Abstract: A surface covering comprising between 5 and 50% w/w of thermoplastic material, between 5 and 50% w/w of elastomer material, between 5 and 20% w/w of a high styrene resin, between 25 and 70% w/w of filler and between 1% and 10% w/w of vulcanisation system.

Abstract: A powder composition including a resin and from 5% to 70%, by weight based on powder composition weight, of a corrosion-inhibiting pigment, optionally including from 0% to 65%, by weight based on powder composition weight, zinc, the composition being substantially free from pigment providing a metallic effect is provided. The corrosion-inhibiting pigment may be present in amounts of up to 50%, by weight based on powder composition weight, for example, up to 35%. A method for coating a substrate with the powder composition and the coated substrate so formed are also provided.

Abstract: A roofing shingle has low density granules adhered to at least a headlap region on a front surface of the roof shingle.

Abstract: A wear-resistant article of manufacture, such as a screen, is produced by the method of providing a screen having a front face, a rear face, and openings extending through the screen from the front face to the rear face, contacting at least a portion of the screen with a coating material comprising ferromagnetic or paramagnetic hard particles and a braze material, subjecting at least a portion of the screen to a magnetic field during at least a portion of the contacting step, and transforming the coating material to a wear-resistant coating comprising the hard particles distributed in the braze material.

Abstract: A thermal interface material includes a thermally conductive metal matrix and coarse polymeric particles dispersed therein. The composite can be used for both TIM1 and TIM2 applications in electronic devices.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention as used for impregnating a composite tape (56) with HTC particles provides for permeating a fabric layer (51) of the composite tape with HTC particles and impregnating an impregnating resin into the composite tape through the fabric layer (51). At least 5% of the HTC particles permeated into the fabric layer are carried out of the fabric layer and into a mica layer (52) bound to the fabric layer by the impregnating resin. In some embodiments the impregnating resin itself contains HTC particles.

Abstract: A composite powder for a deposition of a composite coating comprises a nonmetallic component and a metallic component, the metallic component having an amorphous structure or a nanocrystalline structure. The metallic component may include an amorphous metallic alloy. The metallic alloy may include constituents having the amorphous structure. The metallic component may include a combination of the metallic alloy existing in the amorphous state and constituents of the amorphous metallic alloy in the amorphous state. The composite metal-ceramic powders are used for depositing composite coatings on a selected surface. Disclosed are several methods and systems for producing such composite powders. Disclosed are also several methods and systems for depositing composite coatings. Advantageously, the deposited coatings exhibit high corrosion resistance, high wear resistance, and excellent structural properties.

Abstract: The present invention provides a powder blend or composite powder that is fed into a kinetic spray device, accelerated towards a substrate or part in order to form a composite solder with thermal and electrical properties better than existing solder. The other advantages of building a solder layer in this manner include a low oxide content to improve subsequent solderability, excellent control of the deposition thickness, excellent control of the deposition chemistry and lastly, high speed of manufacture.

Abstract: A method for producing an arc-erosion resistant coating provides a substrate material with an arc-erosion resistant layer by a cold-gas spraying method. The method can be used for producing an arc-erosion resistant coating in inner regions of vacuum interrupter chambers that are exposed to electric arcs. An exemplary vacuum interrupter chamber with a shield coated inside is disclosed for medium-voltage switchgear.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an abrasive coating on a gas turbine component, especially on a gas turbine rotor blade tip, comprising at least the following steps: a) providing a gas turbine component, especially a gas turbine rotor blade; b) providing a high temperature melting alloy powder; c) providing abrasive particles; d) providing a low temperature melting alloy powder; e) blending at least said high temperature melting alloy powder and said abrasive particles to provide a mixture; f) applying said low temperature melting alloy powder and said mixture to an area of said gas turbine component, especially to a tip of said turbine rotor blade; g) locally heating said area of said gas turbine component to a temperature above the melting point of said low temperature melting alloy powder but below the melting point of said high temperature melting alloy powder is provided.

Abstract: A method of making a friction material which includes a porous base material, at least one type of resin material, and at least one type of nanoparticle-sized friction modifying particle, is disclosed. The resin material and the nanoparticle-sized friction modifying particles are substantially uniformly dispensed throughout the base material.

Abstract: The tips of gas turbine engine turbine rotor blades are provided with an abrasive layer and the abrasive layer comprises chromised silicon carbide grit protruding from a layer of material. In particular the abrasive layer comprises a mixture of cubic boron nitride grit and chromised silicon carbide grit and the cubic boron nitride grit and the chromised silicon carbide grit protruding from the layer of material. The cubic boron nitride grit has a greater dimension than the chromised silicon carbide grit. The cubic boron nitride grit cuts the majority of a track in an abradable structure and then the chromised silicon carbide grit provides any additional cutting of the abradable structure.

