A metallic bottle can including a metallic base material of the bottle shape that has a mouth portion having a threaded portion, a shoulder portion, a body portion and a bottom portion, wherein, on the outer surface of said mouth portion, a finishing varnish layer is provided directly on said metallic base material, and said finishing varnish layer has an MEK extractability of 2 to 8% by mass.

An aqueous coating composition is provided that is preferably substantially free of styrene and structural units derived from styrene. The coating composition includes a resin system that preferably includes a water-dispersible polymer and an emulsion polymerized ethylenically unsaturated monomer component. The resin system is preferably formed using a process that includes emulsion polymerizing the ethylenically unsaturated monomer component in the presence of an aqueous dispersion including the water-dispersible polymer. In certain preferred embodiments, the water-dispersible polymer is a salt of an acid- or anhydride-functional aromatic polyether polymer.

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.

Coated articles, methods and coating compositions containing (a) a crosslinkable carboxyl-functional acrylic polymer made by polymerizing monomers including acidic monomer, multi-ethylenically unsaturated monomer and optional styrene or substituted styrene, and (b) a nitrogen-containing carboxyl-reactive crosslinking agent such as a beta-hydroxyalkylamide or beta-hydroxyalkylurea compound. The coating composition is useful in coating metal substrates including interior or exterior surfaces of food or beverage cans. The cured coating compositions can exhibit both good flexibility and high Tg.

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.

A corrosion-resistant member (10) provided with: a base material (16) made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy; a diamond-like carbon film (18) formed on a surface of the base material (16) and made of amorphous carbon (a-C) or hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H); and an epoxy resin-containing coating material (20), which at least fills open pores (24) of the diamond-like carbon film (18).

In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for producing an aluminum platter, which can improve the smoothness of the substrate surface before a magnetic layer is formed thereon and can provide a hard disk substrate that can be processed into a medium with a high yield. In another aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for producing an aluminum platter, including the following steps 1 and 2: step 1: bringing a composition containing a compound (component A) that has at least one structure represented by the following formula (I) and has a molecular weight between 50 and 100,000 inclusive into contact with a substrate surface of a Ni—P plated aluminum alloy substrate; and step 2: forming a magnetic layer on the substrate obtained in the step 1. ##STR00001##

A resin coated metal sheet includes: a metal sheet; and a resin layer configured to coat at least one face of the metal sheet. A pushing depth of the resin layer on a side adhered to the one face of the metal sheet is 100 nm to 250 nm, the pushing depth being determined by a nano indentation test, and a melting point of the resin layer is 210° C. to 270° C.

Provided are: a hydrophilization treatment agent; and a method for forming a hydrophilic coating film, which are capable of forming a coating film which has excellent hydrophilicity and water droplet removal properties and can maintain the excellent water drop removal properties. A polyetheramine is added to a specific aqueous resin dispersion and crosslinkable fine particles in a specific composition. Specifically, this hydrophilization treatment agent contains an aqueous resin dispersion (A), crosslinkable fine particles (B), and a polyetheramine (C), wherein: the aqueous resin dispersion (A) contains an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A1) as a resin solid content and a radical polymer (A2) having a structural unit derived from a radically polymerizable carboxylic acid monomer (A2-1); ((A1)/(A2)) is 0.43-2.33; ((B)/(resin solid content of (A)) is 0.11-1.43; and ((C)/((resin solid content of (A))+(B))) is 0.1-0.38.

Methods and associated systems for preparing a nano-protective coating are disclosed. The method includes (1) placing a substrate in a reaction chamber of a nano-coating preparation equipment; (2) introducing an inert gas, wherein the inert gas includes helium (He) and/or argon (Ar); (3) turning on a movement mechanism so that the substrate is moved in the reaction chamber; (4) introducing a first monomer vapor into the reaction chamber to achieve a vacuum degree of 30-300 mTorr; (5) turning on a plasma discharge for chemical vapor deposition; and (6) introducing a second monomer vapor into the reaction chamber to form an organosilicon nano-coating on a surface of the substrate.