Abstract: The invention discloses a functionalised chromatography medium, comprising: i) at least one non-woven layer (10) of polymeric nano fibres (20) comprising a plurality of nanofibre-nano fibre fusion points (30); ii) a grafted polymer coating covering the polymeric nanofibres and the nanofibre-nanofibre fusion points; iii) a plurality of ligand groups covalently bound to the grafted polymer coating, wherein the ligand groups are capable of interacting with a target biomolecule.

Abstract: A die for extrusion molding includes an extrusion port configured to extrude a plastic composition, and a plastic flow channel configured to cause the supplied plastic composition to flow to the extrusion port. The plastic flow channel includes a supply flow channel, and an extrusion flow channel. The supply flow channel is configured to be supplied with the plastic composition. The extrusion flow channel has an upstream end coupled to the supply flow channel, and downstream end having the extrusion port. In the extrusion flow channel, a flow channel cross-sectional area perpendicular to the flow direction of the plastic composition in the extrusion flow channel gradually changes to the extrusion port, and an inner wall surface of a flow channel has a protruding surface protruding toward an inside of the flow channel in a cross section including an extrusion central axis and parallel to the extrusion central axis.

Abstract: A carbon foam formed of carbon fibers, where, at 90% or more of any 20 locations, the carbon fibers have a fiber diameter that is within ±20% of an average fiber diameter.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer composition for manufacturing a foam, the polymer composition comprising a vinyl aromatic based copolymer and a processing aid, wherein the amount of the processing aid in the total weight of the polymer composition is equal to or more than 5 wt % and equal to or less than 75 wt %; and the polymer composition does not comprise ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, ethylene-butyl acrylate copolymer, ethylene-?-olefin copolymer, homopolymer and copolymer of polyethylene, homopolymer and copolymer of polypropylene, homopolymer and copolymer of polybutene and olefin-based ionic polymer. The present invention also provides the foam and the method for forming the same.

Abstract: Disclosed are a separator for lipid bilayer membrane formation capable of forming a lipid bilayer membrane with excellent properties, wherein the separator for lipid bilayer membrane formation has sufficient mechanical strength and can be easily manufactured in a large scale by using a general-purpose machine without need of using an expensive machine, and a method of producing the separator. The separator for lipid bilayer membrane formation includes a thin film having one or more through holes and made of a resin capable of being wet-etched, and reinforcing layers covering both surfaces of the thin film and made of a resin capable of being wet-etched. The reinforcing layers cover the whole area of the thin film, except for the through holes and the peripheries thereof, and each through hole has a tapered cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: A porous polyimide film has plural pores, in which an average flattening of the plural pores is within a range of 0.1 to 0.7, a coefficient of variation of a distance between adjacent pores is within a range of 0.10 to 0.40, and a front surface and aback surface communicate with each other through the plural pores.

Abstract: A detector testing system includes an environmental chamber configured to provide at least one selected environmental condition within the chamber. The environmental chamber includes an opening. A cover over the opening has at least one surface that is at least partially transparent to radiation that the detector is configured to receive. The cover is configured to maintain the at least one selected environmental condition within the environmental chamber. A detector support is configured to support a plurality of detectors exposed to the at least one selected environmental condition in a location within a space defined by the cover where the cover provides a detector field of view through the at least one surface. The detector field of view for each of the detectors has a horizontal range of at least 180°.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a very simple and convenient method for producing a porous material of a water-soluble polymer. The herein disclosed method for producing a porous material of a water-soluble polymer includes a step of preparing a solution in which a water-soluble polymer is dissolved in a mixed solvent of water mixed with a solvent having a boiling point higher than that of water, and a step of evaporating and thereby removing the mixed solvent from the solution. The solubility of the water-soluble polymer in the solvent having a boiling point higher than that of water is lower than the solubility of the water-soluble polymer in water. Voids are formed, in the step of evaporating and thereby removing the mixed solvent, by the solvent having a boiling point higher than that of water.

