Patent ID: 6962730

Claim:
A method of making a cured coated substrate having improved scratch and mar resistance, comprising applying a coating composition to a substrate to make a coated substrate, the coating composition comprising (a) a reactive component which is not a crystalline solid at room temperature and is substantially free of any heteratoms, and comprising (i) from 12 to 72 carbon atoms, and (ii) at least two functional groups, and comprises a mixture of two or more structures selected from the group consisting of aliphatic structures for reactive component (a), cycloaliphatic structures for reactive component (a), aromatic-containing structures for reactive component (a), and mixtures thereof, wherein at least one of the two or more structures is either a cycloaliphatic-contaning structure or an aromatic-containing structure, and (b) a crosslingking agent comprising a plurality of functional groups (iii) reactive with the functional groups (ii) of compound (a) and which, upon reaction with at least one of the functional groups (ii) of compound (a), forms a thermally irreversible chemical linkage, and curing the coated substrate to provide a cured coated substrate.