Ppg Industries Ohio, Inc.

Ppg Industries, Inc.

James B O'Dwyer

Simion Coca

Daniela White

Gregory J McCollum

Karen A Barkac

Kurt Gordon Olson

Kurt A Humbert

Edward R Coleridge

Paul H Lamers

Roxalana Lee Martin

James R Franks

Wen-Hsuan Chang

Brian Edward Woodworth

Victoria A Trettel

Dennis A Simpson

James E Poole

Samuel Porter, Jr

Steven V Barancyk

Shanti Swarup

Marvis E Hartman

Karl F Schimmel

Charles M Kania

Dennis L Faler

Roger L Scriven

Brian K Rearick

Robert M Piccirilli

Kyu-Wang Lee

Ronald R Ambrose

Lawrence G Anderson

Thomas R Hockswender

Jonathan T Martz

Michael Allen Mayo

Richard J Sadvary

John R Schneider

Kevin C Olson

Kevin J Stewart

Stephen John Thomas

Cletus N Welch

John R Peffer

Joseph P Cherenko

Neil D McMurdie

Karen S Rechenberg

Jeanine A Conklin

Jonathan D Goetz

Robert D Lippert

Linda J Bowser

Robert L Simeone

Anthony Michael Chasser

Rostyslaw Dowbenko

Debra L Singer

Daniel E Rardon

Noel Rawle Vanier

David R Fenn

James A Claar

Cynthia Kutchko

Calum Hugh Munro

Richard F Karabin

Davina J Schwartzmiller

Shiryn Tyebjee

David T McKeough

Padmanabhan Sundararaman

Joseph M Carney

Jane Valenta

Michael L White

Leigh-Ann Humbert

Wayne H Tyger

B Keith Johnston

Joanne H Smith

Richard J Winters

Byron K Johnston

Andrew T Carroll

Lawrence J Fitzgerald

David P Zielinski

Laura E Poindexter

James R Christenson

Coatings comprising a polymer comprising a terpene and a monomer polymerized with terpene by free radical polymerization are disclosed. Coatings comprising terpene in greater than 30 wt % are also disclosed as are coatings comprising a terpene and a urea. Copolymers with terpene are also disclosed.

Coatings comprising terpene

Epoxy functional polymers comprising the reaction product of a terpene and a epoxy functional monomer are disclosed. Coatings comprising these polymers are also disclosed, including cationic electrodepositable coatings.

Epoxy functional polymers comprising the reaction product of terpene and an epoxy functional monomer and coatings comprising such polymers

A composition that includes a non-gelled copolymer that contains residues having structural units (I): where n is an integer from 1 to 10,000; Ris linear or branched Cto Calkyl; Ris selected from the group consisting of methyl, linear, cyclic or branched Cto Calkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkaryl and aralkyl, and Ris a group resulting from a post polymerization reaction selected from transesterification, transamidification and hydrolysis with a compound selected from hydroxy functional compounds and amine functional compounds. The composition may contain co-reactive functional groups and may be a thermosetting composition. A substrate may be coated with the thermosetting composition singly or as part of a multi-layer composite coating that includes a base coat layer and a substantially pigment free top coat layer.

Compositions containing copolymers of olefinic monomers

A controlled free radical polymerization process, which includes the steps of: adding a monofunctional iniferter compound to an oxygen-free solvent; heating the solution to a temperature sufficient to allow the iniferter compound to form two carbon centered radical residues; adding a first monomer composition comprising one or more monomers to the solution containing the radical containing residues; polymerizing the first monomer composition to form a quasi-living polymer; and optionally polymerizing a second monomer composition comprising one or more monomers, which are different than the first monomer composition. The resulting non-random copolymer having the general formula:&#x3c6;-[-A-B-]-&#x3c6;where A and B are different compositions of ethylenically unsaturated monomers; p is an integer from 1 to 1,000; s is an integer from 0 to 1,000; t is an integer from 1 to 100; and &#x3c6; is a residue from the iniferter.

Synthesis of vinyl polymers by controlled radical polymerization

Fluoropolymers are disclosed. The fluoropolymers include (i) units derived from a fluoromonomer composition comprising chlorotrifluoroethylene, and (ii) units derived from at least one donor monomer composition. In the disclosed fluoropolymers, units (i) and (ii) are distributed along the fluoropolymer chain in a substantially alternating fashion. Also disclosed are thermosetting compositions containing such fluoropolymers, substrates coated with such compositions, methods for making such compositions, and methods for coating substrates with such compositions.

Thermosetting coating compositions comprising a copolymer formed from chlorotrifluoroethylene and methods of making copolymers formed from chlorotrifluoroethylene

Fluoropolymers are disclosed. The fluoropolymers include (i) units derived from a fluoromonomer having the formula FC&#x2550;CXY, where X is CFand Y is either F or CF, and (ii) units derived from at least one donor monomer. In the disclosed fluoropolymers, units (i) and (ii) are distributed along the fluoropolymer chain in a substantially alternating fashion. Also disclosed are thermosetting compositions containing such fluoropolymers, substrates coated with such compositions, methods for making such compositions, and methods for coating substrates with such compositions.

