Abstract: A transparent conductive film (10) that has a substrate (14) having a surface (14a, 14b), a nanowire layer (12, 12a) over one or more portions of the surface (14a, 14b) of the substrate (14), and a conductive layer (16, 16a) on the portions comprising the nanowire layer (12, 12a), the conductive layer (16, 16a) comprising carbon nanotubes (CNT) and a binder.

Abstract: Some variations provide a metal matrix nanocomposite composition comprising metal-containing microparticles and nanoparticles, wherein the nanoparticles are chemically and/or physically disposed on surfaces of the microparticles, and wherein the nanoparticles are consolidated in a three-dimensional architecture throughout the composition. The composition may serve as an ingot for producing a metal matrix nanocomposite. Other variations provide a functionally graded metal matrix nanocomposite comprising a metal-matrix phase and a reinforcement phase containing nanoparticles, wherein the nanocomposite contains a gradient in concentration of the nanoparticles. This nanocomposite may be or be converted into a master alloy. Other variations provide methods of making a metal matrix nanocomposite, methods of making a functionally graded metal matrix nanocomposite, and methods of making a master alloy metal matrix nanocomposite. The metal matrix nanocomposite may have a cast microstructure.

Abstract: A silver film for die attachment in the field of microelectronics, wherein the silver film is a multilayer structure comprising a reinforcing silver foil layer between two layers of sinterable particles. Each layer of sinterable particles comprises a mixture of sinterable silver particles and reinforcing particles. The reinforcing particles comprise glass and/or carbon and/or graphite particles. A method for die attachment using a silver film.

Abstract: A steel sheet and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. A steel sheet has a component composition and contains 6 to 80% of ferrite and 20 to 94% of a microstructure composed of one or two or more of upper bainite, fresh martensite, tempered martensite, lower bainite, and retained ?, and contains 7 to 20% of retained ?, where: an area ratio (S?UB) of retained ? having a particle width of 0.18 to 0.60 ?m, a particle length of 1.7 to 7.0 ?m, and an aspect ratio of 5 to 15 is 0.2 to 5%; and a total area ratio (S?Block) of fresh martensite having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.5 to 15 ?m and an aspect ratio of 3 or less and/or retained ? particles having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.5 to 15 ?m and an aspect ratio of 3 or less is 3% or less (including 0%).

Abstract: The ratio of the difference between a surface distance L at each of the different positions in a width direction DW of a metal sheet and a minimum surface distance Lm to the minimum surface distance Lm is an elongation difference ratio. The elongation difference ratio in a center section in the width direction DW of the metal sheet is less than or equal to 3×10?5. The elongation difference ratios in two edge sections in the width direction DW of the metal sheet are less than or equal to 15×10?5. The elongation difference ratio in at least one of the two edge sections in the width direction DW of the metal sheet is less than the elongation difference ratio in the center section in the width direction of the metal sheet.

Abstract: A device includes a dielectric layer having a first surface and a second surface. The device also includes a first set of high-aspect ratio electroplated structures disposed on the first surface of the dielectric layer and a second set of high-aspect ratio electroplated structures disposed on the second surface of the dielectric layer opposite the first set of high-aspect ratio electroplated structures.

Abstract: A metallic lustrous member with electromagnetic wave transmissibility, which is capable of being easily produced even when using not only chromium (Cr) or indium (In) but also any of some other metals such as aluminum (Al), as a material for a metal layer thereof. A metallic lustrous member with electromagnetic wave transmissibility, which is capable of using silver (Ag), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb) or copper (Cu), or an alloy thereof, as a material for a metal layer thereof, in addition to aluminum (Al). The metallic lustrous member with electromagnetic wave transmissibility, comprises an indium oxide-containing layer provided along a surface of a substrate, and a metal layer laminated on the indium oxide-containing layer, wherein the metal layer includes, in at least part thereof, a plurality of portions which are in a discontinuous state.

Abstract: A surface treated copper foil 1 includes a copper foil 2, and a first surface treatment layer 3 formed on one surface of the copper foil 2. The first surface treatment layer 3 of the surface treated copper foil 1 has a Ni concentration of 0.1 to 15.0 atm % based on the total amount of elements of C, N, O, Zn, Cr, Ni, Co, Si, and Cu, in an XPS depth profile obtained by performing sputtering at a sputtering rate of 2.5 nm/min (in terms of SiO2) for 1 minute. A copper clad laminate 10 includes the surface treated copper foil 1 and an insulating substrate 11 adhered to the first surface treatment layer 3 of the surface treated copper foil 1.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing, excellent delayed fracture resistance, and high tensile shear stress after resistance spot welding by properly adjusting its chemical composition and its microstructure such that at least 20 Nb-based precipitates having a grain size of less than 0.10 ?m are present on average per 100 ?m2 of a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the member, a prior austenite average grain size is 8 ?m or less, an average aspect ratio of prior austenite grains is 2.5 or less, and a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and such that a standard deviation of Vickers hardness measured every 200 ?m on a surface of the member is 40 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a low thermal expansion alloy wherein martensitic transformation does not occur even at ?120° C. This low thermal expansion alloy contains, in mass %, 1.50-5.00% of Co, while containing Ni in such an amount that if [Ni] (mass %) is the content of Ni and [Co] (mass %) is the content of Co, [Co]??4×[Ni]+136 and [Co]??4×[Ni]+139 are satisfied, with the balance being made up of Fe and unavoidable impurities. This low thermal expansion alloy has an average thermal expansion coefficient of 0.5×10?6/° C. or less for the range of 0-30° C., while having a martensitic transformation temperature of ?120° C. or less.

