Abstract: A conductive aluminum paste for a high-efficiency solar cell includes an aluminum powder, an organic carrier, and at least a rare earth element oxide. The rare earth element oxide accounts for a maximum 5% of the total weight of the conductive aluminum paste. A solar cell including the conductive aluminum paste is further provided. The conductive aluminum paste and the solar cell are effective in enhancing solar photovoltaic conversion efficiency and eliminating warpage without increasing the content of the fine aluminum powder.

Abstract: A conductive aluminum paste which has a low printed weight and is suitable for use with a solar cell includes an aluminum powder, an organic carrier, and at least one of a vanadium source, a phosphorus source, and a molybdenum source. The vanadium source, phosphorus source, or molybdenum source accounts for a maximum 0.5% of the total weight of the conductive aluminum paste. A solar cell including the conductive aluminum paste is further provided. Due to its low printed weight, the conductive aluminum paste, coupled with the solar cell, maintains satisfactory electrical properties and pull, incurs low manufacturing cost, enhances water tolerance, and reduces warpage.

Abstract: The invention includes conductive polymeric coatings, medical device, coating solutions and methods of making the same. A coating solution for forming a conductive polymer layer can include a conductive monomer, at least one photoreactive component comprising an anionic photoreactive cross-linking agent or an anionic photoreactive hydrophilic polymer, and a solvent. A medical device can include an electrode and an electrically conductive coating disposed over the electrode. The electrically conductive coating can include a reaction product of the conductive monomer and the at least one photoreactive component. Other aspects are included herein.

Abstract: Provided is a friction modifier for a top coating agent for a hexavalent chromium-free trivalent chromium chemical conversion coating film or chromium-free chemical conversion coating film, said friction modifier including a polyoxyalkylene fatty acid ester.

Abstract: Pigment based particles in powder form intended to be used as colourants in a digital print formed by applying dry colourants on a surface, bonding a part of the colourants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colourants from the surface. A panel with a surface including a digitally formed print of macro colourants including a particle body and colour pigments attached to the surface of the particle body is also described. The colourants are arranged in patterns with pigments on an upper and lower surface of the particle body.

Abstract: An inkjet printing method includes the steps of jetting ink dots on a substrate of a plurality of radiation curable inkjet inks having a viscosity of no more than 50 mPa·s at 25° C. and a shear rate of 90 s?1, the plurality of radiation curable inkjet inks including a) at least one non-polymerizable, non-polymeric bisacylphosphine oxide present in a concentration of no more than 4.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an active energy ray-curable ink-jet ink that is excellent in ejection stability and does not undergo a local thermal polymerization reaction, and an image forming method using the same.

Abstract: An ink jet black ink composition for sublimation transfer includes water, a water-soluble organic solvent, C.I. Disperse Blue 360, and two or more disperse dyes that achieve a reflectance of less than 0.1 at a wavelength of 380 nm or more and 520 nm or less on a dyed article.

Abstract: The present invention describes a method to obtain magnetic aqueous ink composition for MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) ink jet printing comprising an aqueous dispersion of functionalized magnetic nanoparticles, humectant agents, solvents, biocide and water. It also allows obtaining stable inks for long periods with extremely high concentrations of magnetic nanoparticles with loading between 15% and 40% by mass and magnetic signals varying from 80 to 200%. Through the use and special combination of humectant agents, the present inventions increase the print head protection, by decreasing abrasiveness and increasing fluidity. The resulting ink has superior printing quality and increased service life of the printing system.

Abstract: An inkjet printing method for manufacturing decorative surfaces includes the steps of a) jetting a colour pattern with one or more aqueous inkjet inks including a polymer latex binder on a thermosetting resin impregnated paper; and b) drying the one or more aqueous inkjet inks.

