A water-based solvent-free and IR reflecting surface treatment composition is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the composition includes: (1) a base comprising (a) 30 to 60% by weight of an acrylic resin; (b) 1 to 10% by weight of an alkyd resin; (c) 0.1 to 2% by weight of a polyolefin; (d) 0.1 to 1% by weight of an ammonium salt; (e) less than 0.1% by weight of a preservative; (f) water such that base reaches 100 % by weight; and (2) a paste comprising (i) metal oxides having a mean particle size between 0.05 and 5 m; and (ii) a polymeric binder.

Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for fabricating and implementing optically absorbing coatings. In one aspect, an optically selective coating includes a substrate formed of a solar energy absorbing material, and a nanostructure material formed over the substrate as a coating capable of absorbing solar energy in a selected spectrum and reflecting the solar energy in another selected spectrum. A concentrating solar power (CSP) system includes heat transfer fluids (HTFs); thermal energy storage system (TES); and solar receivers in communication with HTFs and including a light absorbing coating layer based on cobalt oxide nanoparticles.

The present invention relates to a coating composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of a binder and first and second core-shell polymer particles having aqueous neutralized acid cores, wherein the dry bulk density of the first core-shell polymer particles is in the range of 0.25 to 0.5 g/mL; and the dry bulk density of the second core-shell polymer particles is in the range of 0.30 to 0.90 g/mL. The composition of the present invention is useful as an undercoat layer for a thermosensitive recording material.

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.

Provided is an organic-inorganic-hybrid thin film, which is provided in the form of a layered structure to prevent the scratching of the surface of a variety of kinds of displays, such as those of smartphones, tablet PCs, and laptop computers, and to fabricate ITO hard coating films, gas-barrier plates for flexible displays, and cover windows, and to a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly, the organic-inorganic-hybrid thin film is provided in the form of a layered structure exhibiting the high light transmittance, mechanically flexible properties, lightweightness, and chemical resistance of a curable resin, and also ensuring the scratch resistance, heat dissipation performance, gas-barrier properties, and inherent refractive index matching of inorganic particles, thus exhibiting optical compensation effects, thereby increasing final surface hardness and satisfying barrier properties and index matching properties.

A laminate includes: a substrate; a layer (ca) containing a resin; a particle (a2) having an average primary particle diameter of 100 nm to 380 nm; and a layer (b) containing a pressure sensitive adhesive having a gel fraction of 95.0% or more, the layer (ca) is present closer to the substrate than the layer (b), the particle (a2) is buried in a layer obtained by combining the layer (ca) and the layer (b) and protrudes from an interface of the layer (ca) on an opposite side of an interface of the layer (ca) on the substrate side, and a value obtained by subtracting a surface free energy (b) of a surface of the layer (b) from a surface free energy (ca) of a surface of the layer (ca) is 15 mN/m to 10 mN/m.

Disclosed in certain embodiments is an ice-phobic coating formulation comprising an elastomer, filler particles, and a cryoprotectant.

Embodiments provide a hard coat layered film having a first hard coat, a second hard coat, and a transparent resin film layer in order from an outer layer side, the first hard coat including (A) 100 parts by mass of a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate including 20% by mass or more of a tripentaerythritol acrylate, (B) 0.01-7 parts by mass of a water repellent, and (C) 0.01-10 parts by mass of a silane coupling agent, the first hard coat being formed from a coating material not including inorganic particles, and the second hard coat including (A) 100 parts by mass of a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate and (D) 50-300 parts by mass of inorganic fine particles having an average particle diameter of 1-300 nm. According to at least one embodiment, component (A) may be a mixture of tripentaerythritol acrylate and one or more species selected from the group consisting of dipentaerythritol acrylate, monopentaerythritol acrylate, and polypentaerythritol acrylate.

Provided is an aqueous dispersion including fine particles having a refractive index of 2.0 or higher and an anionic polymer, the aqueous dispersion having a median diameter of 0.01 m to 1.0 m as measured by a dynamic light scattering method.

A paint that imparts a superhydrophobic surface on an object is a suspension of hydrophobic particles in a polymeric binder and a plasticizer in a solvent or mixed solvent. The particles are a metal oxide that is surface functionalized with a fluorinated alkyl silane or an alkyl silane. The binder is a mixture of PDVF and PMMA in a ratio of 3:1 to 10:1. The plasticizer is a mixture of triethylphosphate and perfluoro(butyltetrahydrofuran) or other perfluorinated hydrocarbon. Surfaces coated using this paint display contact angles in excess of 150 and resist abrasion.