Monsanto Company

Robert E Jansson

Patrick John Kinlen

Thomas Edward Rogers

Robert N O'Brien

Manuel M Baizer

Somyong Visaisouk

A method for forming a coating on an electrically conductive surface is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of immersing the surface in a bath comprising an electrodepositable mixture of an intrinsically insulative polymer and an organic acid salt of an intrinsically conductive polymer, applying a voltage between an electrode and the surface in the bath to deposit a polymeric coating of the mixture on the surface, and curing the polymeric coating. The polymeric coating can be made electrically conductive by the additional step of immersing the polymeric coating in an organic acid after the deposition and before curing. A multilayered coating can be provided after curing the electrically conductive polymeric coating, by depositing a second or subsequent coating of an electrodepositable organic resin from an aqueous bath containing the resin on application of a voltage between an electrode and the electrically conductive polymeric subcoating in the bath. Also disclosed are resin compositions suitable for cationic electrodeposition.

Electrocoating compositions

Polymers and articles made therefrom having biocidal surfaces are disclosed wherein the biocidal agent is permanently bonded to the polymer surface. The polymers can be employed to inhibit microbial growth in the adjacent area of the polymer and as disinfectant for fluids such as water. Utility as a contact disinfectant is disclosed.

Surface-functionalized biocidal polymers

Electrolytic processes in which separate useful reactions are conducted at an anode and cathode, respectively, by electrolysis of an anolyte at an anode and a catholyte at the cathode wherein the anolyte and catholyte are of different composition and are prevented from contacting the cathode and anode, respectively, during electrolysis without the use of selective permeable membranes or permeable partitions.

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Chesterfield, MO, United States of America

Robert E Jansson