Abstract: Disclosed herein are multicomponent systems, processes for preparing them, and their use for preparing water-in-oil dispersions curable thermally or both thermally and with actinic radiation, and also their use as coating materials, adhesives, and sealants for producing coatings, adhesive layers, and seals. In one embodiment, a multicomponent system compries: (I) at least one water-in-oil dispersion comprising water and at least one water-soluble and/or water-dispersible, oligomeric and/or polymeric binder (A) having at least two isocyanate-reactive functional groups in solution and/or dispersion in at least one organic solvent; (II) at least one water-free liquid component comprising at least one polyisocyanate (B); and (III) water or at least one aqueous component comprising at least one binder (A) in dispersion and/or solution in water.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing chromophore and/or effect giving multilayer lacquers according to the wet-on-wet method. A water base lacquer is applied which contains at least one graft copolymer containing (A) at least one (meth)acrylate copolymer and (B) at least one polyurethane. The graft copolymer can be produced by (1) dispersing at least one hydrophilic or hydrophobic self cross-linking polyurethane (B) with a statistical average of at least one terminal and/or at least one lateral olefinically unsaturated group and at least one blocked isocyanate group per molecule in an aqueous medium. (2) A mixture of a at least one monomer (a1) with at least one isocyanate reactive functional group at last one monomer (a2) that can be copolymerised therewith is subsequently radically copolymerised in an emulsion in the presence of the polyurethane (B) or the polyurethanes (B). A powder slurry transparent lacquer layer is added to the resulting base lacquer layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to reflectance sensors built up from an optical unit, a sample analysis unit and a system control unit, and to a method of measuring the reflectance of a sample in the form of a liquid pigment preparation, and to the use of a reflectance sensor according to the invention for the measurement of the reflectance of liquid pigment preparations in various process stages during the production, further processing and use of the liquid pigment preparations.

Abstract: A coating material curable thermally and with actinic radiation and comprising (a1) at least one constituent containing (a11) on average per molecule at least two functional groups which contain at least one bond which can be activated with actinic radiation and which serves for crosslinking with actinic radiation and, if desired, (a12) at least one isocyanate-reactive group, (a2) at least one thermally curable constituent having at least two isocyanate-reactive groups, and (a3) at least one aromatic polyisocyanate which is free from functional groups (a11), or a mixture of at least one aromatic polyisocyanate which is free from functional groups (a11) and of at least one (cyclo)aliphatic polyisocyanate which is free from functional groups (a11); and its use for coating microporous surfaces, especially of SMCs and BMCs.

Abstract: Thermally curable one-component coating materials having a solids content of from 40 to 80% by weight and an electrical resistance in the range from 600 to 1300 k?, and process for preparing them, and their use.

Abstract: Polyesters comprising at least one pendant and/or terminal group which can be activated with actinic radiation, preparable by reacting 1. a polyester (i) containing at least one pendant and/or terminal hydroxyl group with at least one carboxylic acid (i) or at least one ester (i) of a carboxylic acid (i) containing at least one bond which can be activated with actinic radiation, or 2. a polyester (ii) containing at least one pendant and/or terminal carboxylic acid group or at least one pendant and/or terminal carboxylic ester group with at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (ii) containing at least one bond which can be activated with actinic radiation in the presence of at least one organism and/or enzyme which catalyzes the transesterification or esterification; process for preparing them, and their use.

Abstract: Compounds which can be activated by actinic radiation, contain at least one urethane group, and have the general formula I: X[N(R)—C(O)—O—C(R1R2)—C(R3R4)—Y-Z]n??(I), in which the index and the variables have the following meanings: n is an integer from 1 to 5; X is an at least n-valent, substituted or unsubstituted organic radical; R is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituted or unsubstituted organic radical; R1-R4 independently of one another are a hydrogen atom, halogen atom or monovalent, substituted or unsubstituted organic radical, it being possible for at least two radicals to be cyclically linked to one another; Y is a divalent, linking functional group containing at least one oxygen atom; and Z is an organic radical containing at least one group which can be activated by actinic radiation; with the proviso that at least for n=1 the radical R and/or the radical X are/is substituted by at least one substituent of the general formula II: Z—Y—??(II), in which the variables Z and Y are as defined

Abstract: A process for improving the intercoat adhesion in a multicoat paint system utilizing a primer coat, an aqueous basecoat, and a clearcoat, where the multicoat paint system has been produced by means of a wet-on-wet technique. The clearcoat is produced using a pseudoplastic powder clearcoat slurry prepared by a secondary dispersion process or a melt emulsification process. The aqueous basecoat material used to produce the aqueous basecoat comprises a dispersed graft copolymer whose particles are composed of a hydrophobic core of copolymerized olefinically unsaturated monomers and of a hydrophilic shell which comprises a polyurethane, wher said copolymer is prepared by free-radical (co)polymerization of the monomers in the presence of at least one polyurethane containing specially selected olefinically unsaturated groups.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylates by preparing a poly(meth)acrylate containing hydroxy-functional side chains and transesterifying or esterifying the poly(meth)acrylate containing hydroxy-functional side chains with a (meth)acrylate or (meth)acrylic acid. The present invention further relates to the actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylates themselves and to the use of the actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylates in the preparation of dispersions or as a component in coating formulations and topcoats comprising at least one actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylate.