Abstract: Provided is an ink set including black ink and color ink, in which the black ink contains carbon black having a carboxyl group on a surface thereof, a resin particle having a carboxyl group on a surface thereof, betaine, an alkali ion, and water, the alkali ion contains a potassium ion, a sodium ion, and an organic alkali compound, and a content of the potassium ion is the largest among the alkali ions.

Abstract: Thermochromic coatings are improved by mixing thermochromic capsules with polymer resins in a manner that imparts shelf stability to flowable precursors that may be cured quickly using dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid and/or other acid catalysts to form relatively hard coatings that are capable of withstanding machine operations, such as the operations needed to make beverage can lids, bottle caps, pull tabs and the like.

Abstract: A conductive ink composition for the wireless antenna with adhesion enhancement by carbon flakes that aims to enormously reduce the solid content of conductor and can be used to print antennas. For example, silver content of the ink composition is greatly decreased due to the absence of insulated binder. Carbon flakes (such as graphene nanoplatelets) are added as a conductive “cage” to reduce the use of insulated binder and significantly improve the conductivity of ink under low addition of conductor. Compression after printing is an innovative finding that not only improves the adhesion but also enhances the conductivity. Such effects are credited to excellent contact between interfaces of particles and substrate. The unique recipe and process save printing from high-temperature sintering, further reducing processing cost and widening applicable substrates.

Abstract: Provided is a hard capsule. The provided hard capsule includes a water-soluble cellulose ether and a gelation agent, wherein an amount of the gelation agent is about 0.5 parts by weight to about 1.5 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the water-soluble cellulose ether, and further includes 0 parts by weight to about 0.3 parts by weight of a gelation aid based on 100 parts by weight of the water-soluble cellulose ether.

Abstract: A process to produce a dispersion comprising feeding ethylcellulose polymer and a dispersant into a melt and mix zone of an extruder wherein the ethylcellulose polymer and dispersant are melted and mixed together to form a melt; conveying the melt to an emulsification zone of the extruder in which the temperature and pressure are controlled; feeding a base and water into the emulsification zone wherein the melt is dispersed to form a high internal phase emulsion; conveying the emulsion to a dilution and cooling zone of the extruder; and feeding water into the dilution and cooling zone to dilute the high internal phase emulsion thereby forming an aqueous dispersion is provided.

Abstract: Compositions that are especially suitable for optical components are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing emulsion polymer particles having a core-shell structure wherein at least one polyalkylene oxide containing additive is used in the core, and also to their use in paints, paper coatings, foams, crop protection agents, liquid inks and cosmetic compositions.

Abstract: Polyfunctional amine structures exhibiting at least one hydrophobic moiety selected from the group consisting of; hydrophobic epoxides, hydrophobic glycidyl ethers and hydrophobic (meth)acrylates are described which provide crosslinking capabilities for latex polymer compositions. These crosslinkers not only exhibit latent crosslinking properties but also improved hydrophobicity when compared with existing latex formulations. Latent crosslinking provides advantages associated with fast interactions between the anionic latex charge and the cationic charge associated with these hydrophobically modified polyfunctional amine crosslinkers. Once the latex is coated onto a substrate, the volatile base evaporates and the groups react to form a crosslinked coating with both improved hydrophobic and wash-off properties.

Abstract: A high-hardness hard coat film having a reduced degree of curling and an ionizing ray polymerizable resin composition for forming the hard coat layer of such a hard coat film are provided. The hard coat film includes a resin film and a hard coat layer disposed on the surface of the resin film. The hard coat layer is formed of a cured product of a photopolymerizable composition containing an acrylic component, a hyperbranched acrylate resin, a silicone component, and silica particles. The cured product is produced by exposure to ionizing rays.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a urethane (meth)acrylate that enables formation of a cured layer having a low reflectance and excellent excoriation resistance, a curable composition produced by using the same, and an antireflective film. In particular, there is provided a fluorine-containing urethane (meth)acrylate represented by General Formula (I) and having a fluorine atom content ranging from 25 to 60 mass % (where R1 and R2 each represent a specific fluorinated alkyl group, R3 and R4 each represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, A represents a trivalent linking group represented by any of Structural Formulae (A1) to (A4), and X and Y each independently represent a divalent linking group represented by any of Structural Formulae (a) to (c)) [in Structural Formula (c), R5 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms].

