Abstract: In various exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure provides a process for the conversion of certain polymers into diamond and diamond-like materials using laser pulse annealing. The process includes transforming the polymer to carbon, melting the carbon and quenching the carbon melt into to form Q-carbon, diamond, and/or graphene. The process can be applied to a polymer film such as a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) tape. An object can be coated with the polymer film which can then be converted to Q-carbon, diamond, and/or graphene using laser pulse annealing. A process is also provided for making a three-dimensional object using a combination of, for example, 3D printing the polymer and converting each layer of polymer into Q-carbon, diamond and/or graphene.

Abstract: A food wrap for wrapping ovenable foods includes a polyester layer having a thickness of about 12 ?m having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a barrier layer comprising aluminum oxide covering at least a majority of the first surface of the polyester layer, a paper layer adhered to the barrier via an adhesive, where the paper layer has a grammage of about 35 g/m2, and a coating layer covering at least a majority of the paper layer, where the coating layer covers an ink label.

Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film includes, as conductive particles for anisotropic conductive connection, metal particles such as solder particles having on the surface an oxide film. In this anisotropic conductive film, the metal particles are contained in an insulating film and regularly arranged as viewed in a plan view. A flux is disposed to be in contact with, or in proximity to, at least one of ends of the metal particles on a front surface side of the anisotropic conductive film and a rear surface side of the anisotropic conductive film. Preferable metal particles are solder particles. Preferably, the insulating film has a structure of two layers, and the metal particles are disposed between the two layers.

Abstract: An example of a radiation curable binder dispersion includes water and a radiation curable binder dispersed therein. The radiation curable polyurethane is formed from a polyisocyanate; an acrylate or methacrylate having at least two hydroxyl functional groups and having an acrylate functional group or a methacrylate functional group; another acrylate or methacrylate having one hydroxyl functional group or one amino functional group; and one of i) a homopolymer or copolymer of poly(ethylene glycol) having one or two hydroxyl functional groups or one or two amino functional groups at one end of its chain; or ii) a combination of i and a compound including a carboxylic functional group.

Abstract: A positive resist composition based on a polymer comprising recurring units (a) of (meth)acrylate having an iodized lactone ring, and recurring units (b1) having a carboxyl group substituted with an acid labile group and/or recurring units (b2) having a phenolic hydroxyl group substituted with an acid labile group has a high sensitivity and resolution, and forms a pattern of good profile and minimal edge roughness after exposure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a discharge method which makes it possible to appropriately perform discharge even when a head for discharging microdroplets having a size of equal to or less than 6 pL that is necessary for controlling a residual film (forming a thin film and achieving uniformity) is used, and makes it possible to obtain an excellent pattern having excellent release properties. The discharge method is an inkjet discharge method including discharging a photocurable composition in the form of liquid droplets having a size of equal to or less than 6 pL, in which the composition satisfies the following (a) to (c), (a) containing a fluorine-containing material in a proportion of equal to or less than 4% by mass of the composition; (b) having a surface tension of 25 mN/m to 35 mN/m; and (c) containing a solvent having a boiling point of equal to or less than 200° C. in an amount of 5% by mass of the composition.

Abstract: A method for operating a three dimensional (3D) printer to limit unauthorized copying and provide authentication of 3D objects printed from authorized models fabricated on 3D printers. The method includes providing a digital file defining a 3D model of an object to the 3D printer. The 3D model includes a model of an identification (ID) element. The method includes processing the digital file to define print layers of the 3D model, and a number of the print layers include layers of the model of the ID element. The method involves operating the 3D printer to print the layers to form a 3D object with an integrally formed ID element. The ID element is embedded within object elements of the 3D object. The integrally formed ID element may be a radio frequency ID (RFID) tag providing identification data when read by an RFID reader scanning the 3D object.

