Abstract: Ultra low haze, co-extruded, thermoplastic polymer film prepared by co-extrusion of a blend of polyethyleneterephthalate with organic and inorganic fillers in at least one skin layer on a virtually particle-free polyethyleneterephthalate core layer; the inorganic fillers are aluminum oxide particles and/or silicon oxide of average particle size of about 0.035 &mgr;m to about 0.3 &mgr;m, and wherein particles of the organic filler have a particle size of less than or equal to about 0.8 &mgr;m and are present in an amount less than about 0.04% by weight, based on the weight of the polyethyleneterephthalate, the skin layer being less than about 3 &mgr;m in thickness.

Abstract: A process for forming an etch mask having a discontinuous regular pattern utilizes beads, each of which has a substantially unetchable core covered by a removable spacer coating. Beads which have a core and a spacer coating are dispensed as a hexagonally-packed monolayer onto a thermo-adhesive layer, which is on a target layer. The beads are kept in place by a bead confinement wall. Following a vibrational step which facilitates hexagonal packing of the beads, the resultant assembly is heated so that the beads adhere to the adhesive layer. Excess beads are then discarded. Spacer shell material is then removed from each of the beads, leaving core etch masks. The core-masked target layer is then plasma etched to form a column of target material directly beneath each core. The cores and any spacer material underneath the cores are removed. The resulting circular island of target material may be used as an etch mask during wet isotropic etching of an underlying layer.

Abstract: An ignitable solid material includes molten-metal-producing materials, as well as other materials for retaining its shape when ignited. The molten-metal-producing materials may include a metal-producing reaction mixture, for example including a reaction mixture comprising a reducing agent and a metal compound powder. The other materials may include a binder, and a heat-retaining material, such as sand. The ingredients of the ignitable solid material may be pressed together and dried, to produce a solid, machinable, heat-producing material (a heat block) that may be formed in any of a variety of shapes. An insulating material, such as a ceramic blanket material, may be placed on one or more sides of the ignitable solid material, for example to direct heat produced by the reaction of the solid material in one or more desired directions. The solid material may be used in any of a variety of situations where concentrated heat is desired.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to specific combinations of active particles, forming a powder, that may be combined with carrier materials such as resins to produce fibers for textiles, films, coatings, and/or protective or insulating materials. The specific mixture of particles and materials may be carefully engineered to impart unique and valuable properties to end products including integration with optical energies, heat, and other electromagnetic energies. Resultant compositions may interact with light in the visible spectrum and optical and electromagnetic energy beyond the visible spectrum.

Abstract: At least one part of a road surface is covered by a photocatalyst layer containing a photocatalyst such as titanium dioxide, etc. to purify pollutants in exhaust gases emitted from vehicles by photocatalytic reaction of the photocatalyst. Pollutant-originating matters as retained on the photocatalyst layer are washed away by rain water or sprinkled water. In one embodiment of the invention, road 12 is a road provided with a dewaterable pavement and rain water passes through surface layer 18 during raining, flows over and along base layer 16 and is discharged. In surface layer 18, numerous aggregates of small particle sizes 1802 are projected from the entire surface of concrete layer 1804. Titanium dioxide layer 20 is formed by injecting or spraying a mixture comprising titanium dioxide, cement, a filler and water onto the entire surface of surface layer 18 thinly and is water-permeable.

Abstract: We make particulates, especially magnetic Fe—Co alloys having high magnetic permeability, of controlled dimensions, especially those having a narrow thickness size distribution centered around a median or target thickness in the range of about 0.1-1.0 &mgr;m, using electrodeposition typically on a smooth (polished) titanium cathode. Our preferred continuous process uses a rotating drum cathode inside a fixed anode to grow flakes and to produce them automatically by inherent instability in the deposited film. The drum preferably rotates about a substantially vertical axis. The particulates shed (slough off) into the electrolyte (because of mismatch between the cathode surface and the plated metal or alloy at the molecular level) where they are separated in a magnetic separator or other suitable device. If the flakes are soft iron or iron-cobalt alloys, the drum generally is titanium or titanium alloy.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of making a film-fabric composite (includinng a film-fabric laminate) wherein the fabric is characterized as having improved tensile elongation (without rupture). In particular, the invention pertains to a method of making a film-fabric laminate having structual elastic-like behavior wherein the fabric is a nonwoven thermally bonded fabric characterized as having improved high strain rate tensile elongation and comprises a plurality of fibers comprised of at least one polypropylene polymer and at least one ethylene polymer, wherein the method comprises stretching the laminate at a high strain rate. The improved farbic is characterized by higher high strain rate tensile properties and a broader bond window which is also shifted to substantially lower temperatures with regard to maximum tensile properties.