Abstract: An acrylic silicone resin composition is curable with actinic energy radiation, comprising (i) a vinyl base polymer composed of a vinyl base monomer having an alkoxysilyl group, a UV-absorbing vinyl base monomer, and a copolymerizable monomer, (ii) a hydrolytic condensate of an alkoxysilane, (iii) core/shell type tetragonal titanium oxide solid-solution microparticles, (iv) a polycarbonate and/or polyester-based urethane-modified vinyl polymer, (v) a vinyl polymerizable monomer free of alkoxysilyl, (vi) an initiator, and (vii) a solvent.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to find a cationic electrodeposition coating composition excellent in throwing power, anti-GA gas pinhole properties, and anti-corrosion properties, and to provide a coated article excellent in these coating film properties. The present invention provides a cationic electrodeposition coating composition containing an amino-containing epoxy resin (A), a blocked polyisocyanate curing agent (B), and a pigment (C), the amino-containing epoxy resin (A) being obtained by reacting an epoxy resin (A1), a polyphenol compound (A2), a dimer acid diglycidyl ester (A3), and an amine compound (A4).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for coating, in particular a composition comprising lignin and one or more epoxy-group containing compounds, and methods for the manufacturing thereof and uses thereof. The present invention also relates to products obtainable by said methods and uses thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dimer fatty acid/polyesterdiol reaction product which is preparable by reacting (a) dimer fatty acids with (b) at least one polyesterdiol of the general structural formula (I) where R is a divalent radical comprising 2 to 10 carbon atoms, R1 and R2 independently of one another are straight-chain or branched alkylene radicals having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, X and Y independently of one another are O, S or NR3, in which R3 is hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and m and n are selected accordingly such that the polyesterdiol possesses a number-average molecular weight of 450 to 2200 g/mol, where components (a) and (b) are used in a molar ratio of 0.7/2.3 to 1.3/1.7 and the resulting dimer fatty acid/polyesterdiol reaction product possesses a number-average molecular weight of 1500 to 5000 g/mol and an acid number <10 mg KOH/g.

Abstract: A sprayable polyurethane based reaction system for forming a protective coating in industrial containers includes a first component and a second component, each having a viscosity less than 1500 cP at 25° C. A difference between the viscosities of the first component and the second component within a temperature range of 60° C. and 80° C. is from ?150 cP to 150 cP. The first component is a reaction product of a polyol component that includes a first butylene oxide propylene oxide copolymer polyol having a polyoxybutylene content of at least 50 wt % and an isocyanate component that includes at least one polyisocyanate. The second component has a second butylene oxide propylene oxide copolymer polyol having a polyoxybutylene content of at least 50 wt %. At least one selected from a group of the polyol component and the second component includes a primary hydroxyl containing polyol.

Abstract: Low-density compositions and sealants prepared from sulfur-containing prepolymer compositions that exhibit enhanced fuel resistance are disclosed. The low density and enhanced fuel resistance is realized by using polyphenylene sulfide fillers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a curable silicone composition comprising: (A) a diorganopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups in a molecule, (B) at least two types of resinous organopolysiloxanes having different mass average molecular weights, (C) an organopolysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms in a molecule, and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst. The curable silicone composition enables the production of an optical semiconductor device in which the marked viscosity elevation of the resulting composition can be inhibited, in which the fluidity and packing properties are outstanding and that has outstanding gas barrier properties when used as a sealant, and in which the device has outstanding initial optical output efficiency even when organopolysiloxane resin is blended in order to form cured product with moderate hardness and strength.