Abstract: An electrode connection structure includes: a first electrode of an electrical circuit; and a second electrode of the electrical circuit that is electrically connected to the first electrode. The first and second electrodes are oppositely disposed in direct or indirect contact with each other. A plated lamination is substantially uniformly formed by plating process from a surface of a contact region and opposed surfaces of the first and second electrodes. A void near the surface of the contact region is filled by formation of the plated lamination. Portions of the plated lamination formed from the opposed surfaces of the first and second electrodes in a region other than the contact region are not joined together.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of printing a radiation-curable ink composition on a substrate. A radiation-curable ink composition is deposited onto a substrate. The radiation-curable ink composition comprises a photoinitiator in an amount of not more than about 4.5 weight %. The deposited ink composition is irradiated with UV radiation. The irradiated ink composition is heated to a temperature of at least about 75 degrees C. The UV radiation is from an LED source or is centered at a wavelength selected from the group consisting of 375 nm, about 385 nm and about 395 nm.

Abstract: A system and method for monitoring system including a three dimensional embedded sensor coupled to an article, wherein the three dimensional embedded sensor is a direct write embedded sensor using a high temperature light emitting material. A camera system detects illumination signals from the embedded sensors. A processing section processes the illumination signals and determines gas/surface temperatures and strain data for the article.

Abstract: Disclosed are: a copper metal film which has good adhesion to a substrate, low volume resistivity, and good deep-part metal properties; and a method for producing a copper metal film, wherein the copper metal film can be produced by reducing a substrate to a deep part thereof without damaging the substrate. Specifically disclosed is a copper metal film obtained by treating a copper-based particle deposition layer containing both copper oxides and a metallic transition metal or alloy, or a transition metal complex containing a metal element, with gaseous formic acid and/or formaldehyde heated to 120° C. or higher. The copper oxide is preferably copper (I) oxide and/or copper (II) oxide. The transition metal, alloy or metal complex are preferably a metal selected from the group consisting of Cu, Pd, Pt, Ni, Ag, Au and Rh, an alloy containing the metal, or a complex containing the metal element, respectively.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of providing an adhesive composition comprising the steps of combining crosslinkable composition including: a) a (meth)acryloyl monomer mixture with the b) photocrosslinking agent mixture, and irradiating with UVC radiation to polymerize and crosslink the composition.

Abstract: Metalized plastic substrates, and methods thereof are provided herein. The method includes providing a plastic having a plurality of accelerators dispersed in the plastic. The accelerators have a formula AMxByOz, in which A is one or more elements selected from groups 10 and 11 of the Element Periodic Table; M is one or more metal elements in three plus selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Mn, Al, Ga, In, Tl, and rare earth elements; and O is oxygen; and x=0-2, y=0.01-2; z=1-4; and the accelerators further have a formula A?M?mOn, in which A? is one or more elements selected from groups 9, 10, and 11 of the periodic table; M is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Cr, Mo, W, Se, Te, and Po; and O is oxygen; and m=0.01-2; n=2-4. The method includes the step of irradiating a surface of plastic substrate to expose at least a first accelerator.

Abstract: A method of photopatterning rewritable reactive groups onto surfaces using typically a plasmachemical deposition of functionalized materials, followed by molecular printing of inks. Subsequent treatment of the reactive groups allows for surface rewriting and also the method allows for the creation of either positive or negative image multifunctional rewritable patterned surfaces.

Abstract: The innovation process describes the process and results for fabrication of a magnetron sputter deposited fully dense electrolyte layer (8YSZ/GDC/LSGM) embedded in a high performance membrane electrolyte assembly (MEA) (Unit Cell) of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. A single cell with airtight electrolyte layer (8YSZ/GDC/LSGM) is prepared via thin film technique of magnetron sputter deposition, combined with SOFC-MEA processing methods (such as tape casting, lamination, vacuum hot pressing, screen printing, spin coating, and plasma spray coating) and sintering optimization conditions. The gas permeability of the electrolyte layer is below 1×10?6 L/cm2/sec and the open circuit voltage/power density of the single cell performance test exceeds 1.0 V and 500 mW/cm2.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electro-optic polymer comprises a host polymer and a guest nonlinear optical chromophore having the structure D-?-A, wherein: D is a donor, ? is a ?-bridge, and A is an acceptor; a bulky substituent group is covalently attached to at least one of D, ?, or A; and the bulky substituent group has at least one non-covalent interaction with part of the host polymer that impedes chromophore depoling.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation curable composition comprising (a) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated natural oil which is the reaction product of an unsaturated natural oil with an unsaturated anhydride and a hydroxyl functional (meth)acrylate, and (b) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated oligomer and/or monomer, and optionally an inert resin and/or filler, as well as their use for making inks and coatings.

