Basf Coatings Gmbh

Markus Mundus

Thomas Kantimm

Guido Bischoff

Sven Olle Krabbenborg

Martin Schmitz

Thomas Chase

Matthew Ian Childers

Yunus Emre Kurtoglu

Patrice Bujard

Disclosed herein is a coating composition being a basecoat or a clearcoat composition and including at least one polymer as a film-forming binder (A), nanoparticles (B) containing at least one noble metal and/or at least one alloy and/or oxide thereof, as well as water and/or at least one organic solvent as component (C) being present in the coating composition in an amount of at least 30 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the composition. Further disclosed herein are a coating film and a coating obtainable from the coating composition, a method of forming a coating film and a coating at least partially onto at least one surface of a substrate, and an at least partially coated substrate obtainable by the method.

NIR light scattering coatings and compositions for preparing them

Described herein is a computer-implemented method for simulating texture features of a n-layer target coating, the method including at least the steps of: a) providing known real geometrical properties and known individual ingredients with known real material properties; b) modelling the n-layer target coating in a virtual environment; c) virtually tracing rays of light from one or more light sources towards an aim region defined on a surface of the n-layer target coating; d) virtually collecting rays of light that interacted with the n-layer target coating; e) virtually determining, at least one of an angular, a spectral and a spatial distribution of intensity of the rays of light re-emitted from or reflected by the n-layer target coating; and f) evaluating the determined distribution(s) of intensity and outputting, by an output device, at least one image based on the evaluation.

Method and system for simulating texture features of a coating

Described herein is a method for identifying an interference pigment in a coating. Also described herein is a corresponding device and a computer-readable medium.

Method and device for identifying interference pigments in a coating

Described herein is a photovoltaic module, which includes PV cells capable of converting light incoming from a front side and from a rear side () and a transparent rear side including a rear surface carrying a structured layer (), where the lower surface of the structured layer () is the lower surface of the module, and where the surface of layer () is structured by parallel V-shaped grooves of depth h2 or less than h2, where the lateral faces of the grooves of depth less than h2 form a groove angle beta and adjacent faces of neighbouring grooves form a peak of apex angle alpha, characterized in that h2 is from the range 5 to 200 micrometer, and each pair of neighbouring grooves includes one groove of depth h2 and one groove of depth (h2&#x2212;h1), where h1 ranges from 0.1 h2 to 0.9 h2.

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