Abstract: Water-dilutable binder composition containing one or more water-dilutable hydroxy-functional polyurethane urea paste resins having a urea group content (calculated as —NHCONH—) of from 10 to 300 mmol, a urethane group content (calculated as —NHCOO—) of from 20 to 300 mmol, in each case in 100 g of solid resin, an OH number of from 20 to 250, an acid number of from 15 to 80 and a molar mass Mn of from 1000 to 20,000, obtainable by I) preparing an NCO-group-containing polyurethane prepolymer by reacting a1) hydroxy-functional compounds having a molar mass (Mn) of from 360 to 8000 with a2) polyisocyanates and a3) compounds having at least one group that is able to react with isocyanates and at least one ionic group, II) subsequently reacting the polyurethane prepolymer with a4) hydroxy-functional monoamines and, optionally, polyols, and III) neutralising groups that can be converted into ionic groups, and from 2.0 to 25 wt.

Abstract: A copolymer containing a hydroxy and a carboxyl moiety and is dilutable with water after neutralization with an organic base, which copolymer is from an alkyl ester and/or hydroxyalkyl ester of an .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid in which the alkyl moiety is interrupted by one or more oxygen atoms and the alkyl moiety of the hydroxyalkyl ester can contain one or more hydroxyl groups, an .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and an optionally copolymerizable vinyl monomer, and has an acid number of from about 20 to about 50, and an OH number of from about 40 to about 90, and contains incorporated by polymerization from about 0.5 to about 5% wt. based on the monomers used for its preparation of one or more perfluoroalkyl ethyl ester of an .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid containing a C.sub.6-18 alkyl moiety.