Abstract: A method for manufacturing an inkjet recording medium comprising the steps of: applying a coating color containing a pigment and a binder as major components to at least one side of a base material using a transfer roll coater, subsequently drying coating layer to form an ink absorbing layer, wherein Hercules viscosity of coating color is 5 m Pa·s to 30 m Pa·s and pigment contains a synthetic silica having an oil absorption of 90 ml/10 g to 200 ml/100 g, a BET specific surface area of 45 m2/g to 200 m2/g and an average particle diameter of 1.0 ?m to 3.0 ?m and/or a precipitated calcium carbonate-silica composite having an oil absorption of 100 ml/10 g to 250 ml/100 g, a BET specific surface area of 5 m2/g to 150 m2/g and an average particle diameter of 1.0 ?m to 10 ?m.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reaction development patterning process wherein a photo resist layer masked by a desired pattern is irradiated using ultraviolet light and this layer is subsequently washed using a solvent solution containing alkali characterized by said photo resist layer comprising a condensation type polymer containing in the main chain carbonyl groups (C?O) bonded to hetero atoms and a photo acid generating agent and said alkali being an amine. This reaction development patterning process is characterized by being able to use as a photo resist target resins containing bonds having low reactivity toward nucleophilic reagents, for example, condensation type polymers containing any one of bonds such as carbonate, ester, urethane and amide.

Abstract: Epoxy adhesive compositions contain an epoxy resin, rubber modification, a toughener and a curing agent. The tougher has capped epoxide-reactive groups, and at least one polytetrahydrofuran block having a mass of 2200-4500 daltons. The selection of toughener in a rubber-modified epoxy-based structural adhesive provides for very good low temperature performance.

Abstract: To provide a sintered silicon nitride with conductivity and densification, an oxide of titanium group elements, such as titanium oxide, hafnium oxide, zirconium oxide and the like, aluminum oxide and/or aluminum nitride is added as needed to silicon nitride-oxidant of rare-earth elements-aluminum oxide system or silicon nitride-oxide of rare-earth elements-magnesia system, and then specified quantity of carbon nonotube (CNT) is added to the above mixture. CNT generates silicon carbide after the reaction with contiguous or proximal silicon nitride and the like depending on the sintering duration at high temperature. Since silicon carbide is generated along with nanotubes, the silicon carbide functions as conductor with excellent heat resistance, corrosion resistance and the like.

Abstract: A structural member is reinforced with a thermoset polymer foam having (a) a density of 80-650 kg/m3, (b) a storage modulus, measured on a 12 mm wide×3.5 mm thick×17.5 single cantilever sample according to ASTM D 4065-01, under conditions of 1 Hz and a heating rate of 2° C./min, such that the ratio of the storage modulus at 0° C., expressed in MPa, divided by the density of the thermoset polymer foam, expressed in kg/m3, is at least 0.4, and (c) the ratio of the storage modulus of the thermoset polymer foam at 100° C. divided by the storage modulus of the thermoset polymer foam at 0° C. is at least 0.5. The foam is preferably a polyurethane-isocyanurate foam. The foam exhibits excellent resistance to cracking due to mechanical and thermal stresses.

Abstract: Presents a liquid crystal display device that does not require a surface orientation treatment, dramatically improves the response rate of dynamic image displays and does not experience light leaks when the display is black, which means to yield a dark field of vision. The liquid crystal display device comprises polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals sandwiched between a pair of clear substrates. The liquid crystal display device obtained using polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals exhibits large double refraction changes when an electrical field is applied in an in-plane direction to the cell substrates. The polymer-stabilized blue phases liquid crystals comprises a low molecular weight liquid crystal that allows a blue phase to appear between cholesteric and isotropic phases and polymer network formed in the low molecular weight liquid crystals.

Abstract: Polylactide polymers are reacted with an epoxy-functional acrylate polymer to introduce long-chain branching into the polymer. The acrylate polymer provides a flexible means for introducing a controllable amount of branching into the polylactide polymer, with little risk of forming gelled or highly crosslinked structures. The branched polylactide polymers have excellent melt rheological properties that make them more easily processable in various melt-processing applications.

Abstract: An electrochemical sensor for organic molecules such as ethylene includes an electrochemical cell, gas sample inlet means and means for detecting current produced by the oxidation of the organic molecule at the anode of the cell. The sensor is capable of sensing multiple organic molecules in some embodiments. A voltage is applied to the anode of the cell to provide energy to drive the oxidation reaction and produce a corresponding current. The sensor of the invention can be made as a small, hand-held unit that is capable of real-time detection of various organic species.

Abstract: Micro-mechanical devices, such as MEMS, having layers thereon, and methods of forming the layers, are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may include forming a layer including an oxide of aluminum over at least a portion of a micro-mechanical device, and coating the layer by bonding material to surface hydroxyl groups of the layer. In another aspect, a method may include introducing a micro-mechanical device into an atomic layer deposition chamber, and substantially filling nanometer sized voids of the micro-mechanical device by using atomic layer deposition to introduce material into the voids. In a still further aspect, a method may include introducing an alkylaminosilane to a micro-mechanical device having a surface hydroxyl group, and bonding a silane to the micro-mechanical device by reacting the alkylaminosilane with the surface hydroxyl group.

