Nof Corporation

Basf Nof Coatings Co., Ltd.

Masahiko Hirono

Keiji Komoto

Keishi Yoshikai

Yoshifumi Ohama

A process for preparing a dispersing component of an inorganic oxide sol which involves dehydrating an aqueous inorganic oxide sol by adding an azeotropic solvent to the aqueous inorganic sol to form an azeotropic mixture, carrying out azeotropic distillation and then surface-treating the dispersing component of the inorganic oxide sol with a silane coupling agent.

Process for preparing a dispersing component comprising an inorganic oxide sol

A coating composition which comprises (A) a resin having a glass transition temperature of 50 to 120.degree. C., a number average molecular weight of 2,000 to 100,000, a hydroxyl value of 50 to 150 mgKOH/g and an acid value of 1 to 25 mgKOH/g, which is produced by copolymerizing 10 to 90 percent by weight of (a) a (meth)acrylic acid ester of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.12 alkyl alcohol, 10 to 50 weight % of (b) a first polymerizable double bond-containing and hydroxyl group-containing monomer, 0.1 to 10 weight % of (c) a polymerizable double bond-containing and carboxyl group-containing monomer, 0 to 20 weight % of (d) styrene, 0 to 20 weight % of (e) acrylonitrile and 0 to 10 weight of (f) a second polymerizable double bond-containing monomer, (B) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a polyisocyanate compound having two or more unblocked isocyanate groups and/or blocked isocyanate groups in the molecule and an aminoplast resin, (C) a dispersing component of at least one inorganic oxide sol selected from the group consisting of an aluminum oxide sol, a silica sol, a zirconium oxide sol and an antimony oxide sol, wherein an amount of a nonvolatile matter of component (C) is 5 to 60 percent by weight based on a total amount of nonvolatile matter of resin (A), compound (B) and component (C). The coating composition provides cured films having excellent weathering resistance, light resistance, stain resistance, stain-removing property, chemical resistance, moisture resistance and appearance and is environmentally friendly and safe.

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Masahiko Hirono