Abstract: Yellow metal azo pigments based on adducts of at least two metal azo compounds provide improved dispersion properties and are of excellent suitability for pigmentation of pigment preparations for a broad field of use.

Abstract: Provided are a quinacridone pigment having a low content of a primary aromatic amine, a method for producing the same, and also a gravure and flexo ink, a colorant for plastic, a paint, a lithographic ink, a toner, or an ink-jet ink using the pigment. The quinacridone pigment having a low primary aromatic amine content is provided by washing a quinacridone pigment with at least one solvent selected from water and an organic solvent, or by adding an oxidizing agent to a pigment slurry including a quinacridone pigment and at least one solvent selected from water and an organic solvent to oxidatively decompose the aromatic amine.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound capable of improving the dispersibility of color pigments in a water-insoluble solvent; and a pigment-dispersing agent. The present invention also provides a pigment composition, a pigment dispersion, and a toner, which have satisfactory tinting strength. The present invention provides the compound containing a polymer having a monomer unit having a specific chemical structure, the compound having a moiety also having a specific structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pigments, comprising a plate-like substrate of perlite, and (a) a dielectric material, especially a metal oxide, having a high index of refraction; and/or (a) a metal layer, especially a thin semi-transparent metal layer; a process for their production and their use in paints, ink jet printing, for dyeing textiles, for pigmenting coatings (paints), printing inks, plastics, cosmetics, glazes for ceramics and glass.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing an iron oxide-based gloss and, more specifically, to a method for preparing an iron oxide-based black glossy pigment with high yield using iron sulfate as a starting material through thermal synthesis without sintering, wherein the method comprises the steps of: preparing an iron sulfate dilution liquid; forming a suspension of flake substrates; titrating the substrate suspension with an aqueous inorganic salt solution and mixing the iron sulfate dilution liquid therewith, thereby coating an oxide layer on surfaces of the flake substrates.

Abstract: Provided is a primer for metal surfaces and the preparation method thereof. The primer comprises 50-80 wt % of organic solvent (A), 2-15 wt % of phenolic resin (B), 1-10 wt % of rubber elastomer (C), 1-10 wt % of silane coupling agent (D), 5-25 wt % of metal oxide powder (E), and 1-10 wt % of inorganic filler (F); wherein the organic solvent (A) is an organic solvent capable of dissolving the phenolic resin (B) and the rubber elastomer (C), and the inorganic filler (F) is different from the metal oxide powder (E). The primer can facilitate the bonding of metal and rubber, and has high adhesion strength.

Abstract: A pumpable shelf-stable suspension of fibers in an organic phase comprising 1.0-60 wt % of fibers and 0.01-10 wt % of a disubstituted urea is proposed as well as a method using the disubstituted urea to suspend fibers in an organic phase.

Abstract: A thermosetting powder coating material includes powder particles containing a mixture of a vinyl resin A including a block isocyanate group and a carboxyl group and a vinyl resin B including a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group, or a vinyl resin C including a block isocyanate group, a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group, wherein a content of the isocyanate group is from 0.4 mmol/g to 1.4 mmol/g, and a functional group molar ratio of [NCO/(COOH+OH)], which is obtained by dividing the content of the isocyanate group by a total content of the hydroxyl group and the carboxyl group, is from 0.5 to 1.2.

Abstract: This invention relates to a zinc-rich epoxy anti-corrosion coating comprising a component A capable of being cured into a film, and a component B containing a curing agent, wherein the component A comprises, by mass percentage, 0.1-5 wt % graphene, 0-35 wt % zinc powder, 30-70 wt % filler, 10-20 wt % epoxy resin having 54 wt % solid content, and 10-20 wt % solvent, wherein the sum of the mass percentage contents of the graphene, zinc powder and filler is 60-80 wt % and the sum of the mass percentage contents of all components of component A is 100 wt %. According to the present invention, the addition of graphene to an anti-corrosion coating decreases the thickness of the coating film, reduces the amount of zinc powder while increases the anti-corrosion effect. It reduces zinc oxide vapour generated during welding and is environmentally friendly.

Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous dispersion of polymer, based on structured polymer particles, said particles comprising a core polymer phase, based on a polymer P1 with Tg1 ranging from 60 to 120° C., a second polymer phase enveloping said core, based on a polymer P2 with a Tg2 ranging from ?60 to 40° C. and a third outer polymer phase (or shell) based on a polymer P3, with a Tg3 ranging from Tg2?5° C. to Tg2+5° C. and having an Mn not exceeding 150 000, with the weight contents of said polymers P1, P2 and P3 being, relative to the total weight of polymer (P1+P2+P3): P1 from 5% to 60%, P2 from 40% to 85%, P3 from 5% to 25% with the sum of said weight contents being 100%.

Abstract: A method includes coating a substrate to provide a flame resistant substrate. In an embodiment, the method includes preparing a solution. The solution includes an anionic material, a cationic material, and water. The method further includes exposing the substrate to the solution to produce a coating on the substrate. The coating has cationic material and anionic material.

Abstract: An electrophoretic particle includes a base particle (particle) that includes a first functional group, and a first compound and a second compound bonded to the base particle. The first compound is a polymer that includes a dispersion portion derived from a first monomer that contributes to dispersibility and a bonding portion derived from a second monomer including a second functional group having reactivity to the first functional group, and is connected to the base particle at the bonding portion. The second compound has a lower molecular weight than the first compound, includes a non-polar group and the second functional group, and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous coating composition (A) having a pH in a range from 4.0 to 6.

Abstract: In a method for producing composite particles containing polymer particles and silica particles that adhere to the polymer particles, the composite particles are obtained by subjecting a polymerizable monomer to aqueous suspension polymerization in a presence of silica particles and a cellulose compound adsorbing onto the silica particles. The composite particles contain the polymer particles, the silica particles that adhere to surfaces of the polymer particles, and the water-soluble cellulose compound.

Abstract: The circumference coating material fills a recessed groove that is formed on a circumferential surface of a honeycomb fired body and extends an axial direction at which a part of cells are opened to the outside and to cover the circumferential surface, thereby forming a circumferential wall on the circumferential surface of a honeycomb structure, and the circumference coating material includes colloidal silica in a part of raw materials to be used and has a chlorine concentration of 150 ppm or less. In addition, the colloidal silica to be used has a chlorine concentration of 500 ppm or less, and the colloidal silica is produced using at least any one acid of sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, and organic acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a curable silicone composition for forming a cured product which inhibits the discoloration of silver electrodes or a silver-plated substrate in an optical semiconductor device due to a sulfur-containing gas, the curable silicone composition comprising: (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded alkenyl groups per molecule; (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule; (C) an organic compound having an organic value of at least 175 in an organic conceptual diagram and having a specific group; and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst. In addition, the present invention provides an optical semiconductor device in which silver electrodes or a silver-plated substrate of an optical semiconductor device is sealed or covered with a cured product of the composition described above, the optical semiconductor device having excellent reliability after a sulfur resistance test.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include a drying agent that includes a metal organic salt of an ?-hydroxy acid for use as a drier in liquid (e.g., coatings, inks, lubes, greases) compositions. Compositions having a waterborne or oil-based composition and a drying agent are also described. Also provided are methods of producing a coating on a surface, by applying to the surface a composition having a drying agent that includes a metal organic salt of an ?-hydroxy acid. Methods for preparing an air-drying composition by combining a waterborne or oil-based composition and a drying agent having a metal organic salt of an ?-hydroxy acid are also described.

Abstract: A black ink composition for post print and preprint, obtainable by adding (colour concentrate mixture) solid red concentrate, blue concentrate, and green concentrate to a carbon black ink having a concentration of 10-25% by weight of the composition, wherein the carbon black has not undergone oxidation treatment, and the colour pigments are made up 75-90% by weight.

Abstract: An ink includes a radiation-curable compound, a liquid matter which is incompatible with the radiation-curable compound and is dispersed in a state of droplets, and a surfactant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to [1] a water-based pigment dispersion for ink-jet printing including pigment particles and water, in which a scattering intensity area ratio of components included in the range of from 0 to ?60 mV in a normalized zeta potential distribution 4 that is determined through specific zeta potential measurement steps is not more than 40%, and the like, and [2] a process for producing the water-based pigment dispersion for ink-jet printing, including production step (1) of subjecting a mixture including water, a pigment, a water-dispersible polymer and an organic solvent having a solubility in water of less than 40% by mass to dispersing treatment until a volume-average particle size of the pigment particles is decreased to not more than 180 nm to obtain a pigment dispersion; production step (2) of adding water to the resulting pigment dispersion, followed by maintaining the resulting dispersion at a temperature of not higher than 40° C.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an ink composition for inkjet recording comprises a dispersion medium that contains water and glycol ether of which boiling point is equal to or greater than 220 degrees centigrade, a pigment and a core-shell particle that includes a core consisting of hydrophobic acrylic resin and a shell consisting of at least one of aqueous urethane resin and acrylic graft aqueous urethane resin.

