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US 12,215,244 · App. 18/438,269 · Granted Feb 4, 2025

Wet look coating compositions, articles, and methods

Inventors: Matthew Andersson (Chicago, IL); Ashley Rodgers (Rockford, IL); Chris Lefever (Belvidere, IL); Karl Booth (Mundelein, IL); Christopher Savittieri (Woodstock, IL); Robert Sandoval (Crystal Lake, IL); Michael C. Wildman (Hoffman Estates, IL); Patrick C. Swearingen (Elgin, IL); Thao Mee Xiong (Crystal Lake, IL)
Assignee: SWIMC LLC
C09D119/02
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Patent No.
US 12,215,244
App. No.
18/438,269
Granted
Feb 4, 2025
Kind
B1
Abstract

Aqueous wet look coating compositions, articles having a coating formed from such compositions (e.g., coated cementitious substrates), and methods, wherein the coating compositions are low VOC compositions and include a multistage latex emulsion polymerized polymer including interpolymerized monomers including DAAM.

Claims (54)

1. A method of coating a cementitious substrate, the method comprising:

causing a wet look coating composition to be applied to at least a portion of the cementitious substrate to provide a hardened wet look coating, the coating composition comprising:

a multistage latex polymer comprising an emulsion polymerized first stage and an emulsion polymerized second stage; wherein the multistage latex polymer has an overall Fox equation Tg of at most 5° C. and comprises:

interpolymerized monomers comprising diacetone acrylamide (DAAM); and

at least one stage having a measured Tg of at least 60° C.;

wherein the composition comprises less than 100 g VOC/L, according to ASTM D6886-2018.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multistage latex polymer comprises core-shell polymer particles.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the DAAM is in the core of the core-shell polymer particles.

4. A method of coating a cementitious substrate, the method comprising:

causing a wet look coating composition to be applied to at least a portion of the cementitious substrate to provide a hardened wet look coating, the coating composition comprising:

a multistage latex polymer comprising an emulsion polymerized first stage and an emulsion polymerized second stage;

wherein the multistage latex polymer comprises:

interpolymerized monomers comprising diacetone acrylamide (DAAM);

at least one stage having a measured Tg of at least 60° C.; and

core-shell polymer particles, wherein a chain transfer agent is in the shell of the core-shell polymer particles;

wherein the composition comprises less than 100 g VOC/L, according to ASTM D6886-2018.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the core of the core-shell polymer particles has a measured Tg of at least 60° C.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multistage latex polymer comprises at least 0.5 wt-% of DAAM, based on the total weight of the interpolymerized monomers.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the interpolymerized monomers of the multistage latex polymer comprises no more than 15 wt-% DAAM, based on the total weight of the interpolymerized monomers.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein causing comprises applying the coating composition to a cementitious substrate, instructing it to be applied to a cementitious substrate, or supplying it to a user to apply it to a cementitious substrate.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wet look coating composition provides a hardened coating having a percent wet look of greater than 50% on a cementitious substrate according to the Wet Look Test described in the Examples Section.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wet look coating composition provides a hardened coating having a 6-hour percent blush that is less than 20% on black glass according to the Blushing Test described in the Examples Section.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multistage latex polymer is formed using a crosslinking molecule for crosslinking with DAAM.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the crosslinking molecule comprises reactive amine or hydrazide groups and is present in an amount such that the ratio of reactive amine or hydrazide groups to keto groups present in the emulsion is less than 0.5 and greater than 0.15.

13. A low VOC aqueous wet look coating composition, the composition comprising:

a multistage latex polymer comprising an emulsion polymerized first stage and an emulsion polymerized second stage; wherein the multistage latex polymer has an overall Fox equation Tg of at most 5° C. and comprises:

interpolymerized monomers comprising diacetone acrylamide (DAAM);

greater than 1 wt-% of a chain transfer agent, based on the total weight of monomers used to form the multistage latex; and

at least one stage having a measured Tg of at least 60° C.;

wherein the composition comprises less than 100 g VOC/L, according to ASTM D6886-2018.

14. The composition of claim 13 , wherein the multistage latex polymer comprises core-shell polymer particles.

15. The composition of claim 14 , wherein the DAAM is in the core of the core-shell polymer particles.

16. The composition of claim 13 , wherein the interpolymerized monomers of the multistage latex polymer comprises no more than 50 wt-% DAAM, based on the total weight of the interpolymerized monomers in the first stage.

17. The composition of claim 14 , wherein the chain transfer agent is in the shell of the core-shell polymer particles.

18. The composition of claim 14 , wherein the core of the core-shell polymer particles has a measured Tg of at least 60° C.

19. The composition of claim 13 comprising less than 50 g VOC/L.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multistage latex polymer comprises greater than 1 wt-% of a chain transfer agent, and up to 2 wt-% of the chain transfer agent, based on the total weight of monomers used to form the multistage latex polymer.

21. The composition of claim 13 which forms a hardened coating having a percent wet look that is greater than 50% on a cementitious substrate according to the Wet Look Test described in the Examples Section.

22. The composition of claim 13 which forms a hardened coating having a 6-hour percent blush that is less than 20% on black glass according to the Blushing Test described in the Examples Section.

23. The composition of claim 13 which forms a hardened coating having a 12-hour percent blush that is less than 20% on black glass according to the Blushing Test described in the Examples Section.

24. The composition of claim 13 wherein the multistage latex polymer is formed using a crosslinking molecule for crosslinking with DAAM.

25. The composition of claim 24 , wherein the crosslinking molecule comprises reactive amine or hydrazide groups and is present in an amount such that the ratio of reactive amine or hydrazide groups to keto groups present in the emulsion is less than 0 S and greater than 0.15.

26. A method of coating a cementitious substrate, the method comprising:

causing a wet look coating composition to be applied to at least a portion of the cementitious substrate to provide a hardened wet look coating, the coating composition comprising:

a multistage latex polymer comprising an emulsion polymerized first stage and an emulsion polymerized second stage;

wherein the multistage latex polymer comprises:

interpolymerized monomers comprising diacetone acrylamide (DAAM);

at least one stage having a measured Tg of at least 60° C.; and

core-shell polymer particles, wherein the shell of the core-shell particles is formed from components comprising one or more chain transfer agents;

wherein the composition comprises less than 100 g VOC/L, according to ASTM D6886-2018.

27. The method of claim 26 , wherein the core of the core-shell polymer particles has a measured Tg of at least 60° C.

28. The method of claim 26 , wherein the multistage latex polymer comprises at least 0.5 wt-% and no more than 15 wt-% of DAAM, based on the total weight of the interpolymerized monomers.

29. The method of claim 26 , wherein the shell of the core-shell particles is formed from components comprising one or more chain transfer agents in an amount of greater than 1 wt-% and up to 6 wt-%, based on the total weight of monomers.

30. The method of claim 26 , wherein the one or more chain transfer agents are selected from dodecanethiol, 3-mercaptopropionic acid, isooctyl thioglycolate, butyl mercapto propionate, and combinations thereof.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 12, 2026
From: SAVITTIERI, CHRISTOPHER; RODGERS, ASHLEY; SWEARINGEN, PATRICK C.; BOOTH, KARL; SANDOVAL, ROBERT; XIONG, THAO MEE; ANDERSSON, MATTHEW; WILDMAN, MICHAEL C.; LEFEVER, CHRIS
To: SWIMC LLC
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