Abstract: This invention relates to a membrane and method for the preservation of agricultural produce. According to a first aspect of the invention there is provided a membrane for the preservation of agricultural produce comprising first and second outer polymeric layers, at least one of the outer polymeric layers being impregnated with a hydrophilic agent, and an inner layer dispersed in between the outer layers, the inner layer consisting of a polymer being impregnated with a carrier for incorporation of an antimicrobial volatile into the inner layer, the inner layer further including an absorptive agent, wherein in use, the membrane is placed proximate to agricultural produce to be preserved.

Abstract: A void-containing polyester is disclosed which is excellent in concealing properties, whiteness, and thermal dimensional stability. A void-containing polyester film includes an internal void-containing layer (layer A). The void-containing layer contains a polyester matrix resin and a polypropylene dispersed resin, and satisfies the following requirements (1) to (3), and an apparent density of the film is in a range of 0.8 to 1.2 g/cm3. (1) A melt viscosity (?1) of the polyester resin at a melting temperature of 280° C. and a shear rate of 121.6 sec?1 is 90 to 400 Pa·s (2) A melt viscosity (?2) of the polypropylene resin at a melting temperature of 280° C. and a shear rate of 121.6 sec?1 is 300 to 850 Pa·s (3) A melt viscosity ratio (?2/?1) of the polyester resin and the polypropylene resin at a melting temperature of 280° C. and a shear rate of 121.6 sec?1 is 1.5 to 4.5.

Abstract: A catalytic converter, including a substrate formed of an open cell carbon foam having a geometric surface area of at least about 5000 m2/m3 and a permeability of at least about 8.0 darcys, wherein the carbon foam has catalytic metals incorporated thereinto.

Abstract: A dehumidifying cake is disclosed herein. It comprises a silica gel (SiO2) ground to form an absorptive micro-powder and mixed with a water-based adhesive for a molding process, a baking process and a cooling process sequentially to form a pre-shaped dehumidifying cake with a plurality of pores.

Abstract: Provided is a biaxially-stretched film wherein the biaxial stretching is possible in a broader temperature range and which is excellent in thickness accuracy, and an ethylene polymer composition serving as a raw material of the film. The biaxially-stretched film of the present invention is obtained from an ethylene polymer composition (E) including a specific ethylene polymer component (A) containing 20 to 100 wt % of an ethylene polymer (a) being a copolymer of ethylene and a C4-10 ?-olefin and having specific melt flow rate and density, and an ethylene polymer component (B) being another copolymer of ethylene and a C4-10 ?-olefin, wherein a weight fraction [WA] of the ethylene polymer component (A) is 0.50 or more and 0.92 or less, and a weight fraction [WE] of the ethylene polymer component (B) is 0.08 or more and 0.50 or less provided that WA and WB total 1.0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a micro-porous filtration membrane with performance enhancing multi-level macro-scopic cavities as well as a method for producing the same.

Abstract: The present application relates to a polymer particle manufacturing method, and according to an example of the manufacturing method and a manufacturing apparatus therefor, a reduction in energy can be achieved by simplifying a manufacturing process thereof.

Abstract: A laminated polyolefin microporous membrane is disclosed. The laminated polyolefin microporous membrane includes a first polyolefin microporous membrane, and a second polyolefin microporous membrane. A shutdown temperature of the laminated polyolefin microporous membrane is from 128° C. to 135° C., an air permeation resistance increase rate from 30° C. to 105° C. per 20 ?m of thickness of the laminated polyolefin microporous membrane is less than 1.5 sec/100 cc Air/° C., and a variation range in an F25 value of the laminated polyolefin microporous membrane in a longitudinal direction is not greater than 1 MPa. The F25 value represents a value determined by dividing the load at 25% elongation of a sample of the laminated polyolefin microporous membrane as measured with a tensile tester by the cross-sectional area of the sample polyolefin microporous membrane.