Abstract: A water-based ink for ink-jet recording includes: a pigment; water; polyoxypropylene methyl glucoside; and a compound represented by the formula (1): in the formula (1), R is a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet ink capable of recording an image having an unprecedentedly high level of scratch resistance and excellent glossiness while satisfying reliability of the ink such as ejection stability. The ink jet ink contains at least a pigment and a graft polymer, and is characterized in that the graft polymer includes at least a specific nonionic unit and a unit having a polysiloxane structure.

Abstract: A fluid for ink jet printing characters on a substrate that become magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field, the fluid HAVING a suspension of nanoparticles dispersed in a solvent, wherein the fluid comprises a viscosity from 1 to 50 cps and a surface tension of 20-45 dynes/cm, further wherein each nanoparticle is sized between 10-180 nm and comprises M(III)2O3, M(II)O and M(II)M(III)2O4, wherein M(III) is a trivalent metal and M(II) is a divalent metal, or Fe2O3, MnO and M(II)O, wherein M is a divalent metal selected from the group consisting of Fe, Ni, Mn, Co, Cu, Pt, Au, Ag, Ba and a rare earth metal.

Abstract: A transparent carbon nano-tube (CNT) polymer compound conductive inks and preparation methods thereof. The conductive ink includes modified CNT, conductive polymer, water-soluble polymer cosolvent, polymer modification additive, surfactant and deionized water. Preparation is performed to realize uniform dispersion of CNT and conductive polymer solution and the obtained ink has good stability and re-dispersibility. The CNT polymer compound conductive ink and methods can be used for preparing fine electrode patterns under room temperature by adopting such devices as spin coating and ink jet printing. Photoresist conductive ink can be prepared to realize one-off preparation of electrode patterns with fine structures. The ink can be applied for very transparent electrode materials in such devices as flexible OLED displays, solar cells, liquid crystal displays and panels of touch screens.

Abstract: A composition according to the invention contains a cellulose derivative having a liquid crystalline functional group and a liquid crystalline solvent having a reactive functional group. The reactive functional group preferably contains a carbon-carbon double bond. The reactive functional group is preferably a (meth)acryloyl group.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure is directed to a wet sacrificial coating composition. The coating composition is made from ingredients comprising: a waxy starch; at least one cross-linker; at least one hygroscopic material; at least one surfactant; and a liquid carrier.

Abstract: A curable aqueous composition is disclosed comprising a carbohydrate, a crosslinking agent, and an amine base, wherein the curable aqueous composition has a pH adjusted by the amine base. Further disclosed is a method of forming a curable aqueous solution.

Abstract: The present invention provides aqueous polyolefin dispersion compositions for use in metal coatings, such as can coatings, comprising one or more polyolefin base polymer, one or more at least partially neutralized olefinic stabilizing agent having an acid number (AN) of from 80 to 250, preferably, a polyolefin stabilizing agent, such as an olefin-carboxylic acid copolymer or a blend of two such polymers, an optional coupling agent having an acid number (AN) of from 10 to 70 and a melt index of from 500 to 5,000,000 grams of polymer melt passing in 10 minutes through a heated syringe or cylinder at 190° C. with a plunger loaded with 2.16 kg, preferably, a polymer, and a hindered phenolic antioxidant containing an ester linkage dispersed in the polyolefin dispersion composition.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aqueous latex and a process for the preparation thereof. In particular, the present disclosure relates to an aqueous latex useful as a spacing extender for inorganic pigment particles. The present disclosure also relates to a dispersion of inorganic pigment particles comprising the aqueous latex and to an aqueous coating composition comprising the aqueous latex and inorganic pigment particles.

Abstract: A thermosetting powder coating material includes powder particles that include a core which contains a thermosetting resin and a thermosetting agent having a blocked isocyanate group and a resin coating portion which contains a thermosetting resin having a glass transition temperature of equal to or higher than 45° C. and coats a surface of the core, and satisfy the followings (1) to (4): (1) a volume particle diameter distribution index GSDv of the powder particles is equal to or less than 1.50; (2) an average circularity of the powder particles is equal to or greater than 0.96; (3) a melting temperature of the powder particles measured according to a ½ method by using a flow tester is from 90° C. to 115° C.; and (4) an exothermic peak is within a range of from 80° C. to 150° C. in a differential scanning calorimetry measurement of the powder particles.