Abstract: A method for forming a conductive pattern on a substrate (208) includes providing an image pattern for imaging on the substrate; imaging the image pattern on the substrate creating imaged areas; spraying functional material (232) on the substrate that diffuse molecules of the functional material into the imaged areas; and applying electro-less copper coating that build conductive material traces on the imaged areas on the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for making materials treatable by electron beam (EB) processing, such as materials for flexible packaging, comprising: providing a substrate; applying an ink formulation on at least a portion of the substrate, the ink formulation comprising ink and at least one monomer selected from acrylates, vinyl ethers, cycloaliphatic diepoxides, and polyols; and applying a lacquer on at least a portion of the ink formulation, the lacquer comprising at least one monomer selected from acrylates, vinyl ethers, cycloaliphatic diepoxides, and polyols. The processing apparatus for EB treating the material operates at a low voltage, such as 110 kVolts or below.

Abstract: Electrochemical cells having desirable electronic and ionic conductivities, and associated systems and methods, are generally described.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electroconductive paste for electron beam curing that allows the formation of a circuit board having an electroconductive layer that has superior hardness and bendability as well as superior adhesion to a plastic base even if used in a high-temperature environment. The present invention is an electroconductive paste for electron beam curing comprising an electroconductive powder, a radical polymerizable composition and a plasticizer, wherein the plasticizer is incorporated at a ratio of 5 parts by mass to 20 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the radical polymerizable composition.

Abstract: The invention provides an image forming method having at least: applying, onto a recording medium, an ink composition containing at least a water-soluble organic solvent, a pigment, a polymer particle and water; and removing at least a part of the water-soluble organic solvent from the ink composition on the recording medium. The water-soluble organic solvent contains at least a water-soluble organic solvent having a vapor pressure of less than 10 Pa at 20° C., a boiling temperature of less than 260° C., and an SP value of less than 25, at a content of 30 mass % or more with respect to the total water-soluble organic solvent content of the ink composition.

Abstract: A method of forming a standard mask for an inspection system is provided, the method comprising providing a substrate within a chamber, and providing a tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) precursor within the chamber. The method further includes reacting the TEOS precursor with an electron beam to form silicon oxide particles of controlled size at one or more controlled locations on the substrate, the silicon oxide particles disposed as simulated contamination defects.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a prepreg which contains reinforcing fibers and a matrix resin composition with the weight per square meter of the reinforcing fibers being 250-2,000 g/m2. The production method comprises the following steps (1)-(3): (1) a matrix resin composition blending step for obtaining a matrix resin composition by mixing an epoxy resin, a radically polymerizable unsaturated compound, an epoxy resin curing agent and a polymerization initiator that generates radicals, in said step the content of the radically polymerizable unsaturated compound relative to 100% by mass of the total of the epoxy resin and the radically polymerizable unsaturated compound being 10-25% by mass; (2) a matrix resin composition impregnating step; and (3) a surface viscosity increasing step.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a patterned retarder plate including a liquid crystal sheet on which a retarding pattern with a ?/4 wavelength by forming a patterned align layer on a photo align layer by performing an align process once. The method for manufacturing a retarder plate according to the exemplary embodiments of the present invention can implement the photoalign through a single process during the photoalign process using the mask, thereby reducing the defect rate due to the existing method and reducing the process costs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation curable composition comprising (a) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated natural oil which is the reaction product of an unsaturated natural oil with an unsaturated anhydride and a hydroxyl functional (meth)acrylate, and (b) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated oligomer and/or monomer, and optionally an inert resin and/or filler, as well as their use for making inks and coatings.