Abstract: A synthetic resin skin material includes, on one side of a base material 12, an adhesive layer 14, a skin layer 16, and a surface processing layer 18 in this order from the base material 12, the adhesive layer 14 and the skin layer 16 containing a polyurethane urea resin having a number average molecular weight of from 35,000 to 100,000.

Abstract: A method of filtering a liquid sample that includes passing a sample comprising at least one biological organism through a filter membrane at a passive water volume flux of at least 10 L/m2·h·psi, wherein the filter membrane comprises a Bubble Point pore size of no more than 1.0 ?m, thereby retaining at least one biological organism on the surface of the membrane; and detecting the at least one biological organism retained on the surface of the filter membrane.

Abstract: A MEMS sensor and a manufacturing method thereof is provided: forming a lower electrode layer wherein a metal is deposited on a portion of a lower glass substrate; forming a structural layer by etching according to a pattern which is formed on an upper surface of a silicon wafer and then further etching to the same thickness as the metal which is formed on a portion of the lower electrode layer; anodic bonding the structural layer to an upper portion of the lower electrode layer formed; forming a sensing part in the structural layer by etching according to a pattern which is formed on an opposite surface of the structural layer which is not etched; and forming an upper electrode layer by depositing a metal on an upper wafer and eutectic bonding the upper electrode layer to the structural layer on which the sensing part is formed.

Abstract: Provided are nanoporous silicon nitride membranes and methods of making such membranes. The membranes can be part of a monolithic structure or free-standing. The membranes can be made by transfer of the nanoporous structure of a nanoporous silicon or silicon oxide film by, for example, reactive ion etching. The membranes can be used in, for example, filtration applications, hemodialysis applications, hemodialysis devices, laboratory separation devices, multi-well cell culture devices, electronic biosensors, optical biosensors, active pre-concentration filters for microfluidic devices.

Abstract: A method for preparing a separator of a battery comprises the steps of: respectively stretching a first polypropylene film and a second polypropylene film in one direction at ?3-7° C., and keeping at 45-60° C. to provide a first polypropylene microporous film and a second polypropylene microporous film; perpendicularly compounding the films along the stretching direction to provide a polypropylene microporous composite film; and subjecting the polypropylene microporous composite film to hydrophilic treatment to provide the separator of the battery. The through micro-pores in the first and the second polypropylene film in the invention are attached and staggered to form tortuous pores, which greatly reduce the aperture of the through pores. Therefore, the passing of fine zinc particles and zincate can be blocked without influence on the passing of organic ions and the penetration of dendritic crystals is avoided.

Abstract: A vehicle headrest includes a main body portion having a front surface arranged to support a back of a head of a user. The main body portion includes first and second speakers which are disposed within the main body portion, and a cushion layer that is configured to surround the speakers and provide cushioning for a user's head. The cushion layer includes acoustic channels for controlling a radiation pattern of acoustic energy radiated from the speakers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery, the separator including a polyolefin microporous substrate in which a content of polyolefin having a molecular weight of 100,000 or less is from 10% by mass to 25% by mass relative to a total amount of polyolefin, and a heat resistant porous layer that is formed on one or both sides of the polyolefin microporous substrate and that includes a heat resistant polymer, wherein a maximum value of S, which is represented by the following formula (1), is 0.8 or more, and a temperature exhibiting the maximum value of S is from 130° C. to 155° C.: S=d(log R)/dT??Formula (1): wherein R represents a resistance (ohm·cm2) of a cell, and T represents a temperature (° C.), in a measurement using a battery that includes the cell that is provided with a separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery, at a temperature rising rate of 1.6° C./min.

Abstract: A variable-wavelength interference filter includes: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a first reflection layer provided on a surface facing the second substrate, of the first substrate; a second reflection layer which is provided on a surface facing the first substrate, of the second substrate, and faces the first reflection layer via an inter-layer gap; and an electrostatic actuator which flexes the second substrate in a direction toward the first substrate and thus changes the inter-layer gap. The first reflection layer and the second reflection layer have a reflectance characteristic showing a higher reflectance to light with a second wavelength that is shorter than a first wavelength, than a reflectance to light with the first wavelength.

