Abstract: A protective clothing fabric is described which combines hard polymers with flexible polymers. The scales or miniplate components are hard and provide protection from both bullets and knives. The polymer matrix is pliable and gives the composite material sufficient flexibility so that the material is suitable for clothing. With additional design layouts, the composite substances can be formed into gloves, goggles, boots and other accessories and with still additional layouts results in lightweight but protective headgear. With still additional design layouts, the composite substances can be formed into linings for gloves, boots and other accessories or injection molded for goggles and helmets.

Abstract: A process for making inorganic, metal oxide spheres that includes exposing solidified, molded microparticles that include a glass precursor composition to a temperature sufficient to transform the molded microparticles into molten glass and cooling the molten glass to form inorganic, metal oxide spheres.

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method of processing a workpiece. The workpiece includes a first surface region having a first wettability coefficient, and a second surface region having a second wettability coefficient that differs from the first wettability coefficient. A liquid, which corresponds to an optical structure, is dispensed on the first and second surface regions of the workpiece, wherein the liquid self-aligns to the second surface region due to the difference between the first and second wettability coefficients. The self-aligned liquid is hardened to form the optical structure.

Abstract: A multilayer component and fabrication process are disclosed. The multilayer component includes a foil surface layer abutting the bond coat layer and a channel-forming material positioned between the foil surface layer and a substrate. The channel-forming material defines at least a portion of a channel. The channel can be at least partially defined by a channel-forming material brazed with a foil surface layer to a substrate of the multilayer component. The process includes applying one or more layers to a foil surface layer and applying a channel-forming material to at least partially define a channel between the foil surface layer and a substrate.

Abstract: A sheathing material includes a sheet base material on which a plurality of concave portions is regularly formed to be adjacent to each other by embossing processing. Each concave portion includes a polygonal lattice portion that includes a pair of V-shaped ridgelines, when seen from a plan view of the sheathing material, which is symmetrically arranged with respect to a symmetrical axis so that opening-sides of the V-shaped ridgelines are opposed to each other and is formed on a front side surface of the sheet base material, and a trough portion that includes a pair of inclined folding lines extending to come close to each other and inclined towards a backside of the sheet base material from respective apexes of the V-shaped ridgelines, when seen from the plan view, and a horizontal folding line connecting tips of the inclined folding lines.

Abstract: A method for producing vehicle seat components involves working a semifinished blank in a cutting manner The method can be carried out easily and at low cost and makes it possible to produce components that require little reworking and also provides a vehicle seat component that is both suitable for reducing crash energies by deformation and has an adequate wear resistance. The method includes local heating of the semifinished blank in the region of an intended cutting line of the vehicle seat components to be cut out and cutting out the vehicle seat components from the semifinished blank along the cutting line during or shortly after the heating.

Abstract: A printing arrangement and printing method are disclosed for two-sided printing on a recording medium, in which intermediate fixing by superheated steam takes place after printing on the first side of the recording medium. Owing to the intermediate fixing, damage to the print image of the first side during subsequent printing on the second side is avoided without the recording medium being impaired by the intermediate fixing.

Abstract: A printing arrangement and a printing method for two-sided printing on a recording medium are disclosed, in which conditioning by steam and/or liquid droplets takes place after printing on the first side of the recording medium. Because of the conditioning, damage is avoided to the print image of the first side during subsequent printing on the second side, without the recording medium being impaired by the conditioning.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cliché and a method for manufacturing the same, and the cliché according to the present invention comprises a cliché comprising: a groove pattern, wherein the groove pattern comprises a region composed of linear patterns which do not intersect with each other and the region composed of linear patterns is a square region comprising two or more lines of a linear pattern in the region and comprises a region in which the line width (W) and the depth (D) of the linear pattern and the ratio (R) of a region which does not comprise the linear pattern in the square region and the aperture line width (W0) of a mask pattern for forming a pattern, which corresponds to the linear pattern, satisfy specific relationship equation(s). The cliché according to the present invention may prevent the bottom touch phenomenon of ink transferred onto the cliché.

Abstract: Provided is an ink composition used in active energy ray-curable inkjet printing, which has excellent curing property, discharge property, storage stability, and compatibility with various substrates. The inkjet ink composition of the present invention includes at least two types of polymerizable compounds selected from a group consisting of (A) 2-(2-vinyloxyethoxy)ethyl acrylate, (B) N-vinyl caprolactam, and (C) at least one type of bifunctional acrylate monomer including at least a diacrylate having a molecular weight of 250 or less.

