Abstract: Active materials, for example, metal sulfide, or metal selenide which may be useful in the removal of a contaminant from a fluid.

Abstract: A free-standing zeolite membrane and a zeolite membrane supported on a support structure are disclosed. The free-standing zeolite membrane is fabricated by mixing zeolite particles and an optional inorganic binder, forming a green body, and sintering the green body at a sufficiently low temperature so as to prevent damage to the gas selectivity properties of the zeolite particles. The supported composite zeolite membrane is fabricated by mixing a sacrificial binder, an optional inorganic binder, boehmite sol and zeolite particles to form a slurry. The slurry is then coated onto a porous support structure, dried and sintered at a sufficiently low temperature so as to prevent damage to the gas selective properties of the zeolite particles. In both membranes, the zeolite particles span the entire thickness of the membrane to provide a high selectivity path for the flow of gas to pass therethrough.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel organic-inorganic silica particles, a preparation method thereof, and a hard coating composition containing the same, and more specifically, to organic-inorganic silica particles wherein an initiator is chemically bonded to hydroxyl groups (—OH) on the surface of the silica particles, a preparation method thereof, and a hard coating composition containing the same. A hard coating film with excellent abrasion resistance, scratch resistance and the like can be prepared by using the hard coating composition containing the organic-inorganic silica particles according to the present invention.

Abstract: This invention refers to hybrid pre-polymers and polymers, produced through conversion from difunctional, oligofunctional and/or polyfunctional cyanates and/or from their pre-polymers with monomeric, oligomeric and/or polymeric silazanes. The polymers are duromers with high glass transition temperature and fracture toughness, compared to duromers from the respective cyanate source material. In their pre-polymerized state, they can be dissolved in solvents and are therefore suitable as impregnating resins for prepregs. In addition, they can be processed to become moldings. Their burning properties are described as particularly outstanding.

Abstract: A resin-impregnated sheet is provided in which a dielectric loss tangent is small. In a preferred embodiment the sheet is prepared by impregnating a fiber sheet with a liquid crystal polyester which has a repeating unit represented by formula (1), a repeating unit represented by formula (2), and a repeating unit represented by formula (3), in which a content of a repeating unit comprising a 2,6-naphthylene group is 40 mole % or more based on a total amount of all repeating units, as follows: (1)-O—Ar1—CO—; (2)-CO—Ar2—CO—; and (3)-O—Ar3—O— wherein Ar1 represents a 2,6-naphthylene group, a 1,4-phenylene group, or a 4,4?-biphenylylene group; Ar2 and Ar3 each independently represent a 2,6-naphthylene group, a 1,4-phenylene group, a 1,3-phenylene group, or a 4,4?-biphenylylene group; and hydrogen atoms present in the group represented by Ar1, Ar2, or Ar3 may each independently be replaced by a halogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method for producing a composite component including applying a resin over a surface, the resin solidifying to form a resin layer, providing reinforcement means along an x direction generally parallel to the resin layer, providing reinforcement means along a y direction at an angle to the x direction and generally parallel to the resin layer, and providing reinforcement means in a z direction generally perpendicular to the x and y directions in a subsequent production step.

Abstract: A flooring system having a top floor layer, a sub-floor, and an underlayment material disposed between the sub-floor and the top floor layer is disclosed. The underlayment material may include a cross-linked, polyolefin foam having a moisture vapor transmission rate of less than about 3.0 lb/1000 ft2/24 hr, and an average sound pressure level of less than about 15 dB over a range of about 300 Hz to about 1000 Hz. Foam density, gel fraction, and resin blend may combine to provide an underlayment material having such reflective sound and moisture vapor barrier properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a material for thermal and/or acoustic insulation comprising an expanded elastomeric and/or thermoplastic elastomer blend based on styrenic organic polymer and chlorinated organic polymer, the process for the manufacturing of such material, and the use of such material.

Abstract: An aluminum article includes a substrate comprising a surface having a plurality of nano-pores defined therein by chemical etching; and a transparent vacuum deposition layer deposited on the surface and filling the nano-pores.

Abstract: A method for detachably gluing at least one porous substrate to another material using at least one layer of a detachable adhesive comprising an ungluing admixture adapted for generating gases which, by gas expansion or gas migration towards at least one of the interfaces of the detachable adhesive layer, weakens the adhesive bond when heated by a detaching control, the aforementioned method including, before gluing, applying a metal sealing coating onto at least one of the substrates.

