Abstract: A pillar shaped honeycomb structure includes: an outer peripheral wall; and porous partition walls disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from one end face to other end face to form a flow path, wherein the cells include a plurality of wire pieces made of a magnetic substance, the wire pieces being provided apart from each other via spaces or buffer materials in an extending direction of the cells.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a high-strength prestressed composite ceramic and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to a ceramic reinforcing technology in the field of high-performance structural ceramics. Firstly, more than two kinds of bondable ceramics need to be determined to form a composite ceramic of a matrix material and a surface layer material, the matrix material should have sufficient strength and a higher expansion coefficient, and the surface layer material should have a lower expansion coefficient and a higher elastic modulus, realizing the balance of the surface layer compressive stress and the matrix tensile stress are formed after high-temperature co-sintering; and the surface layer compressive stress can greatly improve the bending strength of the composite ceramic.

Abstract: There is provided an automobile component capable of improving sound absorption performance by damping due to vibration of a thin film as well as reducing weight of the automobile component. An automobile component of the present invention includes a core layer 10 in which tubular cells 20 are arranged in a plurality of rows, and a nonwoven fabric layer 30 on one or both surfaces of the core layer. The cells have closed surfaces 21 and open ends 22 in every other row as cell ends on one surface of the core layer. As cell ends on the other surface of the core layer, the cells have open ends 22 in the rows where the cells have the closed surfaces as cell ends on the one surface, and have closed surfaces 21 in the rows where the cells have the open ends as cell ends on the one surface. The open ends 22 allow the internal space of the cells 20 to be in communication with the outside. A thin resin film layer 40 having a plurality of apertures is provided between the core layer and the nonwoven fabric layer.

Abstract: A composition comprises: a resin component including an olefin-aromatic vinyl compound-aromatic polyene copolymer satisfying all the following conditions (1) to (4): (1) a number average molecular weight of the copolymer is 500 or more and 100000 or less; (2) the aromatic vinyl compound monomer is an aromatic vinyl compound having 8 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, and a content of a unit of the aromatic vinyl compound monomer is 0 mass % or more and 70 mass % or less; (3) the aromatic polyene is one or more selected from polyenes having 5 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms and having a plurality of vinyl groups and/or vinylene groups in the molecule, and a content of the vinyl groups and/or the vinylene groups derived from the unit of the aromatic polyene is 1.

Abstract: Provided is a base substrate including an orientation layer used for crystal growth of a nitride or oxide of a Group 13 element. A front surface of the orientation layer on a side used for crystal growth is composed of a material having a corundum-type crystal structure having an a-axis length and/or c-axis length larger than that of sapphire. The orientation layer contains a solid solution containing two or more selected from the group consisting of ?-Al2O3, ?-Cr2O3, ?-Fe2O3, ?-Ti2O3, ?-V2O3, and ?-Rh2O3.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to articles, coated articles, and methods of coating such articles with a corrosion resistant coating. The corrosion resistant coating can comprise hafnium aluminum oxide. The corrosion resistant coating may be deposited by a non-line of sight deposition, such as atomic layer deposition. Articles that may be coated may include chamber components, such as gas lines.

Abstract: A thermal barrier coating (TBC) top coat which is a high entropy oxide (HEO) having a high configurational entropy, contains at least 5 different oxide-forming metallic cations, is a single phase or single crystalline structure, such as tetragonal or cubic over unexpectedly wide temperature ranges up to and beyond top coat operating temperatures of preferably at least 2300° F. The TBC top coats exhibit low thermal conductivity, good sintering resistance, excellent phase stability and good thermal cycling performance. At least five of the different oxide-forming metallic cations include: a) at least one of the transition metals: Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Re, Fe, Ru, Co, Ni, Cu, or Zn, and/or at least one of the lanthanides La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb, or Lu. One of the at least five different oxide-forming metallic cations may also comprise at least one of the alkaline-earth metals: Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, or Ba.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a metal-coated member includes: providing a composite ceramic member including a ceramic part, and a connection part connected to the ceramic part; disposing a precious metal layer on a surface region that includes at least a portion of a surface of the ceramic part and a portion of a surface of the connection part, the precious metal layer including a precious metal; and removing at least a portion of the precious metal layer that is on the surface of the ceramic part and delineated by the boundary between the ceramic part and the connection part. The connection part has stronger adhesion to the precious metal than the ceramic part.

Abstract: In some examples, an article includes a ceramic or a ceramic or ceramic matrix composite (CMC) substrate; and an abradable coating on the CMC substrate. The abradable coating includes a plurality of first rare earth (RE) silicate layers in an alternating arrangement with a plurality of second RE silicate layers, wherein the first RE silicate layers include a rare earth monosilicate and the second RE silicate layers include a rare earth disilicate, and wherein the first RE silicate layers include a greater concentration of the rare earth monosilicate than the second RE silicate layers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery which includes a sheathing made of a material having an increased thermal conductivity and can thus have an improved safety. As an example, disclosed is a secondary battery comprising: an electrode assembly; and a sheath material which receives the electrode assembly and comprises a metal layer and a non-metal layer formed on the surface of the metal layer, wherein the thickness of the metal layer occupies 50% to 70% of the total thickness of the sheath material.

