Abstract: A foamable composition comprises in weight percent based on the weight of the composition: (A) 45 to 95 wt % HDPE, (B) 4 to 54 wt % LDPE, and (C) 0.01 to 2 wt % of a nucleating agent comprising in weight percent based on the weight of the nucleating agent: (1) 20 to 80 wt % of fluororesin, e.g., PTFE, and (2) 80 to 20 wt % of expandable polymeric microspheres.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for extracting valorized compounds from lignin by contacting lignins with an ionic liquid and/or a deep eutectic solvent and adding a catalyst and/or a biocatalyst to assist in breaking down the source material. Converting lignin into high value chemicals adds revenues for a bio-refinery and helps to improve the economic viability of biofuel production.

Abstract: A method of aerobic depolymerization of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites using sustainable reagents and conditions. A cured matrix is digested into soluble monomers and oligomers by catalytic aerobic oxidation. Carbon fibers are removed for re-use, then the remaining material is treated and valuable monomers are isolated. The isolated monomers can be converted back into resin precursors for re-use. The method solves the problem created because the typically irreversible cure reaction impedes recycling and re-use of FRP composites.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aerogel composition which is durable and easy to handle, which has favorable performance in aqueous environments, and which also has favorable combustion and self-heating properties. Also provided is a method of preparing an aerogel composition which is durable and easy to handle, which has favorable performance in aqueous environments, and which has favorable combustion and self-heating properties. Further provided is a method of improving the hydrophobicity, the liquid water uptake, the heat of combustion, or the onset of thermal decomposition temperature of an aerogel composition.

Abstract: A method for increasing the impact resistance of plastic articles comprising providing a blend of cottonseed oil and plastic resin; fabricating a plastic article from the blend by rotatably screw working the blend into a molten state and molding the molten blend material into the article shape.

Abstract: The present specification relates to an organic electronic device and a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: Composite materials having carbon reinforcement fibers impregnated with a matrix material are augmented with functionalized graphene nanoplatelets having amine groups formed on a surface of the graphene nanoplatelets and epoxide groups formed on at least one edge of the graphene nanoplatelets as a supplement to or a replacement for resin matrix material to increase strength of the composite materials. Related methods of increasing strength of composite materials include mixing the functionalized graphene nanoplatelets into the matrix material prior to impregnating the carbon reinforcement fibers, depositing the functionalized graphene nanoplatelets onto the matrix material to form an interlayer, and depositing the functionalized graphene nanoplatelets onto a bed of carbon reinforcement fibers with no resin matrix material. The composite materials and related methods for increasing strength of composite materials may include graphene nanoplatelets having holes formed through the graphene nanoplatelets.

Abstract: A flame retardant thermoplastic composition has high flame retardance at low thicknesses, good flow properties, good impact strength, and good flexural modulus. The polymer composition includes a polycarbonate polymer, a flame retardant additive, talc, glass fibers, and an acid stabilizer in synergistic amounts.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a composition for an environment-friendly synthetic board including coffee sludge, which is used to manufacture an environment-friendly synthetic board, such as flooring, a molded synthetic board for architecture, or the like, by using coffee sludge that is left as residual waste after the sale of coffee in a specialty coffee shop, or the like, and a method of manufacturing an environment-friendly synthetic board by using the composition. The composition is formed by adding, per 100 parts by weight of coffee sludge powder, 12.5 to 15 parts by weight of synthetic resin, 4 to 8 parts by weight of calcium carbonate, 15 to 20 parts by weight of talc, and 1 to 4 parts by weight of plasticizer, and then mixing them.

Abstract: Recycled elements and/or renewable resources, such as recycled carbon black or recycled carbon black and recycled particulate rubber, are incorporated into a rubber composition. The rubber composition can be used to manufacture tires or various tire components including tire subtreads.

Abstract: A modified conjugated diene-based polymer having a nitrogen atom, wherein a content of the nitrogen atom is 25 mass ppm or more based on a total amount of the modified conjugated diene-based polymer, a shrinking factor (g?) is 0.59 or less in a GPC-light scattering measurement method with a viscosity detector, and a weight average molecular weight is 200,000 or more and 3,000,000 or less.

Abstract: Thermoplastic vulcanizates and elastomers, and processes for preparation thereof from recycled vulcanized rubber, such as reclaimed tires.