Abstract: Provided are a method for preparing grapheme from an organic material using a radiation technique, and graphene prepared using the same, and more particularly, a method of preparing graphene by dissolving an organic material such as polymer, oligomer, or the like, in a solvent to prepare an organic material solution, applying the prepared solution to an upper portion of a substrate to form an organic thin film, introducing a cross-link structure into the organic thin film through irradiation with radiation, and then performing a carbonization process, and graphene prepared using the same. With a method of preparing graphene from an organic material using a radiation technique, and graphene prepared using the same according to the present invention, expensive metal catalyst and substrate, oxidation and reduction processes, and a delicate process control may not be required as compared to the existing method.

Abstract: A free radical curable liquid for inkjet printing of food packaging materials includes no initiator or otherwise one or more initiators selected from the group consisting of non-polymeric di- or multifunctional initiators, oligomeric initiators, polymeric initiators, and polymerizable initiators; wherein the polymerizable composition of the liquid consists of: a) 25-100 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds A having at least one acrylate group G1 and at least one second ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable functional group G2 different from the group G1; b) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds B selected from the group consisting of monofunctional acrylates and difunctional acrylates; and c) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds C selected from the group consisting of trifunctional acrylates, tetrafunctional acrylates, pentafunctional acrylates and hexafunctional acrylates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation curable composition comprising (a) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated natural oil which is the reaction product of an unsaturated natural oil with an unsaturated anhydride and a hydroxyl functional (meth)acrylate, and (b) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated oligomer and/or monomer, and optionally an inert resin and/or filler, as well as their use for making inks and coatings.

Abstract: A method and a system for producing a change in a medium disposed in an artificial container. The method places in a vicinity of the medium at least one of a plasmonics agent and an energy modulation agent. The method applies an initiation energy through the artificial container to the medium. The initiation energy interacts with the plasmonics agent or the energy modulation agent to directly or indirectly produce the change in the medium. The system includes an initiation energy source configured to apply an initiation energy to the medium to activate the plasmonics agent or the energy modulation agent.

Abstract: A light-cyan radiation-curable gel ink including at least one curable monomer, at least one organic gellant, at least one photoinitiator, and a colorant. The colorant includes a cyan colorant, a hue-adjusting colorant that absorbs light having a wavelength of from about 500 to about 600 nm, and an optional shade-adjusting colorant that absorbs light having a wavelength of from about 400 to about 500 nm.

Abstract: Provided may be a method of manufacturing a silicon (Si) film by using a Si solution process. According to the method of manufacturing the Si film, the Si film may be manufactured by preparing a Si forming solution. The ultraviolet rays (UV) may be irradiated on the prepared Si forming solution. The Si forming solution may be coated on a substrate and a solvent in the Si forming solution may be coated on the substrate. An electron beam may be irradiated on the Si forming solution from which the solvent is removed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink composition containing: a polymer having a polyoxyalkylene group and a partial structure selected from the group consisting of a fluoroalkyl group, a siloxane skeleton and a long-chain alkyl group; a polymerizable compound; and a polymerization initiator.

Abstract: An apparatus is described for coating a flexible substrate with at least a first organic layer and a first inorganic layer. The apparatus comprises a first and a second chamber and an atmosphere decoupling slot between the first and the second chamber. A printing facility is arranged in the first chamber, for printing the flexible substrate with a mixture comprising at least one precursor for a polymer, oligomer or a polymer network and a polymerization initiator. A curing facility is arranged in the first chamber, for curing the deposited mixture, therewith forming the at least first organic layer. A vapor deposition facility is arranged in the second chamber, for depositing the at least first inorganic layer at the substrate provided with the at least first organic layer. The apparatus comprises a facility for guiding the flexible substrate along the printing facility, along the curing facility and via the atmosphere decoupling slot along the vapor deposition facility.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electroconductive paste for electron beam curing that allows the formation of a circuit board having an electroconductive layer that has superior hardness and bendability as well as superior adhesion to a plastic base even if used in a high-temperature environment. The present invention is an electroconductive paste for electron beam curing comprising an electroconductive powder, a radical polymerizable composition and a plasticizer, wherein the plasticizer is incorporated at a ratio of 5 parts by mass to 20 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the radical polymerizable composition.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprint-lithography template comprises: a second substrate; a first photo-curable resin provided on a main surface of the first substrate and having a first concave-convex pattern; and a second photo-curable resin provided on the main surface of the first substrate, having a second concave-convex pattern different in pattern density from the first concave-convex pattern, and having optical transmittance different from that of the first photo-curable resin.

