Abstract: A flexible chemiresistor (CR) sensor for sensing a molecule of interest in a fluid (liquid or gas) is provided. The flexible CR sensor comprises a flexible chemiresistor (CR) module. The flexible CR module comprises a flexible substrate such polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) or polyimide (PI), and a thin film nanoparticle assembly assembled on the flexible substrate. The thin film nanoparticle assembly comprises metal or metal alloy core, ligand-capped nanoparticles and molecular linkers connecting the nanoparticles. The flexible CR sensor and an intelligent pattern recognition engine can be incorporated in a handheld device that can detect a molecule of interest in a fluid (e.g., a liquid or gas) accurately, rapidly, and without false positives. Any sensing array nanomaterial, pattern recognition, and compact/or electronic hardware can be integrated to achieve a desired detection limit and response speed.

Abstract: An injection molding machine 1 that molds an LED illumination housing includes a fixing mold 2 that is formed in a U-shaped cross section, a moving mold 3 that is fitted to the fixing mold 2, a driving mechanism 6 that brings the moving mold 3 into contact with the fixing mold 2 and separates the moving mold 3 from the fixing mold 2, and a material supply mechanism 10 that injects resin of a molten state into a cavity 12 configured when the fixing mold 2 and the moving mold 3 are fitted to each other. Furthermore, a plurality of concave and convex portions 21 is provided on a bottom surface 20 of the fixing mold 2 so as to diffuse light transmitted through the LED illumination housing by forming a lens cut portion of a polyhedron shape on an outer surface of the LED illumination housing.

Abstract: A film which is provided with a concave-convex microstructure body that has a concave-convex microstructure formed of a cured product of an active energy ray curable resin composition on a surface and an ultraviolet ray blocking layer that is adjacent to a surface of the concave-convex microstructure body, the surface being on the reverse side of the concave-convex microstructure-side surface, a method for producing the film, and a plate-like product, an image display device and a solar cell that are provided with the film.

Abstract: A decorative fabricated covering includes a first piece of vinyl. A first ink layer is printed on the first piece of vinyl and a textured layer is printed on top of the first ink layer. A second ink layer is printed on a second separate piece of vinyl. The first and second pieces of vinyl are then laminated together. An overprint layer may be printed on top of the textured layer and a second textured layer may be printed on top of the overprint resin layer. A domed layer may be formed on top of the second ink layer and a reflective material, such as glitter, may be mixed in the second textured layer.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical device and manufacture thereof. The optical device of the invention includes a transparent substrate, a seeding layer, a plurality of nano-rods and a protection layer. The seeding layer is formed to overlay an entrance surface and an exit surface of the transparent substrate. The plurality of nano-rods are formed on the seeding layer. The protection layer is formed to completely overlay the plurality of nano-rods.

Abstract: A light diffusion sheet usable, for example, in backlight units, includes a transparent substrate layer, and a light diffusion layer overlaid on a front face of the substrate layer. The light diffusion layer includes resin beads and a resin binder, the resin beads being provided as monodisperse beads having a mean particle size of 1.5 ?m or greater and 5 ?m or less. A weight ratio of the monodisperse beads to the binder is 2.5 or greater and 3 or less, and an amount of the overlaid light diffusion layer is 3 g/m2 or greater and 10 g/m2 or less. An acrylic resin may be used as the substrate polymer of the monodisperse beads and binder. A coefficient of variation of particle size distribution of the monodisperse beads is preferably equal to or less than 0.2. Advantageously, a gravure coating method is employed for forming the light diffusion layer.

Abstract: A plasmonic array and methods of fabricating having a substrate, a layer of elastomeric material cured in nanowell or nanopost features, a fluorescent layer, and a plasmonic metal layer on top.

