Abstract: Articles including durable and icephobic polymeric coatings are disclosed. The polymeric coatings include a bonding layer which may contain a substantially fully cured polymeric resin providing excellent adhesion to metallic or polymer substrates. The polymeric coating further includes an outer surface layer which is smooth, hydrophobic and icephobic and, in addition to a substantially fully cured resin, contains silicone comprising additives near the exposed outer surface. The anisotropic polymeric coatings are particularly suited for strong and lightweight parts required in aerospace, automotive and sporting goods applications. A process for making the articles is disclosed as well.

Abstract: Articles including durable and icephobic and/or biocidal polymeric coatings are disclosed. The polymeric coatings can include a bonding layer which may contain a substantially fully cured polymeric resin providing excellent adhesion to metallic or polymer substrates. The polymeric coating further includes an outer surface layer which is smooth, hydrophobic, biocidal and icephobic and, in addition to a substantially fully cured resin, contains silicone comprising additives near the exposed outer surface. The anisotropic polymeric coatings are particularly suited for strong and lightweight parts required in aerospace, automotive and sporting goods applications. A process for making the articles is disclosed as well.

Abstract: Provided is a stretchable film having excellent stretchability and excellent air permeability. Also provided is an article including such stretchable film. The stretchable film of the present invention includes an olefin-based resin and a filler.

Abstract: A prepreg comprising the following constituent elements (A), (B), and (C), the constituent element (C) being present in a surface layer of the prepreg: Constituent element (A): a reinforcing fiber base material; Constituent element (B): an epoxy resin composition containing a curing agent, the epoxy resin composition being cured within the range of from 90° C. to 140° C. (inclusive); and Constituent element (C): particles of a thermoplastic resin having a melting point or a glass transition temperature within the range of from 90° C. to 140° C. (inclusive).

Abstract: Composite materials and structural adhesives containing particles of functionalized polymers as a toughening agent. The particles are composed of functionalized polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymer or copolymer thereof that contain chemical functional groups capable of reacting with a thermoset resin component to form covalent bonds.

Abstract: A molecularly resilient and high-energy transferrable material and method of reinforcing and strengthening substrates with the same. The material includes aliphatic polyurea moieties coated on the surface of a pre-curing or curing epoxy, that may or may not compose a fiber reinforced epoxy (F/E) layer, constituting an isophorone diisocyanate amine (IDA) epoxy-surface modification (reaction) to form an interfacial epoxy-polyurea hybridized-matrix (IEPM) material between the epoxy (that may reside on an F/E layer) and a cured polyurea layer. Through its unique set of molecular vibrational properties, which are designed into the IEPM by controlling the thermodynamic IDA reaction, the chemically bonded and molecularly resilient (regenerative) IEPM material incorporates significant fracture toughness, loss modulus (material damping), and reduced elastic modulus into structural substrates and high-tenacity fibers to which it is adhered.

Abstract: Described herein is a coating composition suitable for application to a building panel. The coating composition comprises inorganic pigment, liquid carrier, and a humectant comprising a first ester-containing compound. The liquid carrier may be present in an amount ranging from about 10 wt. % to about 30 wt. % based on the total weight of the coating composition. Described herein are also building panels coated with the coating composition and methods of their production.

Abstract: A material includes a transparent substrate coated with a stack of thin layers acting on infrared radiation including at least one functional layer. The stack includes a protective coating deposited above at least a part of the functional layer. The protective coating includes at least one lower protective layer based on titanium and zirconium, these two metals being in the metal, oxidized or nitrided form, and at least one upper protective layer of carbon, within which layer the carbon atoms are essentially in an sp2 hybridization state, located above the layer based on titanium and zirconium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer binder composition, and more specifically, to an integrated conductive polymer binder composition simultaneously having adhesion and conductivity, a method for preparing the binder composition, an energy storage device comprising the binder composition, a sensor comprising a sensing portion formed from the binder composition, and an anticorrosive coating composition comprising the binder composition as an active component.

Abstract: Provided is an electromagnetic wave shielding material that can exhibit improved electromagnetic wave shielding property, light-weight property and formability. The present invention relates to an electromagnetic wave shielding material comprising a laminate in which N number of metal foils each having a thickness of 5 to 100 ?m and N+1 number of resin layers each having a thickness of 5 ?m or more are alternately laminated or a laminate in which N+1 number of metal foils each having a thickness of 5 to 100 ?m and N number of resin layers each having a thickness of 5 ?m or more are alternately laminated, N being an integer of 2 or more, wherein thickness of the laminate is from 100 to 500 ?m, and wherein, when a thickness center of the laminate is used as a reference, for all pairs of interfaces at which sequences of the resin layers and the metal foils on both upper and lower sides of the reference correspond to each other, distances from the reference to the interfaces have an error of within ±10%.

