A method for forming chrome-free retanned leather including: (a) contacting wet white (chrome-free tanned hide) with a retanning mixture comprising from 2% to 15%, by solids weight, based on the wet weight of the wet white, of an amphoteric polymer composition comprising amine functional units and acid functional units; and (b) applying a polymeric overcoat containing an acrylic copolymer with one or more metal transition elements, with a thickness of no greater than 100 microns, to the retanned wet white, is provided. The present invention also provides a chrome-free retanned leather formed by the method.

A method for forming chrome-free retanned leather including: (a) contacting wet white (chrome-free tanned hide) with a retanning mixture comprising from 2% to 15%, by solids weight, based on the wet weight of the wet white, of an amphoteric polymer composition comprising amine functional units and acid functional units; and (b) applying a polymeric overcoat containing an acrylic copolymer with one or more metal transition elements, with a thickness of no greater than 100 microns, to the retanned wet white, is provided. The present invention also provides a chrome-free retanned leather formed by the method.

A method for forming chrome-free retanned leather including: (a) contacting wet white (chrome-free tanned hide) with a retanning mixture comprising from 2% to 15%, by solids weight, based on the wet weight of the wet white, of an amphoteric polymer composition comprising amine functional units and acid functional units; and (b) applying a polymeric overcoat containing an acrylic copolymer with one or more metal transition elements, with a thickness of no greater than 100 microns, to the retanned wet white, is provided. The present invention also provides a chrome-free retanned leather formed by the method.

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Coating compositions and coatings with improved soiling resistance and (self-)cleaning properties are disclosed. The coating compositions and coatings may be nonaqueous coating compositions and may include at least one hydroxyl group-containing compound, at least one isocyanate group-containing compound having free or blocked isocyanate and silane groups, at least one catalyst for the crosslinking of the silane groups, and at least one alkoxysilyl-functional siloxane.

Print materials described herein include a first polymerization initiator comprising an initiator material having a thermal decomposition rate and a peak photo-initiated decomposition rate, wherein the thermal dissociation rate is higher than the peak photo-initiated decomposition rate; a vinylic monomer; a polyfunctional monomer; scattering particles; and quantum dots. Methods of making a quantum dot material using such print materials, and of incorporating into light emitting devices, are also described.

Provided is an antifouling coating composition containing a hydrolyzable resin (A), a first non-hydrolyzable resin (B), a second non-hydrolyzable resin (C), and an antifouling agent (D), in which a glass transition temperature Tg.sub.B [° C.] and a solubility parameter SP.sub.B of the first non-hydrolyzable resin (B), and a glass transition temperature Tg.sub.C [° C.] and a solubility parameter SP.sub.C of the second non-hydrolyzable resin (C) satisfy an expression [1]:Tg.sub.B−Tg.sub.C≥60, an expression [2]:SP.sub.B ≥9.5, an expression [3]:SP.sub.C≥9.5, and an expression [4]:SP.sub.B−SP.sub.C|≤1.0.

Disclosed herein is a clearcoat coating material composition including an OH-functional (meth)acrylic copolymer (A1), a branched OH-functional polyester (A2) in an amount in the range of from 1.0 wt.-% to 15.0 wt.-%, based on the total solids content of the coating material composition, and at least one crosslinking agent (B1), which is different from both constituents (A1) and (A2) and which contains crosslinkable functional groups, which can be crosslinked with OH-functional groups. Further disclosed herein are a method of coating a substrate including applying to an optionally pre-coated substrate the inventive clearcoat coating material composition, a coated substrate, which is obtainable by the disclosed method, and a method of using the branched OH-functional polyester (A2) as flow enhancer in a clearcoat coating material application for spray applying said clearcoat coating material application onto an optionally pre-coated substrate and/or as levelling agent.

Embodiments provide a coating material containing: (A) 100 parts by mass of an acrylic curable resin; (B) 5-200 parts by mass of aluminum oxide particles having an average particle size of 1-100 μm; (C) 0.1-20 parts by mass of aluminum oxide fine particles having an average particle size of 1-100 nm; and (D) 1-100 parts by mass of a compound having two or more isocyanate groups per molecule. In one embodiment, the acrylic curable resin (A) includes: (a1) a structural unit derived from a hydroxy group-containing (meth)acrylic acid ester; (a2) a structural unit derived from a vinyl aromatic compound; and (a3) a structural unit derived from a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester. In one embodiment, the acrylic curable resin (A) may contain, in addition to the structural units (a1) and (a2): (a3-1) a structural unit derived from methyl methacrylate; and (a3-2) a structural unit derived from an aliphatic (including alicyclic) alkyl ester having 4 or more carbon atoms of a (meth)acrylic acid.