Patent ID: 7446142

Claim:
A coating material, curable thermally or thermally and with actinic radiation, comprising (A) at least one binder comprising a (meth)acrylate copolymer having a glass transition temperature of from −35° C. to +40° C., and (B) nanoparticles modified with at least one compound of general formula I: [(S—) o -L-] n -M-(—X—R) m−n (I), wherein S is a reactive functional group having at least one bond which can be activated with actinic radiation; L is at least one divalent organic linking group; X independently at each occurrence, is an oxygen atom, sulfur atom or >NR 1 , where R 1 =hydrogen atom or alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; M is a metal atom; R is a monovalent organic radical; o is an integer from 1 to 5; m is 3 or 4; n is 1 or 2 if m=3, and n is 1, 2 or 3 if m=4.