Abstract: The present application is directed to methods for preparation of carbon materials. The carbon materials comprise enhanced electrochemical properties and find utility in any number of electrical devices, for example, as electrode material in ultracapacitors or batteries.

Abstract: A foaming formulation is provided herein. The foaming formulation includes at least one foaming agent in an amount of from about 0.001% to about 10% by weight based on a total weight of the foaming solution. The foaming formulation further includes a synthetic strength additive having a cationic functional group in an amount from about 0.01% to about 50% by weight based on a total weight of the foaming solution. The foaming formulation further includes water.

Abstract: A multicolor paint composition includes a continuous phase having a first rheology modifier and an optional second rheology modifier, a first discontinuous phase dispersed in the continuous phase, and a second discontinuous phase immiscibly dispersed in the continuous phase. The first discontinuous phase includes a first colorant having a first colorant strength, and an emulsion of a non-thixotropic polymer. The second discontinuous phase includes a second colorant having a second colorant strength, a third rheology modifier, and an emulsion of a first thixotropic polymer.

Abstract: Provided are metal oxide ceramic materials and intermediate materials thereof (e.g., nanozirconia gels, nanozirconia green bodies, pre-sintered ceramic bodies, zirconia dental ceramic materials, and dental articles). The nanozirconia gels are formable gels. Also provided are methods of making and using the metal oxide materials and intermediate materials. The nanozirconia gels can be made using, for example, osmotic processing. The nanozirconia gels can be used to make nanozirconia green bodies, pre-sintered ceramic bodies, zirconia dental ceramic materials, and dental article. The nanozirconia green bodies, pre-sintered ceramic bodies, zirconia dental ceramic materials, and dental articles have desirable properties (e.g., optical properties and mechanical properties).

Abstract: A Light Adjustable Lens (LAL) comprises a central region, centered on a central axis, having a position-dependent central optical power, and a peripheral annulus, centered on an annulus axis and surrounding the central region, having a position-dependent peripheral optical power; wherein the central optical power is at least 0.5 diopters different from an average of the peripheral optical power, and the central axis is laterally shifted relative to the annulus axis. A method of adjusting the LAL comprises implanting a LAL; applying a first illumination to the LAL with a first illumination pattern to induce a position-dependent peripheral optical power in at least a peripheral annulus, centered on an annulus axis; determining a central region and a corresponding central axis of the LAL; and applying a second illumination to the LAL with a second illumination pattern to induce a position-dependent central optical power in the central region of the LAL.

Abstract: A single coated conductor for an overhead power transmission or distribution line is provided comprising one or more electrical conductors (400) and a first coating (401) provided on at least a portion of the one or more electrical conductors (400). The first coating (401) comprises: (i) an inorganic binder comprising an alkali metal silicate; (ii) a polymerisation agent comprising nanosilica (“nS”) or colloidal silica (SiO2); and (iii) a photocatalytic agent, wherein the photocatalytic agent comprises ?70 wt % anatase titanium dioxide (TiO2) having an average particle size (“aps”) ?100 nm. The first coating (401) has an average thermal emissivity coefficient E?0.90 across the infrared spectrum 2.5-30.0 ?m and has an average solar reflectivity coefficient R?0.90 and/or an average solar absorptivity coefficient A?0.10 across the solar spectrum 0.3-2.5 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for producing a hydrogel comprising the following steps in succession: a first step (i) of providing at least one powder of an anionic polymer (A) and at least one chitosan powder (B) comprising amine functions (—NH2); a second step (ii) consisting in dry mixing at least the powders (A) and (B) from the first step in order to form a mixture of powders; a third step (iii) of suspending the mixture of powders obtained from the second step in an aqueous medium having a pH that can enable the anionic polymer (A) to be dissolved without dissolving the chitosan (B); a fourth step (iv) of adding an acid to the suspension obtained from the third step in order to form the hydrogel; or the third (iii) and fourth (iv) steps are replaced by a mixing fifth step (v), comprising mixing an acidified aqueous medium including at least one compound (C) comprising at least one unit of a hexose or a unit derived from a hexose, and/or at least one phosphate of said compound (C), with said

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing an aqueous dispersion of water-soluble polymers, which comprises a step (E) of radical polymerization, wherein the following are brought into contact in an aqueous medium (M) in which the synthesised polymer is not soluble: at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer which is soluble in the aqueous medium (M); at least one source of free radicals; and a reactive stabiliser which comprises: a polymer chain (CP) which is soluble in the medium (M), a group (G) providing the radical polymerization of step (E) with a living and controlled nature, such as, for example, a group carrying a thiocarbonylthio —S(C?S)— group.

Abstract: A method of hydrating a dry powdered viscosifier such as a powdered polymer is disclosed. The method includes mixing the powdered viscosifier with a solvent such as water to form a mixture; moving the mixture through a cavitation zone; inducing energetic shock waves and pressure fluctuations in the mixture by mechanically inducing cavitation events within the mixture, the shock waves and pressure fluctuations untangling, separating, and straightening polymer molecule chains and distributing the chains throughout the mixture, and extracting the resulting hydrated viscosifier from the cavitation zone.