Abstract: Methods of reducing corrosion between magnesium and another metal are disclosed herein. In one method, a corrosion protection material is cold sprayed at an interface formed between the magnesium and the other metal, the corrosion protection material including magnesium. In another method, a cladding layer is applied to heat affected areas of the magnesium and/or the other metal, at a welded joint, or combinations thereof.

Abstract: A method of producing a clad sheet formed by joining a clad layer at least containing nickel, chromium, silicon, and phosphorus to a base material made of a stainless steel or a nickel-based alloy. A step of forming the clad layer includes contact-bonding a mixed powder to the base material, wherein an alloy powder that contains at least one selected from chromium, silicon, and phosphorus as components, and a nickel powder that functions as a binder to have the alloy powder be contact bonded to the base material are mixed in the mixed powder.

Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a structured surface possessing a high level of hydrophilicity, wherein the process involves: coating a surface with a mixture to produce the structured surface, wherein the mixture includes: particles (a) having a number average particle diameter of from 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m; and particles (b) having a number average particle diameter of from 5 nm to 0.5 ?m and a 20° C. surface energy of greater than or equal to 80 mN/in, and wherein the mixture exhibits a bimodal particle diameter distribution of particles (a) and particles (b). The mixture may optionally include an aqueous liquor, an emulsifier, a binder, an adhesion promoter, a thickener, and/or a pigment. Also provided is a structured surface produced by the process. A non-limiting example of the structured surface produced by the process is a structured textile surface.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a dielectric device includes steps described below. (1) Mixing step: Powders serving as a matrix and additive powders for sintering the matrix are mixed. (2) Mixture heat-treating step: The mixture of the matrix and the additive that has been subject to the mixing step is heat-treated. (3) Deposition layer formation step: The material powders obtained through the mixture heat-treating step are injected toward a substrate so as to form a deposition layer on the substrate. (4) Deposition layer heat-treating step: The deposition layer formed on the substrate through the deposition layer formation step is heat-treated so as to form the dielectric layer on the substrate.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a dielectric device includes steps described below. (1) Mixing step: Powders serving as a matrix and additive powders for sintering the matrix are mixed. (2) Mixture heat-treating step: The mixture of the matrix and the additive that has been subject to the mixing step is heat-treated. (3) Deposition layer formation step: The material powders obtained through the mixture heat-treating step are injected toward a substrate so as to form a deposition layer on the substrate. (4) Deposition layer heat-treating step: The deposition layer formed on the substrate through the deposition layer formation step is heat-treated so as to form the dielectric layer on the substrate.

Abstract: An coating apparatus, wherein the apparatus applies a coating, onto a surface of an aluminum alloy member for a heat exchanger to be assembled by brazing, with a top-feed-type roll transfer system having at least three rolls, the coating being obtained by mixing into an organic binder a metal powder, a flux powder, a powder mixture thereof, or a compound containing a metal component and a flux component, wherein rotation directions of transfer rolls of the apparatus arranged above a surface to be coated of an aluminum alloy extruded member that moves in a horizontal direction, satisfy a relationship in which a rotation direction of a coated-metal roll for coating, which rotates in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the extruded member, and a rotation direction of a metal roll for adjusting an adhesion amount of the coating by contacting with the above roll, are opposite to each other; and a method of producing an aluminum alloy heat exchanger member using the apparatus; and an aluminum alloy heat e

Abstract: An improved switching material for forming a composite article over a substrate is disclosed. A first volume of nanotubes is combined with a second volume of nanoscopic particles in a predefined ration relative to the first volume of nanotubes to form a mixture. This mixture can then be deposited over a substrate as a relatively thick composite article via a spin coating process. The composite article may possess improved switching properties over that of a nanotube-only switching article. A method for forming substantially uniform nanoscopic particles of carbon, which contains one or more allotropes of carbon, is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to grout powder for admixture with water to produce grout. The grout powder comprises cement powder and is characterized in that the grout powder has been mixed with a fluorochemical compound. The present invention further relates to a method of preparing grout powder for admixture with water to produce grout, comprising mixing grout powder comprising cement powder with a fluorochemical compound. Still further, the invention relates to an alternative method for making the grout powder, which method comprises treating at least one of the components of the grout powder with a fluorochemical compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to powder compositions curable by ultraviolet irradiation or by accelerated electron beams. These powder compositions comprise at least one ethylenically unsaturated resin, and lend to the production of paint and varnish coatings exhibiting a unique combination of properties, inter alia good flow and mechanical properties and above all outstanding adhesion to metal substrates, persisting on ageing.

