Abstract: The application discloses compounds, compositions, films and devices comprising the compounds and compositions, and their methods of use for harvesting water.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition includes: a polyester resin; a white pigment; a core-shell structured impact modifier; and a modified polyolefin resin. Exemplary compositions include polycyclohexylenedimethylene terephthalate (PCT) resin; titanium oxide; a core-shell structured impact modifier obtained by grafting methyl (meth)acrylate to the polydimethylsiloxane rubber core; and an ethylene-methacrylate copolymer. The thermoplastic resin composition is usable for the production of molded article as a reflector or reflector cup for a LED (light-emitting diode) that maintains reflectance at elevated temperature.

Abstract: A curable composition can comprise a polymerizable material and an initiator. The polymerizable material can comprise a first monomer and a second monomer, wherein the second monomer is soluble in the first monomer, and the second monomer includes a ring structure selected from a maleimide ring, a pyrone ring, or a 2-furanone rings. The curable composition can have a viscosity of not greater than 10 mPa·s, a fast curing kinetic, low shrinkage during curing, and is suitable for use in inkjet adaptive planarization.

Abstract: Disclosed are aliphatic-aromatic biodegradable polyesters obtained from aliphatic dicarboxylic acids comprising azelaic acid, sebacic acid, suberic acid, brassylic acid and their esters; polyfunctional aromatic acids of renewable origin and particularly 2,5-furan dicarboxylic acid, and diols, such as 1,2-ethanediol, 1,2-propanediol, 1,3-propanediol, 1,4-butanediol, 1,5-pentanediol, 1,6-haxanediol, 1,7-heptanediol, 1,8-octanediol, 1,9-nonanediol, 1,10-decanediol, 1,11-undecanediol, 1,12-dodecanediol, 1,13-tridecanediol, 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, propylene glycol, neopentyl glycol, 2-methyl-1,3-propanediol, dianhydrosorbitol, dianhydromannitol, dianhydroiditol, cyclohexanediol, cyclohexane-methanediol, aromatic diols such as phenols, and furan diol. Also disclosed are blends of the polyesters with other biodegradable polymers of either natural or synthetic origin.

Abstract: A material web is disclosed. The material web includes a fiber layer having a first side and an opposing second side. The fiber layer has a plurality of fibers, each of which having an intimate admixture of a thermoplastic polymer, and a wax and/or oil, wherein at least some of the wax and/or oil is exposed at an outer surface of the fibers. A surface energy treatment is disposed on the first side and/or the second side of the fiber layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate having a patterned group-III nitride compound layer without collapsing a formed mask pattern due to reflow or decomposition even when an etching method at a high temperature of 300° C.-700° C. is used, including the steps: forming a patterned mask layer on the substrate's group-III nitride compound layer, and etching the group-III nitride compound layer by dry etching at 300° C. or higher and 700° C. or lower using the mask pattern, to form patterned group-III nitride compound layer, wherein the patterned mask layer contains a polymer containing a unit structure of the following Formula (1): a polymer containing a unit structure of the following Formula (2): O—Ar1??Formula (2) a polymer containing a structural unit of the following Formula (3): O—Ar2—O—Ar3-T-Ar4??Formula (3) a polymer containing a combination of unit structure of Formula (2) and unit structure of Formula (3), or a crosslinked structure of the polymers.

Abstract: A composition for a near-infrared light-absorbing film includes a binder and compounds represented by separate particular chemical formulae. A near-infrared light-absorbing film may include a near-infrared light-absorbing layer including a cured product of the composition. A camera device may include the near-infrared light-absorbing film, and an electronic device may include the camera device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sealant film including at least a layer formed of a polyester as a superficial layer, in which the polyester contains 20 to 50 mol % of a 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid unit, 18 to 49.5 mol % of at least one diol unit selected from the group consisting of an ethylene glycol unit, a 1,3-propanediol unit, and a 1,4-butanediol unit, and 0.5 to 2.5 mol % of a diethylene glycol unit, the sealant film has a crystallinity of less than 14%, and the sealant film is a stretched film that exhibits a shrinkage ratio of 6% or more in a maximum shrinkage direction upon being allowed to stand at 125° C. for 20 seconds. This provides a sealant film superior in mechanical properties, especially tensile elongation, and also superior in heat sealability, non-adsorptivity, and gas barrier properties.

Abstract: Described herein is method of making branched perfluorinated compounds, specifically (CF3)2CFCF(CF3)OCF(CF3)C(?O)F and (CF3)2CFCF(CF3)OCF?CF2. Also disclosed herein is a fluoropolymer derived from the branched perfluorovinyl ether monomer and methods of making the fluoropolymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method using a specific catalyst for upgrading ketoacid to intermediates for fuel and chemical industry, intermediates obtained by the method and to their use.

