A multilayer color and/or effect coating on a substrate, wherein the coating includes a clearcoat layer having a dry film thickness of 10 μm to 50 μm, and the coating includes a basecoat layer having a dry film thickness of 6 μm to 35 μm, incorporating color and/or effect pigments whose orientation within the basecoat layer influences the optical properties of the coating, and the basecoat layer includes control particles that control the orientation of the color and/or effect pigments, wherein the control particles are characterized by a d10 of at least 50% of the dry film thickness of the basecoat layer and by a d50 of 80% to 120% of the dry film thickness of the basecoat layer, and by a d100 of not more than 200% of the dry film thickness of the basecoat layer.

A system for applying a coating composition is provided herein. The system includes a first high transfer efficiency applicator defining a first nozzle orifice and a second high transfer efficiency applicator defining a second nozzle orifice. The system further includes a reservoir. The system further includes a substrate defining a first target area and a second target area. The first high transfer efficiency applicator and the second high transfer efficiency applicator are configured to receive the coating composition from the reservoir and configured to expel the coating composition through the first nozzle orifice to the first target area of the substrate and to expel the coating composition through the second nozzle orifice to the second target area of the substrate.

A coating composition for application to a substrate utilizing a high transfer efficiency applicator. The coating composition includes a carrier, a binder, a corrosion inhibiting pigment. The coating composition has an Ohnesorge number (Oh) of from about 0.01 to about 12.6. The coating composition has a Reynolds number (Re) of from about 0.02 to about 6,200. The coating composition has a Deborah number (De) of from greater than 0 to about 1730.

A coating composition for application to a substrate utilizing a high transfer efficiency applicator is provided herein. The coating composition includes a carrier, a binder, and a radar reflective pigment or a LiDAR reflective pigment. The coating composition has an Ohnesorge number (Oh) of from about 0.01 to about 12.6. The coating composition has a Reynolds number (Re) of from about 0.02 to about 6,200. The coating composition has a Deborah number (De) of from greater than 0 to about 1730.

A method of forming a digital embossing on a surface by bonding hard press particles to a carrier. A liquid binder pattern is applied on the carrier by a digital drop application head. Hard press particles are applied on the carrier and the binder pattern such that some hard press particles are bonded to the carrier by the liquid pattern and non-bonded press particles are removed. The carrier with the bonded hard press particles is pressed to the surface and an embossing is formed when the carrier with the hard press particles is removed.

The present invention relates to a multilayer construction containing a support or frame composed of a nontransparent polymer as layer c) and a transparent layer b) based on a thermoplastic polymer having a solar transmittance TDS of more than 20%, determined in accordance with ISO 13837:2008 at a layer thickness of 4 mm, and a siloxane-based protective layer a) which is applied to layer c) and layer b), wherein the siloxane layer a) is selectively postcured in selected regions by means of ultrashort-wave UV radiation, and to a method for selective surface treatment.

A transfer sheet includes a base sheet and a transfer body. The transfer body includes a liquid-soluble adhesive layer and a liquid-insoluble sheet main body layer laminated on the liquid-soluble adhesive layer. The sheet main body layer includes a sticking layer adjacently laminated on the adhesive layer and a design layer adjacently laminated on the sticking layer. The sticking layer includes a protruding portion protruding outward beyond an end edge of the design layer. The protruding portion is transparent.

During an example coating method, a metallic substrate is provided. A foundation coat precursor is applied on the metallic substrate. The foundation coat precursor includes a matrix and a plurality of capsules present in the matrix. Each capsule includes a shell and a healing agent surrounded by the shell. A basecoat precursor is applied, and a clearcoat precursor is applied. The metallic substrate, the foundation coat precursor, the basecoat precursor, and the clearcoat precursor are heated i) after each respective application or ii) simultaneously, in order to cure the foundation coat, basecoat, and clearcoat precursors and respectively form a foundation coat, a basecoat, and a clearcoat. The foundation coat is ultraviolet (UV) stable and bonds the metallic substrate to the basecoat and the clearcoat.

The present invention relates to multicoat paint systems comprising basecoats and clearcoats with high solids fractions that each comprise at least one sulfonic acid compound of formula (I) or formula (II). The invention further relates to a method of producing these multicoat paint systems and to their use, and also to substrates coated with the multicoat paint system. The invention relates, furthermore, to the use of the sulfonic acid compounds of formula (I) and formula (II) in basecoats and clearcoats with high solids fractions.

A marked substrate including a solid substrate surface such as, for example, a road surface having disposed thereon a first coating including a pigment and a first binder polymer, the first coating having a dry film thickness of from 10 microns to 5000 microns; the first coating having disposed thereon, a clear second coating including from 75% to 100%, by weight based on the weight of the clear coating, nanosilica and from 0% to 25%, by weight based on the weight of the clear coating, second binder polymer; the clear second coating having a dry film thickness of from 1 to 10 microns is provided. A method for providing the marked substrate is also provided.