Abstract: A transparent or translucent glass-ceramic plate, capable of covering or receiving at least one underlying heating element. The plate has a coating which at least partly masks the underlying heating element(s), while still allowing the heating element(s) and optional displays to be detected. At least 90% of the coating is on the face of the plate to be turned toward the heating element(s) and optional displays in the use position. The coating has a region or a group of regions known as a background region(s), wherein the background region(s) occupy most of the surface of the coating. The coating also has a region or a group of regions known as indicating region(s), wherein the indicating region(s) making it possible to display, relative to the background region(s), a pattern, a sign and/or the location of functional elements while also making it possible to detect if the elements are in operation.

Abstract: A carrier film for transparent conductive films, including: a support; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on at least one side of the support, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has an adhesive surface with an arithmetic mean surface waviness Wa of 70 nm or less opposite to an adhesive surface in contact with the support.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing electronic component improved in chip-holding efficiency, pickup efficiency and contamination resistance in a well-balanced manner, the method comprising a semi-cured adhesive layer-forming step of forming a semi-cured adhesive layer on the rear face of a wafer, a fixing step of fixing the semi-cured adhesive layer of the wafer on a ring frame with a cohesive sheet, a dicing step of dicing the wafer into semiconductor chips, a UV-irradiating step of irradiating ultraviolet ray, and a pick-up step of picking up the chips and semi-cured adhesive layers from the cohesive layer, wherein the cohesive sheet has a cohesive layer of a cohesive agent having a particular composition formed on one face of its base film.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to articles of manufacture, such as medical devices, having a non-fouling surface comprising a grafted polymer material. The surface resists the adhesion of biological material.

Abstract: A 3D-shaped structure having a hydrophobic surface according to the present invention includes a substrate, a protrusion and depression portion formed on the substrate, and a protective film formed on the protrusion and depression portion, in which the protrusion and depression portion includes at least one of a first protrusion and depression portion including a plurality of micro-protrusions, and the second protrusion and depression portion including a plurality of nano-fibers.

Abstract: A hydraulic transfer film includes: a water-soluble substrate, a pattern-forming layer formed on the water-soluble substrate and having a water-soluble region and an oil-soluble region, an oil-soluble pattern layer formed on the pattern-forming layer, an oil-soluble base layer formed on the oil-soluble pattern layer, and an activating layer including a curable activating agent that permeates into the oil-soluble region, the oil-soluble pattern layer, and the oil-soluble base layer such that the oil-soluble region, the oil-soluble pattern layer, and the oil-soluble base layer are partly soluble in the curable activating agent. A method of forming the hydraulic transfer film and a pattern film are also disclosed.

Abstract: Glass or glass ceramic substrates are provided that have a decorative coating. Methods for coating a glass or glass ceramic substrate with a decorative coating are also provided. In the method, a first, textured layer is applied which is filled with a further layer, so that a layer material of graded composition is formed.

Abstract: Provided are a double-sided transparent conductive film which is good in appearance even when its transparent conductive layers are patterned, and has anti-blocking property, thereby being producible at low costs; a wound body thereof; and a touch panel.

Abstract: Provided is a method for making a reflective anode electrode for use in an organic electroluminescent display, comprising the steps of: sputtering a reflective Ag layer on a substrate in the presence of the inert gas in a first chamber; sputtering a transparent oxide conductive buffer layer on said Ag layer in the presence of the inert gas in a second chamber; and sputtering a transparent oxide conductive contact layer on said buffer layer in the presence of both inert gas and oxygen in the second chamber, to obtain the resulted reflective anode electrode. Also provided is a reflective anode electrode made by above method. The reflective anode electrode according to the present invention has higher reflectance and transmittance, due to the presence of the transparent conductive oxide buffer layer therein, which leads to the oxidation of the reflective layer minimized and the total transmittance substantially not affected.

Abstract: A device and method for preparing a device having a superoleophobic surface are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate; coating a lift-off resist layer on the substrate; baking the lift-off resist layer; layering a photoresist layer on the lift-off resist layer; performing photolithography to create a textured pattern in the photoresist layer and the lift-off resist layer, and chemically modifying the textured pattern to create a superoleophobic surface.