Abstract: Systems and methods for the formation of carbon-based nanostructures using large-scale active growth structures are generally described. In addition, systems and methods related to the formation of carbon-based nanostructures using basalt and/or titanium (e.g., elemental titanium) are generally described. The carbon-based nanostructures can be grown by exposing the large-scale active growth structures, basalt, and/or titanium to a set of conditions selected to cause formation of carbon-based nanostructures on (e.g., directly on) the large-scale active growth structure, basalt, and/or titanium. When basalt and/or titanium are used as all or part of an active growth structure, the basalt and/or titanium can be in any suitable form such as, for example, a planar or non-planar active growth structure (which can have, in some cases, a first cross-sectional dimension of at least about 1 mm) comprising basalt and/or titanium (e.g., a fiber comprising basalt and/or titanium) and/or particles (e.g.

Abstract: This invention pertains to a construction consisting of in the order from the outside towards the inside: An occlusive or non occlusive external film layer; a non-curing pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) that has been blended with a therapeutic concentration of at least one or a combination of cosmetic or pharmaceutical active ingredients; and a silicone gel adhesive that is used as the skin contact layer.

Abstract: Glasses comprising SiO2, Al2O3, and P2O5 that are capable of chemical strengthened by ion exchange and having high damage resistance. These phosphate-containing glasses have a structure in which silica (SiO2) is replaced by aluminum phosphate (AlPO4) and/or boron phosphate (BPO4).

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a fiber-spreading method which can form a thin spread fiber sheet having a large and uniform spread width by uniformly distributing fibers of a fiber bundle having an increased number of fibers. Since a set of regions Si each including a pair of a fiber-spreading region Ai and an expansion region Bi are arranged in a movable region M set so that the fibers of the fiber bundle can move in the width direction, the fiber-spreading region Ai moving the fibers in the width direction while bending the fibers by letting a fluid pass through the fiber bundle, thereby spreading the fiber bundle to a spread width Wi (i=1, . . .

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystalline polyester composition which contains a liquid crystalline polyester and mica and which provides a molded article hard to form blisters therein under a high temperature condition, even when it is molded at a high temperature. The liquid crystalline polyester composition is prepared by incorporating the mica and a fluorocarbon polymer whose flow start temperature is 330° C. or lower into the liquid crystalline polyester. The content of the mica in the liquid crystalline polyester composition is preferably from 15 to 100 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the liquid crystalline polyester, and the content of the fluorocarbon polymer in the liquid crystalline polyester composition is preferably from 0.2 to 10 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the liquid crystalline polyester.

Abstract: Provided is a surface protective sheet, which satisfactorily adheres to an adherend and which can be easily re-released and suppresses contamination due to a pressure-sensitive adhesive remaining on the surface of the adherend after the release of the sheet. The surface protective sheet includes: a base material layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, in which a difference ?T (%) between the visible light transmittance T1(%) of a transparent substrate having an antireflection film and the visible light transmittance T2(%) of the transparent substrate resulting when the surface protective sheet is attached to one side of the transparent substrate and left to stand at 160° C. for 1 hour, and then the surface protective sheet is released under a temperature environment of 23° C. (?T=T1?T2) satisfies a relationship of ?T?1.8.

Abstract: A surface protective sheet which satisfactorily adheres to coated rough surfaces, with no observable adhesive residue without impairing the self-cleaning property of a coated plate, including a base material layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein: the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has an adhesion for a coated steel plate having a ten-point average surface roughness Rz of 8.0 ?m of 0.05 N/20 mm or more; a main component including a polymer P obtained by cross-linking a polymer A; the polymer A having a weight-average molecular weight Mw of 500,000 or more; the polymer A having a distribution degree Mw/Mn of 8.0 or less; and an insoluble content of the polymer P in ethyl acetate is 90 wt % or more.

Abstract: Provided is a surface protective sheet which satisfactorily adheres even to a coated surface having a rough surface, and not only does not cause an adhesive residue that can be observed with eyes but also does not impair the self-cleaning property of the surface of a coated plate. The surface protective sheet includes: a base material layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, in which: a main component in a pressure-sensitive adhesive for constructing the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer includes a polymer P obtained by cross-linking a polymer A; in pulse NMR measurement of the polymer P at 30° C., the maximum spin-spin relaxation time T2MAX in all spin-spin relaxation times T2 of protons to be measured falls within the range of 300 to 800 ?s; and the content of a polymer component corresponding to the maximum spin-spin relaxation time T2MAX in the polymer P is 60% or more.

