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Development of eco-friendly coating materials from renewable resources with special properties has attracted great attention in recent years. Among the renewable resources, cardanol, a meta-substituted phenol from the cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL), has a variety of advantages due to its unique properties such as improved flexibility and better processability over conventional phenolic resin, heat and electrical resistance, and lower price, etc. Herein, a new eco-friendly coating material was developed from a cardanol without any purification step. It could form transparent, highly glossy film. And surface hardness of the film is higher than that of previously reported poly (cardanol) and cardanol derivatives. Additionally, it showed antibacterial property against E-coli and P. aeruginosa. Conclusively, this coating material is supposed to be a commercially promising candidate in surface coating material market.