An object of the present invention is to provide a conductive paste that can form a conductive film with excellent conductivity and that does not easily scatter copper fine particles even when sintered with irradiation energy that can sufficiently remove a binder resin, a conductive film-coated film using the conductive paste, and a method for producing a conductive film-coated substrate. The present invention provides a conductive paste containing copper fine particles with an average particle size of 300 nm or less, copper coarse particles with an average particle size of 3 to 11 ?m, a binder resin, and a dispersion medium, wherein a content of the binder resin is 0.1 to 2.0 parts by mass with respect to a total of 100 parts by mass of the copper fine particles and the copper coarse particles; a conductive film-coated substrate including a substrate and a sintered body of the conductive paste provided on the substrate; and a method for producing a conductive film-coated substrate including providing a film containing the conductive paste a substrate; and applying a sintering treatment to the film.

A colored composition including a resin system, and a colorized filler. The colorized filler includes particles including a polymer. The particles have a density less than 2.6 g/cc and an average particle size from 100 microns to 600 microns.

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.

An insulating heat-radiating coating composition including a coating layer-forming component including a main resin; and an insulating heat-radiating filler, which not only is capable of exhibiting excellent heat-radiating performance due to excellent thermal conductivity and heat radiation but also forms an insulating heat-radiating coating layer having a heat-insulating property. In addition, an insulating heat-radiating coating layer formed using the insulating heat-radiating coating composition has excellent adhesiveness to a surface to be coated, thereby remarkably preventing the peeling of an insulating heat-radiating coating layer during use and maintaining the durability of the insulating heat-radiating coating layer against physical and chemical stimuli such as external heat, organic solvents, moisture, and impact after formation of the insulating heat-radiating coating layer.

Described herein is a coating composition suitable for application to a building panel. The coating composition comprises inorganic pigment, liquid carrier, and a humectant comprising a first ester-containing compound. The liquid carrier may be present in an amount ranging from about 10 wt. % to about 30 wt. % based on the total weight of the coating composition. Described herein are also building panels coated with the coating composition and methods of their production.

An upconversion phosphor having a formula of LiRSiOF:xPr.sup.3+, where R is yttrium (Y) or lutetium (Lu). The value of x is 0.001 to 5 and represents a mole percentage (%) based on the total number of moles of all elements in the upconversion phosphor. Following excitation with sunlight, the upconversion phosphor emits light with a wavelength in the range of 250 nanometers (nm) to 350 nm.

Metal-free compositions for solar-reflective infrared-emissive coatings and methods of producing the same. The paints are suitable for reducing the temperatures of objects below ambient temperatures between sunset and sunrise (nighttime) and part or full daytime (between sunrise and sunset) when such objects are subjected to direct sunlight. Such a solar-reflective infrared-emissive paint may include a particle-polymer composite containing particles in a polymeric matrix, wherein the particles are nanoparticles or microparticles, the paint does not contain a metallic component, and the paint exhibits high reflectance for the solar spectrum wavelengths of 0.3 to 3 micrometers and high emissivity for wavelengths of 8 to 13 micrometers.

Provided is a golf ball manufactured using a golf ball cover coating composition that reduces the influence of external light on a golfer during outdoor use due to low surface gloss and reduces damage to the surface of the golf ball caused by external impact due to excellent impact resistance and cutting resistance.

A foamed, opacifying element having a target light blocking value (LBV.sub.T) and a target porous substrate is prepared by determining the light blocking value (LBV.sub.S) of the target porous substrate; calculating the LBV.sub.T-S difference; choosing a foamable aqueous composition; determining a dry coating weight for the chosen foamable aqueous composition (when foamed); and using the dry coating weight to form the single dry opacifying layer as the only layer disposed on the target porous substrate, such that the single dry opacifying layer has light blocking value that is equal to LBV.sub.T-S, 10%. The chosen foamable aqueous composition comprises the essential components (a) through (e) described herein. The desired foamable aqueous composition can be chosen from a set of similar compositions to achieve the desired LBV.sub.T with the noted target porous substrate using suitable mathematical formula relating dry coating weight to light blocking value and a suitable data processor.

The present invention relates to a thermosensitive recording material comprising paper, an undercoat layer disposed on the paper, and a thermosensitive recording layer disposed on the undercoat layer, wherein the undercoat layer comprises a binder and first and second hollow sphere polymer particles, wherein the first hollow sphere polymer particles have a diameter in the range of from 1.2 ?m to 1.8 ?m; the second hollow sphere polymer particles have a diameter in the range of from 0.25 ?m to 1.0 ?m; the number ratio of the second to the first hollow sphere polymer particles is in the range of from 1:1 to 20:1; the diameter of the second hollow sphere polymer particles is in the range of from 15 to 65% of the diameter of the first hollow sphere polymer particles; the dry bulk density of the first hollow sphere polymer particles is in the range of 0.25 to 0.5 g/mL; and the dry bulk density of the second hollow sphere polymer particles is in the range of 0.30 to 0.90 g/mL.