Abstract: Cookware and other heating articles are included herein. The article may have a substrate forming a bottom surface of the cookware. The article may also have a graphite intermediate layer and cooking/heating surface disposed above the intermediate layers. The graphite layer may have one or more of the following properties: (1) a density of at least 0.64 g/cm3; (2) a water pick-up of a less than 30% by weight after a 2.5 hour soak in water at ambient conditions; (3) a Taber stiffness in the machine direction at least 25% higher than in the transverse direction; and (4) a sulfur content of less than 350 ppm and any combination thereof.

Abstract: Cookware and other heating articles are included herein. The article may have a substrate forming a bottom surface of the cookware. The article may also have a graphite intermediate layer and cooking/heating surface disposed above the intermediate layers. The graphite layer may have one or more of the following properties: (1) a density of at least 0.64 g/cm3; (2) a water pick-up of a less than 30% by weight after a 2.5 hour soak in water at ambient conditions; (3) a Taber stiffness in the machine direction at least 25% higher than in the transverse direction; and (4) a sulfur content of less than 350 ppm and any combination thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to aromatic carboxylic acid-modified cyclopentadiene-based hydrocarbon resins and phenolated aromatic carboxylic acid-modified cyclopentadiene-based hydrocarbon resins and methods for producing the same. More particularly, this invention concerns methods of producing cyclopentadiene-based hydrocarbon resins and phenolated cyclopentadiene-based hydrocarbon resins that are modified by incorporation of aromatic carboxylic acids to improve their compatibility with alkyd resins while achieving softening points, Theological properties, and hydrocarbon solubilities desirable for use in the formulation of printing inks.