Abstract: The invention relates to coatings which can be obtained by adding mercapto groups to acrylates and/or by a radiation curing process, said coatings having good properties, to methods for producing same, and to the use thereof.

Abstract: A lipophilic/hydrophilic polymer is prepared from a mixture of reactants that includes a polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated alkoxysilane, a polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated hydrophilic monomer, and a polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated lipophilic monomer. The lipophilic/hydrophilic polymer includes at least a pendant and/or terminal alkoxysilane group. An anti-fingerprint coating composition includes the lipophilic/hydrophilic polymer.

Abstract: A coating composition containing (A) a sulfopolyester, (B) water, and (C) a polymer resin. The sulfopolyester comprises residues of (a) an acid component comprising (i) a dicarboxylic acid compound, a derivative of a dicarboxylic acid compound, or combinations thereof and (ii) a sulfomonomer having at least one ionic sulfonate group covalently bonded directly or indirectly to an aromatic or cycloaliphatic ring and (b) a polyhydroxyl component comprising a 2,2,4,4-tetralkylcyclobutane-1,3-diol. The polyhydroxyl component may further contain residues of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, neopentyl glycol, or a mixture thereof.

Abstract: A thermosetting powder coating material includes: powder particles containing a thermosetting resin and a thermosetting agent; and inorganic oxide particles containing a silane compound having an amino group.

Abstract: A composition for promoting the release of bituminous materials and other adhesive materials from a substrate and methods of use thereof. More particularly, a composition comprising a silicone oil-in-water emulsion, which is stabilized by an alkoxylated polysiloxane surfactant, for use as a release agent that can be applied to a substrate, such as a truck bed, prior to use for promoting the free release of a bituminous material, such as asphalt, from the substrate.

Abstract: A condensation-curable silicone composition provides a cured product having good performance at a low temperature, excellent resistance to a temperature change, and a crack resistance, and a semiconductor device has a high reliability, whose semiconductor element is encapsulated with the cured product. A condensation-curable silicone composition has (A) a branched organopolysiloxane represented by formula (1-1) or (1-2) with a short branch made of 1 to 4 siloxane units and (C) a condensation catalyst in a catalytic amount. Further, a condensation-curable silicone composition also has (B) an organopolysiloxane having a network structure and represented by formula (2). Further, a semiconductor device is provided with a cured product obtained by curing the condensation-curable silicone composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for coating an inert or naturally occurring material with a silk polypeptide. It further relates to a coated inert or naturally occurring material obtainable by said method and to uses thereof. It also relates to products comprising said coated material.

Abstract: A polishing liquid comprising abrasive grains, an additive, and water, wherein the abrasive grains include a hydroxide of a tetravalent metal element, produce absorbance of 1.00 or more for light having a wavelength of 400 nm in a first aqueous dispersion having a content of the abrasive grains adjusted to 1.0 mass %, and produce light transmittance of 50%/cm or more for light having a wavelength of 500 nm in the first aqueous dispersion, and a NO3? concentration of a second aqueous dispersion obtained by retaining the first aqueous dispersion at 60° C. for 72 hours is 200 ppm or less.

Abstract: Metal compound chemically anchored colloidal particles wherein the metal compound is in molecular form are disclosed. A facile and fast process to chemically anchor metal compounds uniformly onto colloidal particle surfaces via chemical bonding has been developed. Metal compounds are chemically anchored to the surface of colloidal particles via an organic linking agent. Uniformly distributed metal compounds remain in molecular form after the process. The metal compound chemically anchored colloidal particles can be used as solid catalyst in metal chemical-mechanical planarization process.

Abstract: Raspberry-type coated particles comprising a core selected from the group consisting of metal oxides of Si, Ti, Zr, Al, Zn and mixtures thereof with a core size of from 20 to 100 nm wherein the core is coated with CeO2 particles having a particle size below 10 nm; process for preparing raspberry type coated particles comprising the steps of i) providing a mixture containing a) core particles selected from the group of metal oxides of Si, Ti, Zr, Al, Zn and mixtures thereof, with a particle size of from 20 to 100 nm, b) a water soluble Ce-salt and c) water, ii) adding an organic or inorganic base to the mixture of step i) at temperatures of from 10 to 90° C. and iii) aging the mixture at temperatures of from 10 to 90° C.; and polishing agents containing the particles and their use for polishing surfaces (FIG. 1).

