An object of the present invention is to provide a pattern-forming film having excellent etching resistance. The present invention relates to a pattern-forming material including a polymer containing oxygen atoms, in which the polymer has an oxygen atom content of 20% by mass or more with respect to the total mass of the polymer, and the polymer has a silicon atom content of 10% by mass or less with respect to the total mass of the polymer.

Disclosed is a method of coating an object made of a first material and a second material that is different from the first material. The method includes dispensing a polymer solution onto the object, wherein the polymer solution has a property that wets one of the first material and the second material and dewets the other one of the first material and the second material.

A method of coating a structure is disclosed. Method steps include providing a structure having a first portion of a first material having a first surface and providing a second portion of a second material having a second surface, wherein a mask is provided over the first surface. Another step includes exposing the mask and the second surface to a solution comprising a polymer and a solvent, wherein the solution dewets from the mask and the polymer collects onto the second surface to form a polymer coating over the second surface without forming a polymer coating on the first surface.

An aqueous coating composition containing an acrylic-modified polyester resin (A) and a reactive-group-containing resin (B), the acrylic-modified polyester resin (A) comprising as a monomer component constituting the acrylic part, a polyoxyalkylene group-containing unsaturated monomer having a weight average molecular weight of 400 or more, and the proportion of compounds having 6 or more carbon atoms of the total amount of the polyester-constituting components being 50 mass % or more.

An aqueous coating composition containing an acrylic-modified polyester resin (A) and a reactive-group-containing resin (B), the acrylic-modified polyester resin (A) comprising as a monomer component constituting the acrylic part, a polyoxyalkylene group-containing unsaturated monomer having a weight average molecular weight of 400 or more, and the proportion of compounds having 6 or more carbon atoms of the total amount of the polyester-constituting components being 50 mass % or more.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a pattern forming method capable of easily forming a phase-separated structure with high accuracy, even in the case of widening the applicable range of a pattern size. The present invention relates to a pattern forming method comprising: applying an under coating agent onto a substrate, and applying a self-assembly composition for pattern formation to the surface of the substrate, onto which the under coating agent has been applied, and then forming a self-assembly film according to self-assembly phase separation, wherein the self-assembly composition for pattern formation comprises a block copolymer comprising a polymerization unit (a) having at least one selected from a structure represented by a formula (103) and a structure represented by a formula (104), and a polymerization unit (b) having a structure represented by a formula (105).

A (meth)acrylic copolymer of the present invention includes at least one constituent unit (A) selected from the group consisting of a constituent unit (A1) having at least one structure (I) represented by Formula (1), Formula (2), or Formula (3), a constituent unit (A2) containing a triorganosilyloxycarbonyl group, and a constituent unit (A3) having at least one structure (III) represented by Formula (4) or Formula (5), a constituent unit (B) derived from a specific polysiloxane block-containing polymerizable monomer (b), and a constituent unit (C) derived from a macromonomer (c).

Waterborne dispersions including crosslinkable multistage polymeric particles useful in coating compositions are provided. The multistage particles have a last-formed layer that includes a diketone functionality that is capable of crosslinking via a dihydrazide component also included in the dispersion. Another embodiment of the waterborne dispersion further includes crosslinkable latex particles having a diketone functionality that are capable of crosslinking with each other and/or the multistage particles via the dihydrazide component. An emulsion polymerization process for forming the multistage particles also is provided. Also provided are coating compositions that contain either embodiment of the waterborne dispersions.

Polymer composite photonic crystal materials are disclosed as coatings and topcoats which have high reflection (>30%) in a specific range of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as ultraviolet (<400 nm), visible (Vis, 400 nm-700 nm), or near-infrared radiation range (NIR, 700-2000 nm), and relatively low reflection (<20% reflection) in a second, different range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Surprisingly, it was found that through a formulation and additives approach, the optical properties of polymer composite photonic crystal films can be selectively modified from a variety of different coating methods, including spray deposition.

A (meth)acrylic acid copolymer (A) having a weight average molecular weight of 1000 to 1,000,000, and in which when the half-width of the primary scatter peak when measured by small angle X-ray scattering is defined as X, 0.12<X, is used as an adhesive. The (meth)acrylic copolymer (A) is obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture containing a macromonomer (a) having a number average molecular weight of 500-100,000, and a vinyl monomer (b). The adhesive has sufficient holding force and adhesive force, and the occurrence of adhesive deposit can be prevented when peeled off.