Abstract: Disclosed is a rubber composition for tire treads and a tire manufactured using the same. The rubber composition for tire treads includes 50 to 200 parts by weight of a wet masterbatch, 60 to 70 parts by weight of a raw rubber, and 50 to 200 parts by weight of a carbon black, the wet masterbatch being prepared by reacting 50 to 200 parts by weight of a carbon black, 20 to 100 parts by weight of a plant based resin and 50 to 200 parts by weight of a processing oil with respect to 100 parts by weight of a styrene-butadiene latex, according to a batchwise method. Accordingly, high grip performance is exhibited under a condition of heavy load, high slip and high speed, thereby being applicable to an ultra-high performance tire.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymer fibres. More specifically, the invention relates to polymer fibres comprising aero gel particles.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a tire puncture sealing agent that has excellent freeze resistance and that also exhibits excellent sealing properties even in a small liquid amount. The tire puncture sealing agent of the present invention contains: a rubber latex and/or a resin emulsion; a glycol ether represented by Formula (1) below; and a surfactant. In Formula (1), R11 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group. R12 represents an alkyl group. p represents an integer of 1 or greater.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid coagulant which can be injected into the inside of a tire without the need of removing the tire from a rim and which can prevent the scattering of a residue of a tire puncture sealing material when the tire is removed from the rim. The liquid coagulant can coagulate an emulsion that contains natural rubber latex and/or a synthetic resin emulsion. The liquid coagulant contains a foaming agent capable of foaming the emulsion. Also disclosed is a tire puncture sealant set including the coagulant and a method of coagulating a tire puncture sealant.

Abstract: A multifunctional syntactic foam including a matrix material and hollow particles, where a first and second material property of the syntactic foam are tailored on the basis of the wall thickness and volume fraction of the hollow particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to materials useful for lowering the pour point of wax-containing mixtures of liquid hydrocarbons, as well as compositions of and methods for preparing the same. More particularly, this invention relates to the use in liquid hydrocarbons of OLAC compositions containing units derived from (i) hydrocarbyl(meth)acrylic acid derivatives and (ii) ethylenically unsaturated aliphatic N?-olefin monomers having up to 50 carbon atoms. The OLAC compositions are useful for modifying the fluidity and flow characteristics of liquid hydrocarbons, and more particularly, for improving the pipeline pumpability of liquid hydrocarbons.

Abstract: A modified bismaleimide resin is made by modify bismaleimide with aromatic diamine that contains fluoro substituents through chain-growth polymerization; and modified bismaleimide resin is excellent in physical properties including a low dielectric constant Dk (3 GHz) less than 3.0, a dissipation factors (3 GHz) less than 0.02, a low resin water absorptivity ranging from 0.21% to 0.33% and an excellent processability, and is particularly suited for producing a copper clad laminate that is required to have dielectric constant Dk (3 GHz) less than 3.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer composition having improved scratch resistance properties, the composition comprising (i) one or more polymers with a glass transition temperature (Tg) of at least 25° C., and (ii) solid particulate material having a surface modified with an organic modifier of formula (I), an organic modifier of formula (I) being the only organic modifier used to modify a surface of the solid particulate material, wherein the solid particulate material is distributed at least throughout a surface layer of the one or more polymers, and wherein the improved scratch resistance is relative to that of the one or more polymers absent the distributed particulate material, (I) where R is selected from a quaternary ammonium cation, a quaternary phosphonium cation, and imidazolium cation and a pyridinium cation; x is an integer ranging from 1-5; Ry is selected from OH, C(O)OH, NH2, SH and CH3; and Z is a counter anion.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition includes a thermoplastic resin; a pearlescent pigment; and a pigment that is not the same as the pearlescent pigment, wherein the pearlescent pigment and pigment have da and db satisfying da<15 and db<15 in an L*a*b* colorimetric system, respectively.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an emulsion coagulant capable of quickly coagulating an emulsion in an extremely low temperature environment. The present invention is an emulsion coagulant containing an amphoteric acrylic polymer, the amphoteric acrylic polymer having an amide group and a sulfonic acid group and having a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 or lower, and the emulsion coagulant being used to coagulate an emulsion. The present invention is also a tire puncture repair kit that uses the emulsion coagulant.

