Behr Process Corporation

Northwestern University

Milgard Manufacturing, Inc.

Jinzhen Shi

Ming-Ren Tarng

Karen Ann Nguyen

Phillip Byron Messersmith

Ling Yang

Semen Kharchenko

Jigui Li

Phillip B Messersmith

Limin Wu

Chenming Xue

Ying-Chieh Yen

Shuxue Zhou

Xiaowu Fan

Dong-Keun Lee

Roanic Greydon Cantrell

A sealer composition includes a first component and a second component. The first component includes water and a hydroxyl functionalized acrylic resin. The second component includes an epoxy silane cross-linker. Characteristically, the first component and second component are mixed at most 40 hours prior to application of the sealer composition to a substrate.

Water based sealer with superior durability

A paint composition with improved hiding power includes water, a film-forming polymer, pigments, and a plurality of hollow glass spheres dispersed in the paint composition. Advantageously, the hollow glass spheres encapsulate air voids in coatings formed from the paint composition.

Hiding by using air voids encapsulated in hollow glass spheres

A composition for forming a hydrophilic coating includes an organic binder having an average particle size from about 1 to about 100 nm and an inorganic binder having an average particle size from about 1 to about 40 nm. The composition further includes an inorganic photocatalyst that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction reaction. Characteristically, the photocatalyst includes a photocatalytic metal oxide having an average particle size from about 1 to about 50 nm. Advantageously, coatings formed from the composition have improved stain resistance, low contact angle, and resistance to dirt adherence, while maintaining a clear optical character.

Superhydrophilic coating composition

A method of making a titanium oxide-containing coating composition comprises attaching an initiator to a pretreated titanium oxide to form an initiator/pretreated titanium oxide complex. The pretreated titanium oxide includes a plurality of pretreated titanium oxide particles which are titanium oxide particles that are pretreated with at least one metal oxide. The initiator/pretreated titanium oxide complex is contacted with a polymerizable unsaturated monomer such that a polymeric encapsulate forms on the initiator/pretreated titanium oxide particles to form polymeric encapsulated titanium oxide particles.

Titanium oxide spacing by SIP

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