Disclosed herein is a tinted clearcoat composition including at least one binder resin (A) having functional groups (i), at least one curing agent (B) having functional groups (ii) being reactive with the functional groups (i), and at least one pigment (C), where the tinted clearcoat composition (TCC) is produced by (a) providing a clearcoat system (CS) including at least one binder resin (A) and at least one curing agent (B), (b) providing at least one pigment premixture (PP) including at least one pigment (C), (c) combining all or part of the clearcoat system (CS) with at least one pigment premixture (PP), (d) milling the mixture obtained in step (c), and (e) mixing, if applicable, the mixture obtained in step (d) with any yet missing parts of the tinted clearcoat composition (TCC).

Disclosed herein is a tinted clearcoat composition including at least one binder resin (A) having functional groups (i), at least one curing agent (B) having functional groups (ii) being reactive with the functional groups (i), and at least one pigment (C), where the tinted clearcoat composition (TCC) is produced by (a) providing a clearcoat system (CS) including at least one binder resin (A) and at least one curing agent (B), (b) providing at least one pigment premixture (PP) including at least one pigment (C), (c) combining all or part of the clearcoat system (CS) with at least one pigment premixture (PP), (d) milling the mixture obtained in step (c), and (e) mixing, if applicable, the mixture obtained in step (d) with any yet missing parts of the tinted clearcoat composition (TCC).

Disclosed herein is a tinted clearcoat composition including at least one binder resin (A) having functional groups (i), at least one curing agent (B) having functional groups (ii) being reactive with the functional groups (i), and at least one pigment (C), where the tinted clearcoat composition (TCC) is produced by (a) providing a clearcoat system (CS) including at least one binder resin (A) and at least one curing agent (B), (b) providing constituents of at least one pigment premixture (PP) including at least one pigment (C), (c) combining all or part of the clearcoat system (CS) with the constituents of the at least one pigment premixture (PP), (d) milling the mixture obtained in step (c), and (e) mixing, if applicable, the mixture obtained in step (d) with any yet missing parts of the tinted clearcoat composition (TCC).

Disclosed herein is a tinted clearcoat composition including at least one binder resin (A) having functional groups (i), at least one curing agent (B) having functional groups (ii) being reactive with the functional groups (i), and at least one pigment (C), where the tinted clearcoat composition (TCC) is produced by (a) providing a clearcoat system (CS) including at least one binder resin (A) and at least one curing agent (B), (b) providing constituents of at least one pigment premixture (PP) including at least one pigment (C), (c) combining all or part of the clearcoat system (CS) with the constituents of the at least one pigment premixture (PP), (d) milling the mixture obtained in step (c), and (e) mixing, if applicable, the mixture obtained in step (d) with any yet missing parts of the tinted clearcoat composition (TCC).

The invention provides a waterborne fouling release coating composition comprising (a) an aqueous polysiloxane-based binder emulsion, wherein said emulsion comprises polysiloxane-based binder droplets having an average droplet size of 4 to 1000 n; and (b) at least one pigment or filler; wherein the coating composition comprises at least 10 wt % water relative to the total weight of L the composition as a whole.

The invention relates to a process for preparing an aqueous dispersion of a polymer P, which comprises the emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate, an acrylate monomer, which is a C.sub.1-C.sub.10 alkyl acrylate or a C.sub.1-C.sub.10 methacrylate, an ,-ethylenically unsaturated C.sub.3-C.sub.8 carboxylic acid, glycidyl methacrylate or glycidyl acrylate, optionally an ethylenically unsaturated sulfonic acid and optionally an ethylenically unsaturated other monomer. Furthermore, the aqueous polymer dispersion obtainable from this process and a powder form thereof are disclosed. They are useful for a paper coating slip containing one of the aforementioned forms. A paper or a cardboard, which is coated with the paper coating slip, shows surface strength, which is expressed by a good dry pick resistance, a good wet pick resistance or good offset test results. The aqueous polymer dispersion or the powder form thereof is furthermore useful as a binder.

Described herein is a polyester-polyurethane-poly(meth)acrylic hybrid dispersion obtainable by esterifying at least one polyurethane containing carboxyl groups, the at least one polyurethane having an acid number of more than 200 mg KOH/g to 400 mg KOH/g and at least one or more terminal carboxyl groups; with at least one polyester containing hydroxyl groups, the polyester having a hydroxyl number of 50 mg KOH/g to 300 mg KOH/g, to obtain a polyester-polyurethane; followed by polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers at least including (meth)acrylic monomers by radical polymerization in the presence of the polyester-polyurethane where one or more solvents are present and/or employed, thereby obtaining the polyester-polyurethane-poly(meth)acrylic hybrid dispersion.

The present application relates to a LiDAR-visible coating system comprising at least one converter layer and at least one NIR transmitting layer at least partially coating the at least one converter layer, wherein the converter layer at least partially coated by the NIR transmitting layer has an L* value ranging from 0 to 80 according to the CIELAB L*a*b* system. In many embodiments, at least one converter layer is an NIR reflective layer. The coating system described herein may be detectable by a LiDAR sensor at various wavelengths, including 905 nm and 1550 nm. A method of preparing the coating system and an article with the coating system are also disclosed.

A vehicle exterior component includes a cover configured to be disposed so as to be exposed toward an outside of a vehicle. The cover includes a base and a color-developing layer stacked on the base in a thickness direction. The color-developing layer includes an exterior color layer containing a large number of sparkle particles, and a concealing layer containing a white pigment and a black pigment. The area occupancy rate of the sparkle particles per unit area in the exterior color layer is in a range of 5% to 85%. The thicknesses of the exterior color layer and the concealing layer are set such that a transmittance of visible light falls within a range of 7% to 85%.

An example device housing comprises a substrate, and a topcoat layer including a topcoat formulation disposed on a surface of the substrate. The topcoat formulation includes a polymer, a pigment including zirconium dioxide nanoparticles present in an amount ranging from about 0.3 weight percent to about 5 weight percent of a total weight of the topcoat formulation, and a balance of water.