Patent ID: 8163078

Claim:
A process for modifying a paint composition containing titanium dioxide particles, comprising: dispersing between a 0.05 percent and a 5.0 percent by weight of metal oxide nanoparticles, pre-treated to minimize flocculation, in the paint composition containing the titanium dioxide particles; and interacting the metal oxide nanoparticles and the titanium dioxide particles to form an intervening dispersion of a plurality of metal oxide nanoparticles, the intervening dispersion uniformly distributed around the titanium dioxide particles; wherein the step of dispersing the metal oxide nanoparticles comprises mixing a first set of metal oxide nanoparticles having a first average particle size and a second set of metal oxide nanoparticles having a second average particle size, the first set of metal oxide nanoparticles and the second set of metal oxide nanoparticles having pre-treated surfaces to minimize flocculation; and further wherein the first average particle size is about 120 nm and the second average particle size is about 60 nm.