The invention relates to a polymer thick film (PTF) conductive paste composition comprising a conductive powder, a fluoroelastomer, a silane coupling agent, and one or solvents. The PTF conductive paste composition can be used to form a printed conductor and to form an electrically conductive adhesive on various articles. The PTF conductive paste composition is provides a stretchable electrical conductor for wearables.

This disclosure provides cool paints and paint systems tailored for solar heat management comprising (a) hydroxyl-containing fluorocarbon polymer as binder, (b) an effect pigment, and (c) an IR transparent pigment. Specifically, the dark color paints exhibit higher than 40% total solar reflectance (TSR) and excellent weathering properties e.g., maintaining at least 80% gloss after two-year of exposure to solar irradiation in field test.

An electrically conductive and corrosion resistant graphene-based coating composition, including a binder, high-pressure airless-sprayed expanded graphene stacks, carbon fibers, and a dispersing agent, wherein the graphene-based coating composition has an electrical conductivity of at least 2 S/cm and a pull-off adhesion of at least 2 MPa.

Provided is a windmill blade, comprising a core material formed of an acrylic resin expanded article and an outer skin covering the core material, in winch the outer skin is formed of a fiber-reinforced resin material including a carbon fiber and a resin, and the acrylic resin expanded article has a specified bending modulus.

Achieved is a coating floor material using a carbon nanotube, which has excellent finishing properties and shows high conductivity even when a cured coating film is at 50 V. This coating floor material contains: a room temperature curable resin, a single-walled carbon nanotube, a wetting dispersant, a leveling agent, and a defoaming agent, wherein the wetting dispersant is a polymer salt containing an acidic group and an amino group.

An antireflection film, comprising a film including: hollow particles; and a binder bonding the particles, wherein: the binder contains voids; and the binder contains 10 or less voids each having a cross-sectional area of 1,000 nm.sup.2 or more with respect to 1 μm.sup.2 of a cross-sectional area of the binder. A method of producing the film, comprising: forming a paint into a film by applying the paint onto a substrate, the paint containing hollow particles, a binder, and a solvent, in which a content of the particles is 50-85 wt % and a content of the binder is 15-40 wt % with respect to a total weight of a solid content of the paint, and the paint has a viscosity of 1.3-2 mPa.Math.s at its film-forming temperature; and drying the film.

An object is to provide the ferrite particles used as a magnetic filler or a raw material for a molded product excellent in dispersibility as a powder and excellent in uniformity after molding and result the surface with small unevenness; and a method of manufacturing the particles. To achieve the object, Mn—Mg ferrite particles having an average particle size of 1 to 2000 nm and having a spherical shape are employed. It is preferable that the ferrite particles are produced by a method including subjecting of a ferrite raw material obtained through preparation of a ferrite composition to flame-spraying in air for ferritization followed by rapid cooling for solidifying of the ferrite.

Provided is a light transmitting member including: a base material; a first porous layer formed on a first surface of a base material; and a second porous layer formed on a second surface opposed to the first surface of the base material, wherein the second porous layer has a pore volume larger than a pore volume of the first porous layer.

The invention relates to an ironing system comprising a steam generating device comprising a steam chamber provided with a coating (11) comprising a coating base material (15) with metal particles (25) at least partly embedded in the coating base material (15), wherein the coating base material (15) comprises a mixed metal silicate compound, wherein the mixed metal silicate compound comprises an alkali metal element and a first metal element, wherein the metal particles (25) comprise a second metal element, and wherein the first metal element and the second metal element are the same chemical element of the periodic table of the elements.

The present invention relates to a curable composition, providing, upon curing, an abrasion-resistant, transparent, antistatic coating, comprising carbon nanotubes and a binder comprising at least one epoxysilane compound, preferably an epoxyalkoxysilane, and optionally fillers such as nanoparticles of non electrically conductive oxides and/or additional binder components such as tetraethoxysilane. The invention further relates to optical articles comprising a substrate, and, starting from the substrate, an abrasion- and/or scratch-resistant coating, and an antistatic coating formed by depositing directly onto said abrasion- and/or scratch-resistant coating the above referred curable composition. The obtained optical articles exhibit antistatic properties, high optical transparency with about 91-92% of transmittance, low haze and improved abrasion resistance.