Abstract: Curable compositions comprising: (A) at least one constituent curable physically or thermally and/or with actinic radiation, (B) at least one kind of inorganic nanoparticles having an electrophoretic mobility ?e??0.5 (?m/s)/(V/cm) at a pH of 3 to 7, and (C) at least one light stabilizer based on sterically hindered amines (HALS) having a pKb of at least 9.0; process for preparing them, and their use.

Abstract: Coating materials, processes for preparing them, and their use. The coating materials include hydroxyl-containing (meth)acrylate (co)polymer, carbamate and hydroxyl-functional compound, an amino resin, and a triazine compound. At least 10 equivalent % of the hydroxyl groups present in (A) and/or (B) are primary hydroxyl groups. The coating materials after curing have a storage modulus E? in the rubber-elastic range of at least 1.5*107 Pa, the storage modulus E? having been measured by dynamic mechanical thermoanalysis (DMTA) on homogeneous free films with a thickness of 40±10 ?m.

Abstract: In the Taylor reactor, in accordance with a first alternative of the invention, the reactor housing and/or the rotor are/is equipped such that the cross section of the reaction volume initially rises from the inlet to the outlet but the rise in cross section decreases in the direction of the outlet at least over part of the length of the rotor. In accordance with a second alternative of the invention, which may also find application in addition to the first, the end face of the rotor is designed in such a way that the reaction volume opens out into the outlet in such a way that it is at least substantially free from deadspaces (FIG. 4).

Abstract: A liquid coating material in the form of a water-in-oil dispersion which is curable with actinic radiation, is substantially or completely free from organic solvents and has a pH<5, comprising (A) at least one constituent selected from the group consisting of low molecular mass, oligomeric, and polymeric organic compounds which contain at least one group which can be activated with actinic radiation, and also air-drying and oxidatively drying alkyd resins, (B) at least one acidic ester of polyphosphoric acid and at least one compound (b1) containing at least one hydroxyl group and at least one group which can be activated with actinic radiation, (C) at least one acidic ester of monophosphoric acid and at least one compound (c1) containing at least one hydroxyl group and at least one group which can be activated with actinic radiation, and (D) at least one acidic, corrosion-inhibiting pigment based on polyphosphoric acid; process for its preparation, and its use as a coil coating primer.

Abstract: The invention provides heat-curable thixotropic mixtures containing carbamate and/or allophanate groups, including at least one oligomer and/or polymer containing at least one of carbamate and allophanate groups, and at least one thixotropic agent that is a urea derivative preparable by reacting at least one amine and/or water with at least one isocyanate in the presence of at least one amino resin. The invention further provides processes for preparing the mixtures and coating materials, adhesives and sealing compounds prepared from the mixtures.

Abstract: In the method and apparatus for the colorimetric measurement of effect and solid-color paints, light from a light source (1) irradiates at least one detection area (2) on a painted measured area (4) of a sample (3) and the light reflected from the measured area (4) of the sample (3) is received by a two-dimensional detector (5). The illumination and the detection angles are adjusted with respect to each other relative to the measured area and RGB values of the light received by the two-dimensional detector for a plurality of angles are registered as a function of the illumination and detection angle and supplied to a data-processing device. By means of a data processing program, the data sets obtained in this way are assigned to the 3-D data of a virtual three-dimensional substrate, in particular a virtual automobile body or its parts, at a virtual illumination and viewing angle of the virtual substrate and are visualized by means of a reproduction device.

Abstract: Coating materials for the coil coating process, comprising (A) as binder at least one aliphatic, araliphatic and/or aromatic polyester having an acid number of <10 mg KOH/g, a hydroxyl number of from 30 to 200 mg KOH/g, and a number-average molecular weight Mn of between 1000 and 5000 daltons, (B) as crosslinking agent at least two amino-containing resins of different reactivity, processes for preparing them, and their use as coil coating materials.

Abstract: A coating material comprising (A) at least one kind of hydrophobic nanoparticles based on silica and (B) at least one kind of hydrophilic nanoparticles based on silica having a BET internal surface area of >300 m2/g; process for preparing it, and its use.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an acrylicized polyetherpolyol that consists of an ethoxylated polyol having a molecular weight of from 600 to 1000, preferably from 700 to 900, which is esterified with acrylic acid.