Abstract: Recombinant yeast are provided having, in one aspect, multiple exogenous LDH genes integrated into the genome, while leaving native PDC genes intact. In a second aspect, recombinant yeast are provided having an exogenous LDH gene integrated into its genome at the locus of a native PDC gene, with deletion of the native PDC gene. The recombinant yeast are useful in fermentation process for producing lactic acid.

Abstract: The objective is to incarcerate a Lewis acid metal in a polymer and to make this catalyst recoverable while maintaining its function as a Lewis acid metal catalyst. The present invention is a polymer-incarcerated Lewis acid metal catalyst in which a Lewis acid metal is incarcerated in a crosslinked polymer and the crosslinked polymer is crosslinked using the crosslinking groups contained in a crosslinkable polymer. The polymer incarcerated Lewis acid metal catalyst is characterized by the crosslinkable polymer containing at least one type of monomer unit containing hydrophobic substituents and hydrophilic substituents containing crosslinking groups, and the hydrophobic substituents contain aromatic substituents. This crosslinkable polymer preferably comprises at least one type of monomer unit containing hydrophobic substituents and hydrophilic substituents containing crosslinking groups and a monomer unit containing hydrophobic substituents.

Abstract: Glycerides of acids having conjugated groups of aliphatic carbon-carbon double bonds, such as tung oil, are functionalized by reaction with certain polyol compounds at mild conditions. The functionalized oils are useful in a variety of coating and adhesive applications. They can be cured with melamine-formaldehyde, urea-formaldehyde, benzoguanimine-formaldehyde and/or glycoluril-formaldehyde resins. They can be reacted with polyisocyanates to form polyurethanes, and urethane-group containing prepolymers. Of particular interest are water-dispersible prepolymers, which can be used to make anionic, cationic or nonionic polyurethane dispersions for coating, adhesive and sealant as well as composites applications.

Abstract: A flame retardant polycarbonate resin composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin (A), 0.01 to 3 parts by weight of a silicone compound (B) having a branched chain structure and organic functional groups, wherein said organic functional groups comprise (I) aromatic groups or (ii) aromatic groups and hydrocarbon groups (excluding aromatic groups), 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of a phosphazene compound (C), 0.01 to 2 parts by weight of an organometallic salt (D) and 0.01 to 2 parts by weight of a fiber-forming type fluorine-containing polymer (E). 5 to 25 parts byweight of titanium oxide (F) and 0.05 to 2 parts by weight of a poly(organo hydrogen sioxane) (G), per 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin (A), may be further added.

Abstract: A micro-electromechanical device or MEMS having a conformal layer of material deposited by atomic layer deposition is discussed. The layer may provide physical protection to moving components of the device, may insulate electrical components of the device, may present a biocompatible surface interface to a biological system, and may otherwise improve such devices. The layer may also comprise a combination of multiple materials each deposited with great control to allow creating layers of customizable properties and to allow creating layers having multiple independent functions, such as providing physical protection from wear and providing electrical insulation.

Abstract: Dental composite filler materials comprise particles coated via an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The coating material has a different composition than the core particle. The difference in composition permits fine control over the refractive index of the coated particles, allowing good matching tooth enamel and to the binder materials used in the composite.

Abstract: The invention relates to vehicle engines, in particular to improvements to the thermodynamic cycle that forms the operating method for an internal combustion engine. An aggregate-phase thermodynamic cycle consists in sequential and interrelated changes in the thermodynamic parameters of an exhaust gas as a working medium of an internal combustion engine, resulting from the energetic separation of the exhaust gases in a swirl chamber that is incorporated with the engine into a single thermodynamic system to form a single closed volume. The sequential creation of considerable high and low temperatures brings about aggregate-phase changes in the working medium. At the high temperature limit some or all of the exhaust gases are ionized. At the low temperature some or all of the exhaust gases are condensed in a closed volume. This in turn leads to the creation of a stable and considerable vacuum in this closed volume.

Abstract: To present a reaction system that efficiently catalyzes an enantio selective asymmetric nucleophilic addition reaction of an ?-iminophosphonic acid ester. An optically active ?-amino-?-oxophosphonic acid derivative is produced through an asymmetric addition reaction of an ?-iminophosphonic acid ester and a nucleophilic agent (for example, a silyl enol ether).

Abstract: Fluids are atomized using a miniaturized electrostatic microinjector. The microinjectors are capable of producing uniform droplets in several spray modes, and metering and dispersing very small volume fluids. The atomizer is useful in carburetion systems for internal combustion engines, to prepare samples for analytical methods such as MALDI, for fluid filtration and separation, and in other applications.

Abstract: The production rate, useful life and operating efficiency of electric submergible pumping systems (ESP) is improved by operating the system so that the motor (220, 320) is cooled by two passes of production. Production fluids remove waste heat from the motor (220, 320) by passing the fluid in contact with the exterior of the motor (220, 320). The improved cooling permits the motor to be operated at a lower temperature improving life and efficiency, and/or to be operated at higher power at a similar temperature. Additionally, oversized and excess equipment is not required, further improving performance and economics for the user. In another aspect, the invention is a method of pumping fluids using a motor having vortex generators (366) on its exterior surfaces or on the interior surfaces of a surrounding shroud.

Abstract: A luminescent lanthanide complex using a photo induced electron transfer as the luminescence controlling principle is presented. The complex comprises a substituted 2-quinolinol containing a sensor group and a complex group and lanthanide ion (Ln3+). This complex is allowed to be co-present in a liquid phase with a material to be measured, and the luminescence of said complex is measured.