Abstract: A novel Aromatic Thermosetting Copolyester (ATSP) fully dense sheets can be processed by recycling the foam structure with unique combination of properties including mechanical strength and high temperature performance (compared to PEEK) to help improve part functionality, gain long-term reliability and cost savings. ATSP machinable plates can be used in valves, fittings, bearing, bushing, seals, aerospace parts and pump components.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a porous material comprises a base polymer having a continuous pore structure. In another embodiment, a method of making the porous material comprises reacting a base polymer with a degradable polymer with a crosslinker in the presence of a solvent and/or reacting a base polymer and a degradable polymer with a crosslinker in the presence of the solvent; removing the solvent to form a phase separated material; and removing the degradable polymer to form the porous material.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with expanded propylene resin beads including a core layer being in a foamed state, having a tubular shape, and being constituted of a propylene-based resin composition (a) satisfying the following (i) and (ii) and a cover layer being constituted of an olefin-based resin (b) satisfying the following (iii) or (iv). (i) A mixture of 75% by weight to 98% by weight of a propylene-based resin (a1) having a melting point of 100° C. to 140° C. and 25% by weight to 2% by weight of a propylene-based resin (a2) having a melting point of 140° C. to 165° C. (ii) A difference between the melting point of the resin (a2) and the melting point of the resin (a1) is 15° C. or more. (iii) A crystalline olefin-based resin having a melting point TmB that is lower than a melting point TmA of the composition (a) and having a relation of 0° C.<[TmA?TmB]?80° C. (iv) A non-crystalline olefin-based resin having a softening point TsB that is lower than TmA and having a relation of 0° C.

Abstract: An extruded polymer foam has a polymer matrix with styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer and infrared attenuator and cell having an average size in the foam vertical direction of 150 micrometers or less, a ratio of vertical cell size to extrusion direction cell size that is greater than one and a cell anisotropic ratio that is greater than 1.1; the foam having a P-Ratio of 0.7 or less, less than 0.2 moles of hydrocarbon blowing agent in the cells per kilogram of foam; a density of 20-48 kilograms per cubic meter and a 25-year thermal conductivity that is 0.030 Waters per meter-Kelvin or less when free of fluorinated blowing agents and less than 0.029 Watts per meter-Kelvin when containing fluorinated blowing agent.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a semiconductor device including adherends bonded with a cured product of an adhesive, the semiconductor device being configured such that a decrease in bonding strength after curing in a moisture resistance test is suppressed. In this semiconductor device, at least two adherends 20 and 70, 70 and 60, 70 and 50 made of at least one material selected from the group consisting of engineering plastic, ceramics, and metal are bonded with a cured product 10 of an adhesive containing (A) thermosetting resin, (B) a particular thiol compound, and (C) a latent curing agent.

Abstract: A method for producing a polyethylene-based resin laminated foam sheet according to the present invention is a method for producing a polyethylene-based resin laminated foam sheet 1 with thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 mm in which an anti-static layer is adhered by lamination on at least one surface of the foam layer, including: a step of performing coextrusion and foaming of a laminate which is obtained by combining and laminating, in a die 10, a melt resin composition 6 for forming a foam layer obtained by kneading a low density polyethylene A and a physical foaming agent and a melt resin composition 9 for forming an anti-static layer obtained by kneading a low density polyethylene B and an anti-static agent, wherein the anti-static agent is a polymeric anti-static agent C which has a melting point to allow a melting point difference in the range of from ?10° C. to +10° C. compared to that of the low density polyethylene B and has a melt flow rate of 10 g/10 minutes or more.

Abstract: A process to form a polypropylene composition comprising combining at a temperature within a range from 190° C. to 320° C. a polypropylene resin and within the range from 0.01 wt % to 3 wt % of at least one organic peroxide, by weight of the polypropylene composition and within a range from 100 to 4000 ppm each of phosphorous- and hindered phenol antioxidants; the polypropylene resin comprising at least 50 mol % propylene, and having a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) greater than 6, a branching index (g?) of at least 0.97, and a melt strength greater than 10 cN determined using an extensional rheometer at 190° C. The resulting polypropylene composition comprises at least 50 mol % propylene and has a peak extensional viscosity of greater than 500 kPa·s at a strain rate of 0.01 sec?1 (190° C.) and a melt strength of at least 40 determined using an extensional rheometer at 190°.

Abstract: Reversibly cross-linkable foam is provided. The reversibly cross-linked foam includes a first polymeric material, at least one reversibly cross-linkable monomer polymerized with the first polymeric material, and at least one blowing agent. The reversibly cross-linkable co-polymeric foam is thermally stable at temperatures of at least 10 degrees higher than otherwise identical polymeric foam that does not include the reversibly cross-linkable agent polymerized with the first polymeric material.