Abstract: A shellac coating composition for producing a shellac coating on a substrate comprises a fatty acid component, shellac and little or no volatile carrier liquid. Because the fatty acid inhibits the polymerization of the shellac when molten, the composition can be converted into a liquid state for coating purposes by simple heating, thereby eliminating the need for the volatile carrier liquid.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a resin infusion type water-permeable pavement material, comprising: a basic bituminous mixture, waterborne epoxy resin, a waterborne curing agent, a toughening agent and a diluting agent; and the basic bituminous mixture comprises coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, fillers and high-viscosity modified bitumen. A water-permeable pavement prepared by the material provided by the present invention has excellent interface bonding capability, favorable road utilization performance and functional performance.

Abstract: A polishing composition comprising abrasive particles, a compound having hexavalent molybdenum or pentavalent vanadium, an anionic additive, a halogen oxides compound or salts thereof, and a carrier solvent is provided herein. The polishing composition is suitable for chemical mechanical polishing process of SiGe, Si and SiO2 substrates. The compound having hexavalent molybdenum or pentavalent can effectively raise the removal rate for SiGe and Si substrates, and increase the polishing selectivity of SiGe and Si relative to SiO2, simultaneously.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet according to the present invention includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer including an acrylic polymer, and a release liner including a release layer made of a silicone release agent, the release layer being applied on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The acrylic polymer includes at least one alkyl(meth)acrylate whose alkyl group being a linear or branched chain alkyl group with a carbon number of 1 to 18 as a monomer unit, and an amount of siloxane gas generated in a unit area of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer where the release liner is removed is less than 20.0 ng/cm2 after heating at 120° C. for ten minutes.

Abstract: A resin composition for a printed circuit board includes an epoxy resin; an active ester hardening agent configured to react with the epoxy resin; and a cyanate ester hardening agent.

Abstract: An adhesive film of the present invention includes a base material layer and a self-peeling adhesive layer laminated therein. The base material layer has a thermal contraction percentage in a direction of flow (thermal contraction percentage in an MD direction) and a thermal contraction percentage in an orthogonal direction with respect to the direction of flow (thermal contraction percentage in a TD direction) that satisfy the following conditions: (1) after heating at 150° C. for 30 minutes, 0.4?|thermal contraction percentage in MD direction/thermal contraction percentage in TD direction|?2.5 and average of thermal contraction percentage in MD direction and thermal contraction percentage in TD direction?2%, and (2) after heating at 200° C. for 10 minutes, 0.4?|thermal contraction percentage in MD direction/thermal contraction percentage in TD direction|?2.5 and average of thermal contraction percentage in MD direction and thermal contraction percentage in TD direction?3%.

Abstract: A machine is provided to create a strip of selectively pressure-sensitive adhesive material. A first roller unwinds a backing and a roller dispenses a series of separated areas of inhibited adhesive material. A second roller applies a continuous layer of adhesive material over the inhibited adhesive material and backing A facing is applied over the continuous layer of adhesive material. The machine then winds the finished material. A removable backing is coated with non-sticky material and then covered by a continuous sticky layer of material. A face stock material is then applied over the continuous sticky layer.

Abstract: Provided are an adhesive, a polyisocyanate component and a polyol component which are to be used in the adhesive, and a laminated film. The adhesive has a small elution amount of a low-molecular chemical substance when being used as a packaging material. The laminated film has a small amount of the low-molecular chemical substance eluted into the contents during packaging. The adhesive contains polyisocyanate (A), an alicyclic amide compound (B), and polyol (C) as essential components. When the adhesive is used, a polyisocyanate mixture obtained by mixing the polyisocyanate (A) and the alicyclic amide compound (B) in advance or a polyol mixture obtained by mixing the polyol (C) and the alicyclic amide compound (B) in advance is used as one component of a two-liquid adhesive.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rubber-based adhesive composition containing: a styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) rubber; a hardener; and an adhesion enhancer, the adhesion enhancer being contained in 50 to 100 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) rubber, and to a rubber-based adhesive tape for an automobile using the same.