Abstract: Provided is an agent for dispersing an electrically conductive carbon material, in which the agent consists of a polymer which has an oxazoline group in a side chain and which is obtained by using an oxazoline group-containing monomer such as that represented by formula (1) for example, and in which the agent exhibits excellent dispersion of an electrically conductive carbon material and produces a thin film that exhibits excellent adhesion to a current collection substrate when formed into a thin film together with the electrically conductive carbon material. (In the formula, X denotes a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond-containing group, and R1-R4 each independently denote a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group optionally having a branched structure having 1-5 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6-20 carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group having 7-20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersion composition from which a curable composition having excellent developability can be obtained and in which generation of precipitates under a low temperature environment is suppressed. In addition, the present invention provides a curable composition, a light-shielding film obtained by curing the curable composition, a color filter containing a cured film obtained by curing the curable composition, a solid-state imaging device and an image display device, a resin, and a method for manufacturing a cured film. The dispersion composition of the present invention contains a colorant and a resin, in which the resin contains a structural unit A having a polymer chain and a structural unit B having an acid group, and the polymer chain contains 2 or more structural units GF, and the structural unit GF is selected from the group consisting of a structural unit composed of an oxyalkylene group and a structural unit composed of an oxyalkylene carbonyl group.

Abstract: Provided is a rubbery polymer (A) including a unit of a crosslinking agent (I) represented by Formula (I) below and a unit of a (meth)acrylate ester (a). The volume-average particle size (X), the frequency upper limit 10%-volume particle size (Y), and the frequency lower limit 10%-volume particle size (Z) of the rubbery polymer (A) satisfy specific relationships. Also provided are a graft copolymer (B) produced by graft polymerization of one or more selected from an aromatic vinyl and a vinyl cyanide onto the rubbery polymer (A), a thermoplastic resin composition including the graft copolymer (B), and a molded article produced by molding the thermoplastic resin composition.

Abstract: A solid carrier component includes a liquid polydiorganosiloxane, an ethylene-based polymer, and a maleated ethylene-based polymer. The solid carrier component is useful in processes for preparing filled composite articles, such as wood plastic composite building materials.

Abstract: A polyester resin having low-temperature (80-240° C.) fluidity, storage stability, and achieving both dispersibility and grindability, where the polyester resin includes, in reacted form: a polyhydric alcohol; a polycarboxylic acid; a sulfonate component, which is a bis(2-hydroxyethyl)isophthalate sulfonic acid salt; and a hetero alicyclic skeleton, which can be a monomer of formula (1) and/or formula (2): where X is O, S, or NH and R1 to R4 are functional groups. Also, a method for producing the polyester resin by polymerizing a mixture containing the polyhydric alcohol, the polycarboxylic acid, the sulfonate component and the hetero alicyclic skeleton component having formula (1) and/or (2).

Abstract: Disclosed are polyimide blends and methods of making and using same. The disclosed polyimide blends are prepared by first blending an ionic polymer and a poly(amic acid) to form a poly(amic acid) precursor, followed by cyclization. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

Abstract: Disclosed are an aqueous composition for preparing a hard capsule, a preparation method therefor, a hard capsule, and a method for recycling hard capsule scraps. The disclosed aqueous composition for preparing a hard capsule comprises a water-soluble cellulose ether, an alcohol, and water. In addition, the method for recycling hard capsule scraps comprises the step of dissolving hard capsule scraps comprising a water-soluble cellulose ether into a mixture solution comprising water and an alcohol so as to prepare an aqueous composition for preparing a recycled hard capsule.

Abstract: A leuco composition comprises at least one reactive leuco compound, which reactive leuco compound comprises a leuco moiety and at least one reactive moiety covalently bound to the leuco moiety. A laundry care composition comprises a laundry care ingredient and a leuco composition. A method of treating a textile comprises the steps of (i) treating a textile with an aqueous solution containing a leuco composition, (ii) optionally, rinsing the textile, and (iii) drying the textile.

Abstract: A composition for a near-infrared light-absorbing film includes a binder, a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, wherein a total amount of the compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and the compound represented by Chemical Formula 2 ranges from about 2.0 parts by weight to about 2.6 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the binder. A near-infrared light-absorbing film may include a near-infrared light-absorbing layer including a cured product of the composition. A camera device may include the near-infrared light-absorbing film, and an electronic device may include the camera device.

Abstract: Provided is a heat-shrinkable polyester film which has heat shrinkage properties in a main shrinkage direction in the longitudinal direction, a small variation in shrinkage in the width direction, and less likely generated wrinkles and strains at the time of shrinkage finishing. The polyester film is prepared from a polyester raw material resin comprising 50 mol % or more of an ethylene terephthalate unit in 100 mol % of constituent units of a polyester, diol components selected from aliphatic, alicyclic, and aromatic diols, and an amorphous monomer component that is 2% or more in 100 mol % of either a polyhydric alcohol component or a polybasic carboxylic acid component in the whole polyester resin, wherein the polyester does not contain polybasic carboxylic acids of tribasic or more, and the polyester film is obtained by uniaxial drawing in the longitudinal direction.