An optical film including a first film substrate and a coating layer formed on the first film substrate. The coating layer of this optical film contains a binder resin and fine particles with an average size of 0.5 m or more and 10.0 m or less and a standard deviation in size that is less than of the average size.

A curable coating for a substrate, preferably flooring, that is curable by LED light is disclosed. The curable coating contains: a coating matrix: an LED cure system; and diamond particles. A method of making a coated substrate and making a multi-layer coated substrate are also disclosed. The methods include: applying a first layer of an curable coating that contains diamond particles to the substrate; curing the first layer with an LED light, and optionally also UV light or germicidal lamp; and, in the case of making a multi-layer coated substrate, applying an additional layer of the LED curable coating, which is subsequently cured with an LED light.

A polyether polymer composition containing 50 parts by weight or more of a filler per 100 parts by weight of a polyether polymer composed of 10 to 200 oxirane monomer units is provided. The present invention can provide a polyether polymer composition that is capable of appropriately showing various properties of the filler such as high heat conductivity and high electrical conductivity and that also has excellent long-term stability.

An epoxy resin powder coating material is provided, by which, while workability and coating property are not deteriorated, a coating film having excellent heat cycle resistance can be formed also on recent metal parts having a configuration of intricately combining a plurality of different kinds of metals of different material qualities and required to have high-standard performance. The epoxy resin powder coating material is manufactured by blending a spherical inorganic particle and acryl-based core shell type particle having an average particle diameter of 16 to 50 m in a bisphenol A-type epoxy resin, wherein an average particle diameter of the acryl-based core shell type particle is preferably 0.1 to 0.4 m.

A coating, a method for coating surfaces, and the coated surfaces. The method includes providing a substrate with a cleaned metal surface; contacting and coating the metal surface with an aqueous composition having a ph of from 0.5 to 7.0 and in the form of a dispersion and/or a suspension; optionally rinsing the organic coating; and drying and/or baking the organic coating, or optionally drying the organic coating and coating same with a similar or another coating composition thereto. The composition contains a complex fluoride in a quantity of 1.1 10.sup.6 mol/l to 0.30 mol/l based on the cations. An anionic polyelectrolyte in a quantity of 0.01 to 5.0 wt % based on the total mass of the resulting mixture is added to an anionically stabilized dispersion made of film-forming polymers and/or a suspension made of film-forming inorganic particles.

The invention seeks protection for a novel method for the surface functionalization of solid materials with one or more active ingredients intended to confer specific properties thereon, such as anti-UV, fluorescence or coloring properties.

The present invention provides an insulated wire having a heat-resistant insulating layer, wherein heat-resistant particles are contained in the insulating layer, and the heat-resistant particles are densely dispersed in a surface region of the insulating layer. For example, the concentration of heat-resistant particles included in a layer thick portion of 0.5 m from the surface of the insulating layer is two times the concentration of heat-resistant particles included in a central portion of the insulating layer. An electrodeposition liquid used to form the insulating layer is formed by dispersing the heat-resistant particles in a suspension in which resin particles are dispersed, the viscosity is 100 cP or less, and the turbidity is 1 mg/L or more.

Compositions based on wax emulsions and particulate inorganic compounds for improved water repellency are described, based on wax emulsions and particulate inorganic compounds for improved water repellency comprising, as a percentage of the total composition, 5% to 90% water, 0.01% to 20% surfactants, 2% to 90% waxes and 2% to 90% particulate inorganic compounds with a particle size of between/among 0.01 m and 1000 m, selected from among unmodified phyllosilicates such as agalmatolite, potassium aluminosilicate, talc, manganese silicate, or mixtures thereof in any proportion, added before or after the emulsification of the said waxes, and presenting a synergistic effect of increased water repellency when the said compositions are applied, preferably on reconstituted wood, composite panels.

The present invention relates to a suspension for suspension thermal spraying, comprising a. solid ceramic particles having an average particle size of 2 ?m or below, wherein the average particle size refers to the d50 value determined from the volume based particle size distribution measured with laser diffraction particle analysis method; and b. a liquid phase comprising an organic solvent, characterized in that said suspension has a flashpoint of at least 60? C., preferably at least 65? C., and at most 400? C., preferably at most 300? C., determined with the Pensky-Martens closed cup device according to the DIN EN ISO 2719, wherein said suspension has a viscosity of below 20 mPa*s, as measured according to the specification, and wherein the concentration of said solid ceramic particles in said suspension ranges from 5 wt % to 95 wt %.

A coating composition has 5-15% by weight of a polymeric binder selected from a polyester polyol, an acrylic polyol, an epoxy, silicone, a silicone hybrid and a fluoropolymer. The composition has 20-40% by weight of microparticles, where the microparticles are made of a polyamide, a polyethylene, a polypropylene, a polyurea, a polyurethane, a polymethyl methacrylate, a polystyrene or mixtures thereof and the microparticles have a mean particle diameter d.sub.50 size ranging from 5 ?m to 60 ?m. The composition has 2-12% by weight of nanoparticles, said nanoparticles are made of inorganic oxides with a primary particle size ranging from 5 nm to 50 nm; 0-15% by weight of a crosslinker having reactivity to the polymeric binder; 0-20% by weight of pigments and/or fillers, and 40-80% by weight of an organic solvent.