Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a composition for forming a polymer film, a polymer film prepared therewith, and an electronic device including the polymer film. The composition for forming a polymer film may include an inorganic particle grafted with an organosiloxane polymer represented by Formula 1; and a polymer matrix having a vinylene-based repeating unit: ##STR00001##
In Formula 1, A may be a moiety grafted to the inorganic particle, B may be a moiety capable of reacting with the polymer matrix, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may each independently be selected from an alkyl group and alkoxy group, R.sub.11, R.sub.12, R.sub.21, R.sub.22, R.sub.31, and R.sub.32 may each independently be selected from moiety B, an alkyl group, and an alkoxy group, and l, n, and m may denote the numbers of respective repeating units.

An electrophoretic coating is disclosed. The electrophoretic coating comprises an aqueous medium and a charged film-forming resin dispersed in the aqueous medium. The film-forming resin is acid-insoluble and alkali-soluble.

A complimentary polymer or dual-polymer electrochromic device and methods of preparing the same are provided.

A complimentary polymer or dual-polymer electrochromic device and methods of preparing the same are provided.

A method of forming a multilayer coating on a substrate is provided. The multilayer coating exhibits reduced strike-in and mottling. The method includes the steps of providing the substrate including a primer disposed thereon, applying a basecoat composition on the primer, applying a clearcoat composition on the basecoat composition, and curing the basecoat composition and the clearcoat composition to form the multilayer coating on the substrate. The basecoat composition includes a film forming resin, a pigment, and about 5% to about 75% by weight on binder of a cyclic lactone modified branched acrylic polymer having a hydroxyl monomer content of about 1% to 65% by weight, all or part of which has been reacted with a cyclic lactone, and having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of about 10,000 to about 150,000 g/mol.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a composition for forming a polymer film, a polymer film prepared therewith, and an electronic device including the polymer film. The composition for forming a polymer film may include an inorganic particle grafted with an organosiloxane polymer represented by Formula 1; and a polymer matrix having a vinylene-based repeating unit:

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In Formula 1, A may be a moiety grafted to the inorganic particle, B may be a moiety capable of reacting with the polymer matrix, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may each independently be selected from an alkyl group and alkoxy group, R.sub.11, R.sub.12, R.sub.21, R.sub.22, R.sub.31, and R.sub.32 may each independently be selected from moiety B, an alkyl group, and an alkoxy group, and I, n, and m may denote the numbers of respective repeating units.

According to the invention, an electrophoretic dispersion liquid includes at least one type of an electrophoretic particle, and a dispersion medium, in which the content of transition metal of group 8 elements derived from a catalyst which is used to generate at least one of a block copolymer (a particle surface treatment agent) used to form the electrophoretic particle and the dispersion medium is in a range of greater than 0 ppm to equal to or less than 2 ppm in the electrophoretic dispersion liquid.

The invention relates to a method for grafting an organic film onto an eclectically conductive or semiconductive surface by electro-reduction of a solution, wherein the solution comprises one diazonium salt and one monomer bearing at least one chain polymerizable functional group. During the electrolyzing process, at least one protocol consisting of an electrical polarization of the surface by applying a variable potential over at least a range of values which are more cathodic that the reduction or peak potential of all diazonium salts in said solution is applied. The invention also relates to an electrically conducting or semiconducting surface obtained by implementing this method. The invention further relates to electrolytic compositions.

Processes for depositing functionalized nanoparticles upon a non-conductive substrate are disclosed herein. The processes may include the step of aerosolizing one or more particles into suspension within a gas, each of the one or more particles comprising functionalized nanoparticles having an electric charge. The processes may include the step the step of attracting the one or more particles onto a non-conductive substrate by a static electric charge opposite of the electric charge, wherein at least portions of the non-conductive substrate are having the static electric charge. The processes may include the step of depositing the functionalized nanoparticles onto the non-conductive substrate