Abstract: The invention provides ethylene-based composition comprising a blend of an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene having an intrinsic viscosity from 5 to 50 deciliters/gram; a thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer having a density of from 0.850 to 0.910 g/cc; and, optionally, a fluoropolymer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a glass fiber composite material composition having further improved compatibility between glass fibers and polypropylene and thus maximized interfacial adhesion between the resin and the glass fibers in a glass fiber composite material. The present invention provides a glass fiber composite material composition comprising: (A) 60-93% by weight of polypropylene; (B) 1-30% by weight of glass fiber sized with a silane-based compound; and (C) 1-10% by weight of a polypropylene resin modified with maleic anhydride and a methacryloxysilane-based compound.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding masses containing, with respect to the sum of the components A to D: a) 20 to 90 wt % of one or more styrene copolymers as component A, constructed from styrene and at least 30 wt % of acrylonitrile, b) 10 to 80 wt % of one or more impact-modified graft rubbers without olefinic double bond in the rubber phase as component B, constructed from graft base B1 and acrylonitrile-containing graft shell B2, c) 0 to 20 wt % of a polymer C different from the components A and B, and d) 0 to 15 wt % of additive D, wherein the difference in the acrylonitrile content of component A and graft shell B2 is at least 5 units and at most 10 units, have a residual monomer fraction of acrylonitrile of less than 100 ppm.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a thermoplastic vulcanizate fluorine-containing composition [vulcanizate (C)], comprising a continuous thermoplastic fluoropolymer phase and a dispersed vulcanized fluoroelastomer phase, said composition comprising:—at least one thermoplastic fluoropolymer [polymer (F)];—at least one (per)fluoroelastomer [elastomer (A)], and—at least one plasticizer selected from the group consisting of organic esters [plasticizer (P)].

Abstract: To provide a composition for surface treatment capable of treating a surface of a polished object to be polished having both of a silicon-silicon bond and a nitrogen-silicon bond by sufficiently removing defects on the surface of the polished object to be polished. The composition for surface treatment contains a nonionic water-soluble polymer (A) having a main chain including only a carbon atom or a main chain consisting of a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom, and an anionic water-soluble polymer (B) having a main chain including only a carbon atom and a side chain having a sulfonic acid group or a group having a salt thereof or a carboxyl group or a group having a salt thereof, and being bonded to the main chain including only a carbon atom, and the composition is used for surface treatment of a polished object to be polished containing a silicon-silicon bond and a nitrogen-silicon bond and a pH of the composition is less than 9.0.

Abstract: To provide a resin composition which can allow for production of a molded product causing less generation of formaldehyde and having an excellent metallic appearance, and furthermore which can allow for suppression of contamination in a mold and a molding machine during molding. A resin composition containing a polyacetal resin (A), an aluminum pigment (B), and a pearl-based pigment (C), in which the aluminum pigment (B) includes an aluminum particle, and the aluminum particle has a volume average particle size (D50) of 3 to 100 ?m and the content thereof is 0.01 to 15 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the polyacetal resin (A).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sound absorbing material and a preparation method thereof. The sound absorbing material includes a porous powder core and an adhesive coating the porous powder core. A porous powder dispersion solution and an adhesive dispersion solution are simultaneously subjected to spray granulation via a nozzle having an inner ring nozzle and an outer ring nozzle, so that the porous particles having a structure including a porous powder core and an adhesive coating the porous powder core are formed. The porous particles prepared by the method of the present disclosure when serving as a sound absorbing material of a sounding device have high strength and is not easy to be broken. Moreover, a total amount of the adhesive used in the method of the present disclosure is less than that in the conventional method, so that cost is effectively saved.

Abstract: Disclosed is a self-healing acrylic copolymer represented by Formula 1: The acrylic copolymer can self-heal structural damages such as scratches with the aid of heat and water and possesses excellent physical properties at room temperature. Also disclosed is a crosslinked copolymer prepared from the acrylic copolymer.

Abstract: Provided is a resin composition which is capable of forming a molded body that has excellent surface hardness, transparency, hue and weather resistance, while exhibiting excellent wet heat resistance. A resin composition which contains a (meth)acrylic copolymer (A) and a polycarbonate-based resin (B), and wherein: the (meth)acrylic copolymer (A) contains an aromatic (meth)acrylate unit (a1), a methyl (meth)acrylate unit (a2) and a (meth)acrylate unit (a3) represented by formula (1); the mass ratio (a1)/(a2) is from 5/95 to 85/15; the content of the unit (a3) is 0.1-10 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the total of the units (a1) and (a2); and the unit (a1) is different from the unit (a3).

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for lubricious structures (also referred to simply as “structure”), methods of making lubricious structures, methods of using lubricious structures, and the like.

