Three new self-stratifying coatings technologies have resulted in patents for Eastern Michigan University professor Jamil Baghdachi and engineers at the Toyota Technical Center. Baghdachi specializes in polymers and coatings at EMU's School of Engineering Technology and is one of three faculty members at the university's Coatings Research Institute. He collaborated with a team from the Toyota Technical Center, a division of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, to advance new technologies in the area of automotive coatings. The patents, jointly owned by EMU and Toyota, relate to coatings formulations that self-stratify into, for example, a base layer and a top layer, which could streamline the coating process and reduce manufacturing costs.
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