Abstract: According to a method for forming a UV patternable conductive polymer film, vapor-phase polymerization (VPP) may be employed to synthesize a conductive polymer, and a UV-curable polymer resin may be used as a binder to form a conductive polymer film, the method including coating a mixed solution of a binder and an oxidant on a transparent substrate, synthesizing a conductive polymer by vapor-phase polymerization (VPP) on the coating to form a conductive polymer film and patterning the conductive polymer film with UV light. The conductive polymer film may be patterned in a relatively simple manner while maintaining increased conductivity, improved transparency and improved flexibility. Therefore, the conductive polymer film may be used as a material for transparent electrodes of a variety of display devices, e.g., LCD and PDP devices, and electronic devices, e.g., ELs and TFTs.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head includes the steps of: forming a solid layer for forming a flow path on a substrate on which an energy generating element is arranged to generate energy that is used to discharge liquid; forming, on the substrate where the solid layer is mounted, a coating layer for coating the solid layer; forming a discharge port used to discharge a liquid, through a photolithographic process, in the coating layer deposited on the solid layer; and removing the solid layer to form a flow path that communicates with the energy element and the discharge port. A material used for the coating layer contains a cationically polymerizable chemical compound, a cationic photopolymerization initiator and an inhibitor of cationic photopolymerization, and a material of the solid layer that forms a boundary with a portion where the discharge port of the coating layer is formed contains a copolymer of methacrylic acid and methacrylate ester.

Abstract: A method produces a marked object. To be able to create markings in a particularly flexible way, it is provided that the object is produced by an additive production process, at least one marking being formed in the object during the additive production process. The method makes many degrees of freedom possible in the design of the marking. For example, the method makes it possible in a very simple way for two- or three-dimensional structures to be concealed within the object during the additive production process. In addition or as an alternative, production parameters can be varied, whether stochastically or deterministically, to produce variations in density. For example, a porous microstructure may be produced as a marking. It is also possible for basic material in the object to be left untreated or to be differently treated, so that it forms the marking.

Abstract: A coating solution for textured surfaces can comprise water, a water-soluble or water-dispersible organic binder which preferably is radiation curable, and a dispersion of particles and/or their preformed aggregates having a refractive index either larger, matching, or smaller than a refractive index of the organic binder or its cured polymer. Two refractive indices can be chosen, depending upon whether a textured surface appearance of frost, transparency, or ultralow reflectivity, respectively, is desired. Water evaporation from energy curable coatings can be used, preferably containing a high loading of insoluble and/or non-swelling particles and their aggregates, at least one of whose dimensions are preferably larger than the dried film, so as to expose these particles or their aggregates at the surface and cure the film to lock them into place. The coating solution can be used to achieve a textured coated result useable in direct (and indirect) food contact.

Abstract: A primer-less coating composition for facestock comprises: a binder being a water-dispersible polymer; an ethylenically unsaturated compound which is aqueous-dispersible and miscible with or bonded to said water-dispersible polymer, wherein said ethylenically unsaturated compound is able to form a covalent bond with an ink; and a crosslinker, wherein said crosslinker is suitable for binding the coating to the facestock. The coating composition may be applied to a substrate to form a printable film. A printed film in accordance with the invention may be used in a label, for example for use on a container such as a bottle.