Abstract: A laminated glazing is formed of several rigid transparent substrates adhesively bonded in pairs by an interlayer adhesive layer, at least one of these transparent substrates being coated with an electrically conductive layer, a zone of this transparent substrate exhibiting four opposite edges in pairs, a first and a second busbar being positioned along two opposite edges, the electrically conductive layer exhibiting flow lines for guiding the electric current between the busbars, the set of flow lines being of variable width.

Abstract: A member for use in a plasma processing device of the disclosure includes a base material and a film containing yttrium oxide as a main component on the base material. An area occupancy of closed pores of the film is 0.2 area % or less, and a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak on a (222) plane of yttrium oxide obtained by X-ray diffraction of the film is 0.25° or less. A plasma processing device according to the disclosure includes the member for use in a plasma processing device.

Abstract: Methods are described for modification of a substrate with a surface modification material that includes a conversion layer deposited on the substrate surface and a deposited layer that is situated over the conversion layer. The methods include a conversion step and a deposition step that occur without intermediate processing steps in a process fluid that includes a metal and an organic substance.

Abstract: Methods of welding high manganese steel, the methods comprising: supplying at least one piece of high manganese steel; supplying the metal cored wire comprising a steel sheath with a core comprising powders of certain metal and carbon percentages and at least one of: i: sulfur in an amount less than 0.3 wt. %; or ii. phosphorous in an amount less than 0.03 wt. %; or a combination thereof; and the balance with iron; submerging the at least one piece of high manganese steel in a slag and arc stabilizer; and applying a current to the metal cored wire to produce a liquid alloy steel composition on the at least one piece of high manganese steel.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a housing of an electronic device comprises: a metal frame, wherein a surface of the metal frame has: a gloss value of 1 gloss unit (Gu) to 10 Gu, and a maximum height of a plurality of irregularities disposed on the surface in a range between 0.1 ?m to 2.3 ?m, and a maximum depth of valleys between the plurality of irregularities in a range between 0.1 ?m to 1.8 ?m, and a number of the plurality of irregularities per unit area of 1 cm2 in a range between 90 to 200.

Abstract: Provided is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide which has not only an excellent thermal conductivity but also excellent chemical resistance, water-fastness, and electrical insulation property, while exhibiting a satisfactory kneadability (miscibility) into a resin and being capable of producing materials and articles, such as a resin composition, having an excellent shapability. Specifically, the present invention is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide which is obtained by firing a starting material mixture that contains an aluminum starting material. The aluminum starting material is at least one selected from the group consisting of boehmite, aluminum hydroxide, and alumina; the starting material mixture further contains a boric acid compound and an oxide starting material such as a tungsten compound; and the content of the boric acid compound in the starting material mixture is 0.1 to 5 parts by mass, and the content of the oxide starting material in the starting material mixture is 0.

Abstract: Sandwich panel for use in a vehicle comprising at least a core layer and two fibrous layers in contact with and firmly connected to the core layer, both sides being impregnated with polyurethane whereby the polyurethane is embedding the fibers and binding to the board material, and whereby the sandwich panel further comprises at least a polyether polyurethane foam layer fully impregnated with polyurethane and in contact and firmly connected to the outer surface of at least one fibrous layer by the polyurethane, and a skin layer on the outer surface of the polyether polyurethane foam not in contact with the fibrous layer consisting of compressed polyurethane.

Abstract: An electrical steel sheet provided with an insulating coating wherein the insulating coating is formed by a method includes forming an insulating coating on an electrical steel sheet, including: preparing a treatment solution that does not contain an Fe compound by adding an Si compound to water; applying the treatment solution to a surface of the electrical steel sheet; leaving the treatment solution on the surface of the electrical steel sheet to allow Fe in the electrical steel sheet to be dissolved in the treatment solution; and baking the treatment solution to form the insulating film such that a coating weight of Si in the insulating coating in terms of SiO2 is 50% to 99% of the total coating weight, and a ratio (Fe/Si) of content of Fe to content of Si in the insulating coating is 0.01 to 0.6 on a molar basis.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet, including: a steel sheet; and a nickel-cobalt-iron diffusion layer formed as an outermost surface layer on the steel sheet. When a content of Ni, a content of Co and a content of Fe of the nickel-cobalt-iron diffusion layer are determined based on a Ni intensity, a Co intensity and a Fe intensity each sequentially measured in the depth direction from the surface side of the nickel-cobalt-iron diffusion layer by a radio frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, a content of Co at a specific depth position D, InCo_D, is 5% by mass or higher and a content of Fe at the specific depth position D, InFe_D, is 11% by mass or higher, the specific depth position D being a position where the Ni intensity is 0.5% of the maximum value of the Ni intensity. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the surface-treated steel sheet.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing ceramic tape includes a step of directing a tape of partially-sintered ceramic into a furnace. The tape is partially-sintered such that grains of the ceramic are fused to one another yet the tape still includes at least 10% porosity by volume, where the porosity refers to volume of the tape unoccupied by the ceramic. The method further includes steps of conveying the tape through the furnace and further sintering the tape as the tape is conveyed through the furnace. The porosity of the tape decreases during the further sintering step.