An object of the present invention is to provide an active energy ray-curable coating composition including a specific resin component and at least one pigment (D) selected from the group consisting of a coloring pigment and a glitter pigment. The present invention provides an active energy ray-curable coating composition including a poly[(meth)acryloyloxyalkyl] isocyanurate (A); a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate (B) having 4 or more (meth)acrylate groups; an acrylic resin (C); and at least one pigment (D) selected from the group consisting of a coloring pigment and a glitter pigment, wherein the acrylic resin (C) has a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 5,000 to 30,000 and a solubility parameter in the range of 9.0 to 11.5.

Disclosed is a method of coating an object made of a first material and a second material that is different from the first material. The method includes dispensing a polymer solution onto the object, wherein the polymer solution has a property that wets one of the first material and the second material and dewets the other one of the first material and the second material.

A method of coating a structure is disclosed. Method steps include providing a structure having a first portion of a first material having a first surface and providing a second portion of a second material having a second surface, wherein a mask is provided over the first surface. Another step includes exposing the mask and the second surface to a solution comprising a polymer and a solvent, wherein the solution dewets from the mask and the polymer collects onto the second surface to form a polymer coating over the second surface without forming a polymer coating on the first surface.

A method of photografting organic molecules to a metal oxide comprising: (a) contacting a substrate having a metal oxide layer on a surface thereof with an acrylate, derivative thereof or a photolabile functional group; and (b) exposing the metal oxide layer and the acrylate, derivative thereof or photolabile group to UV or visible radiation to form covalent bonds between the metal oxide and the acrylate, the derivative thereof or the photolabile.

Provided is a method for producing a film, including a step A of applying a coating liquid containing a film-forming compound, a polymer, and a solvent onto a support to form a coating film, the polymer being at least one selected from a polymer having a fluoroaliphatic group or a polymer having a siloxane structure, and allowing a solution having the polymer dissolved in methyl ethyl ketone at a solid content of 55% by mass to have a viscosity of 15 mPa.Math.s or more at a liquid temperature of 60 C.; a step B of drying the coating film formed in the step A at a rate at which the coating film shows a mass change of from 0.02 g/m.sup.2/s to 0.1 g/m.sup.2/s for a time which is twice or more t seconds satisfying a predetermined condition A; and a step C of drying the coating film after the step B at a rate at which the coating film shows a mass change of from 0.02 g/m.sup.2/s to 0.2 g/m.sup.2/s.

Disclosed herein is a wound dressing and composition comprising a backing layer having disposed thereon a discontinuous layer of hydrogel, wherein the discontinuous layer of hydrogel is in the form of discrete islands of hydrogel on the backing layer. Methods of treating a wound using the dressing or the composition are also disclosed. Methods of forming the dressing or the composition are also disclosed.

A method of producing a structure containing a phase-separated structure, the method including: applying a brush composition to a substrate to form a brush layer; forming a layer containing a block copolymer on the brush layer; and phase-separating the layer containing the block copolymer, the brush composition including a resin component (A), the resin component (A) containing a polymeric compound (A1) in which a first polymer block and a second polymer block are bonded to each other through a linking group containing a substrate adhering group.

The present application discloses a method for making a rubber blade. The method includes applying a first coating composition and a second coating composition in separate steps on at least a part of a surface of a polyurethane elastic substrate; and solidifying the first coating composition and the second coating composition by ultraviolet light irradiating to form a hardened layer on the surface of the polyurethane elastic substrate. The first coating composition includes an isocyanate-group-terminated polyisocyanate and a first solvent. The second coating composition includes a first monomer, a photoinitiator, and a second solvent. The first monomer is at least one of an acrylate monomer and a methacrylate monomer each having an reactive hydroxyl group. The isocyanate group of the polyisocyanate is reacted with the reactive hydroxyl group of the first monomer to generate a urethane group to form a polyurethane acrylate. The present application also discloses a rubber blade.

To provide a laminate having a surface layer with a small water sliding angle.

A laminate comprising a substrate, an interlayer formed on the substrate, and a surface layer formed on the interlayer,

wherein the interlayer is a layer formed by using a triazine compound having at least one of a M-OH group (wherein M is a metal atom or a silicon atom) and a group capable of forming the M-OH group, at least one of an amino group and a mercapto group, and a triazine ring, and

the surface layer is a layer formed by using a fluorinated ether compound having a poly(oxyperfluoroalkylene) chain, and at least one of a hydrolyzable group bonded to a silicon atom and a hydroxy group bonded to a silicon atom.

A dried latex emulsion coating on a surface of a metal member is used as a thin bond layer on well tubular joints, on tubular strings in wells, and on other metal members. The bond layer promotes adhesion to cement members formed from hardening a cement slurry in contact with the bond layer. The bond layer can be used in bonded cement structures, on well tubular joints, on tubular strings in a well, on tubular strings cemented in a well, in methods of making the cement structures and the tubular strings, and in methods of placing and cementing a tubular string in a well.