The present disclosure provides for a coating composition system suitable for forming a stain resistant and soft tactile texture coating onto a variety of substrate materials including plastic materials, metal materials, ceramic materials, and concrete materials. The coating composition system can be cured under mild curing conditions, and provides the resulting coating with excellent properties in terms of adhesion to the substrates, strength, and abrasion resistance. The present disclosure also provides for a method for preparing the coating composition system, and the use thereof.

Methods of grafting a liquid crystalline coating onto a substrate, and articles comprising a substrate with a liquid crystalline coating are disclosed. The liquid crystalline coatings can be formed by (a) applying a primer layer comprising a Type II photoinitiator to a surface of the substrate, then (b) applying a coating mixture that comprises one or more liquid crystalline monomers to the surface of the substrate, and then (c) irradiating the coating mixture to form the liquid crystalline coating. The coating mixture can further comprise a second amount of a Type II photoinitiator. The methods can be performed in open air, at room temperature, or at ambient pressure, and the resulting liquid crystalline coatings can exhibit improved adhesive properties to the substrate.

A composite material comprising a polymer and a carbonized hemp filler, wherein the carbonized hemp filler is produced by carbonizing hemp at a temperature of at least 1100 C to produce a char; and milling the char to produce a particle size, wherein the filler comprises 95% of particles of less than 10 microns in size; and wherein the hemp filler comprises between 1 and 50% of the total mass of the composite.

A method for producing a Class A paintable surface on a fiber filled substrate part: the method provides a fiber filled polymer part having an outer show surface for use on a vehicle. This part is coated with a flexible primer coating substantially free of pigments for forming a primed surface capable of being painted for forming a Class A show surface for a vehicle.

A masterbatch for use in a process of preparing a composite material may contain a blend of a first amorphous polymer with carbon nanotubes. At least 5% by weight of carbon nanotubes may be present in the masterbatch, based on a total weight of the masterbatch. The masterbatch may exhibit a high load melt flow index HLMI1 of less than 40 g/10 min determined at 200 C. under a load of 21.6 kg according to ISO1133. The first amorphous polymer may have a melt flow index MFI1 of at least 10 g/10 min determined at 200 C. under a load of 5 kg according to ISO1133H.

A composite is provided that is formed by melt-blending particles of thermoplastic polymer that have been coated with a chitin nanowhisker gel, wherein the thermoplastic polymer comprises polycarbonate. A composite comprising chitin nanowhiskers dispersed in polycarbonate is also provided.

A highly loaded and well-dispersed masterbatch composition and process for making thereof from a split stream process. The masterbatch composition includes a colorant, a thermoplastic carrier, a metallocene polymer processing aid, and optionally an additive. The split stream may be formed of a primary feed and a secondary feed. The primary and second feeds are combined by at least one of the following: supplying the secondary feed in either the same feed port as the primary feed, in a stream located upstream the primary feed, in a stream located downstream the primary feed, or a combination thereof.

Provided is process for producing a surface-metalized polymer film, the process comprising: (a) preparing a graphene dispersion comprising multiple graphene sheets and an optional conducive filler dispersed in a first liquid medium, which is an adhesive monomer/oligomer or contains a liquid adhesive monomer/oligomer/polymer dissolved in a solvent; (b) feeding a continuous polymer film from a feeder roller into a deposition zone, wherein the graphene dispersion is dispensed to deposit the graphene sheets to a surface of the polymer film; (c) moving the graphene-coated polymer film into a metallization chamber which accommodates a plating solution therein for plating a layer of a desired metal onto the graphene-coated polymer film to obtain a surface-metalized polymer film; and (d) operating a winding roller to collect the surface-metalized polymer film.

Provided is a surface-metalized polymer film comprising: (a) a polymer film having a thickness from 10 nm to 5 mm and two primary surfaces; (b) a graphene layer having a thickness from 0.34 nm to 50 m and comprising multiple graphene sheets and an optional conducive filler coated on or bonded to at least one of the two primary surfaces with or without using an adhesive resin; and (c) a metal layer comprising a plated metal deposited on the graphene layer; wherein the graphene sheets contain single-layer or few-layer graphene sheets selected from a pristine graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, graphene fluoride, graphene chloride, graphene bromide, graphene iodide, hydrogenated graphene, nitrogenated graphene, doped graphene, chemically functionalized graphene, or a combination thereof. This film exhibits a high scratch resistance, strength, hardness, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, light reflectivity, gloss, etc.

Provided are a decorative film including: a base film, a reflective layer which contains metal particles and a resin on one surface of the base film, and a colored layer which contains a colorant other than the metal particles on a surface of the reflective layer opposite to a side where the base film is provided; and a decorative molded body.