Abstract: An adhesive composition for a polarizing plate of the present invention comprises, on the basis of 100 parts by weight of a polymerizable component: the polymerizable component comprising (A) approximately 50-90 parts by weight of an epoxy group-containing compound and (B) approximately 10-50 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylate monomer; (C) approximately 1-7 parts by weight of a photoacid generator; and (D) approximately 0.

Abstract: A film material includes a substrate and a film layer arranged on one main surface of the substrate. The film layer contains a fibrous first resin and a thermosetting second resin in an uncured or semi-cured state, and a linear expansion coefficient CF of the first resin is smaller than a linear expansion coefficient CR of the second resin in cured state.

Abstract: Provided are a pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film, a crosslinkable composition, and a display device. A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer using a polymer component exhibiting excellent crosslinking efficiency even at a low molecular weight to exhibit excellent workability, durability and dimension stability, and the optical film to which such a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is applied may be provided.

Abstract: This invention provides a surface protection sheet that allows for easy application to an adherend surface with good removability. The surface protection sheet provided by this invention comprises a PSA layer and a support substrate supporting the PSA layer. The surface protection sheet has a peel strength (SA) after adhered to a stainless steel plate and stored at 23° C. for 30 minutes, and a peel strength (SB) after adhered on a stainless steel plate and stored at 70° C. for 168 hours, at a peel strength ratio (SB/SA) of 5 or less. The surface protection sheet has a peel strength to itself of 5 N/25 mm or less when the PSA layer is adhered to itself and peeled apart after one minute.

Abstract: The invention provide a manufacturing method for producing conductive adhesive with spherical graphene, and the steps comprise as following: step 1: preparing monomer, initiator, a dispersing agent and solvent to manufacture a monomer compound, and use the monomer compound to produce polymer micro ball; step 2: heating pre-treatment or plasma etching pre-treatment to the said polymer micro ball; step3: by chemical vapor deposition, the polymer micro ball after pre-treatment from step 2 to grow graphene outside surfaces or inside polymer micro ball, and then obtain the spherical graphene; step 4: producing epoxy gel system made by epoxy, hardener and accelerant with a certain ratio mixing homogeneously; step 5: dispersing the spherical graphene from step 3 into the epoxy gel system to produce pre-material of conductive adhesive of spherical graphene; Step 6: deforming the pre-material of conductive adhesive of spherical graphene, and then obtain conductive adhesive of spherical graphene.

Abstract: Electrically conductive particles filled in the openings are securely transferred and attached to the binder resin layer. The invention further includes a step of filling a solvent and electrically conductive particles in a plurality of openings formed on a surface of a substrate in a predetermined pattern, a step of pasting a surface on which a binder resin layer is formed of an adhesive film having the binder resin layer formed on a base film on a surface on which the openings are formed of the substrate, and a step of peeling off the adhesive film from the surface of the substrate and transferring and attaching the electrically conductive particles filled in the openings to the binder resin layer while heating the substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a stabilising composition for hot melt adhesives, the composition comprising: a first stabilising component comprising at least one phenolic antioxidant; a second stabilising component comprising at least one phosphite antioxidant; and a third stabilising component comprising at least one antioxidant containing a sulphur group having the formula —CH2-(S)x-CH2-, wherein x=1 or 2, and wherein neither of the —CH2- groups is directly bonded to an aromatic group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-soluble pre-reacted binder composition, a method of its manufacture, a use of said pre-reacted binder composition, a method of manufacturing a collection of matter bound by a polymeric binder, a binder solution or dispersion comprising said pre-reacted binder composition, as well as products comprising the pre-reacted binder composition in a cured state.

Abstract: Provided is a sealing material comprising: about 20 to about 70 wt % acrylate rubber component; about 10 to about 50 wt % rheological filler component; about 5 to about 40 wt % tackifier component; about 5 to about 30 wt % plasticizer component; about 0.5 to about 5 wt % antioxidant component; up to about 20 wt % dielectric filler component; and up to about 20 wt % fluorin ated thermoplastic or elastomeric filler component.