Abstract: A primer-less coating composition for facestock comprises: a binder being a water-dispersible polymer; an ethylenically unsaturated compound which is aqueous-dispersible and miscible with or bonded to said water-dispersible polymer, wherein said ethylenically unsaturated compound is able to form a covalent bond with an ink; and a crosslinker, wherein said crosslinker is suitable for binding the coating to the facestock. The coating composition may be applied to a substrate to form a printable film. A printed film in accordance with the invention may be used in a label, for example for use on a container such as a bottle.

Abstract: An article in the form of recyclable packaging material having a water vapor transportation rate of about 500 g/m2/day or less. The packaging material has a paper substrate of recyclable paper fibers and a print-receptive layer which is positioned over the outer surface of the paper substrate and has a Parker Print Smoothness value of about 1.5 or less. The packaging material also has a moisture barrier layer positioned over the print-receptive layer. The moisture barrier layer is formed from one or more energy-cured polymers. Also, methods for preparing these packaging materials, including printed packaging materials.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a pattern formation method is disclosed. The method can place a liquid resin material on a workpiece substrate. The method can press a template against the resin material and measuring distance between a lower surface of a projection of the template and an upper surface of the workpiece substrate. The template includes a pattern formation region and a circumferential region around the pattern formation region. A pattern for circuit pattern formation is formed in the pattern formation region and the projection is formed in the circumferential region. The method can form a resin pattern by curing the resin material in a state of pressing the template. In addition, the method can separate the template from the resin pattern.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink composition containing (A) a polymer compound having (a-1) a photoradical generation site and (a-2) at least one segregation site selected from a fluoroalkyl group, a siloxane structure, and a long-chain alkyl group, (B) a radical-polymerizable compound, and (C) a photoradical generator having a structure different from that of (A).

Abstract: A protective layer is applied to a work piece to protect the surface during charged particle beam processing by directing a fluid toward the surface. The surface is preferably not touched by the applicator. Ink jet print-type print heads are suitable applicators. Ink jet-type print heads allow a wide variety of fluids to be used to form the protective layer. Useful fluids that form protective layers include colloidal silica having small silver particles and hydrocarbon-based inks.

Abstract: A method for patterning a one or more biomolecules on a substrate that includes coating the substrate with a coating of the one or more biomolecules, applying a laser to the coating, and ablating a portion of the one or more biomolecules with the laser in a predetermined pattern.

Abstract: A primer-less coating composition for facestock comprises: a binder being a water-dispersible polymer; an ethylenically unsaturated compound which is aqueous-dispersible and miscible, with or bonded to said water-dispersible polymer, wherein said ethylenically unsaturated compound is able to form a covalent bond with an ink; and a crosslinker, wherein said crosslinker is suitable for binding the coating to the facestock. The coating composition may be applied to a substrate to form a printable film. A printed film in accordance with the invention may be used in a label, for example for use on a container such as a bottle.

Abstract: A process for producing a cured coating is provided that includes a step of forming on a substrate layer of a curable composition that includes at least one compound represented by Formula (I) and a step of curing the layer of the curable composition by irradiation with electron beam. In formula (I) , Q1 denoted a cyano group or a —COX2 group, X1 denoted a hydrogen atom, organic residue, or polymer chain bonded to carbon atom CA via a heteroatom, or a halogen atom, X2 denoted a hydrogen atom, organic residue, or polymer chain boned to the carbonyl group via a heteroatom, or a halogen atom, Ra and Rb independently denote a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, or an organic residue, and X1 and X2, Ra and Rb, and X1 and Ra or Rb may be bonded to each other to form a cyclic structure. There is also provided an electron beam-curable composition that includes a compound represented by Formula (I).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a diffusion film comprising a substrate with a convex-concave microstructure layer on at least one side of the substrate wherein the diffusion film has a haze of no less than 5% and a total light transmittance of no less than 50% as measured according to JIS K7136 standard method and the convex-concave microstructure layer is formed by utilizing a coating composition comprising a polymer which is composed of a material that is the same as or similar to that of the main component of the substrate and a material that is incompatible with said polymer and applying said coating composition onto said substrate.