Abstract: Provided herein are high flow and ductile thermoplastic resin compositions for the formation of thin wall devices and devices with desirable impact strengths. These compositions are useful in the manufacture of various shaped, formed and/or molded devices.

Abstract: Disclosed is a film adherable to polystyrene on at least one surface thereof.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a laminated glass obtained by: interposing, between glass plates, a resin sheet comprising a resin composition obtained by blending 100 parts by weight of a specific modified hydrogenated block-copolymer having an introduced acid anhydride group, and a total of 0.001 to 2.0 parts by weight of a near infrared ray-absorbing pigment and/or a metal oxide particulate having a function of shielding infrared ray, to obtain a laminate; and integrally bonding the laminate including the glass plates and the resin sheet. The aspects of the invention provide a novel hydrogenated block copolymer having an acid anhydride group; a resin composition that includes the hydrogenated block copolymer, has excellent heat insulating function, and is suitable as a laminated glass intermediate film-forming material excellent in moisture resistance and durability; a resin sheet made of the resin composition; and a laminated glass.

Abstract: Disclosed are a thermoplastic resin composition including about 100 parts by weight of a base resin including (A-1) about 50 wt % to about 70 wt % of a polycarbonate resin and (A-2) about 30 wt % to about 50 wt % of a rubber modified vinyl-based copolymer, (B) about 1 to about 3 parts by weight of a cross-linkable styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer; and (C) about 1 to about 3 parts by weight of a methyl methacrylate-butyl acrylate copolymer, and a molded article using the same.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions containing A) from 29 to 99.99% by weight of a polyester, B) from 0.01 to 10% by weight of an ionomer composed of at least one copolymer of B1) from 30 to 99.9% by weight of ethylene B2) from 0 to 60% by weight of 1-octene or 1-butene or propylene or a mixture of these and B3) from 0.01 to 70% by weight of functional monomers, where the functional monomers are selected from the group of the carboxylic acid groups, carboxylic anhydride groups, carboxylic ester groups and mixtures of these, where component B) has been neutralized to an extent of at least 20% with alkali metal ions, based on 100% by weight of A) and B), and C) from 0 to 70% by weight of other additional substances, where the sum of the % by weight values for A) to C) is 100%, for use in the production of cable sheathing or optical-conductor sheathing via blow molding, profile extrusion, and/or pipe extrusion.

Abstract: Provided herein are improved compositions and methods of making and using the same, the composition comprising a polymer and a ceramic present at a ratio of from 3:1 to 1:3 of polymer:ceramic by weight, wherein the composition comprises or is a composite of the polymer and the ceramic having improved printability and/or having an improved elastic modulus and/or improved stress at failure (e.g., as compared to a blend of the polymer and the ceramic). Improved medical implants incorporating the same are also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition including: an amount of about 60 to 90 wt % of a polymer matrix based on the total weight of the complex material composition and an amount of about 10 to 40 wt % of an inorganic filler based on the total weight of the composition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a thermoplastic resin composition. The thermoplastic resin composition includes: about 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin; about 1 part by weight to about 30 parts by weight of a core-shell type rubber-modified vinyl graft copolymer; about 5 parts by weight to about 50 parts by weight of an aromatic vinyl copolymer resin; and about 5 parts by weight to about 50 parts by weight of a phosphorus flame retardant, wherein the polycarbonate resin includes a first polycarbonate resin having a weight average molecular weight of about 10,000 g/mol to about 30,000 g/mol and a second polycarbonate resin having a weight average molecular weight of about 35,000 g/mol to about 60,000 g/mol, and the core-shell type rubber-modified vinyl graft copolymer is obtained by grafting an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer to a rubber polymer. The thermoplastic resin composition can have good properties in terms of chemical resistance, impact resistance, flame retardancy, heat resistance, and/or fluidity.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a thermoplastic resin composition. The thermoplastic resin composition includes: about 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin; about 20 parts by weight to about 130 parts by weight of flat glass fibers coated with an epoxy compound; about 0.5 parts by weight to about 3 parts by weight of a modified polyolefin including a repeat unit represent by Formula 1 and a repeat unit represented by Formula 2; about 5 parts by weight to about 20 parts by weight of a phosphazene compound; and about 0.1 parts by weight to about 5 parts by weight of a fluorinated olefin resin. The thermoplastic resin composition has good properties in terms of impact resistance, rigidity, and/or flame retardancy.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition includes about 100 parts by weight of a base resin including (A) about 70 wt % to about 90 wt % of a polycarbonate resin, and (B) about 10 wt % to about 30 wt % of a polyethylene terephthalate resin, (C-1) about 1 to about 10 parts by weight of a first viscosity reinforcing agent having a core-shell structure including a rubbery polymer core formed by polymerization of a diene-based monomer and a shell formed by grating a monomer having compatibility with the polycarbonate resin (A) and being different from the diene-based monomer, (C-2) about 1 to about 10 parts by weight of a second viscosity reinforcing agent having a core-shell structure including a rubbery polymer core formed by polymerization of a diene-based monomer and a shell formed by grafting a monomer having compatibility with the polyethylene terephthalate resin (B) and being different from the diene-based monomer, and about 1 to about 10 parts by weight of an alkyl acrylate copolymer including a glycidyl methacr