Abstract: A method for printing an image onto fabric, preferably a dark fabric, comprises the steps of transferring an image to the fabric to provide a transferred image on the fabric; and, subsequently applying a highlight that is lighter in color than the dark color to at least a portion of the fabric surrounding the transferred image and/or a margin of the transferred image. A fabric such as a T-shirt comprising a sublimated image and white highlights is also provided.

Abstract: Composite structures having a reinforced material interjoined with a substrate, wherein the reinforced material comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of titanium monoboride, titanium diboride, and combinations thereof.

Abstract: A method of forming a bonded structure (10), such as for use in an automobile structure, comprises providing a first substrate (14) and a second substrate (16), and adding an adhesive region between the substrates, wherein the adhesive region has a first adhesive portion (18) and a second adhesive portion (12), and curing the first adhesive portion more quickly than the second adhesive portion, the method including positioning the substrates relative to one another and injecting the adhesive between said substrates to form an adhesive region while holding the substrates relative to one another.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a camouflage pattern comprises multiple layers of images, wherein at least one layer is provided at an opacity level that is less than the opacity of another layer. Camouflage patterns will mix images of various views and various amounts of transparency/opacity. In some embodiments, the opacity decreases with each successive layer. In some embodiments, opacity can decrease then increase. In some embodiments, a layer includes repeated images. In some embodiments, the orientation of various tiles change with respect to one another. The use of semi-transparent images layered to form a combination of patterns that are not found in nature constitute a unique and novel approach to camouflage product and method of development.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition suitable for the black printing, via screen printing, of a sheet of polyvinyl butyral intended to be part of a laminated glazing unit, characterized in that it comprises: 11% to 13% by weight of polyvinyl butyral, 35% to 40% by weight of at least one aliphatic dicarboxylic acid diester, and at least one black pigment in an amount and with a specific surface area that are selected so that the Brookfield viscosity of the composition at 20° C. is between 9 and 13 Pa.s; a process for printing, via screenprinitng, a sheet of polyvinyl butyral intended to be part of a laminated glazing unit, using this composition; a sheet of polyvinyl butyral intended to be part of a laminated glazing unit, and printed, via screen printing, using this composition; and a laminated glazing unit comprising such a sheet of polyvinyl butyral.

Abstract: Provided herein are carbon nanotubes conformally coated with diamond nanocrystals or silicon carbide, or both, methods of their preparation, methods of their use and compositions and materials comprising the conformally coated carbon nanotubes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a 3-dimensional structure assembled from nanoparticles by using a mask having a pattern of perforations, which comprises the steps of: in a grounded reactor, placing a mask having a pattern of perforations corresponding to a determined pattern at a certain distance above a substrate to be patterned, and then applying voltage to the substrate to form an electrodynamic focusing lens; and introducing charged nanoparticles into the reactor, the charged particles being guided to the substrate through the pattern of perforations so as to be selectively attached to the substrate with 3-dimensional shape. According to the process of the present invention, a 3-dimensional structure of various shapes can be produced without producing noise pattern, with high accuracy and high efficiency.

Abstract: A composite color toner image can be enhanced in a printed receiver material by having a separate fluorescing magenta toner image applied over it to provide a “pinkish” fluorescing effect. This separate fluorescing magenta toner image is obtained using visible fluorescing dry magenta toner particles, each of which has a polymeric binder phase and a visible fluorescing colorant that emits at one or more peak wavelengths of from 510 nm and to and including 590 nm. The covering power of the fused visible fluorescing magenta toner particles in the enhanced composite color toner image is at least 350 cm2/g to and including 1100 cm2/g, and the covering power of each of the non-fluorescing cyan, non-fluorescing yellow, non-fluorescing magenta, and non-fluorescing black toner particles in the enhanced composite color toner image is at least 1500 cm2/g to and including 2300 cm2/g.

