Abstract: This invention relates to a ceramic composite that comprises of a mixture of infrared-emitting metal oxides having specific spectral luminance in 3-20 ?m (micrometers) wavelength range and an effective amount of pyroelectric material that helps enhance infrared emissions of said oxides in said wavelength range. Said ceramic composite can be deviced to provide an effective means of improving hydrocarbon fuel efficiency in internal combustion engines for better engine performance with increased torque and power, improved fuel economy, and reduced exhaust emissions. Such ceramic composites can also be used in other applications that utilize infrared emissions in said wavelength range.

Abstract: The invention relates to blood substitute compositions, and methods of use thereof. Described herein are compositions in which hemoglobin is maintained substantially in the reduced form of hemoglobin as opposed to the oxidized methemoglobin form through inclusion of an oxido-reductase enzyme and reducing agent within a vesicle with the hemoglobin. The vesicles additionally can comprise a dismutase, a catalase, and an electron acceptor, each of which contribute to either the maintenance of hemoglobin in the active oxygen carrying state or provide a benefit not achieved with free hemoglobin.

Abstract: A method for producing bacteriorhodopsin-containing microcapsules is described, which can be optically activated, having a diameter of less than 50 ?m, preferably less than 10 ?m, comprising an enveloping layer, which protects the bacteriorhodopsin from harmful environmental factors, while at the same time preserving the functionality thereof. In doing so, bacteriorhodopsin is suspended in a first step, in the form of PM/BR patches in an aqueous medium having a pH value ranging from 6-9 in the presence of a water-retaining polymer, and said suspension is spray-dried to form a powder, or is dried in an aliphatic solvent using low steam pressure and subsequent dehydration to form a powder. In a second step, the powder obtained in this way is provided with an envelope, which is substantially completely translucent to light in the visible range and made of a polymer and/or a paraffin having a solidification point ranging between 45° C. and 65° C. and/or a carnauba wax having a melting range of 70-90° C.

Abstract: Disclosed are a silicon carbide sintered body and a sliding component using the same, and a protective body which, even when fine cracks are generated due to thermal shock or mechanical impact over prolonged use, are capable of inhibiting development of the cracks. The silicon carbide sintered body contains silicon carbide grains as a major component and has a relative density of 95% or more. On an observation surface of the silicon carbide sintered body, coarse silicon carbide grains 1b having a surface area of 170 ?m2 or more occupy 6 area % or more and 15 area % or less. The silicon carbide sintered body has excellent mechanical properties such as strength and rigidity. Even when fine cracks are generated due to thermal shock or mechanical impact, coarse silicon carbide grains 1b are capable of inhibiting development of the cracks.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a ?-polyoxo crosslinked phthalocyanine compound, a preparing method thereof, and a near infrared ray absorbing and reflecting composition using the same, and more particularly, a ?-polyoxo crosslinked phthalocyanine compound having high absorption at a wavelength of 800 to 950 nm and high reflectance at a wavelength of 1200 nm or more, a preparing method of a ?-polyoxy crosslinked phthalocyanine compound simultaneously having near infrared ray absorption and reflection properties as described above, and a near infrared ray absorbing and reflecting composition using the ?-polyoxo crosslinked phthalocyanine compound. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a ?-polyoxo crosslinked molybdenum phthalocyanine compound capable of absorbing and reflecting near infrared ray at the same time.

Abstract: A laser-engraveable layer is used in a laser-engraveable element to provide relief images. The resulting laser-engraved elements can take various forms and can be used to apply various inks to receiver materials in an imagewise fashion. The laser-engraveable element has a thermally crosslinked laser-engraveable layer containing a crosslinked elastomeric fluoropolymer and a fluoro-functionalized near-infrared radiation absorber. The crosslinked fluoropolymer has a glass transition temperature of less than and including 0° C. and the crosslinked laser-engraveable layer is formed from a reactive fluoropolymer composition comprising a reactive fluoropolymer, the fluoro-functionalized near-infrared radiation absorber, and a compound that causes crosslinking of the reactive fluoropolymer during thermal curing.

Abstract: A method of making a mechanically robust, electrically conductive ultralow-density carbon nanotube-based aerogel, including the steps of dispersing nanotubes in an aqueous media or other media to form a suspension, adding reactants and catalyst to the suspension to create a reaction mixture, curing the reaction mixture to form a wet gel, drying the wet gel to produce a dry gel, and pyrolyzing the dry gel to produce the mechanically robust, electrically conductive ultralow-density carbon nanotube-based aerogel. The aerogel is mechanically robust, electrically conductive, and ultralow-density, and is made of a porous carbon material having 5 to 95% by weight carbon nanotubes and 5 to 95% carbon binder.

Abstract: Provided are a resin composition for surface treatment and a surface-treated steel sheet coated therewith. The resin composition for surface treatment includes a dispersing element having excellent thermal conductivity and heat dissipation, thereby maintaining physical properties of the conventional anti-fingerprint steel sheet, for example, high whiteness, fingerprint resistance, workability, electric conductivity and alkali resistance, and providing heat dissipation. In addition, the surface-treated steel sheet coated with the resin composition for surface treatment of the present invention has physical properties such as high heat dissipation, electric conductivity and whiteness, and thus may be replaced with a bottom chassis of a backlight unit, particularly, an edge-type backlight unit.

