A particulate composition comprising SiO.sub.2 and MgO is provided, which composition is characterized by a bimodal particle size distribution. The particulate composition provides unexpected benefits in particular as a paint additive, in terms of improved optical as well as physical characteristics for the paint product.

Methods for preparing durable hydrophobic, oleophobic, and anti-icing coatings by applying a composition that comprises a lacquer binder, one or more types of particles having a size of about 30 microns to about 225 micron, and one or more types of particles modified with hexamethyldisilazane, polydimethylsiloxane or silanizing agents are set forth, along with the resulting coatings and methods of their use.

A feedstock for a cold spray process includes a plurality of globule bodies. The globule bodies include a plurality of discrete particles bonded to one another to define porous globule bodies. The bonds between the particles are of sufficient strength such that the globule bodies can retain both the body integrity as well as the body shape when the body experiences acceleration from a conveying gas in a cold spray technique. Methods of making the feedstock and globule bodies are also described.

Methods for preparing paintings containing an additional substance such as a substance selected from a nucleic acid, sand, soil, metal, cremated ash, ceramics, and plant tissue are described herein. The methods include applying paint comprising the additional subsance to a surface. The paintings may comprise an image that is visible under fluorescent light and contains that additional substance that is prepared by applying paint comprising the additional substance and at least one fluorescent compound to a surface to form the image. The additional substance and optionally the fluorescent compound may be encapsulated in a non-erodible polymer.

An epoxy resin powder coating material is provided, by which, while workability and coating property are not deteriorated, a coating film having excellent heat cycle resistance can be formed also on recent metal parts having a configuration of intricately combining a plurality of different kinds of metals of different material qualities and required to have high-standard performance. The epoxy resin powder coating material is manufactured by blending a spherical inorganic particle and acryl-based core shell type particle having an average particle diameter of 16 to 50 m in a bisphenol A-type epoxy resin, wherein an average particle diameter of the acryl-based core shell type particle is preferably 0.1 to 0.4 m.

An intumescent coating material, the material comprising first and second parts mixable together so that the material will cure by an addition reaction in the presence of a metallic catalyst. The first part including a polydiorganosiloxane polymer having at least two unsaturated groups per molecule. The first part also including the metallic catalyst and a reinforcing filler. The second part including an organohydrogensiloxane crosslinker described by formula R.sup.1.sub.3Si(OSiR.sup.2.sub.2).sub.x(OSiMeH).sub.yOSiR.sup.1.sub.3, where each R.sup.2 is independently selected from saturated hydrocarbon radicals comprising from 1 to 10 carbon atoms or aromatic hydrocarbon radicals and each R.sup.1 is independently selected from hydrogen or R.sup.2, x is zero or an integer and y is an integer. The organohydrogensiloxane has at least three SiH bonds per molecule.

The present invention provides an aqueous paint composition comprising by dry weight based on total dry weight of the pigment composition, from 11% to 35% of a polymeric duller of (co)polymeric particles having an average diameter of from 1 to 20 m, and from 25% to 70% of titanium dioxide particles; wherein from 50% to 100% of the titanium dioxide particles are encapsulated by polymer shell of (co)polymeric particles.

A heat dissipation coating layer contains: a heat dissipation filler and a binder which are synthesized in a water bathing manner. The heat dissipation filler includes a metal core formed on a central portion of the heat dissipation filler, and the heat dissipation filler also includes a metal shell surrounding the metal core, wherein the metal core has metal particles, and the metal shell has porous metal oxide particles and porous metal hydroxide particles, a size of each of the porous metal oxide particles and the porous metal hydroxide particles is less than 500 nm.

A coating, a coating system, and a coating method are provided. The coating includes between about 0.25-35% filler particles embedded in a chrome phosphate binder matrix comprising a balance of the coating by volume. The filler particles have a size in the range from nanosize to six microns with an aspect ratio of from 1:1 to 3:1, and include up to 100% by weight lubricious particles with a balance hard particles. The lubricious particles are selected from the group consisting of boron nitride (BN), titanium nitride (TiN), titanium oxide (TiO.sub.2), zinc (Zn), tin (Sn), oxides of zinc and tin, and combinations thereof. The hard particles are selected from the group consisting of chromium carbide (CrC), tungsten carbide (WC), silicon (Si), aluminum (Al), oxides or nitrides of silicon and aluminum, and combinations thereof. A green slurry coating includes an evaporable solvent mixed with the filler particles and chrome phosphate binder matrix.

An insulation product comprising fibers consolidated with a binder is disclosed to which a non-aqueous moisturizer has been included. The binder is disposed upon the fibers and the non-aqueous moisturizer is in contact with fibers and/or binder. The insulation product may be an uncured fiber insulation product in which the binder is an uncured binder. The insulation product may be packaged in a suitable material. Accordingly, disclosed is a packaged uncured fiber insulation product.