Abstract: A magnesium compound represented by Formula 1 wherein the magnesium compound is dissolvable in an ether solvent, an electrolyte solution for magnesium batteries that includes the magnesium compound and a magnesium battery including the electrolyte solution are provided: wherein, in Formula 1, X1 is a halogen atom; and at least one of X2 and X3 each independently is an electron withdrawing group, wherein, when X2 or X3 is not an electron withdrawing group, X2 or X3 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-C20 alkyl group, or a C6-C20 aryl group.

Abstract: A mineral composition comprising mineral particles, said mineral particles, when in a densely compacted bed form, having a volume defined median pore diameter from 0.01 to 0.04 micrometre, and having an intruded total specific void volume of 0.1-0.3 cm3/g. A specific advantage of this composition is that it as a component in a coating, allows the passage of ink solvent into the base paper while retaining the ink molecules on the surface.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel tri-substituted aromatic-alkoxylated surface active compounds. Also provided is a method of preparing an aqueous coating composition such as a latex paint including the above components.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the cleansing of nanoparticles in aqueous cationic surfactant solutions, including polyalkylammonium salts such as cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, as demonstrated by surfactant exchange, followed by the addition of peptizing agents to stabilize the cleansed nanoparticle solutes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a masterbatch of diene elastomer and reinforcing inorganic filler in accordance with the invention comprises the following successive stages: bringing into contact and mixing one or more aqueous dispersions (B) of one or more hydrophobized reinforcing inorganic fillers, which coagulate(s) spontaneously with the said latex, and one or more diene elastomer latexes (A) in order to obtain a coagulum, without requiring a coagulating agent, recovery of the coagulum, then drying the recovered coagulum in order to obtain the masterbatch.

Abstract: A composite material is produced from carpet waste and a binding agent, in intimate association, and may also include wood fiber or chips and/or other additives. A method of manufacturing a composite material includes shredding carpet waste, coating the carpet waste with a binding agent, and subjecting the shredded, coated carpet waste to elevated heat and pressure. As an additional step, the composite material may be actively cooled to prevent deformation of the material.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of reducing bioburden of (e.g., sterilizing) a chromatography resin that include exposing a container including a composition including a chromatography resin and at least one antioxidant agent and/or chelator to a dose of gamma-irradiation sufficient to reduce the bioburden of the container and the chromatography resin, where the at least one antioxidant agent and/or chelator are present in an amount sufficient to ameliorate the loss of binding capacity of the chromatography resin after/upon exposure to the dose of gamma-irradiation. Also provided are reduced bioburden chromatography columns including the reduced bioburden chromatography resin, compositions including a chromatography resin and at least one chelator and/or antioxidant agent, methods of performing reduced bioburden column chromatography using one of these reduced bioburden chromatography columns, and integrated, closed, and continuous processes for reduced bioburden manufacturing of a purified recombinant protein.

Abstract: A method of producing metal flakes (72?) is provided. The method includes: applying a layer of ionic liquid (70) to a substrate (24); forming a layer of metal (70) on the substrate (24) over the ionic liquid (70); and removing the layer of metal (70) from the substrate (24).

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to cathode materials for electrochemical energy cells, more particularly to metal/air electrochemical energy cell cathode materials containing silver vanadium oxide and methods of making and using the same. The metal/air electrochemical energy cell can be a lithium/air electrochemical energy cell. Moreover the silver vanadium oxide can be a catalyst for one or more of oxidation and reduction processes of the electrochemical energy cell.

Abstract: Methods for improving the degradability of synthetic resins and/or synthetic resin mixtures and reducing the toxicity associated with the degradation process are disclosed herein with one such method involving the determination of a desired product lifespan and based on such lifespan, producing a mixture of a compatible degradation salt with a first compatible resin based on an algorithm, pre-mixing the compatible degradation inducing salt with the first synthetic resin to create a pre-mixed batch, and adding the pre-mixed batch to a second synthetic resin to create a master batch from which products may be manufactured with a known degradation timeline.