Abstract: Provided is a surface protective sheet, which satisfactorily adheres to an adherend and which shows little increase in adhesion with time, can easily be re-released, reduces the amount of a pressure-sensitive adhesive remaining on the surface of the adherend after the release of the sheet, and does not impair the self-cleaning property of the surface of a coated plate as the adherend. The surface protective sheet includes: a base material layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, in which, when the surface protective sheet is attached to a silicon wafer on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer side of the sheet and left to stand at 40° C. for 24 hours, and then the surface protective sheet is released under a temperature environment of 23° C., the surface of the resultant silicon wafer has a C/Si ratio of 0.8 or less in photoelectron spectroscopy analysis.

Abstract: An array of aligned and dispersed carbon nanotubes includes an elongate drawn body including a plurality of channels extending therethrough from a first end to a second end of the body, where the channels have a number density of at least about 100,000 channels/mm2 over a transverse cross-section of the body. A plurality of carbon nanotubes are disposed in each channel, and the carbon nanotubes are sufficiently dispersed and aligned along a length of the channels for the array to comprise an average resistivity per channel of about 9700 ?m or less.

Abstract: A fibrous product is described that comprises biodegradable fibers on a substrate. The fibers originate from a deposition solution that comprises a protein-based component and a carrier polymer component, each configured so that the resulting deposition solution can be deposited using electro-deposition techniques. In one embodiment, the proteins in the deposition solution are denatured in a manner that modifies the viscosity of the resulting deposition solution so that the deposition solution is compatible with electro-spinning.

Abstract: Techniques are provided to independently control 3D shape and chemistry of rapidly produced colloids. A pre-polymer mixture including a monomer is made to flow into a channel with insular relief in a wall at a known location of the channel. A stimulus that polymerizes the pre-polymer mixture is directed onto the known location to form a structure locked in place at the known location by the insular relief. A pressure is applied to the channel that is sufficient to deflect the wall having the insular relief sufficiently to release a hydrogel particle comprising the structure.

Abstract: A glass flake having a thickness below 10 ?m and being coloured through the bulk of the material. The flake may be at least partially crystalline and/or include one or more clusters. A method of producing such flake comprises incorporating a nucleating agent and a colouring agent and heating the flakes to change the extent and/or nature of their crystallisation and/or clustering.

Abstract: The self-assembly of polyhedral nanostructures having at least one dimension of about 100 nm to about 900 nm with electron-beam lithographically patterned surfaces is provided. The presently disclosed three-dimensional nanostructures spontaneous assemble from two-dimensional, tethered panels during plasma or wet chemical etching of the underlying silicon substrate. Any desired surface pattern with a width as small as fifteen nanometers can be precisely defined in all three dimensions. The formation of curving, continuous nanostructures using extrinsic stress also is disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a non-thermofusible phenol resin powder having an average particle diameter of not more than 20 ?m and a single particle ratio of not less than 0.7. This non-thermofusible phenol resin powder preferably has a chlorine content of not more than 500 ppm. This non-thermofusible phenol resin powder is useful as an organic filler for sealing materials for semiconductors and adhesives for semiconductors. The non-thermofusible phenol resin powder is also useful as a precursor of functional carbon materials such as a molecular sieve carbon and a carbon electrode material.

Abstract: A deposition material which is used for producing an organic device, wherein the deposition material has an average particle diameter of 10 ?m to 200 ?m where the average particle diameter is expressed by D50% and has a uniformity degree of 1.0 to 4.0 where the uniformity degree is expressed by D60% diameter/D10% diameter.

Abstract: A surface having dust particles thereon and a coating on the surface comprising a coating polymer having a Tg less than ?20° C. A method of reducing dust, the method including providing a surface having dust particles thereon and coating the surface with a coating polymer with a Tg less than ?20° C.

Abstract: To provide a touch panel having a surface protective film laminated on a touch pad via an adherence substance layer having a low adhesive strength and excellent removability, having a good holding power, and having an adhesive strength with a small increase with time. A touch panel comprising a display module 1, a touch pad 2 laminated on a display screen of the display module 1 and a surface protective film 3 laminated on the viewer side of the touch pad 2, wherein between the surface protective film 3 and the touch pad 2, a first adherence substance layer 11 obtained by curing a first curable composition containing a silyl group-containing polymer (S) is interposed. The silyl group-containing polymer (S) is a polymer having a polyether chain, a polyester chain and/or a polycarbonate chain in its main chain and having a hydrolyzable silyl group at its molecular terminal.

Abstract: The thermosetting die-bonding film of the present invention is used in manufacturing a semiconductor device, has at least an epoxy resin, a phenol resin, and an acrylic copolymer, and the ratio X/Y is 0.7 to 5 when X represents a total weight of the epoxy resin and the phenol resin and Y represents a weight of the acrylic copolymer.

