The instant invention provides an aqueous dispersion, a coating composition, coating layers and coated article made therefrom. The coating composition according to the present invention comprises: (1) the inventive aqueous dispersion comprising the melt blending product of: (a) from 50 to 99 percent by weight of one or more first polyesters, based on the total solid content of the dispersion, wherein said one or more first polyesters have an acid number in the range of from less than 15, for example less than 10, or in the alternative less than 5, based on the total solid content of the one or more first polyesters; (b) from 1 to 50 percent by weight of one or more stabilizing agents comprising at least one second polyester, based on the total solid content of the dispersion, wherein said second polyester has a carboxylic acid group and an acid number equal to or greater than 15, for example greater than 20, based on the solid content of the second polyester; (c) one or more neutralizing agents; and (d) from 15 to 90 percent by weight of water, based on the total weight of the dispersion; wherein said dispersion has a solid content of 10 to 85 percent, based on the total weight of the dispersion; and (2) one or more cross-linking agents.

A method of forming a coating on a food or beverage container, which includes spraying a coating composition onto an interior surface of the food or beverage container, where the coating composition includes an emulsion-polymerized latex copolymer having copolymer chains of one or more mono-unsaturated monomers that are cross-linked with one or more multi-unsaturated monomers. The method also includes heating the sprayed coating composition to cure the coating composition, thereby providing the coating on the interior surface of the food or beverage container.

Described herein are a curable coating composition including at least one Michael donor (A) having at least one thiol group, at least one Michael acceptor (B) and at least one specific catalyst (C), a method of using the curable coating composition as a clear coating in a process to prepare a multilayer coating and a multilayer coating obtained from said process. Also described herein is a kit-of-parts including at least two separate containers C1 and C2, where the specific catalyst (C) is contained in container C1 and/or C2. Finally, described herein is a method of using specific salts of carboxylic acids as catalyst in a reaction between a Michael donor (A) having at least one thiol group and a Michael acceptor (B).

Coating compositions are provided that eject droplets of condensed fluid from a surface. The coatings include a nanostructured coating layer and in some embodiments, also include a hydrophobic layer deposited thereon. The coating materials eject droplets from the surface in the presence of non-condensing gases such as air and may be deployed under conditions of supersaturation of the condensed fluid to be ejected. A heat exchanger design utilizing the coating is described herein.

Systems and methods relate to applying a coating to a substrate. Coatings can be generated using layer-by-layer application techniques. Typically, application of a first aqueous solution is alternated with application of a second aqueous solution. Example first aqueous solutions include polyethyleneimine (PEI) and hydroxy-terminated poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS-OH). Example second aqueous solutions include silicate and PDMS-OH. In some instances, first aqueous solutions and/or second aqueous solutions additionally include methyl-terminated PDMS (PDMS-CH.sub.3).

The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition which is capable of forming a coating film that has excellent cissing resistance and water resistance. An aqueous coating composition which contains (A) at least one hydroxyl group-containing resin that is selected from among (A1) hydroxyl group-containing acrylic resins and (A2) hydroxyl group-containing polyester resins, (B) an oligomer and (C) an alkyl etherified melamine resin, wherein: the oligomer (B) has a number average molecular weight within the range of from 200 to 800 and a solubility parameter within the range of from 10.0 to 13.5; and the molar ratio of methyl groups to butyl groups in the alkyl etherified melamine resin (C), namely (methyl group)/(butyl group) molar ratio is from 50/50 to 0/100.

The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition which is capable of forming a coating film that has excellent cissing resistance and water resistance. An aqueous coating composition which contains (A) at least one hydroxyl group-containing resin that is selected from among (A1) hydroxyl group-containing acrylic resins and (A2) hydroxyl group-containing polyester resins, (B) an oligomer and (C) an alkyl etherified melamine resin, wherein: the oligomer (B) has a number average molecular weight within the range of from 200 to 800 and a solubility parameter within the range of from 10.0 to 13.5; and the molar ratio of methyl groups to butyl groups in the alkyl etherified melamine resin (C), namely (methyl group)/(butyl group) molar ratio is from 50/50 to 0/100.

A method for coating metallic surfaces of substrates with surfaces of aqueous (coating) compositions in the form of a dispersion and/or a suspension containing at least one stabilized binder and a gelling agent, the cations having been dissolved out of the metallic surface of the substrate in a pretreatment stage and/or during the contacting. The invention further relates to such a coating based on an ionogenic gel, in which the coating is formed by a process further described herein.

Provided are a slurry of graphene oxides with different degrees of oxidation, a composite film of graphene oxides, and a graphene heat-conducting film. The slurry of the graphene oxides comprises the graphene oxides and a solvent, and the graphene oxides include a strong graphene oxide and a weak graphene oxide, wherein the slurry comprises two graphene oxides with different degrees of oxidation, which can increase a carbon content in the graphene oxide per unit mass, so that the finally obtained graphene heat-conducting film has more carbon.

A multilayer coating film forming method to form a multilayer coating film having a glittering appearance. Forming a multilayer coating film by sequentially applying, on top of a base material, a first base coating material, a second base coating material, and a clear coating material in a wet-on-wet process, wherein: the first base coating material is a transparent or colored coating material; the second coating material contains a flaky lustrous pigment; the amount of flaky lustrous pigment being 10-60 parts by mass to 100 parts by mass of resin solid content in the second base coating material, and the concentration of solids in the coating falls being 5-20 mass % with respect to the total mass of the second base coating material; and the thickness of a coating film obtained from the second base coating material falls being 1-8 μm on the basis of the coating film when cured.