Abstract: A protective coating for use on a silicon-containing substrate, and deposition methods therefor. The coating has a barium-strontium-aluminosilicate (BSAS) composition that is less susceptible to degradation by volatilization and in corrosive environments as a result of having at least an outer surface region that consists essentially of one or more stoichiometric crystalline phases of BSAS and is substantially free of a nonstoichiometric second crystalline phase of BSAS that contains a substoichiometric amount of silica. The coating can be produced by carrying out deposition and heat treatment steps that result in the entire coating or just the outer surface region of the coating consisting essentially of the stoichiometric celsian phase.

Abstract: Fabrication of refractory metal nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes is disclosed. As an example, a method may include providing a solvent and providing a surfactant having a first surfactant configured to stabilize low oxidation states of a refractory metal and a second surfactant configured to protect refractory metal nanoparticles. The method may further include providing a refractory metal precursor and providing a reactant for reacting with the refractory metal precursor and forming refractory metal nanoparticles. The refractory metal may include rhenium, tungsten, tantalum, or hafnium. The refractory metal nanoparticles may include rhenium, tungsten, tantalum, or hafnium nanoparticles. A carbon nanotube product may include refractory metal nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes, where the refractory metal nanoparticles may include rhenium, tungsten, tantalum, or hafnium nanoparticles.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a nanostructured material comprising carbon nanotubes fused together to form a three-dimensional structure. Methods of making the nanostructured material are also disclosed. Such methods include a batch type process, as well as multi-step recycling methods or continuous single-step methods. A wide range of articles made from the nanostructured material, including fabrics, ballistic mitigation materials, structural supports, mechanical actuators, heat sink, thermal conductor, and membranes for fluid purification is also disclosed.

Abstract: An unhardened inorganic board is shaped by press clamping the surface of an unhardened inorganic mat having a colored surface layer using an embossing template. A semi-hardened inorganic board is obtained by performing primary curing of the unhardened inorganic board, and coating the surface of the semi-hardened inorganic board with a primary sealer. The semi-hardened inorganic board coated with the primary sealer is autoclave cured to obtain a hardened inorganic board. The surface of the hardened inorganic board is coated with a powdery or granular material fixing sealer and, thereafter, an ornamental powdery or granular material is dispersed onto the surface of the hardened inorganic board. The surface of the hardened inorganic board on which the ornamental powdery or granular material has been dispersed is coated with a finishing transparent paint.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the reprocessing or production of a sputter target or an X-ray anode wherein a gas flow forms a gas/powder mixture with a powder of a material chosen from the group consisting of niobium, tantalum, tungsten, molybdenum, titanium, zirconium, mixtures of two or more thereof and alloys thereof with at least two thereof or with other metals, the powder has a particle size of 0.5 to 150 ?m, wherein a supersonic speed is imparted to the gas flow and the jet of supersonic speed is directed on to the surface of the object to be reprocessed or produced.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of printing which includes providing a substrate having an inked surface. The inked surface is typically achieved using an offset lithographic printing press. A thermoplastic polymer powder is applied to the inked surface. The surface is then fused. An advantage of the prepared substrate is that there is reduced contamination of electrostatographic fusing systems when fused by heat and pressure fixing. Another aspect of the invention further provides a method of fusing a substrate having an inked surface wherein a thermoplastic powder has been applied to the inked surface prior to stacking the uncured offset prints.

Abstract: A material composite has at least one region of copper or a copper alloy, at least one region of a predominantly graphitic material, and at least one boundary region between them. The boundary region has one or more carbides from the group of the IVb, Vb, VIb transition metals and one or more elements of the group consisting of Si, B, Al, Ge, Mn, Sn. In a preferred implementation of the invention, the composite is produced with a back-casting process.

Abstract: A coated article having a substrate coated with a layer of acicular silica particles is provided. The coating is substantially uniform in thickness, durably adheres to the substrate, and provides antireflection and or hydrophilic surface properties to the substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a method for surface treatment of a sliding portion of a product, which is an economical method, has less risk of polluting the working environment, or causing a fire by the powder dust, and yet enables high lubricativeness to be achieved, and many concavities to be formed on the sliding portion while simultaneously providing lubricativeness. Injection particles, obtained by blending soft-metal solid lubricant particles the surfaces of which have been oxidized and layered-structure solid lubricant particles, are injected onto a surface of the sliding portion of the product to be treated at an injection speed of 150 m/sec or more, thereby to diffuse and penetrate the surface to form a layer of the injection particles, and to form many concavities on the surface of the sliding portion.

