Water-based compositions containing a low VOC coalescent, a latex or water-dispersible polymer, and a water-insoluble UV-VIS (preferably, ultraviolet) absorber.

Cationic pillar[n]arenes, e.g., positively charged poly-ammonium, poly-phosphonium and poly-imidazolium pillar[5-6]arene derivatives are capable of inhibiting or preventing biofilm formation, and facilitating existing biofilm decomposition. A composition for inhibiting or disrupting biofilm, e.g., bacterial or fungal biofilm, formation, or reducing biofilm, can include a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and a cationic pillar[n]ene.

It is provided a coating composition comprising an ionic liquid, and a crosslinked polymeric ionic liquid, wherein the crosslinked polymeric ionic liquid and the ionic liquid are not linked through covalent bonds, and wherein the crosslinked polymeric ionic liquid is linked to a substrate surface. It is also provided a process for its preparation, as well as an article of manufacture at least in part coated with the coating composition as defined above.

The invention relates to a curable amphiphilic siloxane polyurethane coating composition. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the curable amphiphilic siloxane polyurethane coating composition of the invention. The invention also relates to methods for reducing or preventing biofouling of a surface exposed to an aqueous environment comprising the use of the curable amphiphilic siloxane polyurethane coating composition of the invention.

This disclosure discloses a durable super-hydrophobic manganese dioxide coating, belonging to the field of metallic material surface treatment. The super-hydrophobic manganese dioxide coating includes manganese dioxide microspheres and a stearic acid shell. The manganese dioxide microspheres are encased in the stearic acid shell. The manganese dioxide microspheres are stacked hierarchically on the metallic material surface.

The disclosure relates to a composition comprising amphiphilic Janus particles and a waterborne binder, wherein the particles are self-stratified, and methods of making and using the same. The disclosure also relates to the synthesis of amphiphilic Janus particles.

Provided are methods and compositions for self-cleaning that include a lysozyme capable of decomposing a microbe, a substrate applied to a solid surface, and a linker moiety bound to an outer surface of said substrate and an active group of said digestive protein, said linker moiety between said lysozyme and said substrate and covalently linking said lysozyme to a surface of said substrate optionally by an amide bond.

A powdery and/or granular material for a thermosetting resin is provided. The powdery and/or granular material contains fine polymer particles (A) that contain a rubber-containing graft copolymer that includes an elastic body and a graft part grafted to the elastic body. The fine polymer particles (A) have a volume-average particle size of not less than 90 nm; and the polymer of the graft part has a weight-average molecular weight of not more than 200000.

Aspects of the present disclosure provide coatings and methods for depositing coatings onto surfaces. In one aspect, a method for forming a coating includes applying a composition to a surface of a component, the composition including a first polymer, a second polymer that is a fluoropolymer, an isocyanate, and a curative. The method includes curing the mixture at a first temperature of about 50° C. or greater and increasing the first temperature to a second temperature of about 80° C. or greater. The method includes obtaining a coating disposed on the surface of the component, the coating having a thickness of from about 10 mils to about 50 mils and a void density of less than 5 voids of size 0.5 mm or greater per cm.sup.2.

The present invention provides cationic pillar[n]arenes, e.g., positively charged poly-ammonium, poly-phosphonium and poly-imidazolium pillar[5-6]arene derivatives, capable of inhibiting or preventing biofilm formation, and facilitating existing biofilm decomposition; as well as compositions thereof and methods of use.