Provided herein are methods of making functional surfaces, including liquid repellant surfaces that can exhibit selective wetting properties. Methods of forming a functional surfaces can comprise providing a dispersion of nanoparticles; and applying the dispersion to a polymer surface to form a multiplicity of re-entrant structures embedded within and protruding from the polymer surface. The re-entrant structures are formed from aggregates of the nanoparticles. Also provided are functional surfaces prepared by these methods, as well as articles comprising these functional surfaces.

A curable resin composition comprising: (a) 27 to 60 wt % of a liquid siloxane oligomer comprising polymerized units of formula R.sup.1.sub.mR.sup.2.sub.nSi(OR.sup.3).sub.4-m-n, wherein R.sup.1 is a C.sub.5-C.sub.20 aliphatic group comprising an oxirane ring fused to an alicyclic ring, R.sup.2 is a C.sub.1-C.sub.20 alkyl, C.sub.6-C.sub.30 aryl group, or a C.sub.5-C.sub.20 aliphatic group having one or more heteroatoms, R.sup.3 is a C.sub.1-C.sub.4 alkyl group or a C.sub.1-C.sub.4 acyl group, m is 0.1 to 2.0 and n is 0 to 2.0; (b) 35 to 66 wt % non-porous nanoparticles of silica, a metal oxide, or a mixture thereof, having an average particle diameter from 5 to 50 nm; and (c) 0.5 to 7 wt % of a cationic photoinitiator.

The present disclosure provides an electro-polarizable complex compound having the following general formula:

[M.sup.4+(L).sub.m].sup.xK.sub.n,  (I)

where complexing agent M is a four-valence metal; ligand L comprises one or more heteroatomic fragments comprising one or more neutral or anionic metal-coordinating heteroatoms and one or more electrically resistive fragments, m represents the number of ligands; x represents the oxidative state of the metal-ligand complex; K is a counter-ion or zwitterionic polymers which provides an electro-neutrality of the complex compound, n represents the number of counter-ions. The metal-coordinating heteroatoms form a first coordination sphere, and the number of heteroatoms in this first coordination sphere does not exceed 12.

The present document describes a composition for the pretreatment of surfaces, which comprises plasticizers, degassers, pH adjusting agents, pigments, a phenol formaldehyde resin based adhesive, process of making the same and method of using the same.

The present invention relates to a plastic film. More particularly, the present invention relates to a plastic film which exhibits high hardness, self-healing property and excellent processability. The plastic film of the present invention exhibits high hardness, self-healing property, scratch resistance, high transparency, durability, light resistance, light transmittance or the like, and thus can be applied to various fields.

An aqueous coating composition capable of providing coating films with balanced properties of low gloss, high clarity, and good water resistance and alcohol resistance, and a process of making and using such aqueous coating composition.

A photo-curable coating composition comprising (1) a polyfunctional (meth)acrylic monomer, (2) a photopolymerization initiator, and (3) a specific hydroxyphenyltriazine base UV absorber has high mar resistance and long-term weather resistance.

An epoxy resin composition for encapsulation of a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device encapsulated with the epoxy resin composition, the composition including an epoxy resin; a curing agent; an inorganic filler; a curing catalyst; and a compound containing at least one hydroxyl group, wherein the curing catalyst includes a phosphonium compound represented by Formula 4: ##STR00001##

A method of synthesizing bimetallic oxide nanocomposites includes the steps of: providing a first metal salt solution; adding an oxidizing agent to the first metal salt solution while degassing the solution with an inert gas; heating the first metal salt solution; adding a second metal salt solution to the heated first metal salt solution to form a reaction mixture; adding a solution comprising a poly (ionic liquid) into the reaction mixture; adding a first base into the reaction mixture; adding a second base while stirring and maintaining a temperature ranging from about 40° C. to about 65° C. to provide a solution including a bimetallic oxide nanocomposite precipitate. The first metallic salt solution can include FeCl.sub.3 dissolved in water. The second metallic salt solution can include CuCl.sub.2 dissolved in water. The bimetallic oxide nanocomposites can be combined with epoxy resin to coat a steel stubstrate.

The present invention relates to a solventborne, pigmented coating composition having a solids fraction of at least 35%, which comprises, based on the total amount of the coating composition, 0.1 to 1.5 wt % of at least one copolymer (A), where the copolymer (A) is obtainable by copolymerization of a mixture of olefinically unsaturated monomers (a) in at least one organic solvent, the mixture of monomers (a) to be polymerized consists of (a1) 10 to 60 mol % of at least one monomer of the formula (I) below

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where R.sub.1═C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkoxy, R.sub.2═C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl, and m=0 to 2, and also (a2) 40 to 90 mol % of at least one further olefinically unsaturated monomer, and the copolymer (A) possesses a glass transition temperature T.sub.g of at least −30° C. The present invention also relates to a method for producing a multicoat paint system using the coating composition, and to the multicoat paint systems themselves.