A particulate polyurea compound a2) for reducing gloss of coatings, a resin composition and a crosslinkable composition comprising the particulate polyurea compound is provided, wherein the volume percentage of particles of the particulate polyurea compound having a diameter of smaller than 10 μm is equal or less than 40%, and the volume percentage of the polyurea product having a diameter larger than 20 μm is equal or more than 11%.

The invention relates to curable coating compositions containing at least one surface modifying amphiphilic additive; and at least one siloxane-polyurethane coating composition. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the curable coating compositions of the invention. The invention also relates to objects coated with the curable coating composition of the invention. The invention also relates to methods for reducing or preventing biofouling of a surface exposed to an aqueous environment comprising the steps of coating the surface with the curable coating composition of the invention to form a coated surface, and curing the coating composition on the coated surface. The invention also relates to a marine fouling-release coating containing the curable coating composition of the invention.

An object is to providing a coating composition for attaining excellent storage stability of a coating material, excellent stain resistance (a property of preventing stains from adhering or a property of removing stains) of a coating film, and excellent durability of stain resistance of the coating film, and excellent scratch resistance of the coating film, and having transparency, and protecting the appearance for a long period of time, as well as a method of forming the coating film of the same. As a solution, provided is a coating composition comprising a silyl group-containing acrylic resin (A), a silyl group-free acrylic resin containing hydroxyl group (B), a polyisocyanate compound (C), and a catalyst (D), wherein the silyl group-containing acrylic resin (A) includes at least one polydimethyl siloxane segment.

Provided is a method for forming a multilayer coating film including the following steps (1) to (4): (1) applying a base paint (X) to a substrate to form a base coating film; (2) applying a specific effect pigment dispersion (Y) to the base coating film formed in step (1) to form an effect coating film with a specific dry film thickness; (3) applying a clear paint (Z) to the effect coating film formed in step (2) to form a clear coating film; and (4) heating the uncured base coating film, the uncured effect coating film, and the uncured clear coating film formed in steps (1) to (3) to simultaneously cure these three coating films.

The present disclosure relates to a composition for forming a polyurethane film, a polyurethane film derived from the composition and an article comprising a substrate and the polyurethane film, and the composition for forming a polyurethane film comprises an OH group-containing polymer; a curing agent; and an amphoteric ion-based polymer.

A method for forming a multilayer coated film includes step (1) of applying an aqueous intermediate coating composition (A), step (2) of applying an aqueous base coating composition (B), step (3) of applying a clear coating composition (C), and step (4) of heat-curing the coated films. The coating composition (A) contains a specific hydroxyl group-containing acrylic resin (a1), a specific polyurethane resin (a2), a specific hydroxyl group-containing polyester resin (a3), a melamine resin (a4), and an active methylene-blocked polyisocyanate compound (a5). A ratio of the resin (a1) to the resin (a2) falls within a specific range. The heat-cured coated film of the coating composition (A) has a specific elongation at break, Young's modulus and Tukon hardness. The coating composition (C) contains a hydroxyl group-containing acrylic resin (c1) and an allophanate group-containing polyisocyanate compound (c2).

A two-component polyurethane composition comprising a polyisocyanate and an emulsion polymer having greater than 2.2% of hydroxy groups in the emulsion polymer and comprising structural units of a polymerizable surfactant, a first hydroxy-functional monomer, an acid monomer and/or a salt thereof, an additional monoethylenically unsaturated nonionic monomer, and optionally a second hydroxy-functional alkyl (meth)acrylate; the two-component polyurethane composition providing improved alcohol resistance without compromising both acid and alkali resistance.

Disclosed is a composition for forming a polyurethane film with improved reaction stability, comprising an OH group-containing polymer; an isocyanate-based compound as a curing agent; and an alicyclic urea diol compound having two urea groups and an OH group at two terminals, and a polyurethane film with improved self-healable property from tear, derived from the composition.

The present invention relates to an NCO-terminated polysiloxane prepolymer of the general formula (I) [(Q).sub.q]-(M).sub.m-(P).sub.p—(R).sub.r].sub.t, in which R, P, M, Q, r, p, m, q and t are defined as follows: R in each case independently is at least one polyisocyanate unit and/or at least one diisocyanate unit, P in each case independently is at least one polyol unit, M in each case independently is at least one diisocyanate unit and/or at least one polyisocyanate unit, Q is at least one polysiloxane unit, r in each case independently is a number from 1 to 10, p in each case independently is a number from 1 to 10, m in each case independently is a number from 1 to 10, q in each case independently is a number from 1 to 10, t is an integer from 2 to 5, and the M units present are attached directly to the unit Q; to a process for producing said prepolymer, and to use as curing agent in a coating formulation.

Described herein is a moisture-curing polyurethane hot-melt adhesive including at least 80% by weight, based on a total weight of the moisture-curing polyurethane hot-melt adhesive, of isocyanate-terminated prepolymer obtainable by mixing diisocyanate (a) with compounds having at least two isocyanate-reactive groups (b) and reacting the mixture to form the isocyanate-terminated prepolymer, where the compounds having at least two isocyanate-reactive groups (b) include at least one polylactide (b1) obtainable by reacting lactide with a linear difunctional starter molecule having 2 to 20 carbon atoms and the isocyanate content of the isocyanate-terminated prepolymer is 1 to 5% by weight. Also described herein is a process for producing such a moisture-curing polyurethane hot-melt adhesive and a method of using the moisture-curing polyurethane hot-melt adhesive in bonding of substrates.