Abstract: A coating composition including an uncured binder component and a particle component. The particle component can include a plurality of first particles and/or a plurality of second particles. The first particles are non-spherical and have an average particle size in the range of from about 0.5 to about 20 ?m and have a Mohs hardness in the range from about 4 to about 7. The first particles are made of material comprising inorganic, amorphous, glass material. The second particles are at least substantially spherical and have an average particle size in the range of from about 0.5 to about 70 ?m. The second particles are made of material comprising organic material.

Abstract: A gas barrier film (10) that comprises a gas barrier layer (14), which is obtained by irradiating a layer that contains a polysilazane with vacuum ultraviolet light, on a base (11) is formed to contain a compound (A) that satisfies all of the conditions (a), (b) and (c) described below in an amount within the range from 1% by mass to 40% by mass (inclusive) relative to the total mass of the gas barrier layer. (a) The compound (A) has an Si—O bond and an organic group that is directly bonded to Si. (b) The compound (A) has an Si—H group or an Si—OH group. (c) The compound (A) has a molecular weight of from 90 to 1,200 (inclusive).

Abstract: Surface coating composition, method and apparatus for coating a surface. The surface coating composition comprises a recycled rubber product, one or more binding agent and optionally one or more additional agent.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a strategy to create self-healing, slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS). Roughened (e.g., porous) surfaces can be utilized to lock in place a lubricating fluid, referred to herein as Liquid B to repel a wide range of materials, referred to herein as Object A (Solid A or Liquid A). SLIPS outperforms other conventional surfaces in its capability to repel various simple and complex liquids (water, hydrocarbons, crude oil and blood), maintain low-contact-angle hysteresis (<2.5°), quickly restore liquid-repellency after physical damage (within 0.1-1 s), resist ice, microorganisms and insects adhesion, and function at high pressures (up to at least 690 atm). Some exemplary application where SLIPS will be useful include energy-efficient fluid handling and transportation, optical sensing, medicine, and as self-cleaning, and anti-fouling materials operating in extreme environments.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a strategy to create self-healing, slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS). Roughened (e.g., porous) surfaces can be utilized to lock in place a lubricating fluid, referred to herein as Liquid B to repel a wide range of materials, referred to herein as Object A (Solid A or Liquid A). SLIPS outperforms other conventional surfaces in its capability to repel various simple and complex liquids (water, hydrocarbons, crude oil and blood), maintain low-contact-angle hysteresis (<2.5°), quickly restore liquid-repellency after physical damage (within 0.1-1 s), resist ice, microorganisms and insects adhesion, and function at high pressures (up to at least 690 atm). Some exemplary application where SLIPS will be useful include energy-efficient fluid handling and transportation, optical sensing, medicine, and as self-cleaning, and anti-fouling materials operating in extreme environments.

Abstract: Abrasive particles which are shaped abrasive particles each with an opening are described. The shaped abrasive particles are formed from alpha alumina and have a first face and a second face separated by a thickness t. The opening in each of the shaped abrasive particles can improve grinding performance by reducing the size of a resulting wear flat, can provide a reservoir for grinding aid, and can improve adhesion to a backing in a coated abrasive article.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are anti-fog, transparent nanotextured surfaces for transparent substrates. Also disclosed are articles comprising substrates having the anti-fog transparent nanotextured surfaces formed thereon.

Abstract: A layered coating for a sapphire component is described herein. The sapphire component comprises one or more layers of alumina adhered to the surface of a sapphire member. At least the first layer of alumina adheres to the surface of the sapphire member filling all defects in the surface forming a pristine new layer that also provides isolation from damage.

Abstract: A solar cell has a substrate and an undercoating formed over at least a portion of the substrate. The undercoating includes a continuous first layer of tin oxide and a second layer having oxides of Sn, P, and Si. A transparent conductive coating is formed over at least a portion of the undercoating. The second layer includes protrusions on an upper surface that cause uneven crystal growth of the conductive coating.