Abstract: A copolycarbonate lens formed from a polycarbonate composition comprising: a copolycarbonate comprising bisphenol A carbonate units and of phthalimide carbonate and optionally, a bisphenol A homopolycarbonate; wherein the second carbonate units are present in an amount of 18 to 35 mol % based on the sum of the moles of the copolycarbonate and the bisphenol A homopolycarbonate, the copolycarbonate comprises less than 2 ppm by weight of each of an ion of lithium, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, ammonium, chlorine, bromine, fluorine, nitrite, nitrate, phosphite, phosphate, sulfate, formate, acetate, citrate, oxalate, trimethylammonium, and triethylammonium, as measured by ion chromatography, and the polycarbonate composition has a bisphenol A purity of at least 99.7% as determined by high performance liquid chromatography. The polycarbonate composition has: a Vicat B120 of 155° C. or higher; and an increase in yellowness index of less than 10 during 1000 hours of heat aging at 155° C.

Abstract: A composition based on poly(ether ether ketone) (PEEK) including poly(ether ketone ketone) (PEKK), wherein the poly(ether ketone ketone) (PEKK) includes a mixture of terephthalic and isophthalic units, the percentage by weight of terephthalic units, with respect to the sum of the terephthalic and isophthalic units, being between 55 and 85%, limits included, and preferably between 55 and 70%, the composition including between 1 and 40%, limits included, preferably between 5 and 40% and more preferably still between 10 and 30% by weight of PEKK, with respect to the total weight of the composition.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a resin composition containing a thermosetting resin, a curing agent that reacts with the thermosetting resin, and a flame retardant, in which the flame retardant contains a compatible phosphorus compound that is compatible with a mixture of the thermosetting resin and the curing agent, and a non-compatible phosphorus compound that is not compatible with the mixture, a content of the compatible phosphorus compound is 1 to 3.5 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of a total of the thermosetting resin and the curing agent, and a content of the non-compatible phosphorus compound is 14 to 30 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the total of the thermosetting resin and the curing agent.

Abstract: A polyamide resin composition and a molded article manufactured using the same. The polyamide resin composition includes: about 15 wt % to about 49 wt % of an aromatic polyamide resin including a repeat unit represented by Formula 1 and a repeat unit represented by Formula 2 as defined in the specification; about 1 wt % to about 30 wt % of a polyamide resin having a glass transition temperature of about 40° C. to about 120° C.; about 1 wt % to about 20 wt % of an olefin-based copolymer; and about 30 wt % to about 50 wt % of calcium carbonate. The polyamide resin composition and the molded article produced using the same can have good properties in terms of plating adhesion, impact resistance, thermal resistance, fluidity, and/or appearance, and the like.

Abstract: Provided herein are polymers and methods for their use in binding a phosphate containing biological macromolecules. Specifically, the methods and uses provided herein may be used to inhibit thrombin binding to polyphosphate or as an antithrombotic agent for the treatment of stroke, acute coronary syndrome, pulmonary embolism, atrial fibrillation, venous and arterial thromboembolism, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), deepvein thrombosis (DVT), peripheral artery disease, trauma-induced coagulopathy, extracorporeal circulation, cancer-associated thrombosis, sepsis, septic shock, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS), or inflammation.

Abstract: To provide a maleimide resin composition which is curable by a curing process equivalent to that of an epoxy resin and can achieve moldability (curability) at 200° C. or less, heat resistance of 250° C. or more, retention of high thermal stability and high elastic modulus at 250° C., and low dielectric constant/low dielectric loss tangent.

Abstract: A method for the production of a sol-gel based matrix resulting in a sol-gel based matrix with high stability and high porosity. The sol-gel based material may be used for the production of a composite or sensor suitable for monitoring analytes.