Abstract: Provided is a new double-sided pressure-sensitive-adhesive sheet which is not only able to realize a low dielectric constant but also exhibits excellent handleability or reliability as a pressure-sensitive-adhesive sheet. Proposed is a double-sided pressure-sensitive-adhesive sheet which includes an acrylic compound (A) having a specific dielectric constant at a frequency of 100 kHz of 3.0 or less and an acrylic acid ester copolymer (B) obtained by copolymerizing a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer having a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 9 carbon atoms in a side chain and/or a vinyl ether monomer.

Abstract: A modified acrylic block copolymer is obtained by a method comprising subjecting a block copolymer (C) to a reaction with an amine compound, wherein the block copolymer comprises a polymer block (A) comprising a (meth)acrylic acid ester unit (a) and a polymer block (B?) comprising a (meth)acrylic acid ester unit (b?), the (meth)acrylic acid ester unit (a) is structurally different from the (meth)acrylic acid ester unit (b?), thereby partly or entirely converting the (meth)acrylic acid ester unit (b?) into at least one selected from the group consisting of an N-substituted (meth)acrylamide unit (d), a (meth)acrylic acid unit (c), and an N-substituted bis((meth)acryl)amide unit (e).

Abstract: A microcapsule type curable resin composition produces substantially no gases when applied to an adherend, e.g., to a threaded member, which is then tightened, moreover, due to exceptional coating properties to an adherend, does not give rise to coating irregularities. The microcapsule type curable resin composition contains (A) microcapsules encapsulating a curable compound (a), (B) a substance able to bring about curing of component (a), and (C) a binder able to adhere the microcapsules to an adherend, wherein the microcapsule type curable resin composition includes, per total 100 mass parts, (D) 1-25 mass parts of mica having average particle diameter of 10-150 ?m, and (E) 1-25 mass parts of an inorganic filler having average particle diameter of 3-50 ?m, the mass ratio of component (D) and component (E) being 0.2-2.0 of component (E) with respect to 1.0 of component (D).

Abstract: A two-component composition is described, comprising as component A) a one-component, moisture-curing silicone composition comprising a) at least one crosslinkable polydiorganosiloxane, b) at least one siloxane containing alkoxy groups as crosslinker, obtainable from the partial hydrolysis and condensation of one or more alkoxysilanes, at least one alkoxysilane being a trialkoxysilane or a tetraalkoxysilane, and the average degree of condensation of the siloxane containing alkoxy groups being at least 5, and c) at least one condensation catalyst, and as component B) an accelerator comprising water. The two-component composition makes a suitable adhesive or sealant. Addition of the aqueous accelerator to the silicone composition allows accelerated curing.

Abstract: A room-temperature-curable organopolysiloxane composition contains as essential components (A) an organopolysiloxane shown by the following general formula (1), (B) an alkoxysilane shown by the following general formula (2) or a partial hydrolysate thereof, (C) a silazane compound shown by the following general formula (3), (D) a bismuth compound shown by the following general formula (4) which is in a liquid state at 20° C., a partial hydrolysate thereof, or both of them, (E) one or more fillers, and (F) a silane coupling agent having amine structure or imine structure, in which the composition satisfies [component (C)/component (B)?1.0]. As a result, a room-temperature-curable organopolysiloxane composition has good curability and storage stability even without containing an organotin compound or an organotitanium compound, has safety in view of toxicity to the human body and environment, and exhibits good rubber physical properties and adhesion after curing.

Abstract: Composite body comprises nanofibrillar cellulose (NFC) together with abrasive particles (AP). The nanofibrillar cellulose forms a 3-dimensional connecting network for the abrasive particles (AP). The abrasive particles have a hardness above 7 on Mohs scale. The composite body is used for grinding, polishing or cutting.

Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the invention is characterized by comprising an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid with a content of a C5-C9 branched fatty acid of 50-100% by mole, and a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant. The refrigerating machine oil of the invention is characterized by comprising an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid with a content of a C5-C9 branched fatty acid of 50-100% by mole, and by being used together with a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant.

Abstract: Methods for producing a dimensionally stable phase change material (PCM), and dimensionally stable PCMs are disclosed. The methods include providing a porous base material, mixing a phase change material having a polar functional group with a substance that increases the polar attraction of the phase change material for the porous base material to form a mixture thereof; and, thereafter, mixing the mixture with the porous base material until a selected saturation of phase change material in the porous base material is reached. The methods may include filtering the porous base material after the selected saturation is reached to form a cake of dimensionally stable PCM and, thereafter, reducing the size of the dimensionally stable PCM to an average mean particle size of about 10 to about 50 ?m, or more preferably 20 to 30 ?m.

Abstract: A silicone composition that contains an organopolysiloxane having at least two aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbon groups per molecule, a filler containing an aluminum powder and a zinc oxide powder, an organohydrogenpolysiloxane having two or more SiH groups per molecule, and a platinum group metal catalyst, in which when a storage and loss elastic modulus G? of the silicone composition is measured by means a viscoelasticity measurement apparatus capable of measuring shear modulus, the silicone composition can provide a cured product wherein G? after 3,000 seconds from the start of holding is 10,000 Pa or less, G? after 7,200 seconds from the start of holding is 100,000 Pa or less, and G? exceeds G? after 800 seconds or more from the start of holding. As a result, there is provided a silicone composition excellent in crushability, spreadability, and heat conductivity, and further provided a method for manufacturing a heat-conductive silicone composition.

Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to a curable composition for consolidation of particulates in a subterranean formation and methods of using the same. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation. The method can include obtaining or providing a curable composition including a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) comprising at least one curable or curing group. The composition also includes an agent curably reactive with the curable or curing groups. The method can also include placing the composition in a subterranean formation downhole.

Abstract: A composition including triethylenetetramine and aminoethylpiperazine is used as a clay inhibitor in water-based drilling fluids and in hydraulic fracturing fluids for drilling wells and for fracturing subterranean formations, and is also used as a clay inhibitor in other treatment fluids for treating wells or subterranean formations.

Abstract: A method of treating a well includes placing a first stream comprising a carrier fluid, a polymerizable small molecule cationic clay control monomer, and an optional polymerization initiator into a fracture in a clay-containing subterranean formation, allowing the small molecule cationic clay control monomer to at least partially adsorb to a portion of the surface of the clay, and polymerizing at least a portion of the adsorbed clay control monomer. A clay stabilizing fluid includes an aqueous base fluid, a polymerizable small molecule cationic clay control monomer, and a polymerization initiator.

Abstract: Particles that comprise calcium methylglycine diacetic acid salt (“Ca-MGDA salt”) may be useful for fluid diversion in subterranean operations. In some instances, the particles may be formed in the subterranean formation. For example, a method may involve introducing a treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, wherein the treatment fluid comprises an aqueous base fluid, MGDA or salt thereof, and an acid in an amount of about 3% or greater by weight of the aqueous base fluid; acidizing a portion of the subterranean formation comprising calcium carbonate resulting in a concentration of calcium in the treatment fluid that exceeds about 50,000 ppm; and precipitating a plurality of particles that comprise a Ca-MGDA salt in the portion of the subterranean formation, thereby reducing fluid flow therethrough. In some instances, the particles that comprise Ca-MGDA salt may be included in a treatment fluid before introduction into the subterranean formation.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to preparation of expandable particulates and their use in fracturing operations. An embodiment provides a method for treating a subterranean formation comprising: introducing a treatment fluid comprising expandable particulates into the subterranean formation, wherein the expandable particulates each comprise a particulate substrate, a swellable material coating the particulate substrate, and an exterior coating comprising a resin; and depositing at least a portion of the expandable particulates in the subterranean formation.