Abstract: To provide an aqueous dispersion of a resin wherein dispersed particles are stable with fine particle sizes and whereby bleeding out is suppressed, which is thus useful as e.g. a surface treating agent for a polyolefin substrate, an adhesive or a coating material. A resin dispersion having dispersed in water a polymer (C) having a hydrophilic polymer (B) bonded to a polyolefin (A) in a ratio of (A):(B)=100:5 to 100:500 (weight ratio); a method for producing the resin dispersion; and a coating material and a laminate, employing it.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tie coat which is formed on a surface of a base or an undercoating film prior to formation of an organopolysiloxane-based antifouling coating film and is formed from a moisture-curing organopolysiloxane-based composition comprising (b1) organopolysiloxane having condensing functional groups at both ends of a molecule and/or (b2) a curing composition formed by subjecting the component (b1) and an extender pigment to contact treatment with heating or without heating, as well as a composite coating film including the tie coat.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multicoat paint system comprising, lying above one another in this order, (1) at least one first basecoat comprising basecoat material (A), (2) preferably a second, color and/or effect basecoat comprising basecoat material (B), and (3) at least one transparent coating comprising clearcoat material (C), wherein the basecoat material (A) which forms the first basecoat comprises at least one binder (a.1), at least one color and/or effect pigment (a.2), and a corrosion-inhibiting component (a.3) with a parent structure (GK1), selected from the group of low molecular mass alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, and cycloalkyl radicals and/or heterocyclic radicals, which carries at least one phosphoric acid group as ligand (L1), and/or at least one corrosion-inhibiting component with a parent structure (GK2), selected from the group of alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, and cycloalkyl radicals, heterocyclic radicals and/or polymers, which carries at least one phosphonic acid group as ligand (L2).

Abstract: Disclosed is an aqueous effect basecoat material comprising at least one liquid-crystalline aqueous preparation (WZ) in fractions of 1% to 99% by weight, based on the aqueous basecoat material, at least one film-forming polymer (FP), and at least one effect pigment (EP).

Abstract: The present invention can achieve the purpose of enhancing the strength and the anti-crack ability of a glass plate. The glass plate includes a transparent glass-based element and a high polymer plastic membrane. The high polymer plastic membrane is framed on at least one part of the peripheral side of the transparent glass-based element and performs a capillary action on at least one part in a liquid state and then to be combined tightly with the transparent glass-based element after being solidified.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a laminated glazing unit so that it withstands a predetermined load, in which the unit includes at least one substrate having a glass function and at least one layer of polymeric interlayer. The process: obtains viscoelastic behavior of constituent material of the interlayer; calculates maximum value of at least one quantity representative of the loading resistance of the laminated glazing unit subjected to the predetermined load; adjusts dimensions of the unit such that the calculated maximum value of the quantity representative of the loading resistance of the unit is less than or equal to a permissible maximum value; and the or each substrate and the or each layer of interlayer are prepared and assembled to the adjusted dimensions.

Abstract: Aromatic and aromatic/heteroaromatic molecular structures with controllable electron conducting properties are derived from the incorporation of electron active substituents in selective positions.

Abstract: An antimicrobial article prepared by a method includes forming an antimicrobial mixture by adding a calculated amount of antimicrobial agent to a solution of water and alcohol, depositing the antimicrobial mixture in a container, the antimicrobial mixture having a thickness of 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, evaporating the water and alcohol of the antimicrobial mixture to form the layer of antimicrobial coating, adding silicone resin on top of the layer of antimicrobial coating and allow the silicone resin to permeate and crosslink with the layer of antimicrobial coating, and removing the silicone composite with the layer of antimicrobial coating from the container.

Abstract: A photosensitive polyimide and an adhesive composition and adhesive film containing the same are provided. The photosensitive polyimide has an imide backbone and grafted side chains including a methacrylate-based side chain and a silicon-modified side chain.

Abstract: To provide a composition for forming a water repellent film which has an excellent water droplets-removing property and further has abrasion resistance and weather resistance; a substrate having such a water repellent film which is formed from the composition, and a process for its production; and an article for a transport equipment. A composition for forming a water repellent film comprising, as the main components, a specific organosilane compound having a fluorinated organic group containing an etheric oxygen bond, and a specific organosilane compound having a fluorinated organic group (containing no etheric oxygen bond); a substrate with a water repellent film comprising a substrate and a water repellent film having disposed, as the outermost layer, a layer formed from the composition for forming a water repellent film, on the surface of the substrate; and an article for a transport equipment comprising the substrate.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a paper coating or binding formulation, comprising an aqueous emulsion which comprises a copolymer derived from one or more monomers, and an ultra fine kaolin pigment. In certain embodiments, this invention is directed to a blend of high T9 latex (substantially non-film forming) and ultrafine kaolin. This invention is also directed to a paper comprising a fiber matrix and a coating or binding composition comprising an aqueous emulsion which comprises a copolymer deviced from one or more monomers, and an ultrafine kaolin pigment.

