An object has a superhydrophic, self-cleaning, and icephobic coating includes a substrate and a layer disposed on the substrate, the layer resulting from coating with a formulation having an effective amount of microstructuring microparticles, liquid silane having one or more groups configured to graft to a microstructuring microparticle and at least another group that results in hydrophobicity. The microstructuring microparticles are dispersed in the liquid silane. Another effective amount of synthetic adhesive, selected from thermosetting adhesives, moisture curing adhesives or polymers that form a strong interaction with a surface, is in solution with a solvent. Upon curing, the layer has a contact angle greater than 90 and a sliding angle of less than 10 and, less than 5% of an area of the layer is removed in a Tape test.

A multilayer coating comprising a primer coat layer, one or more elastic layer and a top coat layer and having good mechanical properties, and a method of preparing the multilayer coating.

A multilayer coating comprising a primer coat layer, one or more elastic layer and a top coat layer and having good mechanical properties, and a method of preparing the multilayer coating.

The present invention provides a curable composition having an excellent permeability to a porous substrate and a sufficient strength for use as a coating film, and also having a suitable curing time (set time), accordingly the curable composition having a pot life from the application until the completion of the permeation to pore portions. Particularly, the present invention also provides a favorable coating agent for surface reinforcement coating of a porous substrate. These objects can be achieved by using a curable composition containing the following (A) and (B): (A) a cyanoacrylate compound; and (B) a hydrofluoroether having such a structure that the number of carbon atoms substituted only with fluorine in the molecule is 1 or more to 6 or less, and the number of carbon atoms in the molecule is less than 7.

The present invention provides a curable composition having an excellent permeability to a porous substrate and a sufficient strength for use as a coating film, and also having a suitable curing time (set time), accordingly the curable composition having a pot life from the application until the completion of the permeation to pore portions. Particularly, the present invention also provides a favorable coating agent for surface reinforcement coating of a porous substrate. These objects can be achieved by using a curable composition containing the following (A) and (B): (A) a cyanoacrylate compound; and (B) a hydrofluoroether having such a structure that the number of carbon atoms substituted only with fluorine in the molecule is 1 or more to 6 or less, and the number of carbon atoms in the molecule is less than 7.

An aqueous ink for ink jet including a resin particle. The resin particle has a first layer and a second layer in this order from the inside toward the outside of the resin particle. The first layer is formed of a first resin in which the proportion of a unit derived from a cycloaliphatic-group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer is 10% by mass or less. The tetrahydrofuran-insoluble fraction of the second layer is 15% by mass or more. The second layer is formed of a second resin having the unit derived from the cycloaliphatic-group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a unit derived from an ionic-group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer. The proportion of the unit derived from the ionic-group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer in the second resin is 3% by mass or more to 70% by mass or less.

An aqueous ink for ink jet including a resin particle. The resin particle has a first layer and a second layer in this order from the inside toward the outside of the resin particle. The first layer is formed of a first resin in which the proportion of a unit derived from a cycloaliphatic-group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer is 10% by mass or less. The tetrahydrofuran-insoluble fraction of the second layer is 15% by mass or more. The second layer is formed of a second resin having the unit derived from the cycloaliphatic-group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a unit derived from an ionic-group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer. The proportion of the unit derived from the ionic-group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer in the second resin is 3% by mass or more to 70% by mass or less.

Disclosed is a method for precipitating a polymer by adding a precipitation agent into a first suspension to form a second suspension; wherein the first suspension comprises a polymer and an aqueous solvent; and wherein the polymer comprises a copolymer comprising a structural unit derived from an acid group-containing monomer and a structural unit derived from a hydrophobic group-containing monomer. The method for precipitation of a polymer disclosed herein is developed to initiate the bond disruption and/or breakage between the polymer and the aqueous solvent within the second suspension. This is accompanied with the structural transformation of the polymer driven by the intermolecular and intramolecular interactions of the polymer chains which brings about the precipitation of the polymer. The method circumvents both complex separation process and contamination of the polymer, enables excellent materials recovery and allows the precipitation of the polymer to be achieved within a short time frame. An application of the method for precipitating a polymeric binder in a battery electrode is disclosed herein.

Disclosed is a method for precipitating a polymer by adding a precipitation agent into a first suspension to form a second suspension; wherein the first suspension comprises a polymer and an aqueous solvent; and wherein the polymer comprises a copolymer comprising a structural unit derived from an acid group-containing monomer and a structural unit derived from a hydrophobic group-containing monomer. The method for precipitation of a polymer disclosed herein is developed to initiate the bond disruption and/or breakage between the polymer and the aqueous solvent within the second suspension. This is accompanied with the structural transformation of the polymer driven by the intermolecular and intramolecular interactions of the polymer chains which brings about the precipitation of the polymer. The method circumvents both complex separation process and contamination of the polymer, enables excellent materials recovery and allows the precipitation of the polymer to be achieved within a short time frame. An application of the method for precipitating a polymeric binder in a battery electrode is disclosed herein.

A product, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, includes a resin for three-dimensional printing, the resin including a photo-curable nitrile-containing photopolymer. A method for manufacturing an article of manufacture, in accordance with another aspect of the present invention, includes forming a three-dimensional (3D) structure from a photo-curable nitrile-containing photopolymer via a light-based printing process, and thermally processing the 3D structure for rendering the 3D structure electrically conductive.