Abstract: The invention comprises a method of forming a concrete structure. The method comprises placing plastic concrete in a form of a desired shape, encasing the concrete in insulating material having insulating properties equivalent to at least 1 inch of expanded polystyrene and allowing the plastic concrete to at least partially cure inside the insulating material. An insulated concrete form and a method of using the insulated concrete form are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of communicating qualities to a consumer of a paper towel product where the method involves: providing a paper towel product having one or more qualities, identifying one or more communicative elements having one or more of the same qualities of the paper towel product, selecting a first communicative element by applying one or more selective criteria to the one or more communicative elements, providing a visual representation of the paper towel product and a visual representation of the first communicative element, and using the visual representations of the paper towel product and first communicative element to provide a quality communicative indicium.

Abstract: The optical composite sheet 1 includes a first optical layer 10 and a second optical layer 20, and a low-refractive index layer 30 that is laminated at least between the first optical layer 10 and the second optical layer 20 and has a lower refractive index than the refractive indices of the first optical layer 10 and the second optical layer 20. The low-refractive index layer 30 is characterized by containing many particles 50 having an average particle size of 5 nm to 300 nm, a binder resin 35 that binds the surface sites of the particles 50 to each other, and gaps 36 that are formed among the particles.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide stable slipperiness in highly humid environments, further to provide suitability for printing and packaging with various design properties, stable bagmaking workability, and processibility properties by simultaneously giving excellent transparency as same as that of common polyamide resin films, and still further to provide a biaxially oriented, laminated polyamide resin film producible at a low cost in the case of film production. A biaxially oriented, laminated polyamide resin film comprising at least one substrate layer and at least one slippery layer, wherein the substrate layer and the slippery layer contain polyamide resins and the biaxially oriented, laminated polyamide resin film has a static friction coefficient of 0.9 or lower in 65% RH environments and a haze value of 3.0% or lower.

Abstract: A complete system and method can be used for the repair and sealing of a sewer manhole. The process of the present invention includes surface preparation with steps to purge out embedded contaminants, application of a primer to the prepared and purged surface, application of a closed cell foam layer over the primer layer, and application of polyurea layer disposed on the foam layer. By first making sure the concrete is purged of contaminants, the system, when applied, cannot be damaged by the outgassing of contaminants from the coated concrete as may be possible with conventional systems. Moreover, the system of the present invention uses a 100% polyurea coating that provides appropriate flexibility, strength, and chemical resistance.

Abstract: A protective sheet includes a base layer, an interfacial layer, and a skin layer stacked in order. The base layer includes an aromatic polycarbonate resin, the interfacial layer includes an aliphatic polycarbonate resin; and the skin layer includes a cycloolefin polymer (COP) resin.

Abstract: Provided is a tempered glass substrate formed by a float method, comprising a bottom surface and a top surface, wherein a compression stress value of the bottom surface is larger than a compression stress value of the top surface.

Abstract: An extruder (1) and a method for producing high-fiber volume reinforced thermoplastic resin structures (50), as well as a tape (156) having opposing resin rich portions (302) and a fiber rich portion (304) disposed therebetween and a method for impregnating at least one fiber roving (142) with a polymer resin to form a tape (156. The extruder (1) includes an impregnation die (3) having a channel (4) that applies pressurized molten thermoplastic resin to a plurality of rovings (142) drawn through the channel (4), and a die (3) faceplate (5) facing the downstream side (34) of said die (3). The faceplate (5) has a plurality of sizing holes (42) or a slot (75) arranged along a line that the resin-impregnated rovings (142) are simultaneously drawn through that remove excess resin and pultrude the resin-impregnated rovings (142) into rod-shaped or sheet-shaped structures.

Abstract: Presently described are coating compositions comprising a polymerizable resin composition and a non-ionic unpolymerizable surfactant. In some embodiments, the coating comprises greater than 10 wt-% of non-ionic unpolymerizable surfactant. In other embodiments, the coating composition comprises an an additive comprising a silicone group or a fluorinated group and a hydrophobic group. Also described are articles comprising the cured coating compositions. In one embodiment, an article is described comprising a cured coating wherein the cured coating exhibits a property of an initially visible simulated fingerprint reducing in visibility in 1-20 minutes. Also described is a method of determining the fingerprint visibility of a coating composition and a polyacylate composition useful as an additive. In another embodiment a coated surface is described comprising a polymeric organic material comprising a plurality of pores wherein a portion of the pores are interconnected and comprise a lipophilic liquid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fireproof bulkhead, having a highly porous structure with an intumescent coating, the highly porous structure being formed as a reticulated foam or as a highly porous pimple or nub structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a structural laminate comprising a core layer disposed between and bonded to each of a first metal skin layer and a second metal skin layer, the core layer comprising: a low density composite layer including a mixture of thermoplastic resin, and natural fiber. The core layer may further include a first and a second adhesive layer interposed between each of the first and the second metal skin layers and the composite layer.