Abstract: A layered polyester film includes a substrate polyester film with at least one surface laminated with a lamination layer including a polyester resin as a primary component, the surface of the lamination layer having a wetting tension of 35-45 mN/m and the polyester resin contained in the lamination layer meeting (a) to (c): (a) the lamination layer contains polyesters (A) having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 110-140° C. and polyesters (B) having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 40-90° C., (b) at least either polyesters (A) or polyesters (B) contains both a monomer having a sulfonic acid component and a monomer having a tri or higher-valent, carboxylic acid component, and (c) the mixing ratio between polyesters (A) and polyesters (B) is 10/90 to 60/40.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a display fluid comprising charged composite pigment particles dispersed in a solvent. The composite pigment particles have a density which matches to the density of the solvent in which they are dispersed. A display fluid comprising the composite pigment particles provides improved display performance.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides methods and apparatus for efficiently crosslinking silicon carbide fiber precursor polymers with electron beam radiation. The methods and apparatus utilize a platform containing silicon carbide fiber precursor polymer. The temperature of the platform is regulated while the silicon carbide fiber precursor polymer is irradiated to thereby regulate the temperature of the irradiated silicon carbide fiber precursor polymer thereon. In this way, the temperature of the irradiated silicon carbide fiber precursor polymer is regulated via the platform both during and after it is subjected to radiation. At least one of the platform and the e-beam radiation mechanism may be translated with respect to the other to irradiate different portions of the silicon carbide fiber precursor polymer and, ultimately, the entirety of the silicon carbide fiber precursor polymer contained on the platform.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a display fluid comprising charged composite pigment particles dispersed in a solvent. The composite pigment particles have a density which matches to the density of the solvent in which they are dispersed. A display fluid comprising the composite pigment particles provides improved display performance.

Abstract: The polyzwitterionic acid antiscalant is an antiscalant for use in desalination plants and the like for inhibiting CaSO4 and SO42? scale precipitation. The polyzwitterionic acid (PZA) antiscalant has the following structural formula: In order to make the PZA antiscalant, N-carboethoxymethyl-3-(N,N-diallylamino)propanesulfonate, a zwitterionic monomer, is cyclopolymerized in aqueous solution using tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) to make an intermediate polyzwitterion (PZ). Acidic hydrolysis of the ester groups of the PZ is performed to produce the PZA antiscalant. Evaluation of the antiscalant properties of the PZA antiscalant using concentrated brines revealed that the PZA antiscalant, at a concentration of 10 ppm, is very effective in inhibiting the formation of calcium sulfate scale, particularly in reverse osmosis plants.

Abstract: The present invention provides polymeric materials arranged as photonic crystals, or portions of photonic crystals, having properties which can be easily tuned over a large range of wavelengths upon exposure to an external stimulus. In some embodiments, the photonic crystals comprise at least one portion which can undergo a change in a physical, chemical, dielectric, or other property upon exposure to an altering stimulus, resulting in a change in a diffracted wavelength of electromagnetic radiation (e.g, light) by the photonic crystal. Embodiments of the invention may advantageously exhibit large stop band tunability and rapid response times. Photonic crystals of the invention may be useful in a wide variety of applications, such as colorimetric sensors, active components of simple display devices, electrically controlled tunable optically pumped laser, photonic switches, multiband filters, and the like.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for preparing a pulverulent compound of the formula NiaM1bM2cOx(OH)y where M1 is Fe, Co, Zn, Cu or mixtures thereof, M2 is Mn, Al, Cr, B, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Si or mixtures thereof, having the following steps: a) providing at least a first starting solution and a second starting solution, b) combining of at least the first starting solution and the second starting solution in a reactor and producing a homogeneously mixed reaction zone having a specific mechanical power input of at least 2 watt/liter and producing a product suspension containing insoluble product and a mother liquor which is supersaturated by setting of an excess of alkali and has a pH of 10-12, c) partial separating the mother liquor from the precipitated product to set solids contents of at least 150 g/l in the suspension.

Abstract: A charge director material for charging a liquid toner, the charge director material comprising (a) nanoparticles of a simple salt and (b) a sulfosuccinate salt of the general formula MAn, wherein M is a metal, n is the valence of M, and A is an ion of the general formula (I) [R1—O—C(O)CH2CH(SO3?)C(O)—O—R2],??(I) wherein each of R1 and R2 is an alkyl group; said charge director material being substantially free of acids of the general formula (I), wherein one or both of R1 and R2 is hydrogen, and if only one of them is hydrogen, the other is an alkyl group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymeric triarylmethane dye, a blue resin composition for a color filter including the polymeric dye, and a color filter using the resin composition. The blue resin composition of the present invention is highly soluble in solvents and has excellent luminance, contrast, heat resistance, and chemical resistance due to the use of the polymeric triarylmethane dye. Particularly, the blue resin composition exhibits higher luminance and contrast than blue resin compositions using existing pigments. In addition, the blue resin composition of the present invention has greatly improved heat resistance and chemical resistance compared to blue resin compositions using existing triarylmethane dye monomers.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion material is provided and includes an organic material having an absorbing coefficient of about 1.5×105 (cm?1) or more and that is represented by the following formula (1). In the formula (1), each of R1 to R20, and each of X1 to X8 is one of a hydrogen atom and a substituent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a phthalocyanine compound represented by Formula 1, a dye including the same, a photosensitive resin composition including the same, and a color filter prepared using the same. In Formula 1, Z1 to Z16 and M1 are the same as defined in the specification, wherein 1 to 8 of Z1 to Z16 are substituted with one of Formulae 2 to 5, as also defined in the specification. The phthalocyanine compound can have high luminance, high contrast, and excellent heat resistance.

Abstract: Disclosed is a blue dye compound for a color filter represented by Chemical Formula 1. The blue colored resin composition including the blue dye compound has excellent solubility to an organic solvent, such as propylene glycol methyl ether acetate (PGMEA), excellent miscibility with the other dyes or pigments and high heat resistance. Therefore, when using the blue dye compound, it is possible to obtain a color filter having high luminance and contrast.