Abstract: Porous three-dimensional networks of polyimide and porous three-dimensional networks of carbon and methods of their manufacture are described. For example, polyimide aerogels are prepared by mixing a dianhydride and a diisocyanate in a solvent comprising a pyrrolidone and acetonitrile at room temperature to form a sol-gel material and supercritically drying the sol-gel material to form the polyimide aerogel. Porous three-dimensional polyimide networks, such as polyimide aerogels, may also exhibit a fibrous morphology. Having a porous three-dimensional polyimide network undergo an additional step of pyrolysis may result in the three dimensional network being converted to a purely carbon skeleton, yielding a porous three-dimensional carbon network. The carbon network, having been derived from a fibrous polyimide network, may also exhibit a fibrous morphology.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with expanded propylene resin beads including a core layer being in a foamed state and constituted of a propylene-based resin composition (a) and a cover layer constituted of an olefin-based resin (b), the propylene-based resin composition (a) satisfying the following (i) and (ii), and the olefin-based resin (b) satisfying the following (iii) or (iv). (i) A mixture of 75% by weight to 98% by weight of a propylene-based resin (a1) having a melting point of 100° C. to 140° C. and 25% by weight to 2% by weight of a propylene-based resin (a2) having a melting point of 140° C. to 165° C. (ii) A difference between the melting point of the resin (a2) and the melting point of the resin (a1) is 15° C. or more. (iii) A crystalline olefin-based resin having a melting point TmB that is lower than a melting point TmA of the composition (a) and having a relation of 0° C.<[TmA?TmB]?80° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides a foamable resin composition excellent in terms of the dispersibility and moldability. The foamable resin composition containing: from 30 to 80 wt % of a polyolefin; from 3 to 40 wt % of a polylactic acid; from 1 to 20 wt % of a modified polyolefin containing a carbonyl group in a molecule; from 10 to 40 wt % of a layered silicate; and from 0.01 to 0.5 wt % of a filler, the polyolefin containing at least one of polypropylene and polyethylene, the filler having a density different from the density of the layered silicate by at least 0.20 g/cm3.

Abstract: Methods of forming nanoporous materials are described herein that include forming a polymer network with a chemically removable portion. The chemically removable portion may be polycarbonate polymer that is removable on application of heat or exposure to a base, or a polyhexahydrotriazine (PHT) or polyhemiaminal (PHA) polymer that is removable on exposure to an acid. The method generally includes forming a reaction mixture comprising a formaldehyde, a solvent, a primary aromatic diamine, and a diamine having a primary amino group and a secondary amino group, the secondary amino group having a base-reactive substituent, and heating the reaction mixture to a temperature of between about 50 deg C. and about 150 deg C. to form a polymer. Removing any portion of the polymer results in formation of nanoscopic pores as polymer chains are decomposed, leaving pores in the polymer matrix.

Abstract: An aerogel and process of making the aerogel is provided. The aerogel is a polyimide aerogel having polyamide cross-links formed using a triacid chloride cross-linker.

Abstract: The present invention relates to (per)fluoropolyether (PFPE) amino derivatives, a method for their manufacturing and their uses.

Abstract: Thermoplastic polymers, for example fluoropolymers, are foamed by use of a solid formulation comprising thermoplastic polymer and an oxalate compound which includes a moiety selected from potassium, calcium, titanium, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, zirconium and barium.

Abstract: Provided an electrophotographic member that contributes to the formation of a higher grade of an electrophotograph than ever for use in an ultralow-temperature environment. The electrophotographic member has an electro-conductive resin layer, and the resin layer comprises a resin having a specific structure and an anion.

Abstract: The present disclosure herein relates to a terminally-crosslinked methyl morpholinium-functionalized block copolymer, and an anion exchange membrane using the same, and more particularly, to a terminally-crosslinked block copolymer which has a novel structure, and in which, in a poly(arylene ether sulfone) multiblock copolymer (MM-PES) having methyl morpholinium as a conducting group, an azide compound may be used as a crosslinking agent so that crosslinking only occurs at ends of the polymer chains (xMM-PES), thereby minimizing conductivity loss, significantly increasing mechanical and chemical stability, attaining additional conductivity resulting from the three-dimensional structure of morpholinium, and reducing water uptake while enhancing water retention capacity, uses thereof as an alkaline fuel cell anion exchange membrane (AEM), and a method for conveniently preparing the same through simple heat-treatment.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive agent composition comprising: a copolymer in which a polar functional group-containing monomer is polymerized by the content ratio of 10 weight parts to 50 weight parts with respect to 100 weight parts of a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based monomer; thermally conductive inorganic fillers; and a hollow glass filler or gas bubbles. Also provided is a method for preparing the adhesive agent composition, comprising the steps of: preparing a copolymer by polymerizing a polar functional group-containing monomer by the content ratio of 10 weight parts to 50 weight parts with respect to 100 weight parts of a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based monomer; adding thermally conductive inorganic fillers, a surface-active agent, a photoinitiator, and a photocuring agent to the copolymer to prepare a mixture; and adding a hollow glass filler or injecting gas bubbles into the mixture.