Eastman Chemical Company

Jennifer Lynn Cogar

Jerome Leonard Stavinoha, Jr

Damon Ray Billodeaux

Leslie Sharon Depew

Glen Dennis Shields

Pruthesh Hariharrao Vargantwar

Meera Angayarkanni Sidheswaran

Michelle Nicole Tuttle

A stable emulsion having a fluid medium; a phase change material (PCM) comprising a straight, branched and/or cyclic aliphatic moiety having from 3 to 18 carbon atoms, polymers, and copolymers having residues of the straight, branched and/or cyclic aliphatic moiety; and a modified cyclodextrin having at least one functional moiety capable of forming a stable emulsion with the PCM in the fluid medium. The invention further includes a modified paint or surface coating having from 10 to 99 weight % of a base coating and from 1 to 90 weight % of the stable emulsion admixed therein.

Surface coating incorporating phase change material

The invention is comprised of a coalescent and non-ionic surfactant blend additive for use in water-based architectural coating formulations. The dual-function blend is produced by reacting 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol monoisobutyrate with ethylene oxide in the presence of a basic catalyst and separating the desired ethoxylated coalescent and non-ionic surfactant blend from the reaction product.

Coalescent and non-ionic surfactant blend

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Unicoi, TN, United States of America

Jennifer Lynn Cogar