Shielding coatings are applied to polymer substrates for selective metallization of the substrates. The shielding coatings include a primer component and a hydrophobic top coat. The primer is first applied to the polymer substrate followed by application of the top coat component. The shielding coating is then selectively etched to form an outline of a desired current pattern. A catalyst is applied to the patterned polymer substrate followed by electroless metal plating in the etched portions. The portions of the polymer substrate which contain the shielding coating inhibit electroless metal plating. The primers contain polyamines and the top coat contains hydrophobic alky organic compounds.

An electronic device, including at least one electronic component that can be used as an electrically and wirelessly chargeable terminal or as a transmitting device for such a terminal. The electronic device has a plastic surface that enables electromagnetic interaction between the electronic component and an external electronic component in the frequency range of 110 to 205 kHz. The plastic surface has a coating having a metallic appearance, wherein the coating includes at least one layer that looks metallic and at least one semiconductor material or at least one dielectric.

The present invention relates to a film in which a protective layer (100), a base material sheet (200), a UV-curable resin layer (300) having a concave-convex surface, a metallic layer (400), a primer layer (500), and an adhesion layer (600) are laminated in sequential order. Also, the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing said film.

Shielding coatings are applied to polymer substrates for selective metallization of the substrates. The shielding coatings include a primer component and a hydrophobic top coat. The primer is first applied to the polymer substrate followed by application of the top coat component. The shielding coating is then selectively etched to form an outline of a desired current pattern. A catalyst is applied to the patterned polymer substrate followed by electroless metal plating in the etched portions. The portions of the polymer substrate which contain the shielding coating inhibit electroless metal plating. The primers contain polyamines and the top coat contains hydrophobic alky organic compounds.

Techniques, processes and structures are disclosed for providing markings on products, such as electronic devices. For example, the markings can be formed using physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes to deposit a layer of material. The markings or labels may be textual and/or graphic. The markings are deposited on a compliant layer that is disposed on a surface to be marked. The compliant layer is arranged to isolate the surface to be marked from the layer of material deposited using the PVD process.

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for forming a multilayer coating film using a 3-coat 1-bake process, the method comprising sequentially applying an aqueous first colored coating composition, an aqueous second colored coating composition, and a clear coating composition to a substrate and simultaneously heat-curing the resulting three layers to form a multilayer coating film having an excellent finished appearance, such as smoothness and distinctness of image, as well as metallic feel and no metallic mottling when the composition comprises an effect pigment, and exhibiting excellent coating film performance, such as water resistance. The present invention provides a method for forming a multilayer coating film by a 3-coat 1-bake process comprising sequentially applying an aqueous first colored coating composition, an aqueous second colored coating composition, and a clear coating composition to a substrate, and simultaneously heat-curing the resulting three layers to form a multilayer coating film, wherein the aqueous second colored coating composition contains (A) a film-forming resin and (B) a phosphoric acid compound represented by a specific formula.

A method of making pigments, such as special effect pigment includes forming a first slurry including a substrate, a polymer precursor, and a radical initiator; forming a solution including an emulsifier; and combining the first slurry and the solution so that the substrate is encapsulated by a first coating. Special effect pigments formed by the method are also disclosed.

Described herein are an aqueous coating composition including at least one anionically stabilized binder, effect pigment, polycarboxylic acid, and solvent, and a method for producing a multicoat paint system by producing a basecoat directly on a substrate, producing a clearcoat directly on the basecoat, and then jointly curing the basecoat and the clearcoat. At least one of the basecoat materials includes the aqueous coating. Also described herein are multicoat paint system obtainable by this method, and the use of at least one polycarboxylic acid in an aqueous coating composition for improving the effect pigment orientation, or for color matching.

A method for coating a surface of a structural component includes applying at least one ink to the surface of the structural component via an inkjet process. The at least one ink applied is irradiated with UV radiation so as to cure the at least one ink and to form an ink-containing layer. At least one metal layer is applied to the ink-containing layer via a PVD procedure. At least one clear lacquer is applied to the at least one metal layer. The at least one clear lacquer is cured so as to form a clear lacquer layer.

The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a photoluminescent coating material composition that forms a coating film which has excellent metallic gloss and in which unevenness is unlikely to occur, when being used not only in robotic coating but also in coating using a liquid discharge head in which discharging is controlled by changing the relative distance between a valve body and a discharge port. A photoluminescent coating material composition according to the present disclosure has the following configuration. The photoluminescent coating material composition contains water, a scale-like aluminum pigment (A), and nanocellulose (B). The scale-like aluminum pigment (A) has volume mean particle diameters of d50 within a range of 0.5-8.0 m and d90 within a range of 2.0-15.0 m.