Abstract: A dispersion liquid contains modified silica particles that are obtained by reacting silica particles which are surface-treated with a compound A represented by Formula Si(RA)4-n(XA)n, which has a reactive group, with a compound B which has a functional group reacting with the reactive group to form a bond and has an organic group, an organic solvent, and water, in which a content of water is 0.1 to 20.0 mass % with respect to a total mass of the modified silica particles. In Formula A, RA represents a monovalent organic group including the reactive group, XA represents a hydroxyl group or a monovalent hydrolyzable group, and n represents an integer of 1 to 3.

Abstract: A thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer (TLCP) molded body including a thermoplastic polymer capable of forming an optically anisotropic melt phase. The TLCP molded body includes an adherend portion in at least a part of the TLCP molded body. The adherend portion has a surface satisfying: a ratio <C—O>/<COO> of 1.5 or greater in which the <C—O> represents a proportion of a peak area of [C—O bond] to a C(1s) peak area, and the <COO> represents a proportion of a peak area of [COO bond] based on the C(1s) peak area; and a ratio <C?O>/<COO> of 0.10 or higher in which the <C?O> represents a proportion of a peak area of [C?O bond] based on the C(1s) peak area, and the <COO> represents the proportion of the peak area of the [COO bond] based on the C(1s) peak area in a result of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis.

Abstract: A metal-fiber reinforced resin material composite body is provided with: a metal member; a fiber-reinforced resin material which is superposed on at least one surface of the metal member so as to be complexed with the metal member; and a bonding resin layer which is interposed between the metal member and the fiber-reinforced resin material. The fiber-reinforced resin material includes a matrix resin that contains 50 parts by mass or more of a phenoxy resin in 100 parts by mass of the resin component and a reinforcing fiber material that is contained in the matrix resin; the concentration of the phenoxy resin in the resin component of the bonding resin layer is lower than the concentration of the phenoxy resin in the resin component of the matrix resin; and the shear strength between the metal member and the fiber-reinforced resin material is 0.8 MPa or more.

Abstract: An exterior material for cooking appliance capable of improving visibility, Vickers hardness, and scratch resistance by forming laser holes in a surface of an exterior material including a Diamond like carbon (DLC) coating layer, and a method for manufacturing the exterior material. The cooking appliance exterior material includes a base material, a Diamond like carbon (DLC) coating layer provided on the base material, an adhesive layer provided between the base material and the DLC coating layer to attach the DLS coating layer to the base material to incase an adhesion force between the base material and the DLC coating layer, and a plurality of laser holes provided in a surface of the exterior material.

Abstract: A polymer composition comprising a liquid crystalline polymer that contains repeating units derived from naphthenic hydroxycarboxylic and/or dicarboxylic acids in an amount of about 50 mol. % or more is provided. The polymer composition exhibits a dielectric constant of about 4 or less and a dissipation factor of about 0.05 or less at a frequency of 10 GHz.

Abstract: The method for producing an electrically conductive polymer material includes: a preparing step of providing a polymer film formed from an oriented polymeric semiconductor; and a doping step of introducing a first ion into the polymer film, in the doping step, a treatment liquid, which is obtained by dissolving, in an ionic liquid including the first ion having the opposite polarity to carriers to be injected into the polymeric semiconductor by doping in the form of a cation and an anion or an organic solvent having dissolved therein a salt including the first ion, a dopant which has the same polarity as that of the first ion and which oxidizes or reduces the polymeric semiconductor, is allowed to be in contact with the surface of the polymer film to form an intermediate of a second ion formed by ionization of the dopant and the polymeric semiconductor by a redox reaction, and to replace the second ion in the intermediate with the first ion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a curable coating composition comprising a nanoparticle-polymer composition and, optionally, superamphiphobic nanoparticles. The nanoparticle-polymer composition comprises the reaction product of an epoxy resin, a hydroxy-terminated poly(dimethylsiloxane), and a silane coupling agent, and a hybrid nanofiller. The superamphiphobic nanoparticles comprises the reaction product of silicon dioxide nanoparticles and 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecyltrichlorosilane and/or 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorododecyltrichlorosilane (FDDTS). The invention further relates to a cured coating composition of the invention, objects coated with the curable coating composition of the invention, methods for making the curable coating composition of the invention, and the use of the curable coating composition of the invention to coat substrates.

Abstract: An article including at least one first metallic layer, at least one dielectric layer, and at least one second metallic layer is disclosed. The at least one dielectric layer can include at least one of (i) a photo-initiator, (ii) an oxygen inhibition mitigation composition, (iii) a leveling agent, and (iv) a defoamer. The article can be in the form of a foil or pigment flake, and can also include a magnet containing layer.

Abstract: Provided are a metal clad laminate and a method for producing the same. The metal clad laminate at least includes a thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film and a metal sheet bonded to each other, wherein the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film has a surface with a glossiness (20°) of 55 or higher in accordance with JIS Z 8741 on the opposite side of the bonding surface to the metal sheet. The method for producing a metal clad laminate at least includes: providing a thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film 2 and a metal sheet 6; and introducing the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film 2 and the metal sheet 6 between a pair of heating rolls so as to laminate them.

Abstract: Copper-filled carbon nanotubes and methods of synthesizing the same are provided. Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition can be used to synthesize vertically aligned carbon nanotubes filled with copper nanowires. The copper filling can occur concurrently with the carbon nanotube growth, and the carbon nanotubes can be completely filled by copper. The filling of Cu inside the CNTs can be controlled by tuning the synthesis temperature.