Abstract: A microencapsulated pigment including a leuco dye system is incorporated as one or more layers in a roll of adhesive tape. The tape is applied and may be rubbed by hand or another object to induce a color change. The change may serve as an indicator that the tape is well adhered for masking purposes in a painting operation, or to present a design where only selected portions of the tape are rubbed to induce the color change. The microencapsulated pigment may be constructed so that the color change is irreversible or reversible.

Abstract: A heat ray shielding material having a metal particles-containing layer that contains at least one type of metal particles and a binder, wherein the thickness of the metal particles-containing layer is from 10 nm to 80 nm, the metal particles contain tabular metal particles having a hexagonal to circular form in a ratio of at least 60% by number, the binder in the tabular metal particles-containing layer has a crosslinking structure derived from a crosslinking agent, and the crosslinking group density ratio is from 0.3 to 30, has good visible light transmittance, heat shielding coefficient, scratch resistance and pencil hardness.

Abstract: A preferably aqueous dispersion comprises carbon nanotubes and graphene platelets, with the ratio by mass of carbon nanotubes to graphene platelets being situated within a range from ?5:95 to ?75:25. In a process for preparing a dispersion of this kind, carbon nanotubes and graphene platelets are combined so that the ratio by mass of carbon nanotubes to graphene platelets in the dispersion is in a range from ?5:95 to ?75:25. The dispersion can be used as a printing ink for producing electrically conductive films. The invention further provides an electrically conductive film comprising carbon nanotubes and graphene platelets, with the ratio by mass of carbon nanotubes to graphene platelets being situated within a range from ?5:95 to ?75:25.

Abstract: An electrophotographic belt including an electroconductive substrate constituted of a thermoplastic resin or a thermosetting resin, and an electroconductive surface layer. The surface layer includes an energy ray curing resin as a binder resin and fluorine resin particles and electroconductive particles and has a thickness of 1.0 to 4.0 ?m. The fluorine resin particles have a primary particle diameter of 0.2 to 0.6 ?m and is in a content of 30 to 60 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the surface layer resin. The electroconductive particles have a primary particle diameter of 1/20 to 1/10 of the primary diameter of the fluorine resin particles. The belt has a volume resistivity ?v (?·cm) of 1.0×109??v?1.0×1013. The surface layer has a surface resistivity ?v (?/sq.) of 1.0×108??s?1.0×1012.

Abstract: Provided are a fiber-reinforced composite material capable of achieving excellent CAI, ILSS, and bending fracture toughness concurrently at high levels, and maintaining a high glass transition temperature of the resin material therein, and prepreg and a benzoxazine resin composition therefor. The composition contains, at a particular ratio, (A) a compound having in its molecule a benzoxazine ring represented by formula (1), (B) an epoxy resin, (C) a curing agent, (D) a toughness improver, and (E) polyamide 12 particles of a particular particle size, and component (D) is dissolved: (R1: C1-C12 chain alkyl group or the like, and H is bonded to at least one of Cs of the aromatic ring at o- or p-position with respect to the carbon atom to which the oxygen atom is bonded).

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an antistatic protective film, a display device, and a preparation method of an antistatic protective film. The antistatic protective film comprises: a layer of substrate and a layer of graphene; the substrate and the graphene layer are adhered together. The antistatic protective film in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention, utilizes graphene to protect a component from being scratched by a foreign object or damaged by rubbing, and at the same time allows static electricity on an electronic component to be discharged in time, thus avoids the electronic component from being damaged by static electricity and prolongs the service life of the electronic component; meanwhile, the antistatic protective film has high light-transmittance, which greatly reduces the influence of the antistatic protective film on the output light of the electronic component.

