The present document describes a composition for the pretreatment of surfaces, which comprises plasticizers, degassers, pH adjusting agents, pigments, a phenol formaldehyde resin based adhesive, process of making the same and method of using the same.

A primer composition is presented comprising an aqueous dispersion of a) a thermosetting resin, b) an organosilane containing no hydrolyzable group, and c) a curing agent. In some embodiments, the primer composition additionally comprises d) a rare earth metal containing corrosion inhibitor. In some embodiments, the primer composition comprises no chromium. In some embodiments, the organosilane containing no hydrolyzable group is an aminosilanol. In some embodiments of the primer composition, the thermosetting resin is an epoxy resin and the curing agent is an epoxy curing agent. In some embodiments of the primer composition, the rare earth metal containing corrosion inhibitor is a cerium containing corrosion inhibitor.

A primer composition including a resin emulsion, an aggregation accelerator, a surfactant, and water, the surfactant containing one or more of acetylene-based surfactants and silicone-based surfactants, and a nonionic surfactant other than the surfactant, the nonionic surfactant having an HLB value of 10 or above and below 15.5 and having multiple polyoxyalkylene groups, and the proportion of the nonionic surfactant in the primer composition is 3 mass % or below. The primer composition has excellent storage stability and makes it possible to form a primer layer that has excellent transparency and that produces excellent bleeding resistance and printability when a solid image is printed by an aqueous inkjet ink composition.

Fluorinated coupling agents and polymerizable compositions including such fluorinated coupling agents and at least one free-radically polymerizable monomer, oligomer, or mixture thereof. Multilayer films including a substrate and at least a first layer overlaying a surface of the substrate also are described, in which the at least first layer includes a (co)polymer obtained by polymerizing the foregoing polymerizable compositions. Processes for making a multilayer film using the polymerizable composition also are taught. Articles including the multilayer film also are disclosed, in which the article preferably is selected from a photovoltaic device, a display device, a solid-state lighting device, a sensor, a medical or biological diagnostic device, an electrochromic device, light control device, or a combination thereof.

An alcohol-based composition may contain an acryl-modified polyolefin resin and exhibit a good adhesion even at a high solid content, suppress an increase in viscosity, and have good stability such as dispersibility and sustainable stability. A dispersion composition may contain at least a modified polyolefin resin dispersed in a dispersing medium containing an alcohol solvent and an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent. The modified polyolefin resin may be modified with a (meth)acrylic acid component containing at least a (meth)acrylic ester of formula (I) and a (meth)acrylic ester of formula (II). The total content of the structure derived from the (meth)acrylic acid component in the dispersion composition is 3% to 94% by weight, relative to 100% by weight as a total amount of the modified polyolefin resin and (meth)acrylic acid component polymer, and a solid fraction in the dispersion composition is 30% to 80% by weight.

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating composition that can form a multilayer coating film having excellent storage stability, excellent adhesion to plastic base materials, excellent finish, and excellent coating film performance, such as water resistance; and to also provide a coating method using the composition. The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition comprising (A) an aqueous dispersion of a modified polyolefin, (B) an aqueous acrylic resin and/or an aqueous polyester resin, and (C) a phosphoric acid compound represented by a specific formula; and also provides a method for forming a coating film, comprising applying the aqueous coating composition, as well as an article coated with the aqueous coating composition.

The present invention is directed to an acrylic copolymer composition prepared from a monomer composition. The monomer composition is essentially free of solvents having a boiling point less than 120° C. and essentially free of acid functional monomers. The monomer composition or acrylic copolymer composition comprises: (A) 30 to 70 percent by weight of a monomer having the structure (I):

##STR00001## wherein (i) X is NR′ or O, R′ is hydrogen or is a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and R is a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, or (ii) X is N or O and R is a linear or branched alkyl group bonded to X to form a 5- to 7-member ring; based on the total weight of monomers in the monomer composition; and (B) 30 to 70 percent by weight of at least one different ethylenically unsaturated monomer. The present invention is also directed to curable film-forming compositions containing these acrylic copolymer compositions, and substrates coated with the curable film-forming compositions.

Provided is an anti-wear agent capable of furnishing an epoxy resin coating film with anti-wear properties. The anti-wear agent is characterized in containing an alicyclic difunctional epoxy and a polymerization initiator or is characterized in containing a difunctional bisphenol A-type epoxy resin, a leveling agent and a polymerization initiator.

Various coating compositions are described which provide protection for polymeric films and particularly PVC films. The coating compositions include particular resin(s) and opacifying agents. Also described are coated films utilizing the compositions and methods of forming the coated films.

The present invention relates to a fluoropolymer-based coating of the surface of a household article comprising at least two decorations (a) and (b) arranged between or in its layers, wherein: (a) is a decoration comprising at least one thermochromic pigment composition in the form of particles consisting of a (Bi1-xAx) (V1-yMy)O4 type pigment, where: —x is 0 or x is from 0.001 to 0.999; —y is equal to 0 or y is from 0.001 to 0.999; —A and M are selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, phosphorus, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a poor metal, a metalloid or a lanthanide; —A and M are different from each other; and (b) is a decoration comprising a temperature reference pigment composition.