A one-component powder coating composition is provided comprising a curable resin and one or more curing additives for curing the curable resin, wherein the powder coating composition comprises: one powder coating component comprising the curable resin and the one or more curing additives; and 1.0 to 20 wt % of a dry-blended inorganic particulate additive consisting of inorganic components i), ii), and iii), wherein component i) is non-coated aluminium oxide or non-coated silica, component ii) is aluminium hydroxide and/or aluminum oxyhydroxide, and component iii) is silica, and wherein the powder coating component has a particle size distribution with a Dv90 of at most 50 μm and a Dv50 of at most 30 μm.

Disclosed are methods for minimizing x-ray scattering artifacts, the method comprising: contacting an object with an x-ray scattering mitigation material. The contacting can comprise coating the x-ray scattering material on the object, including spraying a solution of suspension of an x-ray scattering mitigation material onto the object or dry powder coating the object with a x-ray scattering mitigation material. Alternatively, the contacting can comprise immersing the object in a fluid comprising the x-ray scattering material. The fluid can be a gas, a liquid, or a gel. The disclosed x-ray scattering mitigation material can be optimized for mitigating Compton radiation scattering or for mitigating Rayleigh radiation scattering. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.

The invention relates to a one-component powder coating composition comprising a curing system comprising a curable resin and one or more curing additives for curing the curable resin, wherein the powder coating composition comprises: - one powder coating component comprising the curable resin and the one or more curing additives; - in the range of from 0.1 to 15.0 wt% of a first dry-blended inorganic particulate additive consisting of inorganic components i), ii), and iii), wherein component i) is non-coated aluminium oxide or non-coated silica, component ii) is aluminium hydroxide and/or aluminium oxyhydroxide, and component iii) is silica, and wherein, if component i) is non-coated silica, component iii) does not comprise non-coated silica; and - in the range of from 0.1 to 35 wt% of a second dry-blended inorganic particulate additive, wherein the powder coating composition comprises in the range of from 1.0 to 40 wt% of dry-blended inorganic particulate additive, wherein the wt% of dryblended inorganic particulate additive is based on the weight of the one powder coating component, and wherein the second dry-blended inorganic particulate additive is free of aluminium oxide, silica, aluminium hydroxide and aluminium oxyhydroxide, wherein the first dry-blended inorganic particulate additive comprises a first and a second silica wherein the first silica is a surface-treated silica with a negative tribocharge, and the second silica is non-coated silica or is a surface-treated silica with a positive tribocharge. The invention further relates to a substrate coated with such powder coating composition.

A curable coating composition includes: (a) a binder having a film-forming resin with at least two functional groups, and (ii) a curing agent reactive with the functional groups of the film-forming resin; and (b) solid vulcanized rubber particles that are unreactive with the binder. The curable coating composition is a solid particulate powder coating composition. Multi-layer coating systems and methods of preparing the curable coating composition are also included.

The present invention relates to a retroreflective powder coating composition that includes: (a) a binder including a film-forming resin; and (b) a plurality of particles in which at least a portion of the particles include particles at least partially coated with a metallic material. The coating composition has a glass plate flow of 40 mm or less before addition of the plurality of particles, and/or at least portion of the particles are further coated with an additional material that lowers a surface energy of the particles. A method of forming a coating is also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a powder coating composition for preparing a dielectric coating. The powder coating composition includes: (a) an epoxy functional polymer; (b) a poly-carboxylic acid functional polyester polymer reactive with the epoxy functional polymer and which has an acid value of less than 100 mg KOH/g; and (c) a poly-carboxylic acid functional (meth)acrylate polymer reactive with the epoxy functional polymer. Further, if a colorant is present, the powder coating composition comprises 35 weight % or less of the colorant, based on the total solids weight of the coating composition.

Disclosed are methods for minimizing x-ray scattering artifacts, the method comprising: contacting an object with an x-ray scattering mitigation material. The contacting can comprise coating the x-ray scattering material on the object, including spraying a solution of suspension of an x-ray scattering mitigation material onto the object or dry powder coating the object with a x-ray scattering mitigation material. Alternatively, the contacting can comprise immersing the object in a fluid comprising the x-ray scattering material. The fluid can be a gas, a liquid, or a gel. The disclosed x-ray scattering mitigation material can be optimized for mitigating Compton radiation scattering or for mitigating Rayleigh radiation scattering. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.

Provided are a powder coating material for household appliance coiled material and a preparation method thereof. The powder coating material comprises: a polyester resin, a curing agent, a silicate, a filler, a pigment, and an auxiliary agent. The powder coating material for the household appliance coiled material not only can meet the requirements of coating processes of the coiled material, but also has excellent performances such as flexibility, T-bend performance, impact resistance and solvent resistance, while satisfying the requirement for the thick coatings of the household appliance coiled material.

A coated article is described, including a substrate with a coating composition applied thereon to provide a coated article with a textured surface. In one aspect, the coated article is a steel rebar used to reinforce concrete. The textured surface provides optimal surface roughness and demonstrates superior pullout strength relative to an uncoated standard.

A fiber reinforced powder paint provides improved flexural fatigue resistance for composites substrates. Fiber loading in the powder is greater than 40%. Aramid fiber loading in an epoxy based powder paint is exemplified. A composite bow limb coated with the powder paint survives a remarkably greater number of bending cycles before failure when coated with the powder paint.