Disclosed herein is an additive for a paint or stain composition or for a colorant composition. The additive is polymerized from at least one acrylate monomer and a chain transfer agent. The additive has a weight molecular weight from about 2,000 Daltons to about 5,000 Daltons, and the chain transfer agent comprises a hydrogen-sulfur functionality and is present from about 8 to about 20 parts per hundred parts of monomers. The additive's glass transition temperature ranges from about −50° C. to about −10° C. and the additive is hydrophobic. The additive is added to the colorant composition to minimize tip drying at the colorant canisters, and is added to paint or stain composition as an open time extender.

The present invention aims to provide a composition for a storage battery electrode and a pigment composition each containing a modified polyvinyl acetal resin that has excellent dispersing properties, adhesion, and stability over time and that is capable of preventing degradation caused by an electrolyte solution when used for an electrode of a storage battery, enabling the production of a high-power storage battery. Provided is a modified polyvinyl acetal resin including a chlorine atom-containing structural unit.

A pigment particle template and a method of fabricating the same, and a method of fabricating a pigment dispersion liquid are described. The method of fabricating the pigment particle template has steps of: providing a substrate; forming a covalent organic framework layer on the substrate, wherein the covalent organic framework layer has porous network structure; forming a first porous organic layer on the covalent organic framework layer; and replacing the substrate with a second porous organic layer. The present application is beneficial to production of nanoparticles with controllable particle size and uniform size by utilizing a controllable size of the covalent organic framework structure and a stability of a sandwich structure.

An inorganic particle dispersion having high spinnability comprises an inorganic powder, hydrophilic fumed silica, and a resin having a hydroxyl group.

A pigment dispersant can be obtained by reacting amine-rich moieties C with at least one polymer P having one or more amine reactive groups. The amine-rich moieties C have an amine density of at least 600 mg KOH/g and are obtainable from repetitive self-reaction of at least one type of substance B and/or from cross-reaction of at least one B with at least one substance A. B is an adduct of at least one substance A and at least one linker D. The amine-reactive functionality in B and D are reacted with reactive amines in B and/or A; and if B has only one amine reactive group, then additional D and/or mixture of B and A is reacted to a previously formed C, where such an additional reaction of D and/or mixture of B and A to a formed C is repeated for 1 to 10 times.

Disclosed herein is an additive for a paint or stain composition or for a colorant composition. The additive is polymerized from at least one acrylate monomer and a chain transfer agent. The additive has a weight molecular weight from about 2,000 Daltons to about 5,000 Daltons, and the chain transfer agent comprises a hydrogen-sulfur functionality. The additive's glass transition temperature ranges from about −50° C. to about −10° C. and the additive is hydrophobic.

Described herein is a polymeric pigment dispersant, a process for preparation of the polymeric pigment dispersant, and a pigment dispersion including the pigment dispersant that is used for coating and in printing ink, automotive basecoat, automotive clearcoat, mill base, furniture coatings, and wood coatings.

A wetting agent according to Formula (I):

##STR00001## wherein R.sup.1 is selected from a branched alkyl group or linear alkyl group or a cycloaliphatic group or an aromatic group, each having 6 to 15 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R.sup.3 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R.sup.4 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R.sup.5 is selected from methyl or ethyl; x ranges from 0 to 5; y ranges from 0 to 10; z ranges from 1 to 10; with the proviso that when x ranges from 1 to 5, R.sup.2 is different from R.sup.3; and with the proviso that when x=0, R.sup.3 is different from R.sup.4. The wetting agent also imparts anti-foam properties to aqueous solutions while reducing surface tension.

The present invention relates to a coating composition comprising (A) hydrophobically modified fumed silica particles, (B) one or more compounds of hydrolyzed organosilanes, and (C) a solvent or mixture of solvents. The coating composition may be used to treat substrates such as glass surface to make the substrate surfaces possess valuable properties such as water repellency, dirt repellency and self-cleaning with water.

An alkoxylated polyamidoamine obtainable by a) reacting a polycarboxylic compound having a total number TN of carboxylic groups of 3 to 10 with a primary diamine of formula I H.sub.2N—Z—NH.sub.2 wherein Z represents a bond or an organic group with 1 to 20 carbon atoms in a ratio of 0.3 TN to TN mols of the diamine per 1 mol of the polycarboxylic compound and b) alkoxylating the product obtained in a) with at least 0.5 mol of alkyleneoxide per 1 mol of primary amino groups