Abstract: At least a metallic part of a metal or metallized reinforcer, at least the surface of which is at least partially metallic, is coated with a polybenzoxazine, the repeat units of which comprise at least one unit corresponding to the formulae (I) or (II): in which Z1 represents an at least divalent, aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic bonding group comprising at least one carbon atom and optionally at least one heteroatom selected from O, S, N and P; X1 and X2, which are identical or different, represent O or S; Ar1 and Ar2, which are identical or different, represent a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group; and Z2 represents O or (S)n, the symbol “n” representing an integer equal to 1 or greater than 1. Such a reinforcement can be used for the reinforcement of a rubber article, in particular a motor vehicle tyre.

Abstract: A multilayer film for use in adhesive tape or adhesive label applications comprising a core layer and skin layers on each side of the core layer. The core layer comprises a polypropylene mini-random homopolymer, wherein the mini-random homopolymer comprises polypropylene, up to 2 wt % ethylene components, and a acid neutralizer in a concentration up to 5000 ppm calcium. The skin layers each comprise a) at least about 95 wt % of a polypropylene mini-random homopolymer comprising polypropylene, up to 2 wt % ethylene components, and an acid neutralizer in a concentration up to about 5000 ppm, and b) an anti-block agent in a concentration up to about 1 wt %, wherein the anti-block agent comprises at least 95 wt % homopolymer of polypropylene and 1 to 5 wt % of silica having a particle size between about 1 to 3 ?m.

Abstract: The industrial roll according to the invention includes a core member made of a metal, a first adhesive layer formed in contact with an outer surface of the core member, a second adhesive layer formed on an outer surface side of the first adhesive layer, and a cover member formed in contact with an outer surface of the second adhesive layer and made of an elastic material. The first adhesive layer is made of a material with better adhesive properties to the core member than to the cover member, and the second adhesive layer is made of a material with better adhesive properties to the cover member than to the core member.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a composite for forming an insulating substrate. The composite includes 100 parts by weight of a liquid crystal polymer and 0.5-85 parts by weight of a dielectric additive. The liquid crystal polymer has a repeating unit represented by in which Ar is 1,4-phenylene, 1,3-phenylene, 2,6-naphthalene, or 4,4?-biphenylene, Y is —O— or —NH—, and X is carboxamido, imido/imino, amidino, aminocarbonylamino, aminothiocarbonyl, aminocarbonyloxy, aminosulfonyl, aminosulfonyloxy, aminosulfonylamino, carboxyl ester, (carboxyl ester)amino, (alkoxycarbonyl)oxy, alkoxycarbonyl, hydroxyamino, alkoxyamino, cyanato, isocyanato, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a polymer composite membrane, a method for preparing same, and a lithium-ion battery including same. The polymer composite membrane includes a polymer base membrane, where the polymer base membrane includes a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite to each other, and the polymer composite membrane further includes a first ceramic layer, a first heat-resistant fiber layer, and a first bonding layer disposed sequentially from inside out on the first surface of the polymer base membrane, where materials of the first heat-resistant fiber layer contain a first polymeric material and a second polymeric material.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided bio-based mineral oil barrier coatings and films usable for decreasing mineral oil migration, for example in food packaging materials, and thus improving the safety of the materials facing the mineral oil containing environment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer structure including a base (X) and a layer (Y), wherein the layer (Y) includes an aluminum-containing compound (A) and a phosphorus compound (BH) in which a phosphorus atom having at least one hydroxy group and a polar group are bonded via an alkylene chain having 3 to 20 carbon atoms or a polyoxyalkylene chain based on an alkylene having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and the aluminum-containing compound (A) is a compound (Ab) including a reaction product (D) of an aluminum-containing metal oxide (Aa) and an inorganic phosphorus compound (BI).

Abstract: The present invention provides a polycarbonate resin composition containing a polycarbonate resin (A), a flame retardant (B), and a fluoropolymer (C), said polycarbonate resin composition being characterized in that the fluidity of the fluoropolymer (C), as measured using a Koka flow tester (under the conditions of a measurement temperature of 400° C., a measurement load of 0.98 MPa, and a die hole diameter of 2.1 mm), is 0.1×10?3 cm3/sec or greater. The present invention also provides a sheet and a film.

Abstract: A method of increasing corrosion resistance without leveraging toxic hexavalent chromium uses partially oxidized graphene particles mixed into primer applied on metallic alloy surfaces. Graphene is effective as an anti-corrosion primer additive because it acts as a physical barrier and has electrochemical properties that change potentials needed to induce corrosion.

Abstract: A resin molded body includes a body having a surface, and a decorative sheet adhered to the surface of the body. The decorative sheet has a metallic luster layer, a transparent protective layer positioned on an outer side of the metallic luster layer, and a welding layer adhered to the surface of the body. The body is formed from a fiber-reinforced resin having reinforcing fibers defining an anchor structuring layer such that the reinforcing fibers of the body bite into the welding layer at a boundary portion between the welding layer and the body such that the boundary portion has an uneven shape.