Abstract: Disclosed is a coated article, for example an architectural transparency, or a vehicular transparency, or a reflecting article, as a decorative article. The article has a substrate, e.g., a substantially transparent substrate. The substrate has an optical coating on a surface thereof. The coating is a bilayer dielectric thin film having a thickness corresponding to a constructively interfering function of a wavelength of interest. The bilayer thin film is a metallic layer, which serves as an adhesion layer, with a dielectric atop the metallic layer which is a compound of the metal forming the metallic layer.

Abstract: A coated stainless steel article and a method of preparing the article are disclosed. The coating is a plasma chemical vapor deposited coating, formed from a plasma of nitrous oxide, a silane, and an energy transfer agent (such as He, Ar). The resulting coating is adherent, corrosion resistant, and has a thickness sufficient to mask and cover the features of the stainless steel substrate, and to provide a pitting potential (in 3.5% NaCl) of greater than 600 millivolts, a J.I.S. 8502 (1982) versus a saturated calomel electrode a salt spray test rating in 5% NaCl-0.02% hydrogen peroxide of at least B.

Abstract: A coated article, for example an architectural transparency, including a vehicular transparency, or a reflecting article, as a decorative article. The article has a substrate, e.g., a substantially transparent or substantially opaque substrate. The substrate has an optical coating on it, that is a coating having a thin film of an oxide of a transition metal, the thin film having a thickness corresponding to a constructively interfering function of a wavelength of interest. The optical coating, having a thin film of a transition metal, enhances the reflectivity of some wavelengths of the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and the reflectivity of other wavelengths of the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Abstract: A recycling process for flexible polyurethane foam which comprises dissolving the foam in low molecular weight diol, admixing therewith high molecular weight polyol that is suitable for preparation of flexible urethane foam, removing under vacuum low molecular weight diol solvent from the admixture obtained, and recovering the residue which comprises polyol product that may be used to provide new flexible foam with desirable properties including advantageous tear strength.