Abstract: A wall, for example the wall of a vascular graft, has multiple channels within it. The channels may be used to hold drugs or reinforcing fibers. The channels may have a predetermined roughness. The channels may be formed by coextrusion using a soluble material, for example, to define the channels and then dissolving them to open the channels in the extrudate.

Abstract: An optical glucose sensor comprising: a sensing region comprising a boronic acid receptor for binding to glucose and a fluorophore associated with said receptor; an optical waveguide for directing incident light onto the sensing region; and a hydrophilic, polymeric, glucose-permeable barrier layer which is provided on at least a part of the sensing region; wherein the sensor is adapted so that glucose enters the sensing region of the sensor through said barrier layer.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods and materials for the production of hydrophobic coatings, which may be thermally treated to produce binary hydrophobic-hydrophilic regions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a biaxially oriented microporous film composed of at least two coextruded layers encompassing an external shut-off layer and another layer, wherein both layers contain a mixture of propylene homopolymer and propylene block copolymer and ?-nucleation agent. The propylene block copolymer I of the other layer has a melting point exceeding 140° C. and the propylene block copolymer II of the external shut-off layer has a melting range starting at a temperature ranging from 50 to 120° C. The melting point of the propylene block copolymer I is greater than the melting point of the propylene block copolymer II. The film can be used as a separator in a primary or secondary battery.

Abstract: A resin foam having excellent dustproofness not only at ordinary temperatures but also particularly at high temperatures as well as having excellent flexibility. The resin foam has a thickness recovery ratio at high temperatures as defined below of not less than 25%, an average cell diameter of 10 to 200 ?m, and a maximum cell diameter of not more than 300 ?m, wherein the thickness recovery ratio at high temperatures is defined as follows: a resin foam in a sheet form is compressed, in an atmosphere of 80° C., for 22 hours in a thickness direction so as to have a thickness of 20% of the initial thickness; then, the compression state is released in an atmosphere of 23° C.; and a ratio of a thickness 24 hours after the release of the compression state to the initial thickness is defined as the thickness recovery ratio at high temperatures.

Abstract: A white porous polyester film of the present invention comprising a polyester-based monopolymer/copolymer blend, a crystalline polymer resin which is not miscible with a polyester and has a heat deformation temperature of 90° C. or higher, inorganic particles, a whitening agent, and a stabilizing agent has improved optical properties, and thus is useful as a film for use in printing, labeling, electronics, and display applications.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a metal-containing apparatus including a substrate member constructed of a metal that is highly resistant to pitting corrosion and wear in aggressive media. An exemplary metal-containing apparatus is a plate heat exchanger. The metal includes an oxidation layer on the surface thereof and a thin metal oxide nanoporous film on top of the oxidation layer. The nanoporous film is highly compliant and is comprised of oxygen and aluminum, titanium, silicon, zirconium and combinations thereof.

Abstract: An adhesive tape includes a foam base and an adhesive layer disposed on at least one surface of the foam base. The foam base has a 25% compressive strength of 250 kPa or more. An average bubble diameter in a machine direction and an average bubble diameter in a cross-machine direction of the foam base are each 150 ?m or less, and a ratio represented by the average bubble diameter in the machine direction/an average bubble diameter in a vertical direction and a ratio represented by the average bubble diameter in the cross-machine direction/the average bubble diameter in the vertical direction are each 5 or less. With this adhesive tape, in addition to good conformability to an adherend and excellent impact resistance, suitable reworkability can be realized even when the adhesive tape has a small width.

Abstract: A structure. The structure includes a substrate and a material adhered to said substrate. The material includes a structural layer and an interfacial layer. The structural layer includes at least one crosslinkable polymer and nanostructures having a predefined morphology. The nanostructures are surrounded by the at least one crosslinkable polymer in the structural layer. The interfacial layer essentially lacks nanostructures and includes essentially the at least one crosslinkable polymer.

