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The technology of waterborne polymers is still very promising and is developing fast mainly because of environmental reasons.

Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight.

A new generation of polyurethane raw materials that produce a flexible, but highly crosslinked, polyurethane coating has been developed.

Although cool coatings are not new to other markets such as metal roofing, they are new to the automotive market.

San Jose may be adopting the first heat-reflective exterior wall coating standard in the country.

The Carbon Motors ‘E7’ law enforcement vehicle will be the world’s first car with a 100% paintfilm thermoplastic exterior developed with Fluorex® Paintfilm from Soliant, LLC.

The success of inkjet relies on the color pigments in the inks.

This work demonstrates that evaluating coatings on non-porous substrates like vinyl charts that resist wetting by moisture makes it more difficult for fungi to proliferate on the coating surfaces, and therefore using them for testing may over estimate the performance of a coating.

A new water-based, low-VOC hybrid binder technology has recently been developed for decorative coatings, offering high gloss potential and a step forward in both applicability and open time versus conventional acrylics.