Provided is a cooking item, at least one of the surfaces of which has a fluorocarbon coating including rare earth oxide fillers. The use of a composition including a fluorocarbon resin and rare earth oxide fillers makes it possible to obtain coatings, the mechanical properties of which (particularly in terms of hardness and resistance to abrasion) are reinforced without any breakdown in the non-stick properties of said composition. Also provided is a method for manufacturing such a cooking item.

The present disclosure relates generally to vapor retarding building materials and methods for making them. The present inventors have found simple and cost-efficient materials that have low water vapor permeability at low relative humidities and that can be provided as a coating on a building material substrate. Notably, in many embodiments, the materials can have high water vapor permeability at high relative humidities. In one embodiment, the disclosure provides vapor retarding articles comprising a building material substrate; and a polymeric coating layer coated on the building material substrate, the polymeric coating layer comprising an inorganic hydrophilic particulate filler dispersed in a continuous organic phase comprising a hydrophobic polymer, wherein the content of the filler is from about 30% to about 85% by weight of the polymeric coating layer, the vapor retarding article configured to have a water vapor permeance of no more than about 1 Perm at 25% relative humidity.

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

Embodiments of the present invention described herein relate to fiberglass materials, composite glass materials, methods of making fiberglass materials and composite glass materials, and different applications of fiberglass materials and composite glass materials. The fiberglass materials can include a bimodal particle size distribution. The fiberglass materials can include an average aspect ratio of greater than about 2 to 1. Also described herein are composite glass materials including a first glass material and a second material. The second material can include at least one of post-consumer glass waste, fly ash, metakaolin, and slag. Also described herein are methods of making a composite glass material including providing a first glass material to a mixer; providing a second material to the mixer; and co-milling the first glass material and a second material to form a composite glass material.

Disclosed are powder coating compositions that include a polymeric aromatic product of an aromatic isocyanate manufacturing process.

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 particulate polyurea compound a2) for reducing gloss of coatings, a resin composition and a crosslinkable composition comprising the particulate polyurea compound is provided, wherein the volume percentage of particles of the particulate polyurea compound having a diameter of smaller than 2 ?m is equal or less than 25%, and the volume percentage of particles of the particulate polyurea compound having a diameter larger than 20 ?m is equal or less than 10%.

A two-dimensional particle including: one or plural layers, the one or plural layers having a layer body represented by: M.sub.mX.sub.n, wherein M is at least one metal of Group 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7, X is a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, or a combination thereof, n is 1 to 4, m is more than n but not more than 5, and a modifier or terminal T existing on a surface of the layer body, wherein T is at least one selected from a hydroxyl group, an amine group, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, a bromine atom, an iodine atom, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, a tellurium atom and a hydrogen atom; a metal cation is at least one cation selected from Na and K, and a content of Li in the two-dimensional particle is less than 0.002% by mass.

The present invention provides a resin composition and an application thereof, the resin composition comprising the following components by weight percentage: 15-39% cross-linkable curable resin and 61-85% filler, the filler being silicon dioxide prepared by means of organosilicon hydrolysis, the average particle diameter D50 of the silicon dioxide being 0.1-3 ?m, the ratio of D100:D10 thereof being less than or equal to 2.5, and the purity of the silicon dioxide being greater than 99.9%. The resin composition of the present invention can make prepared adhesive films and resin-coated copper foils have relatively high tensile strength and peel strength, relatively good drilling processability, controllable fluidity, good filling ability, and higher electric strength, and can achieve finer line processing ability; it is a printed circuit board material applicable to multilayer laminates, especially a printed circuit board material for multilayer laminates of thin lines.

The invention relates to a composition for providing barrier properties for a cellulosic fibre web, such as paper, board or the like. The coating composition comprises microfibril lated non-wood biomass, having a particle size D90<250 ?m and particle size D50<100 ?m, which microfibrillated non-wood biomass comprises at least 5 weight-% of a hemicellulose fraction and/or pectin, calculated from the dry weight of the microfibrillated non-wood biomass; an auxiliary agent comprising at least one cellulose derivative, and/or a synthetic binding agent, such as polyvinyl alcohol or polystyrene acrylate copolymer.