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[0045] After they have been applied to a substrate, the inksand coatings may be cured using any suitable technique,including drying and oven-drying (in air or another inert orreactive atmosphere), UV curing, IR curing, drying, crosslinking, thermal curing, laser curing, IR curing, microwavecuring or drying, sintering, and the like.

[0018]

The leather articles can be apparel or componentsthereof. By apparel is meant clothing, accessories, or otherarticles worn by a person or other being, such as a nonhuman animal. Examples include clothing, footwear, headwear, accessories, etc. Examples include shirts, pants,shorts, overalls, coveralls, jackets, coats, vests, aprons, ties,cravats, gloves, mittens, gauntlets, shoes, sandals, boots,hats, caps, visors, headbands, helmets, straps, watch straps,bands, shoulder straps, wrist straps, wrist bands, leg straps,leg bands, arm bands, arm straps, cuffs, harnesses, collars,saddles, holsters, chaps, bandoliers, bracelets, belts, suspenders, bandoliers, lanyards, etc, or components thereof.

The leather can be artificial (also known as synthetic) leather (including bicast leather, Kirza, Pleather,Poromeric imitation leather, vegan leather, etc.).

Examples of leather include, but are not limited tofull-grain, top-grain, corrected-grain, split, bonded, aniline,boiled, composition, Corinthian, morocco, etc. leathers. Theleather can be hides, skins, buckskin, patent leather, brainedleather, fish leather, vachetta leather, deerskin, nubuck, Russia leather, belting leather, napa leather, reconstitutedleather, bycast leather, etc. The leather can come from cattle,lambs, deer, elks, pigs, buffalos, goats, alligators, dogs,snakes, ostriches, kangaroos, oxen, yaks, snakes, crocodiles,ostrich, chamois, horses, donkeys, zebras, etc.

The present invention relates to leather articles thatare coated with a coating comprising graphene sheets and/orgraphite.