Abstract: An optical device includes a substrate having a surface, a peripheral edge, an area of vision, and a boundary portion of the surface between the peripheral edge and the area of vision. At least a portion of the boundary portion is textured. A coating is applied to the surface of the substrate over the area of vision and the textured boundary portion. In some embodiments, the substrate is comprised of a polymeric material and the coating is comprised of multiple layers of dielectric material and the substrate is textured such that the textured portion increases adhesion and the durability of the dielectric coating.

Abstract: A structural member includes a simulated surface appearance. The structural member includes a substrate, plural intermediate layers, and a top coat. The plural intermediate layers are applied over at least one surface of the substrate, with at least some of the plural intermediate layers configured to cooperate with each other to provide a simulated appearance for the structural member. The top coat is applied outward of the plural intermediate layers. The top coat is relatively thin and is configured for use with exterior applications. The top coat includes a base configured for UV resistance and an additive configured to provide abrasion resistance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing transparent conductive oxides, comprising the following steps in the sequence of a-b-c: (a) reaction of at least one starting compound (A) comprising at least one metal or semimetal M and optionally of a dopant (D) comprising at least one doping element M?, where at least one M? is different than M, in the presence of a block copolymer (B) and of a solvent (C) to form a composite material (K), (b) optional application of the composite material (K) to a substrate (S) and (c) heating of the composite material (K) to a temperature of at least 350° C., wherein the block copolymer (B) comprises at least one alkylene oxide block (AO) and at least one isobutylene block (IB). The present invention further relates to the transparent conductive oxides thus obtainable, and to their use in electronic components, as an electrode material and as a material for antistatic applications.

Abstract: A cloth for swimsuits includes synthetic fiber multifilament yarns and elastic fibers, wherein a front surface and a back surface of the cloth have a water-repellent finish(es); bumps and hollows are formed on the back surface; the bumps and hollows on the back surface have a height difference of 150 ?m to 650 ?m; and the hollows have a width of 100 ?m to 5000 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides an in-mold transfer film that has an excellent gloss feel, is free from occurrence of blocking in a process for production of the transfer sheet, and has such a function that the film can be smoothly released from its boundary after completion of the in-mold transfer process. The in-mold transfer film of the present invention comprises a polyester film and a release layer formed on one surface of the polyester film, in which the polyester film is in the form of a laminated polyester film comprising at least three layers whose outermost layers both are formed of the same polyester composition, a number of projections present on a surface of the polyester film which have a height of not less than 0.05 ?m is not more than 1900/mm2, and a number of projections present on a surface of the polyester film which have a height of not less than 0.6 ?m is not less than 25/mm2.

Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and materials for preparing bridging films. In one aspect, the bridging films are non-porous and are suitable for protecting adjacent porous films. For example, the bridging films contact a porous film and protect the porous film from transfer of gases and/or liquids into the pores of the porous film. In another example, bridging films protect the porous film from abrasion.

Abstract: Disclosed are an inorganic fine particle scattering film and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein an inorganic fine particle layer comprising pores is formed on a light emitting device interface or a transparent substrate so as to achieve a high light extraction effect through a light scattering effect, and a planarizing layer is formed on the inorganic fine particle layer so as to show a high flatness and a high hardness. The disclosed inorganic fine particle scattering film is excellent in a light extraction effect, flatness and hardness and thus can be applied in the various fields such as an image display device, a lighting element, a solar cell.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inexpensive optical layered body which does not cause interference fringes but excels in hard coat properties, antistatic properties, and antireflection properties. An optical layered body comprises: a light-transmitting substrate; and a hard coat layer (A) and a hard coat layer (B) on one face of the light-transmitting substrate in this order, wherein the hard coat layer (B) has a region (B1) not containing inorganic fine particles and a region (B2) containing inorganic fine particles, in this order from a portion adjacent to the hard coat layer (A), a boundary between the region (B1) not containing inorganic fine particles and the region (B2) containing inorganic fine particles has irregularities, and the inorganic fine particles have a particle size smaller than a visible light wavelength.

