Provided are a coating composition including polymer particles having a number-average primary particle diameter of 30 nm to 200 nm, a siloxane resin which has a weight-average molecular weight of 600 to 6,000, is a siloxane resin including at least one unit selected from units (1), (2), and (3) described below, and has a total mass of the units (1), (2), and (3) being 95% by mass or more of a total mass of the siloxane resin, and a solvent and applications thereof. R.sup.1's each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an alkyl fluoride group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, R.sup.2's each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and, in a case where both the units (1) and (2) are included, the alkyl groups having 1 to 8 carbon atoms represented by R.sup.1's or R.sup.2's may be identical to or different from each other.

Unit (1): R.sup.1Si(OR.sup.2).sub.2O.sub.1/2 unit

Unit (2): R.sup.1Si(OR.sup.2)O.sub.2/2 unit

Unit (3): R.sup.1SiO.sub.3/2 unit

A fiber reinforced powder paint provides improved flexural fatigue resistance for composites substrates. Fiber loading in the powder is greater than 40%. Aramid fiber loading in an epoxy based powder paint is exemplified. A composite bow limb coated with the powder paint survives a remarkably greater number of bending cycles before failure when coated with the powder paint.

An acrylic film having few fish eyes and a method for producing latex of an acrylic rubber-containing polymer having low amounts of coarse particles, excellent filtering properties, and low filter clogging frequency during a filtration step for removing foreign substances are provided. An acrylic film containing an acrylic rubber-containing polymer (G) has a thickness of 30 to 300 m, wherein the number of fish eyes that are 0.001 mm.sup.2 or greater in size is 130/m.sup.2 or fewer when a section having a light transmission rate of 75% or less for light having a wavelength of 400 to 1100 nm was detected as a fish eye.

Adhesive compositions that are optically transparent include a (meth)acrylate-based copolymer having a refractive index of at least 1.48, and particles of a thermoplastic polymer. At least some of the particles have an average particle size that is larger than the wavelength of visible light. The adhesive compositions are prepared by hot melt processing packaged adhesive compositions.

An anisotropic conductive film including conductive particles arranged uniformly in a single layer and capable of supporting fine-pitch connection is produced by: drying a coating film of a particle dispersion in which conductive particles are dispersed in a dilute solution of a thermoplastic resin that forms a coating after drying, whereby a conductive particle-containing layer is formed in which the coated conductive particles coated with the dried coating of the dilute solution of the thermoplastic resin and arranged in a single layer stick to the dried coating film; and laminating an insulating resin layer onto the conductive particle-containing layer.

The invention seeks protection for a novel method for the surface functionalization of solid materials with one or more active ingredients intended to confer specific properties thereon, such as anti-UV, fluorescence or coloring properties.

Disclosed herein are engineered composite materials suitable for applications that can benefit from a composite material capable of interacting with or responding to, in a controlled or predetermined manner, changes in its surrounding environment. The composite material is generally comprised of a gradient layer structure of a sequence of at least three gradient-contributing layers of microscale particles, wherein a mean particle size of particles of neighboring gradient-contributing layers in the cross section of the gradient layer structure varies from layer to layer, thereby forming a particle size gradient, and in contact with the gradient layer structure, a densely packed particle structure including densely packed microscale particles, wherein a mean particle size of the densely packed microscale particles does not form a particle size gradient in the cross section of the densely packed particle structure.

A building panel (1) including a water resistant core (5) including thermoplastic material 21 and a surface layer (4) including thermosetting resins. Also, production methods to form a board material (1) with a dry blend of thermoplastic particles 21a in powder form and fillers in powder form and to apply a surface layer (4) with a hot-hot lamination process to a core (5) including such board material.

The invention relates generally to a process for the preparation of water-absorbent polymer particles, comprising the process steps including of drying the polymer gel particles wherein in process step (viii) the gel particles obtained in process step (vii) are charged onto the surface of the belt material of a belt dryer at a position L.sub.0 and are subsequently dried on their way through the belt dryer and wherein the belt material has been cooled before coming into contact with the gel particles. The invention also relates to water-absorbent polymer particles obtainable by such a process.

Water-based adhesive compositions are improved by the incorporation of hollow polymeric microspheres having outer surfaces coated with one or more barrier materials such as calcium carbonate particles. The adhesive compositions exhibit enhanced rheology, sprayability, drying time, tack and storage stability as compared to analogous adhesives that are not modified with coated hollow polymeric microspheres. Such compositions are useful as both contact adhesives as well as wet bonding one-way adhesives.