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AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsMichael Ray McDonald, Heather Anne Liddle, John David Carter, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh
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Coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture comprising a nanoparticle system employing same to impart surface modifying benefits for all types of soft surfaces, and in some cases, hard surfaces, are disclosed. In some embodiments, dispersement of nanoparticles in a suitable carrier medium allows for the creation of coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture that create multi-use benefits to the modified surfaces. These surface modifications can produce long lasting or semi-permanent multi-use benefits that, in some embodiments, may include at least one of the following improved surface properties: cleaning, wettability, liquid strike-through, comfort, stain resistance, soil removal, malodor control, modification of surface friction, reduced damage to abrasion and color enhancement, relative to the surfaces unmodified with such nanoparticle systems.
A color-enhanced soft surface comprising at least some color regions, wherein at least some of said color regions having a plurality of nanoparticles thereon, and said nanoparticles have a particle size distribution of less than or equal to about 750 nanometers and a refractive index of greater than or equal to about 1.3.
A method of enhancing the color of a material having a soft surface comprising at least some color regions, said method comprising the steps of:
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