A composition that is an aqueous building material system, a water-based paint or coating system comprising a sufficient amount of a bipolymer or terpolymer to provide a stabilizing effect, wherein the bipolymer or terpolymer is water-soluble, contains sulfo groups and has a number average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 20,000,000 g/mol and consists of:
- a) from 3 to 96 mol % of a structural group of formula I
- wherein R1 is hydrogen or methyl,
- R2, R3, R4 is hydrogen, an aliphatic hydrocarbon residue having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a phenyl residue which may be unsubstituted or substituted by methyl groups,
- V is NH or oxygen,
- M is hydrogen, a monovalent or divalent metal cation, ammonium or an organic amine residue,
- n is from 1 to 5,
- A is ½ or 1,
- b) from 3 to 96 mol % of a structural group of formula II
- wherein W is —CO(O)—(CH2)x— or —CO—NR2—(CH2)x—,
- x is from 1 to 6,
- R5 and R6 are independently hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon residue having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon residue having from 5 to 8 carbon atoms, or an aryl residue having from 6 to 14 carbon atoms, and
- R1 and R2 are as defined above,
- and/or
- c) from 0.05 to 75 mol % of a structural group of formula III
- wherein Y is O, NH or NR5,
- V is —(CH2)x—,
- R7 is R5 or R6, —(CH2)x—SO3⊖Ma,
- X is halogen, C1-C4-alkylsulfate of C1-C4-alkylsulfonate,
- and R1, R5, R6, M, a and x are as defined above.