Abstract: Disclosed is a medium carbon steel sheet for cold working that has a hardness of 500 HV to 900 HV when subjected to high-frequency quenching in which a temperature is raised at an average heating rate of 100° C./second, the temperature is held at 1,000° C. for 10 seconds, and a quick cooling to a room temperature is carried out at an average cooling rate of 200° C./second. The medium carbon steel sheet includes, by mass %, C: 0.30 to 0.60%, Si: 0.06 to 0.30%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.0%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.0075% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.10%, N: 0.001 to 0.01%, and Cr: 0.001 to 0.10%, the balance composed of Fe and inevitable impurities. An average diameter d of a carbide is 0.6 ?m or less, a spheroidizing ratio p of the carbide is equal to or more than 70% and less than 90%, and the average diameter d (?m) of the carbide and the spheroidizing ratio p % of the carbide satisfy d?0.04×p?2.6.

Abstract: A two-coat barrier system employing a coating of a water-dispersible or solvent-soluble polyurethane resin with innate gas and moisture vapor barrier properties and an additional coating of a multivalent metal cation to enhance the overall barrier performance without the need to add fillers.

Abstract: The invention relates to multi-functional spinning staple fiber master-batches, mainly comprising a multi-functional ester fiber chip serving as a base material. Main components of the multi-functional ester fiber chip comprise alumina, zirconium oxide, magnesium oxide, tourmaline, zinc oxide, silver ions, porphyries andesite and rare trace elements of deep seaweed mud. The base material of the multi-functional ester fiber chip is ground into the master batch with a particle size having an average particle diameter smaller than or equal to 0.3 microns. Therefore, the woven or knitted fabric using the master-batches of the invention has the raised anion releasing strength and to enhance the user's immunity and antimicrobial activity. It also has the far infrared radiation benefit, enhances the thermal resistance of the products. In the end, the used products have diversified functions with the antimicrobial activity, far infrared, negative anions and so on.

Abstract: Provided are: a polyacrylonitrile-based precursor fiber for the production of a carbon fiber having a large single-fiber fineness, said precursor fiber ensuring high heat stability of a spinning dope and excellent productivity; and a copolymer suitable for the production of said precursor fiber. Also provided are: high-quality carbon fiber bundles which have a large single-fiber fineness and excellent productivity; a process for producing the same; and a process for producing flameproofed fiber bundles suitable for the production of the carbon fiber bundles. A polyacrylonitrile-based copolymer which comprises 93.0 to 99.4 mol % of acrylonitrile units, 0.5 to 4.0 mol % of (meth)acrylamide-based units, and 0.1 to 3.

Abstract: Provided in one embodiment is a method of forming an inorganic nanowire, comprising: providing an elongated organic scaffold; providing a plurality of inorganic nanoparticles attached to the organic scaffold along a length of the organic scaffold; and fusing the nanoparticles attached to the organic scaffold to form an inorganic nanowire.

Abstract: A polyamide-imide coating material includes a polyamide-imide resin including a repeating unit of a chemical structure represented by the following general formula (1) in a molecular chain, and a solvent for dissolving the polyamide-imide resin R1: monovalent organic group R2: divalent organic group R3: trivalent organic group.

Abstract: Provided are compounds of the following: wherein R1 is a saturated or unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon optionally substituted with an alkyl and/or an OXO-ester, and R2 is a C4 to C14 hydrocarbyl, preferably the residue of a C4 to C14 OXO-alcohol. Also provided are processes for making the compounds and plasticized polymer compositions containing said compounds.

Abstract: Silica composite particles in which a silica particle surface is sequentially surface-treated with a titanium compound in which an organic group is bonded to a titanium atom through an oxygen atom, and a hydrophobizing agent are provided, in which a titanium content in the silica composite particles measured using fluorescence X-ray is from 0.001% by weight to 10% by weight; a titanium content of a surface layer of the silica composite particles satisfies the following Formula (1); an average particle diameter of the silica composite particles is from 30 nm to 500 nm; and a particle size distribution index of the silica composite particles is from 1.1 to 1.5: 0.6<Y/X<1.8??(1) wherein X represents a titanium content in silica composite particles measured using fluorescence X-ray, and Y represents a titanium content of the silica composite particle surface obtained by XPS measurement.

