acid to a co-cyclization reaction in polyphosphoric acid, thereby obtaining a water-containing crude quinacridone solid solution containing a solid solution of an unsubstituted quinacridone and a 2,9-dialkylquinacridone, the solid solution containing water, a drying step of drying the water-containing crude quinacridone solid solution to reduce the water content to less than 1% and obtain a powdery, crude quinacridone solid solution, and a pigmentation step of heating the powdery, crude quinacridone solid solution in a liquid medium that cannot dissolve the crude quinacridone solid solution.

In one aspect, composite polymeric compositions are described herein which, in some embodiments, are thermally responsive to electromagnetic radiation for the destruction of microbes and associated biofilms. Briefly, a composite polymeric composition comprises a polymeric matrix and photo-thermal particles comprising conjugated polymer dispersed in the polymeric matrix, the photo-thermal particles providing sufficient heat to destroy microbial species upon irradiation with infrared radiation.

The present invention relates to a polyamic acid composition and a method for preparing same. Polyimide using a polyamic acid composition according to the present invention has excellent dielectric breakdown voltage performance and corona discharge initiation voltage while maintaining heat resistance and mechanical strength, and a polyimide coating prepared using the polyamic acid composition according to the present invention has excellent voltage endurance characteristics.