Abstract: A building construction product comprising an ionochromic dye, wherein the building construction product has a first color when the product comprises water, wherein the first color is dependent on the presence of metal ions in solution in the product; and wherein the product has a second color when the product has solidified. Methods of monitoring setting and drying reactions of building construction products, including setting-type and drying-type joint compounds and plasters.

Abstract: A polysiloxane-substituted quinacridone pigment is produced by a quinacridone pigment with an epoxy-terminated polysiloxane under conditions effective to cause the epoxy group on the polysiloxane to react with, and bond the polysiloxane to, the quinacridone pigment. The quinacridone pigment thus produced has the polysiloxane grouping bonded to one of the quinacridone nitrogen atoms via a hydrocarbon linking group, which bears a hydroxyl group on a carbon atom ? or ? to the quinacridone nitrogen atom. These quinacridone pigments are useful in electrophoretic displays.

Abstract: The present invention provides fluorescent polyfluorene polymers or macromers with unique optical properties that are stable. The polymeric fluorophores are useful in various bioassays formats. The inventive polymers are useful in assays relying on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) mechanisms where two fluorophores are used.

Abstract: The present invention involves pigments derived from compounds with the LiSbO3-type or LiNbO3-type structures. These compounds possess the following formulations M1M5Z3, M1M2M4M5Z6, M1M32M5Z6, M1M2M3M6Z6, M12M4M6Z6, M1M5M6Z6, or a combination thereof. The cation M1 represents an element with a valence of +1 or a mixture thereof, the cation M2 represents an element with a valence of +2 or a mixture thereof, the cation M3 represents an element with a valence of +3 or a mixture thereof, the cation M4 represents an element with a valence of +4 or a mixture thereof, the cation M5 represents an element with a valence of +5 or a mixture thereof, and the cation M6 represents an element with a valence of +6 or a mixture thereof. The cation M is selected from H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Ru, Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, P, Sb, or Te.

Abstract: A surface treatment method for a substrate surface; a surface treatment agent used for the surface treatment method; and a method for forming a film on a substrate in a region-selective manner. The method includes exposing the surface to a surface treatment agent including a silylation agent and a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, the surface including two or more regions, adjacent regions in the two or more regions having different materials, and a reaction between the silylation agent and the two or more regions causing contact angles of water to differ from each other with respect to adjacent regions in the two or more regions.

Abstract: Described herein are coated glass or glass-ceramic articles having improved smudge resistance. Further described are methods of making and using the improved articles. The coated articles generally include a glass or glass-ceramic substrate and an oleophilic coating disposed thereon. The oleophilic coating is not a free-standing adhesive film, but a coating that is formed on or over the glass or glass-ceramic substrate.

Abstract: A composition, comprising at least one silane-group-containing polymer that is liquid at room temperature, at least one epoxide liquid resin, and at least one aliphatic polyamine having a molecular weight of at least 115 g/mol and having at least three amine hydrogens reactive toward epoxide groups, as a sealing film applied in liquid form. The sealing film applied in liquid form is isocyanate-free, low-odor, and easy to process because of the low viscosity and the long open time. Said sealing film cures quickly and forms a high-quality elastic material having good mechanical properties and good weather resistance.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorescent plate in which a high reflectance of a reflective layer can be maintained over a long period of time, and occurrence of peeling of the reflective layer can be suppressed. The fluorescent plate of the present invention includes a fluorescent material layer containing a fluorescent material, an oxide layer disposed below the fluorescent material layer, and a reflective layer which is disposed below the oxide layer and is formed of silver, and further includes an oxidation-preventive protective layer which is disposed between the oxide layer and the reflective layer and is formed of a translucent material, and a translucent adhesion layer interposed between the oxidation-preventive protective layer and the reflective layer.

Abstract: A heat shield includes a substrate having a surface; and a benzoxazine composite material disposed onto the surface of the substrate, the benzoxazine composite material comprising a benzoxazine compound and a reinforcing fiber.

Abstract: The current invention relates to the field of process furnaces design and can be used in oil refining industry, steam boilers and furnaces for heating feedstocks. A body of a process furnace, comprising an internal lining, is also provided with an outer protective coating which is discrete and structurally heterogeneous. The irregularity of the coating structure is provided by a filler. The invention makes it possible to reduce fuel consumption by reducing heat emission and heat loss from a furnace body into the surrounding environment.

Abstract: An aqueous coating material is provided. The aqueous coating material includes an aqueous resin and a surfactant. The surfactant having a hydrophilic segment of poly(alkylene glycol), a hydrophobic segment of siloxane, and a terminal hydrophilic group. The aqueous resin and the surfactant may have a weight ratio of 100:1 to 100:25.