Provided is an aqueous coating composition which has excellent storage stability and whereby high coating film performance in terms of hardness, water resistance, etc., can be exhibited even when the aqueous coating composition is cured at a relatively low temperature. Disclosed is an aqueous coating composition which contains (A) a resin containing hydroxyl groups and carboxyl groups, (B) a blocked polyisocyanate compound, (C) a phosphate-group-containing compound, and (D) a basic compound, and which has a pH in the range of 7.0-8.2, wherein the basic compound (D) contains a specific quantity of (D1) a basic compound which has an acid dissociation constant (PKa) in the range of 7.0-8.5 and a boiling point in the range of 100-200° C.

Provided are a transparent member having excellent transparency and maintaining anti-fogging properties for a long period of time and a method for producing a transparent member. A transparent member includes a substrate and a stacked body having an organic layer and an inorganic porous layer stacked on the substrate in the mentioned order such that the both layers are in contact with each other, in which the organic layer includes an organic molecular chain network including an organic polymer chain and an organic crosslinking chain having 3 or more to 30 or less carbon atoms, and an acidic group aggregate, and in which the inorganic porous layer has hydrophilicity and includes silicon oxide.

A method for forming a resultant material. The method can include obtaining a base material including a fibrous material with a plurality of fiber portions extending from a face of the base material. The method further can include treating at least the face of the base material, the treating at least the face including applying heat along at least a portion of the face with a treatment unit to at least partially remove the plurality of fiber portions extending from the face.

A preparation method of fluorocarbon-coated VSe.sub.2 composite (VSe.sub.2@CF) anode electrode material, including: weighting and dissolving an acetylacetone oxovanadium (VO(acac).sub.2) and a selenium dioxide in a solvent to prepare a first solution with a concentration of 0.5-2 mol/L, and stirring the first solution for 0.5 h to obtain a dark green solution; adding the dark green solution with an organic acid to obtain a second solution; transferring the second solution to a polytetrafluoroethylene-lined high-pressure hydrothermal reactor, and holding at a heat insulation temperature for 15-30 h to obtain a third solution; after the third solution is cooled, suction filtering the cooled third solution, and washing the filtered third solution repeatedly to obtain a precipitate; drying the precipitate to obtain a black powder; co-mixing a citric acid solution with the black powder, stirring, ball milling, and drying; and heating up, holding, and finally cooling naturally to room temperature under inert atmosphere.

Fusing nanowire inks are described that can also comprise a hydrophilic polymer binder, such as a cellulose based binder. The fusing nanowire inks can be deposited onto a substrate surface and dried to drive the fusing process. Transparent conductive films can be formed with desirable properties.

The present invention provides a powder coating composition capable of forming a uniform coating film being superior in edge cover property and superior in insulation property. In addition, by a method for forming a coating film in which the coating composition according to the present invention is used, heating can be performed at low temperature. The powder coating composition comprises a bisphenol A type epoxy resin (A), a phenolic curing agent (B), and a curing accelerator (C) as coating film forming components.

The invention relates to a method for coating surfaces, to a corresponding coating, and to the use of the objects coated in accordance with said method. The invention relates to a method for coating metal surfaces of substrates, comprising or consisting of the following steps: I. providing a substrate having a cleaned metal surface, II. contacting and coating metal surfaces with an aqueous composition in the form of a dispersion and/or suspension, IX. optionally rinsing the organic coating, and X. drying and/or baking the organic coating or XI. optionally drying the organic coating and coating with a coating composition of the same type or a further coating composition before a drying process and/or baking process, wherein in step II the coating is performed with an aqueous composition in the form of a dispersion and/or suspension containing 2.5 to 45 wt % of at least one non-ionic stabilized binder and 0.1 to 2.0 wt % of a gelling agent, wherein the aqueous composition has a pH value in the range of 0.5 to 7 and forms, with the cations eluted from the metal surface in the pretreatment step and/or during the contacting in step II, a coating based on an ionogenic gel.

An automated process for producing exposed electrical contact areas on the conductor part of an epoxy coated bus bar. When the epoxy coating is in the glassy state, one can safely and economically, preferably via automated apparatus, put the epoxy into the rubbery state by positioning the bar and applying localized heat at a select area of the coating; monitoring the heating to above the glass transition temperature of the epoxy, bringing cutting tools into contact with the epoxy for cutting and removing the rubbery coating away from the bus bar, and cooling the bus bar to bring adjacent coating back to the glassy state, thereby leaving an exposed electrical contact area of conductor on the bus bar with little or no surface damage.

A coating is formed on a surface of a base material of a furnace, and includes a base layer and a sliding material layer that is formed on a surface of the base layer and contains an oxide ceramic and a compound having a layered crystal structure. The sliding material layer causes the collided ashes to be slipped and facilitates the drop off of the adhered ashes. The base material forms a heat transfer tube or a wall surface of the furnace. The coating is also applied to a coal gasification furnace, a pulverized coal fired boiler, a combustion apparatus, or a reaction apparatus containing a furnace.

A method for making a silk protein film includes providing an aqueous solution of a silk protein, and annealing a mixture including the aqueous solution of the silk protein and a water-soluble polyhydroxy compound that is present in an amount ranging from 20 wt % to 60 wt % based on a total amount of the silk protein and the water-soluble polyhydroxy compound at an annealing temperature that is higher than 50° C. and lower than 180° C. and under a relative humidity of not higher than 30%, so as to form the silk protein film.