Abstract: In a protective film affixed to a microscopic roughness structure having a microscopically rough structure on the surface, water contact angle of the surface of the microscopic roughness structure is 40° or less, compressive stress obtainable when the adhesive layer of the protective film is compressed to a compression ratio of 20% is 0.6 MPa to 3.0 MPa; in the infrared absorption spectrum of the surface on the microscopically rough structure side of the microscopic roughness structure, ratio (A1/A2) of peak area A1 having absorption maximum of 3700 cm?1 to 3100 cm?1, and peak area A2 having absorption maximum of 1730±10 cm?1, is 0.1 to 0.8; in the surface of adhesive layer of the protective film, ratio (B1/B2) of peak area B1 having absorption maximum of 3700 cm?1 to 3100 cm?1, and peak area B2 having absorption maximum of 1730±10 cm?1, is 0.6 to 1.3.

Abstract: A coating method through HVOF spraying that comprises generating a combustion jet in a combustion chamber connected to one end of a barrel while controlling the temperature of the combustion jet by supply of an inert gas to the jet, feeding resin coating materials into the temperature-controlled combustion jet and leading them to pass through the barrel, and spouting the coating particles through a spout port along with the combustion jet therethrough to thereby coat the substrate surface; wherein the length of the barrel, the temperature of the combustion jet and the physical properties of the coating particles are defined so as to satisfy both the following formulae (1) and (2). Numerical ? ? Formula ? ? 1 ? × t r > 0.5 ( 1 ) Numerical ? ? Formula ? ? 2 2.5 < Tav Tcp < 4.

Abstract: Abrasive particles comprising shaped abrasive particles each having a sidewall, each of the shaped abrasive particles comprising alpha alumina and having a first face and a second face separated by a sidewall and having a maximum thickness, T; and the shaped abrasive particles further comprising a plurality of grooves on the second face.

Abstract: The invention provides an anisotropic conductive adhesive film and an electronic device. The anisotropic conductive adhesive film comprises a base film and microcapsule structures, wherein the microcapsule structures are set on the base film, and each of the microcapsule structures comprises a metallic conductive particle, a normal-temperature curable macromolecular polymer coated on the outside of the metallic conductive particle and a microcapsule wall coated on the outside of the macromolecular polymer, and an adhesive glue is adhered to the external surface of the microcapsule wall.

Abstract: An optical device is provided and includes a substrate having a three-dimensionally random concave-convex shape on the surface thereof, and a hard coat layer formed on the substrate, wherein a projection height with the maximum frequency on the substrate surface falls within the range of 1.5 ?m or more and not more than 10 ?m. Projections larger than the projection height with the maximum frequency on the substrate surface have a height falling within +3 ?m from a central value of the projection height with the maximum frequency. A length RSm in a lateral direction of concaves and convexes on the substrate surface is 55 ?m or more and not more than 500 ?m.

Abstract: A process for the manufacturing of a decorative surface element, which element comprises a base layer and a decorative upper surface. A radiation curing lacquer is printed in a predetermined pattern as an uppermost layer on the decorative upper surface. The radiation curing lacquer covers only parts of the decorative upper surface whereby the lacquer is exposed to radiation whereby it cures. A surface structure is hereby achieved.

Abstract: Hydrophobic composites, as well as methods for making a hydrophobic composite, are provided. A hydrophobic composite may include a plurality of nanostructures elongated from one or more supports and having a configuration characterized by a first hydrophobicity, and at least one substance characterized by a second hydrophobicity and configured to at least partially cover one or more portions of the plurality of nanostructures such that the overall hydrophobicity of the hydrophobic composite is greater than the first hydrophobicity.