Abstract: A porous polyimide film having a three-layer structure that comprises two surface layers (a) and (b) and a macrovoid layer sandwiched between the surfaces layers (a) and (b). The macrovoid layer has a partition wall bonding to the surface layers (a) and (b), and multiple macrovoids each surrounded by the partition wall and the surface layers (a) and (b) and having a mean pore size in the film plane direction of from 10 to 500 ?m. The partition wall of the macrovoid layer has a thickness of from 0.1 to 50 ?m and has multiple pores having a mean pore size of from 0.01 to 50 ?m. The surface layers (a) and (b) each have a thickness of from 0.1 to 50 ?m, at least one of the surface layers has multiple pores having a mean pore size of from more than 5 ?m to 200 ?m, and the other surface layer has multiple pores having a mean pore size of from 0.01 to 200 ?m.

Abstract: A method for at least partially sealing a porous material is provided, comprising forming a sealing layer onto the porous material by applying a sealing compound comprising oligomers wherein the oligomers are formed by ageing a precursor solution comprising cyclic carbon bridged organosilica and/or bridged organosilanes. The method is especially designed for low k dielectric porous materials to be incorporated into semiconductor devices.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a porous ultra-thin polymer film, and a method for producing said porous ultra-thin polymer film. The present invention provides a porous ultra-thin polymer film with a film thickness of 10 nm-1000 nm. In addition, the present invention provides a method for producing a porous ultra-thin polymer film, comprising the steps of: dissolving two types of mutually-immiscible polymers in a first solvent in an arbitrary proportion to obtain a solution; applying the solution onto a substrate and then removing the first solvent from the solution applied onto the substrate to obtain a phase-separated ultra-thin polymer film that has been phase-separated into a sea-island structure; and immersing the ultra-thin polymer film in a second solvent which is a good solvent for the polymer of the island parts but a poor solvent for a polymer other than the island parts to remove the island parts, thereby obtaining a porous ultra-thin polymer film.

Abstract: A method for forming an ultra-thin membrane for use in a chemical analyzer such as a mass spectrometer includes the step of applying a sacrificial blocking layer onto a porous substrate, applying a semi-permeable membrane layer onto the sacrificial blocking layer, and removing the sacrificial blocking layer following cure of the membrane layer. In a preferred version, at least one of the blocking layer and the membrane layer are applied to the porous support by means of spin coating, though other deposition techniques can be employed.

Abstract: Described herein are coated glass or glass-ceramic articles having improved reflection resistance. Further described are methods of making and using the improved articles. The coated articles generally include a glass or glass-ceramic substrate and a nanoporous Si-containing coating disposed thereon. The nanoporous Si-containing coating is not a free-standing adhesive film, but a coating that is formed on or over the glass or glass-ceramic substrate.

Abstract: A breathable multilayer spun bonded polypropylene membrane having a coated pressure sensitive adhesive capable of allowing air and moisture vapor to pass through it. The adhesive is formed of a copolymer comprising a backbone of n-butyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, and vinyl acetate which is mixed with a surfactant and emulsified to produce bubbles which form pores when the copolymer is set with about 80% to about 90% of the pore sizes ranging from about 200 microns to about 300 microns and a pore density in the cured pressure sensitive adhesive ranging from about 4200 per inch2 to about 4600 per inch 2, said pores being uniformly distributed to form a flow path through the adhesive.

Abstract: Single-layer or multilayer, biaxially oriented, microporous foil having a shutdown function, which comprises at least one shutdown layer I, which comprises propylene homopolymer and ss-nucleating agent and polyethylene.

Abstract: A nanoporous network includes carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with the network having a pore size in a range from about 15 nm to about 35 nm. The nanoporous network can be coated, compressed, or any combination of these operations in the manufacture of various articles. A method of making a nanoporous network includes disposing a concentrated aqueous CNT solution in a mold, freezing the concentrated aqueous CNT solution, and subliming the frozen concentrated CNT solution in a vacuum chamber.