Abstract: Provided are graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), methods of making GNRs, and uses of the GNRs. The methods can provide control over GNR parameters such as, for example, length, width, and edge composition (e.g., edge functional groups). The methods are based on a metal catalyzed cycloaddition reaction at the carbon-carbon triple bonds of a poly(phenylene ethynylene) polymer. The GNRs can be used in devices such a microelectronic devices.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide rounded zinc peroxide particles having a large particle diameter, the rounded zinc peroxide particles having excellent performance because they have an average particle diameter of 0.04 ?m or more, a small aspect ratio and a shape close to a spherical shape; rounded zinc oxide particles which are obtained by calcinating the rounded zinc peroxide particles and which have a small aspect ratio and a sharp particle size distribution; a method for production thereof; and a cosmetic and a heat releasing filler each containing the rounded zinc oxide particles. Provided are rounded zinc peroxide particles having an average particle diameter of 0.04 ?m or more and an aspect ratio of 2.0 or less, and rounded zinc oxide particles which are obtained by thermally decomposing the rounded zinc peroxide particles and which have an average particle diameter of 0.04 ?m or more and an aspect ratio of 2.0 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a process for obtaining solid cellulose, such as a cellulose solidified article or cellulose shaped article, from a cellulose solution without causing discharge of large amounts of waste liquids and environmental issues such as large energy consumption. The process produces solid cellulose through the steps of (A) dissolving cellulose in a solvent (s1) to give a cellulose solution, where the solvent (s1) includes at least one onium hydroxide in a content of from 45 to 85 percent by weight and water in a content of from 15 to 55 percent by weight, and the at least one onium hydroxide is selected from the group consisting of quaternary phosphonium hydroxides and quaternary ammonium hydroxides; (B) bringing the cellulose solution into contact with a poor solvent (s2) to precipitate cellulose as a cellulose solidified article; and (C) separating and collecting the cellulose solidified article.

Abstract: Growth of single- and few-layer macroscopically continuous graphene films on Co3O4(111) by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) has been characterized using low energy electron diffraction (LEED), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). MBE of Co on sapphire(0001) at 750 K followed by annealing in UHV (1000 K) results in ˜3 monolayers (ML) of Co3O4(111) due to O segregation from the bulk. Subsequent MBE of C at 1000 K from a graphite source yields a graphene LEED pattern incommensurate with that of the oxide, indicating graphene electronically decoupled from the oxide, as well as a sp2 C(KVV) Auger lineshape, and ???* C(1s) XPS satellite. The data strongly suggest the ability to grow graphene on other structurally similar magnetic/magnetoelecric oxides, such as Cr2O3(111)/Si for spintronic applications.

Abstract: A one-dimensional conductive nanomaterial-based conductive film having the conductivity thereof enhanced by a two-dimensional nanomaterial in which the conductive film includes a substrate, a one-dimensional conductive nanomaterial layer formed on the substrate, and a two-dimensional nanomaterial layer formed on the one-dimensional conductive nanomaterial layer, wherein the one-dimensional conductive nanomaterial layer includes a one-dimensional conductive nanomaterial formed of at least one selected from a carbon nanotube, a metal nanowire, and a metal nanorod, and the two-dimensional nanomaterial layer includes a two-dimensional nanomaterial formed of at least one selected from graphene, boron nitride, tungsten oxide (WO3), molybdenum sulfide (MoS2), molybdenum telluride (MoTe2), niobium diselenide (NbSe2), tantalum diselenide (TaSe2), and manganese dioxide (MnO2).

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a photocurable fluorinated copolymer composition which is uniform and excellent in transparency, and a coating film layer obtainable by using it, is excellent in heat resistance and abrasion resistance and exhibits a particularly excellent weather resistance performance. The photocurable fluorinated copolymer composition comprises a specific fluorinated copolymer (A), a specific hydrolysable silane compound (B), an epoxy resin (C) having a cyclohexane ring structure, and a photoreaction initiator (D).

Abstract: A multilayer protective film comprising a first layer, a second layer and a PSA layer. The first layer at least comprises a polyester-based polyurethane, a polycarbonate-based polyurethane or a combination or blend of both. The second layer at least comprises a polycaprolactone-based thermoplastic polyurethane. The PSA layer comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive. One major surface of the first layer is bonded to one major surface of the second layer, and the PSA layer is bonded to an opposite major surface of the second layer such that the second layer is sandwiched between the first layer and the PSA layer.