Abstract: Provided is an article, particularly culinary, comprising a cast iron support having two opposite sides. The article comprises a vitreous coating in the form of at least a continuous layer of a sol-gel material comprising a matrix formed from at least a metal polyalkoxylate and at least a reactive or unreactive silicone oil, the layer of sol-gel material being deposited directly on one at least of the sides of said support, and the side provided with a vitreous coating has a surface roughness Ra ranging between 3 and 15 ?m with a peak count per centimeter RPc ranging between 50 and 200. A method for manufacturing such an article is also provided.

Abstract: A wafer-adhering adhesive tape, which has, on a surface of a base, a radiation-curable removable adhesive layer, and if necessary a die-bonding adhesive layer in order, wherein the radiation-curable removable adhesive layer is mainly composed of an acrylic-series copolymer having, in a principal chain, at least a radiation-curable carbon-carbon double bond containing group, a hydroxyl group, and a group containing a carboxyl group, respectively, and the radiation-curable removable adhesive layer has a gel fraction of 60% or greater.

Abstract: A coated article is described. The coated article includes a substrate, a magnesium oxide-alumina compound layer formed on the substrate, and an anti-fingerprint layer formed on the magnesium oxide-alumina compound layer. The anti-fingerprint layer is a layer of magnesium-aluminum-oxygen-fluorine having the chemical formula of MgAlOxFy, wherein 0<x<2.5, 0<y<5. A method for making the coated article is also described.

Abstract: A multi-layer thin film laminate comprises a dyad layer including a barrier layer and a decoupling layer formed over a substrate. The barrier layer comprises a hermetic glass material selected from the group consisting of tin fluorophosphate glasses, tungsten-doped tin fluorophosphate glasses, chalcogenide glasses, tellurite glasses, borate glasses and phosphate glasses and the decoupling layer comprises a polymer material.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical layered body which stably keeps light resistance such as ultraviolet resistance and oxidation resistance while keeping conventional physical properties and optical properties as the outermost surface material of an image display device, which is excellent in an antistatic property and which is capable of providing high image contrast when employed for an image display device. The optical layered body has a light transmitting substrate and a resin layer formed on one surface of the light transmitting substrate and is characterized in that the resin layer contains a binder resin, a polythiophene, an auxiliary conductive agent, and a leveling agent.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a metal panel, in which: at least one of the surfaces of a sheet of chromium (Cr) stainless steel, having a thickness of 0.1-2.00 mm, is subjected to a mechanical smoothing and/or glazing and/or grinding treatment until a surface roughness Ra of 0?06÷1 ?m is obtained with a pre-determined mark/drawing; a transparent primer/coating of adhesive or lacquer is applied to said surface; and the primer/coating is polymerised. The invention also relates to the metal panel obtained using the aforementioned method, comprising: a sheet of chromium (Cr) stainless steel, having a thickness of 0.1-2.00 mm and having at least one smoothed and/or glazed and/or ground surface with a roughness Ra of between 0?06÷1 ?m, said roughness having a pre-determined mark/drawing; and a cured, transparent primer/coating of adhesive or lacquer on the aforementioned surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative product including a plasmon film, which includes a water repellent layer and a metal nanoparticle layer as the plasmon film stacked on the water repellent layer.

Abstract: Provided are a driver circuit which suppresses damage of a semiconductor element due to ESD in a manufacturing process, a method of manufacturing the driver circuit. Further provided are a driver circuit provided with a protection circuit with low leakage current, and a method of manufacturing the driver circuit. By providing a protection circuit in a driver circuit to be electrically connected to a semiconductor element in the driver circuit, and by forming, at the same time, a transistor which serves as the semiconductor element in the driver circuit and a transistor included in the protection circuit in the driver circuit, damage of the semiconductor element due to ESD is suppressed in the process of manufacturing the driver circuit. Further, by using an oxide semiconductor film for the transistor included in the protection circuit in the driver circuit, leakage current in the protection circuit is reduced.

Abstract: There is described an intermediate transfer member comprising a seamless layer comprising a polyphenylsulfone and a polysiloxane having dispersed therein carbon black particles. The composition used to manufacture the seamless intermediate transfer member is also described.