Abstract: PURPOSE: To provide a polymeric porous hollow fiber membrane which exhibits excellent fractionation performance and excellent permeability in treatment of a variety of aqueous fluids and also shows sufficient strength when incorporated into a module or used to treat a fluid, and which is excellent in aging stability in these performances and characteristics and is also excellent in membrane performance recoverability by washing, and which is especially suitable for treatment of a polyphenol-containing beverage and is expected to effectively harmonize the flavor of such a beverage.

Abstract: The invention relates to foamed thermoplastic material articles of manufacture having an internal layered cellular structure (with segmented and varying physical properties across one or more dimensions). In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a multi-layer foamed polymeric article of manufacture having a plurality of discrete physical properties segmented across one or more dimensions, comprising: a non-laminated multi-layer polymeric object having at least one discrete outer layer positioned adjacent to a plurality of discrete inner foamed layers, wherein the at least one discrete outer layer and the plurality of discrete inner foamed layers are integral with one another, and wherein the at least one discrete outer layer has an outer layer physical property and each of the plurality of discrete inner foamed layers has a respective inner foamed layer physical property, wherein the outer layer physical property and the inner foamed layer physical property are different from each other.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a polymeric sheet that includes a first polymeric layer; and a second foamed layer; the first polymeric layer being in operative communication with the second foamed layer; the polymeric sheet having a percent light transmission as measured according to ASTM D 1003 of about 3% to about 80% at a thickness of greater than or equal to about 1,000 micrometers. Disclosed herein too is a method that includes disposing a first polymeric layer upon a second foamed layer to form a polymeric sheet; the first polymeric layer being in operative communication with the second foamed layer; the polymeric sheet having a percent light transmission as measured according to ASTM D 1003 of about 3% to about 80% at a thickness of greater than or equal to about 1,000 micrometers.

Abstract: The present invention provides porous organosilicate layers, and vapor deposition systems and methods for preparing such layers on substrates. The porous organosilicate layers are useful, for example, as masks.

Abstract: A composite carbon nanotube structure includes a carbon nanotube film structure and a graphite structure. The carbon nanotube structure defines a number of micropores therein. The graphite structure and the carbon nanotube film structure are composited together. The graphite structure comprising a number of graphite segments filled in the micropores.

Abstract: Catalyst washcoats with improved porosity and methods for making the washcoats are provided. The process comprises incorporation of an oil-in-water macroemulsion into the catalyst slurry prior to washcoating the carrier substrate, and calcining the washcoated carrier substrate to remove the oil-in-water macroemulsion. Also provided are catalyst articles comprising the washcoat and methods for abatement of exhaust gas emissions.

Abstract: A polymer composite with superior granulometric properties for the extraction of active and non-active cesium from high level acidic radioactive nuclear waste and/or other inorganic wastes/solutions that is particularly useful to nuclear industry. The void volumes of the said polymer composite is varied to obtain the desired Cs ion exchange kinetics wherein the composite material is radiation resistant and stable in highly acidic and alkaline medium.

Abstract: A conductive mesoporous carbon composite comprising conductive carbon nanoparticles contained within a mesoporous carbon matrix, wherein the conductive mesoporous carbon composite possesses at least a portion of mesopores having a pore size of at least 10 nm and up to 50 nm, and wherein the mesopores are either within the mesoporous carbon matrix, or are spacings delineated by surfaces of said conductive carbon nanoparticles when said conductive carbon nanoparticles are fused with each other, or both. Methods for producing the above-described composite, devices incorporating them (e.g., lithium batteries), and methods of using them, are also described.

Abstract: A porous film includes aromatic polyamide as a constituent component that has high heat resistance, high air permeability and high affinity to electrolytes. It is a porous aromatic polyamide film including aromatic polyamide and a hydrophilic polymer, wherein the hydrophilic polymer accounts for 12 to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the aromatic polyamide, the thickness being 2 to 30 micrometers, the Gurley air permeability being 0.5 to 300 seconds/100 ml, and the thermal shrinkage rate being ?0.5 to 1.0% at 200° C.