Abstract: The coated noble metal element used in glass manufacture, such as a noble metal pipe, has an uncoated side that contacts a glass melt and an H2-impervious layer or an H2-impervious and O2-impervious layer, which is provided on a side opposite from the uncoated side. The H2-impervious layer or H2-impervious and O2-impervious layer is heat-resistant and is liquid or solid. In one process for providing the layer on the noble metal element an empty space between the noble metal element and a ceramic insulating jacket is filled with a coating material, and then the coating material is melted so that it wets a surface of the noble metal element. The coating material can include glass cullet, crushed glass or glass powder or is a mixture of crushed glass and ground ceramic material.

Abstract: Several embodiments of a method for sealing pores on a porous substrate are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises introducing first particles to the surface of the substrate and damaging the surface to decrease the size of the pores on the surface; introducing second particle to the surface; and forming a film on the surface covering the pores, where the film has a dielectric constant of 4 or less.

Abstract: To provide an article having a water-repellent surface, which has excellent water repellency and abrasion resistance. An article having a water-repellent layer comprising the following inner layer and the following surface layer, on a surface of a substrate, and characterized in that the surface of the water-repellent layer has (a) a surface area ratio (S ratio) of from 1.01 to 1.

Abstract: A rust inhibitor which ensures the simplicity of application typical for a coating process and can demonstrate excellent characteristics similar to those obtained with a metal spraying method. The rust inhibitor is manufactured by admixing zinc and aluminum as fine powders of inorganic metals, which are manufactured with a stamping mill to have a flaky shape, to a modified silicone resin solution. A silane-type silicone resin is used for the modified silicone resin solution. For example, a mixed solution of an organosilane-type silicone resin and an oligomer-type silane coupling agent and the like is used.

Abstract: Each of the metal nano-particles present in a dispersion, which comprises at least one metal selected from the group consisting of precious metals and transition metals or an alloy of at least two metals selected from the foregoing metals, comprises a metal particle in which an organic metal compound of a fatty acid and/or an amine-metal complex is adhered to the periphery of the metal particle. This organic metal compound and the amine-metal complex are admixed together in a solvent and then the resulting mixture is subjected to a reducing treatment to thus form a dispersion containing metal nano-particles in a concentration of not less than 5% by mass and not more than 90% by mass. The resulting dispersion is applied onto the surface of a base material, followed by drying the applied layer of the dispersion and then firing the dried layer of the dispersion at a low temperature to thus form a thin metallic wire or a metal film having conductivity.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an erosion and corrosion resistant coating comprising a metallic binder, a plurality of hard particles, and a plurality of sacrificial particles. Also disclosed is a method of improving erosion and corrosion resistance of a metal component comprising disposing on a surface of the metal component the foregoing erosion and corrosion resistant coating comprising, and a metal component comprising a metal component surface and the foregoing erosion and corrosion resistant coating comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the first surface is disposed on the metal component surface.

Abstract: A device for coating at least one substrate or for producing at least one molding by means of at least one cold gas spraying pistol, wherein the cold gas spraying pistol and the substrate or molding to be coated are arranged in a vacuum chamber, and also a method for cold gas spraying relating thereto in such a manner that while eliminating the wire production, the coil winding and also the cast in procedure, a thoroughly compact coil without a degree of freedom of movement (elimination of the quench risk) can be produced, it is suggested that the particles have at least to some extent an electrically conducting, in particular superconducting, property and at least to some extent an electrically poorly conducting or electrically insulating property.

Abstract: A method for reducing the coefficient of friction of an archery arrow's shaft to ease the retrieval of the arrow from an archery target. The method includes covering the shaft between the ferrule and fletching with a PTFE-based lubricating material, buffing the lubricant to a uniform thickness along the arrow shaft and heating the lubricated shaft to set the PTFE to the arrow shaft.

Abstract: A friction stir welding anvil and method of producing a friction stir welding anvil that precludes diffusion or mechanical bonding of the anvil to the work pieces are provided. The alternatives for producing such an anvil comprise coating the anvil with diffusion barriers such as oxides, nitrides, intermetallics, and/or refractory metals; manufacturing an anvil either completely or partially from the same; or placing a coating of such materials in the form of a thin sheet or a powder between the anvil and the work pieces. The anvil disclosed herein exhibits high strength and hardness even at elevated temperatures, such as those greater than 800° C., so as to prevent the anvil from mechanically or diffusion bonding to the work pieces and so as to minimize, or eliminate altogether, anvil deformation.

