The present application relates to a method for coating boron, to a boron-containing resin solution, to a boron-coated thermal neutron converter obtained by the method for coating boron, and further to a thermal neutron detector comprising the boron-coated thermal neutron converter. The method for coating boron as provided in the application is applicable for various substrates and has small restrictions on substrate shapes, particularly for substrates having complex surface structures and high aspect ratios.

Embodiments of a system, method and apparatus for a gear are disclosed. For example, a metallic gear hub can include an axis of rotation and metallic gear teeth. The metallic gear teeth can be smaller than a final gear teeth size of the gear. The metallic gear teeth can be co-planar with the axis. In addition, the metallic gear teeth can be non-orthogonal to the axis. A polymer layer can be located on the metallic gear teeth to form polymer gear teeth on the metallic gear teeth. The polymer gear teeth can form the final gear teeth size of the gear.

A process for producing a coated electrical steel strip includes application of a pretreatment layer over a first flat side of a rolled electrical steel strip. The layer thickness of the pretreatment layer is in the range from 10 nm to 100 nm, in particular from 20 nm to 50 nm. The rolled electrical steel strip which has been coated with the pretreatment layer is then coated with an insulating lacquer layer over the pretreatment layer. The insulating lacquer layer is applied by roll application using a roll and no deliberate drying and/or crosslinking of the pretreatment layer is carried out after application of the pretreatment layer and before coating with the insulating lacquer layer.

A flame deposition method is disclosed for forming hydrophobic nanotextured surfaces with improved adhesion and durability for long-term use. The method according to present disclosure can produce nanotextured surfaces with contact angles greater than 140°. Coatings thus prepared exhibit enhanced durability, maintaining water contact angles of greater than 120° after approximately 200,000 abrasion cycles using a cloth wipe resistance test.

In an embodiment, a workpiece includes a hot-formed metal body and a marking, wherein the marking comprises a phosphor and/or pigments which are at least partly arranged on the metal body and which exhibit a reflection behavior and/or a reflectance behavior and/or an albedo behavior deviating from the metal body.

A method of making large ultrathin free-standing polymer films without use of a sacrificial layer includes the steps of providing a substrate, applying a polyelectrolyte material to said substrate, applying a polymer material onto said substrate and onto said polyelectrolyte material, and directly delaminating said polymer material from said substrate and said polyelectrolyte to produce the ultrathin free-standing polymer film.

Coating compositions for coating an oilfield operational component, and related methods, may include in some aspects a coating composition having a trifunctional silane, a silanol, and a filler. The coating composition may be applied to a surface of the oilfield operational component that is configured to be exposed to a fluid. The coating composition may be applied to at least partially cover or coat the surface. The coating composition may be configured to chemically bond with a cured primer composition that includes an epoxy.

Provided is a method for forming a multilayer coating film, the method being capable of forming a high-brightness white multilayer coating film which is excellent in terms of brilliant feeling, smoothness, and weather resistance and with which white stains are suppressed. In this method for forming a multilayer coating film to form a brilliant coating film, a white multilayer coating film is formed by: sequentially applying a first coloring paint (P1), a second aqueous coloring paint (P2), a third aqueous coloring paint (P3), and a clear coat paint (P4) on a cured electrodeposition coating film formed on a steel sheet; and forming a first colored coating film, a second colored coating film, a third colored coating film, and a clear coat coating film which each have a particular composition, brightness, film thickness, and the like.

A self-assembled film-forming composition for orthogonally inducing, with respect to a substrate, a microphase separation structure in a layer including a block copolymer, in the whole surface of a coating film, even at high heating temperatures at which arrangement failure of the microphase separation of the block copolymer occurs. The self-assembled film-forming composition includes a block copolymer, and at least two solvents having different boiling points as a solvent. The block copolymer is obtained by bonding: a non-silicon-containing polymer having, as a structural unit, styrene, a derivative thereof, or a structure derived from a lactide; and a silicon-containing polymer having, as a structural unit, styrene substituted with silicon-containing groups. The solvent includes: a low boiling point solvent (A) having a boiling point of 160° C. or lower; and a high boiling point solvent (B) having a boiling point of 170° C. or higher.

A multi-layer coating system includes: (a) a first basecoat layer formed from a first coating composition including a free polyisocyanate and hydroxyl functional polymeric core-shell particles; (b) a second basecoat layer applied over at least a portion of the first basecoat layer, the second basecoat layer formed from a second coating composition including carboxylic acid functional polymeric core-shell particles; and (c) a topcoat layer applied over at least a portion of the second basecoat layer, the topcoat layer formed from a coating composition including least one free polyisocyanate having a weight average molecular weight of less than 600 g/mol and at least one film-forming resin in which an amount of free polyisocyanate having a weight average molecular weight of less than 600 g/mol is greater than 5 weight %, based on the total resin solids of the coating composition that forms the topcoat layer.