In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of forming a self-assembled monolayer coating on a surface of a substrate. In general, the method includes polishing the substrate, cleaning the substrate, and creating a plurality of bonding sites on the surface of the substrate for head groups of an organofunctional silane molecule to bond. In some embodiments, the creating includes at least one of a liquid-phase chemistry process or a dry plasma chemistry process. In some embodiments, the method further includes coating the substrate with a silane coating solution. In some embodiments, the coating is performed in a controlled environment. In some embodiments, the controlled environment includes an anhydrous environment free of at least one of water or moisture. In a further embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a heat transfer composition having a coating thereon applied via the methods of the present disclosure.

A method of coating a structure is disclosed. Method steps include providing a structure having a first portion of a first material having a first surface and providing a second portion of a second material having a second surface, wherein a mask is provided over the first surface. Another step includes exposing the mask and the second surface to a solution comprising a polymer and a solvent, wherein the solution dewets from the mask and the polymer collects onto the second surface to form a polymer coating over the second surface without forming a polymer coating on the first surface.

A modification method of a surface of a base includes applying a composition on a surface layer of a base to form a coating film. The surface layer contains a metal atom. The coating is heated. The composition contains a polymer and a solvent. The polymer includes at an end of a main chain or at an end of a side chain thereof, a functional group that is at least one selected from: a group represented by the following formula (1); a group containing a carbon-carbon triple bond; and a group containing an aromatic hydroxy group. In the formula (1), R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and n is an integer of 1 to 10, wherein in a case in which n is no less than 2, a plurality of R.sup.1s are identical or different. ##STR00001##

There is provided a resin composition including (a) an acrylic polymer having a tensile modulus of 200 MPa or less, (b) a resin that is solid at 25° C., (c) a resin that is liquid at 25° C. and crosslinkable with at least one of the component (a) or the component (b), and (d) a polymerization initiator. The content of the component (a) is 35 parts by weight or more and 93 parts by weight or less, the content of the component (b) is 3 parts by weight or more and 60 parts by weight or less, and the content of the component (c) is 1 part by weight or more and 25 parts by weight or less, based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the component (a), the component (b), and the component (c).

Disclosed is a method of coating an object made of a first material and a second material that is different from the first material. The method includes dispensing a polymer solution onto the object, wherein the polymer solution has a property that wets one of the first material and the second material and dewets the other one of the first material and the second material.

A method of making pigments, such as special effect pigment includes forming a first slurry including a substrate, a polymer precursor, and a radical initiator; forming a solution including an emulsifier; and combining the first slurry and the solution so that the substrate is encapsulated by a first coating. Special effect pigments formed by the method are also disclosed.

A powder coating material used for a powder coating method including a step of immersing a coil end of a coil, which includes a conductor portion coated with an insulating coating and an exposed portion where the conductor portion is exposed from the insulating coating, in a fluidized chamber in which a powder coating material flows, and adhering a melt of the powder coating material to an outside of the exposed portion, the powder coating material containing a particulate thermosetting resin composition. The thermosetting resin composition contains an epoxy resin, and a curing agent.

A method of making pigments, such as special effect pigment includes forming a first slurry including a substrate, a polymer precursor, and a radical initiator; forming a solution including an emulsifier; and combining the first slurry and the solution so that the substrate is encapsulated by a first coating. Special effect pigments formed by the method are also disclosed.

To provide a fluorinated ether compound capable of forming a water and oil repellent layer with excellent abrasion resistance on a metal surface of a substrate, a composition, and an article provided with a water and oil repellent layer.

The fluorinated ether compound of the present invention is represented by [R.sup.f—(OX).sub.m—O—].sub.j1Y.sup.1—Z.sup.1[-L.sup.1-S—R.sup.11].sub.g11[R.sup.12].sub.g12. R.sup.f is a perfluoroalkyl group, X is a fluoroalkylene group having at least one fluorine atom, m is an integer of at least 2, Y.sup.1 is a single bond or a (j1+1) valent linking group, and Z.sup.1 is a (g11+g12+1) valent linking group, L.sup.1 is a single bond or a divalent linking group, R.sup.11 is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent, R.sup.12 is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent, j1 is an integer of at least 1, g11 is an integer of at least 2, and g12 is an integer of at least 0.

A method for producing secondary battery electrodes includes a step of preparing a moisture powder formed of aggregated particles that contain a plurality of electrode active material particles, a binder resin, and solvent, wherein the solid phase, liquid phase, and gas phase in at least 50 number % or more of the aggregated particles in the moisture powder form a pendular state or a funicular state; a step of forming a coating film composed of the moisture powder on an electrode current collector, while the gas phase remains present; a step of forming a depression in the coating film by carrying out, using a die having an elevation of prescribed height, depression/elevation transfer into the coating film; and a step of carrying out depression/elevation transfer, using a die having an elevation higher than the elevation of prescribed height, by pressing the higher elevation into the depression that has been formed.