Abstract: In a substrate body with an antimicrobial surface area consisting of an antimicrobially effective material, spherical adsorbents in the form of activated carbon spheres are embedded in the surface of the antimicrobially effective material for retaining any microbes on the substrate body until they are eliminated by the antimicrobially effective material.

Abstract: A ?-conjugated polymer composition including: (a) a solvent; (b) a ?-conjugated polymer which is dissolved in the solvent and doped with a dopant; (c) at least one of an acidic substance and a salt of an acidic substance; and (d) a phenolic compound; wherein when only the acidic substance is contained as the component (c), the acidic substance is different from the phenolic compound, when only the salt of an acidic substance is contained, the salt of an acidic substance is different from the phenolic compound, and when both the acidic substance and the salt of an acidic substance are contained, at least one of the acidic substance and the salt of an acidic substance is different from the phenolic compound.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a process of manufacturing polymeric film, the process comprises (a) co-extruding (i) a first polymeric composition having a non-organic cavitating agent, (ii) a second polymeric composition having EVOH to form a multilayer sheet; and (b) orienting the co-extruded sheet in MD, TD or both, wherein the first polymeric composition and/or the second polymeric composition comprises recycled polymeric composition having EVOH and the non-organic cavitating agent.

Abstract: Provided is a laser imageable media that forms both a vesicular bubble image and an infrared image upon exposure to laser radiation. The laser imageable media comprises (1) a substrate, preferably a transparent plastic substrate, (2) an infrared absorbing layer comprising an infrared absorbing compound, preferably an aminium radical cation compound, that exhibits a reduction in infrared absorption when exposed to the laser radiation, and (3) a polymeric layer comprising an organic polymer, preferably nitrocellulose, overlying the infrared absorbing layer. The vesicular image on a transparent plastic substrate is readable with a visible scanner without the use of any reflective background material behind the transparent plastic substrate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for applying a fire-protection coating to a substrate using a process comprising the steps of applying a first clearcoat layer to the substrate, applying an intumescent fire-protection layer to the first clearcoat layer, and applying a second clearcoat layer to the intumescent fire-protection layer.

Abstract: With a building board with a base body (10) with a porous surface and a paper web (14) applied onto the porous surface with intermediate arrangement of a curable binder (36), the paper web applied onto the base body is provided with a primer (34) that is suitable for covering binder that has penetrated through the paper web (10) and for promoting an adhesion between the surface of the paper web and a dyeing liquid (38), which can be applied to the surface of the paper web provided with the adhesion promoter by means of a programmable printing method, in particular an inkjet printing method.

Abstract: Nanopillars with nanoscale diameters are provided where the nanopillar has uniformly aligned nano-twins either perpendicular or inclined by 1-90° to the pillar-axis with no grain-boundaries or any other features.

Abstract: An Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coated strip that has Mg2Si phase particles that are?2 ?m and have a globular shape. A method of forming an Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coated strip comprises (a) heat treating a solidified coating to facilitate globularisation of Mg2Si phase particles in the coating and/or (b) changing the coating bath chemistry to form intermetallic compound phases that act as nucleation sites for Mg2Si phase particles with the result that small Mg2Si particles form on solidification of the coating.

Abstract: There are disclosed a method of manufacturing fine metal powder and fine metal powder manufactured by using the same. The method of manufacturing fine metal powder includes forming a pattern having a predetermined size and shape on a base substrate, forming a metal film on the pattern, and separating the metal film from the pattern to obtain individual metal particles having a predetermined size and shape. The fine metal powder manufactured by the method has a uniform shape and a uniform particle size distribution. The fine metal powder is in the form of flakes, having a large ratio of particle diameter to thickness.

Abstract: On part of a surface of a metal plate that is to be heated by radiant heat transfer with a near-infrared ray, a region where reflectance for a radiant ray is made lower than that of the original surface of the metal plate is formed. As reflectance reducing treatment, painting or thermal spraying in a blackish color, plating in a blackish color, treatment for increasing roughness of the surface of the metal plate, blasting, etching, blackening, surface layer quality changing treatment of the metal plate, or the like can be adopted. The metal plate is turned into a heated metal plate partially having a different temperature by being heated by radiant heat transfer, and thereafter, the heated metal plate is subjected to thermal processing accompanied by cooling, for example, by hot stamping.