Disclosed herein in is a radiative cooling formulation comprising a first component with >55% reflectance in a wavelengths range of 0.3 to 2.5 microns, a second component with >0.85 peak thermal emissivity in a window range of 4 to 35 microns, and a third component to mechanically bind together a mixture of the first and second components.

This disclosure relates to a superhydrophobic coating composition including a solution of crystalline and/or semi-crystalline polymer, for example polypropylene, and of an amorphous hydrophobic matrix polymer in a solvent. The coating is robust, resistant to wear, and may be translucent. The disclosure further relates to an article coated with a superhydrophobic coating composition as previously described and a process for preparing the same.

A method and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry colorants on a surface of a panel, bonding a part of the colorants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colorants from the surface. The method of forming a digital print on a surface of a panel includes displacing the panel under a digital drop application head, applying a liquid binder with the digital drop application head on the surface; applying colorants on the liquid binder and the surface; bonding a part of the colorants to the surface with the liquid binder; removing non-bonded colorants from the surface such that a digital print is formed by the bonded colorants; and applying heat and pressure on the panel, the surface and the bonded colorants such that the colorants are permanently bonded to the surface.

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 method for producing a coating liquid, the method including: a preparation step of preparing an emulsion containing a polymer-based emulsifier, a binder resin, and a liquid medium, and aerogel particles; and a mixing step of mixing the emulsion and the aerogel particles prepared in the preparation step to agglomerate at least a portion of the aerogel particles, and obtaining a coating liquid containing agglomerates of the aerogel particles, the polymer-based emulsifier, the binder resin, and the liquid medium.

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.

The invention provides an electron beam-curable composition comprising a (meth)acrylate component (A) containing one or more (meth)acrylate compounds (but excluding silicone-modified compounds), wherein the (meth)acrylate component (A) contains a (meth)acrylate compound (A-1) having a molecular weight of 500 or greater, and the amount of the (meth)acrylate compound (A-1) is at least 70% by mass of the total mass of the composition, and in the (meth)acrylate component (A), the amount of (meth)acrylate compounds having a molecular weight of less than 500 is less than 25% by mass of the total mass of the composition.

A chip resistor includes: a resistor body; and a protective coating that covers the resistor body. The protective coating is a cured product of a coating agent containing a polyfunctional epoxy resin, a curing agent, an inorganic filler, and silicone rubber particles. The coating agent contains: silica as the inorganic filler at a content equal to or greater than 60% by weight and equal to or less than 90% by weight; and the silicone rubber particles at a content equal to or greater than 1% by weight and equal to or less than 15% by weight.

The present invention provides a pre-coating agent capable of, without containing a polyvalent metal salt, preventing or reducing mottling and bleeding to improve the print image quality and preventing or reducing strike-through of an ink composition for inkjet recording during printing using the ink composition for inkjet recording, as well as being capable of preventing or reducing peeling and a decrease in hardness of an overcoat layer in the post-process (formation of the overcoat layer). Provided is a pre-coating agent for forming a precoat layer to receive an ink composition for inkjet recording, the pre-coating agent containing inorganic particles, an amine salt of an organic acid, a resin emulsion, and water, the inorganic particles having a particle size of 1 ?m to 10 ?m, the pre-coating agent being free from a polyvalent metal salt.

The present invention addresses the problem of realizing bismuth sulfide which readily reflects infrared light and which has a degree of blackness that is equal to or greater than that of carbon black. The present invention pertains to bismuth sulfide particles which include aggregated secondary particles in which primary particles are aggregated, and in which the cumulative 50% diameter (D1) in a cumulative volume distribution, as measured by a laser diffraction/scattering particle size distribution measuring device is 0.2 ?m to 10 ?m, inclusive. Included is a step in which a bismuth compound and a sulfur compound are heated at 30? C. to 100? C., inclusive, in a dispersion medium in the presence of a protective agent.