Abstract: A Light Adjustable Lens (LAL) comprises a central region, centered on a central axis, having a position-dependent central optical power, and a peripheral annulus, centered on an annulus axis and surrounding the central region, having a position-dependent peripheral optical power; wherein the central optical power is at least 0.5 diopters different from an average of the peripheral optical power, and the central axis is laterally shifted relative to the annulus axis. A method of adjusting the LAL comprises implanting a LAL; applying a first illumination to the LAL with a first illumination pattern to induce a position-dependent peripheral optical power in at least a peripheral annulus, centered on an annulus axis; determining a central region and a corresponding central axis of the LAL; and applying a second illumination to the LAL with a second illumination pattern to induce a position-dependent central optical power in the central region of the LAL.

Abstract: A method and composition for isolating a paraffinic hydrocarbon layer from a sludge comprising a mixture of paraffinic hydrocarbons, water, and solids are provided. The method comprises providing a paraffinic hydrocarbon isolation composition comprising isopropylamine dodecylbenzene sulfonate, a surfactant, and a solvent; contacting the sludge with the paraffinic hydrocarbon isolation composition; and allowing the paraffinic hydrocarbon isolation composition to separate the sludge into a three phase separation comprising a paraffinic hydrocarbon layer, a water layer, and a layer of settled solids.

Abstract: To provide a modified polytetrafluoroethylene which is excellent in the moldability by paste extrusion and the mechanical property of the molded article. A modified polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder which is a fine powder of a non-melt-moldable modified polytetrafluoroethylene, characterized in that the modified polytetrafluoroethylene comprises units derived from tetrafluoroethylene, units derived from a perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether represented by CF2?CFO—CnF2n+1 (wherein n is an integer of from 1 to 6), and units derived from a perfluoroalkylethylene represented by CH2?CH—CmF2m+1 (wherein m is an integer of from 3 to 6), and that the content of the units derived from the perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether is from 0.1 to 0.25 mass % and the content of the units derived from a perfluoroalkylethylene is from 0.001 to 0.1 mass %, based on all monomer units in the modified polytetrafluoroethylene.

Abstract: Textile compositions comprising at least one filamentous fungus are disclosed, as are methods for making and using such textile compositions. Embodiments of the textile compositions generally include at least one of a plasticizer, a polymer, and a crosslinker, in addition to the filamentous fungus. The disclosed textile compositions are particularly useful as analogs or substitutes for conventional textile compositions, including but not limited to leather.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a composition and method of producing a creped paper and the creped paper products made using this method. The method includes treating the surface of a wet fibrous web and/or surface of a Yankee drum dryer or cylinder with compositions containing a combination of a polyaminosilicone/polyaminosilicone block copolymer/surfactant and optionally one or more creping aids.

Abstract: Provided is a product exhibiting good bubbles even from a screen foamer composition using a non-ionic surfactant. This foam contains a non-ionic surfactant and is composed of an air layer and a bubble shell encapsulating the air layer. The bubble shell has a high light transmission region which is optically transparent and a low light transmission region which is less optically transparent than the highlight transmission region, both regions being disposed so as to spread across a surface of the bubble shell in such a manner as to form an identifiable boundary therebetween; and when the foam is allowed to stand at 25° C., an area of the low light transmission region occupying the surface area of the bubble shell expands over time, and thus the entire surface of the bubble shell becomes occupied by the low light transmission region.

Abstract: An ultra dense and ultra low power microhotplates using silica aerogel and method of making the same, comprising creating a sol-gel by impregnation of ethanol with functional colloidal alcogel particles is described. The technique further comprises forming tiny aerogel particles on the wafer and networking the particles together just by exposure to air during spin coating. The novelty of this technique is not limited to the processing of thin film and thick film silica aerogel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel crude oil demulsifier comprises a copolymer of styrene with pyridine or a carboxylic acid or its salt selected from methacrylic, acrylic, maleic or fumaric acid with molecular weight in the range of 10000 to 600000 Daltons, dose in the range of 20-1000 ppm. The invention further relates to a process for demulsification of crude oil by treating crude oil with the copolymer in the range of 20-1000 ppm in the temperature range of 25-40° C. by shaking to obtain demulsified crude oil having crude oil with <1% water, and Water <100 ppm oil.

Abstract: Provided are sugar-based compounds, method so making such compounds, gels comprising such compounds, methods of making gels, methods of using such compounds for containing spill of a hydrocarbon, and methods for reclaiming solvent from gels comprising such compounds.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method for preparing mesoporous sound-absorbing material particles and mesoporous sound-absorbing material particles. The preparation method comprises the following steps. In step 1, sound-absorbing material powder and a templating agent are mixed with a binding agent and water to form sol slurry, the templating agent is an organic monomer or a linear polymer, and the templating agent has a purity greater than 95%. In step 2, the sol slurry is dropped into forming oil, and the droplets of the sol slurry are aged in the forming oil to form gel particles. In step 3, the gel particles are taken out from the forming oil and the gel particles are dried to form mesoporous sound-absorbing material particles. In step 4, the mesoporous sound-absorbing material particles are roasted.

Abstract: A door assembly. The door assembly may include at least one door panel and a door frame having a plurality of frame members including a header and a pair of side jambs. The invention may also be considered a frame member. The frame member may include a core; and a two-piece top piece adjoining the core to form a structural member. The core and the top piece may be a composite of cellulosic material and at least one other material. The door assembly may further include at least one adjacent panel. Also disclosed are door jamb frame members and mullion frame members.