Abstract: Self-healing coating compositions are provided. In embodiments, such a composition comprises a liquid medium and a network of hollow capsules extending through the liquid medium in three dimensions, the network comprising a plurality of chains formed from the hollow capsules, aggregates of the hollow capsules, or both, wherein exterior surfaces of the hollow capsules of the plurality of chains define a plurality of channels filled with the liquid medium, and wherein the coating composition has a room temperature viscosity greater than that of the liquid medium. Coated surfaces formed from the compositions and methods of protecting surfaces using the compositions are also provided.

Abstract: A resin composition contains a maleimide compound (A), a cyanate ester compound (B), a polyphenylene ether compound (C) with a number average molecular weight of not lower than 1000 and not higher than 7000 and represented by Formula (1), and a block copolymer (D) having a styrene backbone. In Formula (1), X represents an aryl group; —(Y—O)n2- represents a polyphenylene ether moiety; R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or an alkynyl group; n2 represents an integer of from 1 to 100; n1 represents an integer of from 1 to 6; and n3 represents an integer of from 1 to 4.

Abstract: A resin composition including at least one of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate having an imide ring structure or a monomer having a 2-pyrrolidone skeleton and a radical curable group in an amount of about 0.1 weight percent to about 5 weight percent based on the total weight of the resin composition, wherein the resin composition has a viscosity of about 5 millipascal seconds to less than about 50 millipascal seconds at 25° C., and wherein a glass transition temperature of the resin composition after being cured satisfies a value of about ?50° C. to less than about 0°C.

Abstract: A surface-treated copper foil includes a treated surface, where the peak extreme height (Sxp) of the treating surface is 0.4 to 3.0 ?m. When the surface-treated copper foil is heated at a temperature of 200° C. for 1 hour, the ratio of the integrated intensity of diffraction peak of (111) plane to the sum of the integrated intensities of diffraction peaks of (111) plane, (200) plane, and (220) plane of the treating surface is at least 60%.

Abstract: To provide a composite of thermally-modified polymer layer and inorganic substrate, a composite of polymer member and inorganic substrate, and production methods thereof, the method of the present invention for producing a composite of thermally-modified polymer layer and inorganic substrate 110 or 120 includes forming a first polymer layer on an inorganic substrate 10, and heating and thermally modifying the first polymer layer in order to bond the first thermally-modified polymer layer 20 onto the inorganic substrate. In addition, the method of the present invention for producing a composite of polymer member and inorganic substrate 210 or 220 includes producing a composite of thermally-modified polymer layer and inorganic substrate by the method of the present invention and joining the polymer member to the first thermally-modified polymer layer so that the polymer member 30 is joined to an inorganic substrate via the first thermally-modified polymer layer.

Abstract: An aircraft skin coating assembly for an aircraft. The coating assembly includes a primer layer deposited on the aircraft skin, an optical stop-etch layer deposited on the primer layer that is reflective at a predetermined wavelength, a coating stack-up deposited on the optical etch-stop layer that provides performance features for the aircraft, and a sealant layer deposited on the stack-up. When a laser coating removal process employing a laser beam is used to remove the coating stack-up for replacement, the stop-etch layer reflects the laser beam to prevent it from penetrating and possibly damaging the aircraft skin.

Abstract: Described are yttrium fluoride compositions, including deposited films, e.g., coatings, that contain yttrium fluoride; methods of preparing yttrium fluoride compositions and deposited film coatings that contain yttrium fluoride; as well as substrates that have a deposited film coating that contains yttrium fluoride at a surface and methods and equipment that include the substrates.

Abstract: A thermally conductive electromagnetically absorbing material includes a plurality of particles dispersed in a binder. The plurality of particles can have a particle size distribution having at least three peaks, where at least a majority of particles within a half width at half maximum of one, but not the other ones, of the at least three peaks are at least partially coated with an electromagnetically absorbing coating. The plurality of particles can include pluralities of first and second particles where a total number of the first particles is at most 1% of a total number of the first and second particles and where the first particles are more electromagnetically absorbing than the second particles. Films, molded articles and systems including the thermally conductive electromagnetically absorbing material are described.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions including a carbon fiber material comprising one or more of an acyclic olefin group or a thiol disposed thereon; and a thermosetting polymer or a thermoplastic polymer. The present disclosure further provides metal substrates including a composition of the present disclosure disposed thereon. The present disclosure further provides vehicle components including a metal substrate of the present disclosure. The present disclosure further provides methods for manufacturing a vehicle component, including contacting a carbon fiber material with a carbon-containing zinc-titanium or a thiol to form a coated carbon fiber material; and mixing the coated carbon fiber material with a thermosetting polymer or a thermoplastic polymer to form a composition. Methods can further include depositing a composition of the present disclosure onto a metal substrate.

Abstract: This steel sheet for a can is a steel sheet for a can containing, by mass %, C: 0.010% to 0.050%, Si: 0.020% or less, Mn: 0.10% to 0.60%, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.050% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, Nb: 0% to 0.03%, Ti: 0% to 0.03%, B: 0% to 0.0020%, and a remainder including Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which, when the number of carbides having an equivalent circle diameter of 2 ?m or more and 5 ?m or less is indicated by a, and the number of carbides having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and less than 2 ?m is indicated by b, a/b satisfies a range of the following formula (1), a fracture strain is 1.6 or more, and a sheet thickness is 0.10 to 0.30 mm a/b<0.12??. . . (1).