Abstract: A moldable composite material contains flakes of composite material, i.e., flakes of polymeric matrix materials having fibers embedded therein. An improved substrate is provided by providing a substrate and applying a coating onto the substrate, the coating containing the flakes of composite material. A first construction member can be secured to a second construction member by applying the coating onto an attachment region of the first construction member, and applying a fastener onto the first construction member in the coated attachment region to secure the first construction member to the second construction member.

Abstract: A metal material comprises a Zn—Al—Sn based alloy (ZAS alloy) and Cu diffused in the alloy, wherein Cu is diffused into the inside of the alloy to a depth from the surface of 0.5 mm or more, the concentration of Cu decreases from the surface of the ZAS alloy towards the inside thereof, and there is present no specific interface between Cu and the ZAS alloy; and a method for producing the metal material involves applying, to the surface of the ZAS alloy, an agent comprising a solvent and, dispersed therein, a material containing Cu such as a Cu powder and a Cu—Mn alloy powder and preferably, dispersed or dissolved therein, a reducing agent capable of reducing an oxide film present on the surface of the ZAS alloy, and heating the ZAS alloy having the agent applied thereon, to thereby diffuse Cu into the alloy.

Abstract: An arrangement (90) has a support (10) and nanoparticles (40, 70) that are located thereupon. At least two nanoparticles (40, 70), both of which are made of a metal material (M1, M2) and are different regarding the metal material, are disposed at a distance from one another on a surface (130) of the support (10). The two metal materials have a different degree of preciousness.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a low stress, low-temperature metal-metal composite flip chip interconnect is presented. In this regard, a method is introduced consisting of combining a powder of substantially pure tin with a powder of tin alloy having a lower melting point than pure tin and depositing the combination of metals between an integrated circuit device and a package substrate. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to the deposition of metal oxide coatings via combustion deposition. In certain example embodiments, the metal oxide coating may be a silicon oxide coating (e.g., SiO2, or other suitable stoichiometry) and, in certain example embodiments, the silicon oxide coating may serve as an anti-reflective (AR) coating. In certain example embodiments, a percent visible transmission gain of at least about 2.0%, and more preferably between about 3.0-3.25%, may be realized through the growth of films on a first surface of the substrate. The coatings produced in accordance with certain example embodiments possess an enhanced transmission increase over previously combustion deposition produced single-layer anti-reflective coatings. This may be accomplished in certain example embodiments by provided mixed or graded microstructure metal oxide coatings (e.g.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a coated cutting tool insert particularly useful for dry and wet machining, preferably milling, in low and medium alloyed steels, stainless steels, with or without raw surface zones. The insert is characterized by a WC-TaC-NbC-Co cemented carbide with a W alloyed Co-binder phase and a coating including an innermost layer of TiCxNyOz with columnar grains and a top layer at least on the rake face of a smooth ?-Al2O3.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for coating a powder material on a substrate is disclosed, to enable various materials such as metal or ceramic powder to be coated on a substrate made of a material having low heat-resistance, the method including supplying a predetermined powder; carrying the supplied powder to a predetermined spraying nozzle by injecting a gas at a room temperature; and spraying the powder carried under conditions of the room temperature and vacuum state on the substrate through spraying nozzle, wherein the grain size of predetermined powder is in a range between about 0.1 to about 10 ?m, and the powder is sprayed on the substrate at a velocity of about 500 to about 1200 m/sec.

Abstract: A materials system and method is provided to enable the formation of articles by three-dimensional printing. The materials system includes thermoplastic particulate filler material that allows the accurate definition of articles that are strong without being brittle.

Abstract: Quality of high-velocity oxygen- and air-fuel sprayed coatings of cemented carbides is improved by regulating amounts of depositing and non-depositing carbide particles. The non-depositing particles activate the substrate, increasing coating hardness and density.

Abstract: A method of making an acoustic insulator includes depositing thermoplastic particulate on a first surface of a base layer. The method further includes heating the particulate such that the particulate at least partially melts and penetrates the first surface of the base layer, thereby increasing density and airflow resistance of the base layer proximate the first surface such that the base layer has an areal mass in the range of 0.1 to 1.0 kg/m2 and an airflow resistance in the range of 300 to 5,000 Nsm?3 proximate the first surface.

Abstract: A method for forming a coating of nano-sized material on the surface of another material using a micromachining bead-blasting machine for implantation of nanoparticles is disclosed. The method can be practiced with a wide range of target materials, nanoparticles (such as carbon-nanotubes, CNTs), and environmental conditions, using a wide range of carrier bead sizes and materials, or without carrier beads. The claimed implantation method can be used to fabricate a surface-activated CNT-cathode for use in a field emission device. The implantation method can also be used for chemically reacting any of the materials present near the point of impact with each other.