Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a coating composition comprising a first thermoplastic resin suspended in a liquid medium, and a second thermoplastic resin in the form of solid particles, wherein the second thermoplastic resin is incorporated but insoluble in the liquid medium.

The present disclosure relates to a method to produce a coating layer, including applying a coating composition on a surface of a carrier, curing the coating composition to a coating layer, and subsequently applying pressure to the coating layer. The disclosure further relates to a method to produce a building panel, and such a building panel, and to a method to produce a coated foil, and such a coated foil.

There is provided an erosion protective polyurethane elastomer produced from a polyurethane composition with a polyisocyanate component and an isocyanate-reactive component. The polyisocyanate component has a first isocyanate-terminated prepolymer obtained from the reaction of a first polyol with 1,4-bis(isocyanatomethyl cyclohexane) (1,4-H6XDI) or with a mixture of 1,4-H6XDI and a second aliphatic diisocyanate, an aromatic diisocyanate, and/or an arylalkyl diisocyanate, with at least 50 wt. % of diisocyanate used to produce the prepolymer is aliphatic diisocyanate. The isocyanate-reactive component has at least two low molecular weight (Mw<400 g/mol) diols and a second polyol with hydroxyl groups to react with the prepolymer to produce a polyurethane elastomer. The polyurethane composition having a molar ratio of NCO/OH in the range of 1.00-1.50; whereby said polyurethane composition is curable to produce an elastomer having a mechanical strength >20 MPa, an elongation at break >500%, a tensile set <30%, and hydrolytic stability.

Disclosed are methods of forming foam comprising: (a) providing a foamable composition comprising an isocyanate, a polyol and a physical blowing agent comprising at least about 50% by weight of hydrohaloolefin, including trans1233zd, and wherein the polyol comprises a polyol or mixture of polyols such that the hydrohaloolefin, including trans1233zd, has a solubility in said polyol of less than about 30%; and (b) forming a foam from said foamable composition.

An electrically conductive paste includes: an elastic binder; and a conductive filler. The conductive filler includes: at least one spherical conductive filler, at least one plate-like conductive filler, and at least one rod-like conductive filler. In an embodiment, the spherical filler has a mean particle diameter, measured in accordance with ISO 21501-2:2019-11 of at most 200 μm.

There are provided a decorative sheet having excellent fingerprint resistance of the surface of the decorative sheet, a decorative board, a method for manufacturing a transfer master plate, and a method for manufacturing a decorative sheet. The decorative sheet includes: a base material layer; a colored pattern layer provided on one surface of the base material layer; and a first surface protective layer provided on the surface on the side opposite to the base material layer of the colored pattern layer and having irregular shapes on the surface. The decorative sheet is formed using a transfer master plate which is a resin material having irregular shapes for master plate on the surface formed by irradiating the surface of an applied ionizing radiation curable resin with a first ionizing radiation having energy capable of cleaving a polymer chain of the ionizing radiation curable to shrink the surface of the ionizing radiation curable resin, forming the irregular shapes for master plate on the surface of the ionizing radiation curable resin, irradiating the shrunk ionizing radiation curable resin with a second ionizing radiation curing the ionizing radiation curable resin to cure the ionizing radiation curable resin.

The invention relates to a decorative panel, comprising at least one substrate comprising an upper surface and a bottom surface and two pairs of opposing side edges, wherein the substrate comprises at least one core layer and at least one decorative layer and the panel comprising at least one coating layer, wherein the coating layer is provided upon the upper surface of the substrate, wherein both the upper surface of the substrate and the upper coating surface of the coating layer have a predetermined Shore D hardness.

Provided is a multilayer film that includes a top layer and a barrier layer. The top layer includes a polyurethane network and having an exposed major surface. The barrier layer includes a fluoropolymer and having opposed first and second major surfaces, where the first major surface is modified by a surface treatment and wherein the top layer is disposed on the first major surface. When bonding to a curable substrate, the barrier layer can prevent migration of low molecular weight species from the curable substrate into the polyurethane network, thereby avoiding discoloration resulting from exposure of these species to ultraviolet light and other weathering factors.

Provided is a multilayer film that is excellent in chemical resistance without change in appearance and reduction in adhesive strength by preventing the swelling of a thermoplastic polyurethane layer when a chemical attaches thereto. A layer adjacent to a surface coating layer in the thermoplastic polyurethane layer of the multilayer film is constituted by a thermoplastic polyurethane that is a reaction product obtained by using hexamethylene diisocyanate (hereinafter, referred to as “HDI”), and comprises more than 30% of the thermoplastic polyurethane formed from HDI, and the thermoplastic polyurethane layer formed from HDI has a thickness of 5 μm or larger. This achieves a multilayer film that is excellent in chemical resistance without change in appearance and reduction in adhesive strength by preventing the swelling of a thermoplastic polyurethane layer when a chemical attaches thereto.

Described herein is a multilayered article and methods of making and using such articles. The multilayered article comprises: .Math. (a) a microsphere layer comprising a plurality of microspheres (11) disposed in a monolayer; .Math. (b) a bead bonding layer (12) comprising a first major surface and a second opposing major surface wherein the plurality of microspheres is at least partially embedded in the first major surface of the bead bonding layer, and wherein the bead bonding layer comprises a thermoset polyurethane, and wherein the thermoset polyurethane is derived from one or more liquid polyols; and .Math. (c) an elastomeric layer (14) disposed on the second opposing major surface of the bead bonding layer.