Abstract: A cold rolled and heat treated steel sheet having a composition with the following elements, expressed in percentage by weight 0.10%?Carbon?0.5%, 1%?Manganese?3.4%, 0.5%?Silicon?2.5%, 0.03%?Aluminum?1.5%, Sulfur?0.003%, 0.002%?Phosphorus?0.02%, Nitrogen?0.01% and can contain one or more of the following optional elements 0.05%?Chromium?1%, 0.001%?Molybdenum?0.5%, 0.001%?Niobium?0.1%, 0.001%?Titanium?0.1%, 0.01%?Copper?2%, 0.01%?Nickel?3%, 0.0001%?Calcium?0.005%, Vanadium?0.1%, Boron?0.003%, Ceriums?0.1%, Magnesiums?0.010%, Zirconiums?0.010% the remainder composition being composed of iron and the unavoidable impurities caused by processing, and a microstructure of the said rolled steel sheet having by area fraction, 10 to 30% Residual Austenite, 5 to 50% Annealed Bainite, 10 to 40% of Bainite, 1% to 20% Quenched Martensite, and less than 30% Tempered Martensite where the combined presence of Bainite and Residual Austenite shall be 30% or more.

Abstract: Provided are an electrodeposited copper foil, an electrode comprising the same, and a lithium-ion secondary battery comprising the same. The electrodeposited copper foil has a drum side and a deposited side opposing the drum side, wherein at least one of the drum side and the deposited side exhibits a void volume value (Vv) in the range of 0.17 ?m3/?m2 to 1.17 ?m3/?m2; and an absolute value of a difference between a maximum height (Sz) of the drum side and a Sz of the deposited side is in the range of less than 0.60 ?m.

Abstract: A plating steel sheet for hot press forming includes: a base steel sheet; an Al—Zn-based plating layer formed on at least one surface of the base steel sheet; and an Fe—Al-based surface alloy layer formed between the base steel sheet and the Al—Zn-based plating layer, wherein the Al—Zn-based plating layer can include 10-30 wt % of Zn, 1 wt % or less of Fe, and the balance of Al and impurities.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sheath material for secondary battery including a moisture permeation preventing layer, a protective layer disposed on the first surface of the moisture permeation preventing layer wherein the protective layer includes a functional layer having a plurality of patterns and a resin layer disposed on the second surface of the moisture permeation preventing layer, and a secondary battery including the same.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an integrally formed product including a metal and a fiber of biological origin disposed in dispersed state in the metal. A proportion by mass of the fiber of biological origin contained in the integrally formed product is within a range of 0.02 mass % or more and 10 mass % or less.

Abstract: Provided is a multilayer electrical steel sheet having both low high-frequency iron loss and high magnetic flux density. The multilayer electrical steel sheet has an inner layer and surface layers provided on both sides of the inner layer, in which each of the surface layers has a Si content of 2.5 mass % to 6.0 mass %, the inner layer has a Si content of 1.5 mass % to 5.0 mass %, and the multilayer electrical steel sheet has: ?Si of 0.5 mass % or more; ?Al of 0.05 mass % or less; ??1.0/400 of 1.0×10?6 or less; a sheet thickness t of 0.03 mm to 0.3 mm; and a ratio of a total thickness of the surface layers ti to t of from 0.10 to 0.70.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: an electrolytic copper foil having high dimensional stability and texture stability in a high temperature environment of a process for manufacturing an Li secondary battery; and a manufacturing method therefor. The electrolytic copper foil of the present invention has a thermal expansion coefficient of 17.1-22 ?m/(m·° C.) in a temperature region of 30-190° C., has a variation of full width at half maximum of the (220) plane of 0.81-1.19 according to heat treatment for 30 minutes at 190° C., and has a weight deviation of 5% or less in the transverse direction.

Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet; an intermediate layer arranged in contact with the base steel sheet; and an insulation coating arranged in contact with the intermediate layer to be an outermost surface, in which the insulation coating has a crystalline phosphide-containing layer containing a crystalline phosphide in an area in contact with the intermediate layer when viewing a cross section whose cutting direction is parallel to a thickness direction.

Abstract: In a component made of press-form-hardened, aluminium-based coated steel sheet, the coating has a covering which contains aluminum and silicon applied in the hot-dip process. The press-form-hardened component in the transition region between steel sheet and covering has an inter-diffusion zone I, wherein, depending on the layer application of the covering before heating and press hardening, the thickness of the inter-diffusion zone I obeys the following formula: I [?m]<(1/35)×application on both sides [g/m2]+(19/7). Formed on the inter-diffusion zone I is a zone having various intermetallic phases having an average total thickness between 8 and 50 ?m, on which zone there is in turn arranged a covering layer containing aluminum oxide and/or hydroxide having an average thickness of at least 0.05 ?m to at most 5 ?m.

Abstract: A sliding member includes a back-metal layer and a sliding layer made of a copper alloy. The back-metal layer is made of a hypoeutectoid steel including 0.07 to 0.35 mass % of carbon, and has a structure including a ferrite phase and pearlite. The back-metal layer includes a pore existing region including a plurality of closed pores that are not open to a bonding surface when viewing a cross-section perpendicular to a sliding surface. The closed pores have an average size of 5 to 15 ?m. The pore existing region extends from the bonding surface toward an inner portion of the back-metal layer, and has a thickness of 10 to 60 ?m. A ratio V2/V1 of a total volume V2 of the closed pores to a volume V1 of the pore existing region is 0.05 to 0.1.