A corrosion inhibiting composition includes one or more of a plurality of carriers, each having a carrier body and an organic corrosion inhibitor, such that the carrier body encapsulates the organic corrosion inhibitor, and the carrier body is formed of a degradable material. Coatings and methods for inhibiting corrosion on a metal substrate are also described herein.

An acoustic paint to be applied to the walls of a room in which a source of audible sound is located to improve the acoustic characteristics of the room and correspondingly improve the clarity (e.g., the warmth, richness and detail) of the sound that is generated by the source and detected by the ear of a listener located within the room. The acoustic paint includes a paint foundation into which is mixed a powdered piezoelectric material or a powdered non-piezoelectric crystalline material having a resonant frequency so that the powdered material will react to the sound generated within the room and thereby control the room acoustics depending upon the type of material and the resonant frequency thereof. An optional catalyst, such as an electrically conductive powdered graphite or powdered graphene, is mixed into the paint foundation. The mixture is stirred and then applied to the walls of the room by means of a brush, a roller, or the like.

The present invention relates to a powder of polyamide PA (homopolyamide or copolyamide) derived at least partially from renewable materials, in which the particles have a nonspherical shape and a volume median diameter of less than or equal to 20 m. The present invention also relates to a process for preparing such a powder.

A method produces a basic zinc cyanurate powder, the amount of a portion thereof which remains in a sieve having a mesh size of 1,000 m being less than 1 mass %. The method includes heating, at 30 to 300 C., a powder-form mixture which is composed of zinc oxide, cyanuric acid, and water, which has a ratio by mole of zinc oxide to cyanuric acid of 2 to 3, and which has a water content of 9 to 18 mass %, in a closed or unclosed state.

A coating composition for forming a lubricating layer (3) on the surface of a base material (1) formed in a predetermined shape so as to exhibit improved sliding property to fluid substances, the coating composition containing, as a dispersion medium, a liquid (5) that is a component constituting the lubricating layer (3), and the dispersion medium containing solid particles (7) dispersed therein as a component constituting the lubricating layer (3). The lubricating layer (3) formed by using the coating composition exhibits more improved sliding property to fluid substances. The coating composition, therefore, can be favorably used for forming the lubricating layer (3) on the inner surfaces of the packing materials such as containers and lids.

A highly thermally conductive printed circuit board prevents electrochemical migration by inhibiting elution of copper ions. The printed circuit board is a metal-base printed circuit board including a metal base plate having an insulating resin layer and a copper foil layer stacked thereon in this order. In the printed circuit board, the insulating resin layer contains a first inorganic filler made of inorganic particles having particle diameters of 0.1 nm to 600 nm with an average particle diameter (D.sub.50) of 1 nm to 300 nm, and a second inorganic filler made of inorganic particles having particle diameters of 100 nm to 100 m with an average particle diameter (D.sub.50) of 500 nm to 20 m, and the first inorganic filler and the second inorganic filler are uniformly dispersed in the insulating resin layer.

The invention relates to a matting agent comprising agglomerates of pigment particles, to a method for the preparation of such matting agents, and to coating formulations containing the matting agents disclosed herein. The present invention further relates to pigmented mat surfaces, and to the use of agglomerates of pigment particles for matting pigmented coatings.

A powder composition adapted for use in suspension thermal spray coating processes. The powder includes agglomerated and/or non-agglomerated particles having at least one dispersing agent deposited thereon. The composition results in a homogeneous, stable suspension when combined with a liquid carrier for use in suspension thermal spray coating processes.

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.

A method for producing a porous resin particle including a mesoporous structure portion and an outer shell portion integrally formed on a surface of the mesoporous structure portion includes, in a state that an oil-phase liquid, in which a polymerizable monomer and an oil-soluble polymerization initiator having a polymerization initiating ability to the polymerizable monomer are dissolved or dispersed in a hydrophobic solvent, is dispersed as oil droplets in an aqueous medium containing a water-soluble polymerization initiator having a polymerization initiating ability to the polymerizable monomer, generating a plurality of mesopores inside the porous resin particle by forming a solid medium, by polymerizing the polymerizable monomer by acting the oil-soluble polymerization initiator and the water-soluble polymerization initiator at the same time on the polymerizable monomer.