Provided is an aqueous polyurethane resin composition which is excellent in finished appearance as well as excellent in impact resistance, such as chipping resistance, and adhesion.

The aqueous polyurethane resin composition includes a polyurethane resin obtained from at least (a) at least two types of organic diisocyanate compounds and/or polyisocyanate compounds which are different from each other, (b) a polyol compound; (c) an acidic group-containing compounds comprising at least two types of compounds which are a compound containing a carboxyl group as the acid group (a carboxyl group-containing compound) and a compound containing a sulfo group as the acid group (a sulfo group-containing compound); and (d) a chain extender of a polyamine compound, a diamine compound, a polyol compound and/or an alkanolamine compound with a molecular weight of not more than 400, in which the aqueous polyurethane resin composition has a viscosity of not less than 500 Pa.Math.s and not more than 50,000 Pa.Math.s when the polyurethane resin is contained in an amount of 65% by weight.

The invention provides a thermoplastic resin composition, a molded article, and production methods therefor. The thermoplastic resin composition can sufficiently exhibit a cellulose addition effect and impart excellent mechanical strength to the molded article, particularly a foam molded article. More specifically, the invention provides a resin composition and a foam molded article thereof. The resin composition contains: a cellulose fiber (A); an amorphous resin (B) having a glass transition temperature of 160° C. or lower; a crystalline resin (C) having a melting point (melting peak temperature) of 80° C. to 150° C. and a melting start temperature lower than the melting point by 30° C. or more; and a thermoplastic resin (D) having a melting point or a glass transition temperature higher than the melting point of the crystalline resin (C) by 5° C. or more.

This application relates to flame-retardant coatings, and more particularly to an aminated phosphorene-based flame-retardant waterborne polyurethane coating and a preparation method thereof. The aminated phosphorene-based flame-retardant waterborne polyurethane coating is prepared from a diisocyanate-terminated prepolymer, a neutralizer and an aminated phosphorene, where the diisocyanate-terminated prepolymer is prepared from polymeric diol with water-dispersible groups, aliphatic diisocyanate and carboxylic acid type hydrophilic diol under the catalysis of a catalyst for synthesizing waterborne polyurethane.

The present invention provides multilayer coated substrates, prepared using primer and/or sealer compositions comprising waterborne curable film-forming compositions, in turn comprising: a) an aqueous dispersion of a pigment and i) polymeric urethane-shell particles having a care-shell morphology and having hydroxyl functional groups, wherein the core is prepared from a monomer mixture comprising hydrophobic, ethylenically unsaturated monomers and the shell comprises a polyurethane or polyurethane-urea polymer; or ii) polymeric acrylic-shell particles having a core-shell morphology and having hydroxyl functional groups, wherein the core is prepared from a monomer mixture comprising hydrophobic, ethylenically unsaturated monomers and the shell is prepared from a monomer mixture comprising hydrophilic, ethylenically unsaturated monomers; b) a polyisocyanate crosslinking agent; and optionally c) a hydroxyl functional, water dispersible acrylic polymer.

The present invention relates to an aqueous polyurethane-polyurea dispersion (PD) having polyurethane-polyurea particles, present in the dispersion, having an average particle size of 40 to 2000 nm, and having a gel fraction of at least 50%, the polyurethane-polyurea particles comprising, in each case in reacted form, (Z.1.1) at least one polyurethane prepolymer containing isocyanate groups and comprising anionic groups and/or groups which can be converted into anionic groups, and (Z.1.2) at least one polyamine comprising two primary amino groups and one or two secondary amino groups, and the dispersion (PD) consisting to an extent of at least 90 wt % of the polyurethane-polyurea particles and water.

The present invention also relates to basecoat materials comprising the dispersion (PD), and to multicoat paint systems produced using the basecoat materials.

A polyurethane-based UV absorber, obtained by reacting a UV absorber having a reactive hydrogen with a polyisocyanate and a diol or polyol; wherein the weight average molecular weight of the polyurethane-based UV absorber is in a range of 10,000 to 200,000.

Disclosed herein is an aqueous coating composition including an anionically stabilized binder,a color pigment, a polycarboxylic acid, and optionally a solvent. Further disclosed is a method for producing an inventive aqueous coating composition by adding a solution of polycarboxylic acid in a solvent to a coating composition including an anionically stabilized binder and color pigment.Additionally disclosed is a method for producing a multicoat paint system by producing a basecoat layer or at least two directly consecutive basecoat layers directly on a substrate optionally coated with a first coating layer, producing a clearcoat layer directly on the basecoat layer or the topmost basecoat layer, and jointly curing the basecoat layer(s) and the clearcoat layer. At least one of the basecoat materials includes the aqueous coating composition disclosed herein and/or an aqueous coating prepared by the disclosed method. A multicoat paint system obtainable by the method is additionally disclosed.

A multi-layer coating system includes: a first basecoat layer formed from a first coating composition including a free polyisocyanate having a weight average molecular weight of less than 600 g/mol and hydroxyl functional polymeric core-shell particles, where an amount of free polyisocyanate having a weight average molecular weight of less than 600 g/mol is 3.5 weight % or greater; a second basecoat layer formed from a second coating composition including carboxylic acid functional polymeric core-shell particles; and a topcoat layer formed from a coating composition including a free polyisocyanate and a film-forming resin reactive with the free polyisocyanate.

The present invention relates to a microballoon. The microballoon is made of polyurethane (urea). The microballoon is characterized in that an inner surface of the microballoon contains ionic groups. According to the present invention, through use for a CMP polishing pad, affinity with a slurry liquid for polishing is improved, and thus it is possible to provide a microballoon by which good polishing characteristics may be exhibited without lowering the resin strength of a polishing pad.

The present invention relates to an aqueous polyurethane-polyurea dispersion (PD) having polyurethane-polyurea particles, present in the dispersion, having an average particle size of 40 to 2000 nm, and having a gel fraction of at least 50%, obtainable by (I) preparing a composition (Z) comprising based each case on the total amount of the composition (Z), (Z.1) 15 to 65 wt % of at least one intermediate containing isocyanate groups and having blocked primary amino groups, its preparation comprising the reaction (Z.1.1) of at least one polyurethane prepolymer containing isocyanate groups and comprising anionic groups and/or groups which can be converted into anionic groups, with (Z.1.2) at least one polyamine comprising at least two blocked primary amino groups and at least one free secondary amino group, by addition reaction of isocyanate groups from (Z.1.1) with tree secondary amino groups from (Z.1.2), (Z.2) 35 to 85 wt % of at least one organic solvent which possesses a solubility in water, of not more than 38 wt % at a temperature of 20° C., (II) dispersing the composition (Z) in aqueous phase, and (III) at least partly removing the at least one organic solvent (Z.2) from the dispersion obtained in (II), The present invention also relates to basecoat materials comprising the dispersion (PD), and to multicoat paint systems produced using the basecoat materials.