Fluoropolymers, methods for their production, and thermosetting compositions containing them

Powder coating compositions having improved mar and scratch resistance are disclosed. The coatings generally comprise one or more particles that have been modified to render the particles more surface active. The improved resistance is achieved without affecting the appearance or mechanical performance of the coatings. Methods for using the coatings, and the substrates coated therewith, are also disclosed.

Coating compositions with modified particles and methods of using the same

A thermosetting composition that includes an ungelled copolymer composition and a crosslinking agent. The ungelled copolymer composition includes a functional group-containing copolymer that includes segments of alternating residues derived from a donor monomer composition comprising an acceptor monomer composition. The donor monomer composition includes one or both of isobutylene and diisobutylene, and the acceptor monomer composition includes acrylic monomers and monomers containing functional groups. The ungelled copolymer composition is substantially free of transition metals and Lewis acids, and the copolymer is substantially free of maleate-type monomer residues and fumarate-type monomer residues. The crosslinking agent has at least two functional groups that are reactive with the functional groups of the copolymer. The thermosetting composition may be in liquid, powder, or dispersed form and may be applied by traditional or electrocoating methods.

Thermosetting compositions containing alternating copolymers of isobutylene type monomers

A thermosetting composition that includes a co-reactable solid, particulate mixture of a film forming material having functional groups and a crosslinking agent having at least two functional groups that are reactive with the functional groups in the film forming material. The crosslinking agent includes a copolymer having at least 30 mol % of alternating structural units of a residue from a donor monomer and a residue from one or more acrylic acceptor monomers. The thermosetting composition may coat a substrate by coalescing the composition to form a continuous film and curing the composition. The thermosetting composition may be included as part of a multi-component composite coating composition that includes an optional primer coat, a base coat deposited from a pigmented film-forming composition, and a transparent top coat applied over the base coat, where either the base coat, the transparent top coat, or both, are deposited from the thermosetting composition.

Powder coating compositions having improved mar and acid resistance

A copolymer composition that includes a copolymer comprised of at least 30 mol % of residues having the following alternating residues from a donor monomer and from an acceptor monomer. The copolymer contains at least 15 mol % of an isobutylene type donor monomer and at least 15 mol % of an acrylic monomer as an acceptor monomer. The copolymer is substantially free of maleate or fumarate monomer segments and the copolymer composition is substantially free of Lewis acids and transition metals. Also disclosed is a thermosetting composition that includes a reactant comprising functional groups, a crosslinking agent having at least two functional groups that are reactive with the functional groups first reactant, and a copolymer flow control agent that includes the copolymer composition as well as substrates coated with the thermosetting composition.

Alternating copolymers of isobutylene type monomers

The present invention is directed to a method for producing a copolymer and a copolymer product of the method. The copolymer is prepared by a controlled radical polymerization process, typically an atom transfer radical polymerization process, in which polymerizable alkene monomers are polymerized in the presence of a halogenated polyolefin macroinitiator. The copolymer product of this process is useful in a film-forming composition that adheres strongly to polyolefinic substrates and to which non-polyolefinic film-forming compositions strongly adhere. The copolymer can be applied to a substrate in an adhesion-promoting layer or can be incorporated into a film-forming composition, such as a primer, that contains additional resinous compounds.

Acrylic-halogenated polyolefin copolymer adhesion promoters

A composition that includes a non-gelled copolymer that includes one or more residues of a first polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing a pendant amide, ester or carboxylic acid group. The nearest neighboring monomer residues of the majority of the first monomer residues along the copolymer molecule do not contain pendant carbonyl functional groups. The amide, ester or carboxylic acid group of the residues of the first monomer are the post polymerization transesterification, transamidification or hydrolysis reaction product of a C-Calkyl ester group in the unreacted first monomer with a compound selected from amine functional compounds and hydroxy functional compounds. The reacted copolymer is substantially free of cyclical structures resulting from the transesterification, transamidification or hydrolysis reaction. The compositions may be thermosetting compositions useful in multi-layer composite coatings.

Compositions containing copolymers of post-polymerization reacted (meth) acrylate monomers

A controlled free radical polymerization process, which includes the steps of: adding a monofunctional iniferter compound to an oxygen-free solvent; heating the solution to a temperature sufficient to allow the iniferter compound to form two carbon centered radical residues; adding a first monomer composition comprising one or more monomers to the solution containing the radical containing residues; polymerizing the first monomer composition to form a quasi-living polymer; and optionally polymerizing a second monomer composition comprising one or more monomers, which are different than the first monomer composition. The resulting non-random copolymer having the general formula:&#x3c6;-[&#x2014;A&#x2014;B&#x2014;]-&#x3c6;where A and B are different compositions of ethylenically unsaturated monomers; p is an integer from 1 to 1,000; s is an integer from 0 to 1,000; t is an integer from 1 to 100; and &#x3c6; is a residue from the iniferter.

The present invention is directed to a copolymer that includes a first radically polymerizable low surface tension (meth)acrylate monomer and one or more other radically polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers. The copolymer has a polydispersity index of less than 2.5. The present invention further includes a controlled radical polymerization method to make the above described low surface tension containing copolymers. The method includes the steps of adding a first radically polymerizable low surface tension (meth)acrylate monomer and one or more other radically polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers to a solution containing a suitable atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) initiator.

Copolymers comprising low surface tension (meth) acrylates

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Valencia, PA, United States of America

James B O'Dwyer