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Ashland Patents Hydrophobic Coating for Drag Reduction

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By: KERRY PIANOFORTE

Editor, Coatings World

U.S. 8,258,206 B2
Ashland Licensing and Intellectual Property has obtained a patent for a hydrophobic drag reducing coating composition comprised of a solvent selected from the group consisting of acetone, an aliphatic hydrocarbon, an alcohol, a hydrocarbon and mineral spirits; a plurality of nanoparticles selected from the group consisting of fumed silica, hydrophobic titania, and zinc oxide and a UV stable hydrophobic perfluoro alkyl substituted acrylic polymer.

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