Abstract: A light-permeable, IR-reflecting body which contains a stiff, amorphous base material comprised of light-permeable plastic and IR-reflecting particles which are oriented parallel to the surface, said light-permeable IR-reflecting body having a transmissivity (T) in the visible range of 45-75%, an overall energy permeability (g) of 30-60%, and a T/g ratio of >1.15, and the IR-reflecting particles oriented parallel to the surface are disposed in a coating layer comprised of a transparent water-insoluble binder, which layer is 5-40 micron thick and adheres to the base material, wherewith red-reflecting particles with a layer of titanium dioxide 60-120 nm thick on a platelet-shaped carrier pigment are present in the aforesaid coating layer in the amount of 20-40 wt. % of said coating layer.

Abstract: A coating composition having outstanding electrically conductive and electromagnetic radiation absorptive properties is disclosed with a water emulsion polymer binder. The binder is a blend of a first emulsion containing a conjugated diene as monomer or comonomer, and a second emulsion containing an acrylic, aliphatic or aromatic polyurethane, polyester urethane, polyester, epoxy, polyamide, polyimide, vinyl, fluoropolymer, or silicone polymer. An effective amount of electrically conductive and electromagnetic radiation absorptive particles is dispersed in the binder. The particles include a combination of graphite particles, carbon nanotubes and metal containing particles. An effective amount of water is also present.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a wafer inspection apparatus which is small in size, prevented from shortening the service life of its circuit board for inspection, can collectively perform inspection as to a great number of electrodes to be inspected, has good electrical properties and can perform electrical inspection of high functional integrated circuits, and an anisotropically conductive sheet suitable for use in this wafer inspection apparatus.

Abstract: The invention relates to a white, flame-resistant, UV-stable, thermoformable, oriented film made from a crystallizable thermoplastic, the thickness of which lies in the range of from 10 &mgr;m to 350 &mgr;m. Said film comprises at least one white pigment, a flame-proofing agent and a UV absorber and is characterized by good stretchability and thermoformability, by good optical and mechanical properties and an economical production. The invention further relates to a method for the production of said film and the use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an overlay coating which has improved strength properties. The overlay coating comprises a deposited layer of MCrAlY material containing discrete nitride particles therein. The nitride particles are present in a volume fraction in the range of 0.1% to 15.0% and have a particle size in the range of from 0.1 microns to 10.0 microns. The coating may also have oxide particles dispersed therein.

Abstract: A laminated glass with a good appearance and heat shielding properties which comprises glass sheets 11a and 11b characterized by a UV transmittance as stipulated in ISO-9050 of at most 30%, a visible light transmittance of at least 70% under a standard light source A, a dominant wavelength of from 480 to 570 nm and an excitation purity of at most 6% at the actual thickness and an interlayer 12 interposed between the glass sheets, wherein the interlayer has heat shielding fine particles with particle diameters of at most 0.2 &mgr;m dispersed therein.

Abstract: Novel material for chromatographic separations, processes for its preparation, and separations devices containing the chromatographic material. In particular, the disclosure describes porous inorganic/organic hybrid particles having a chromatographically-enhancing pore geometry, which desirably may be surface modified, and that offer more efficient chromatographic separations than that known in the art.

Abstract: Provided is a particulate magnetic recording medium with good output at high frequency, yielding a low coefficient of friction, and having good running properties, in particular, a magnetic recording medium affording good electromagnetic characteristics and good repeat durability in recording and reproducing at a high-density. The magnetic recording medium comprises a lower layer comprising a nonmagnetic powder and a binder and an upper magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder, a binder and at least one abrasives provided on a nonmagnetic support in this order. The number of abrasive particles present on said magnetic layer surface satisfied the relation 0.2≦X≦1.2 (particles/&mgr;m2).

Abstract: The coloring problem of a conventional molded article is overcome while retaining the advantages of high strength and high flame retardancy of the molded article when a metal hydroxide is used in combination with red phosphorus and carbon powder in the method of imparting a synthetic resin with flame retardancy. The molded article can be colored in any color and exhibits decreased lowering of electric insulation resistance when submerged. The molded article comprises a base material colored from dark red to black containing 100 wt parts synthetic resin, 5-200 wt parts metal hydroxide, 1-30 wt parts red phosphorus and 0.1-30 wt parts carbon powder; and a skin layer laminated thereon masking a colored surface of the base wherein the skin layer contains 100 wt parts, 0-100 wt parts pigment, and 0-200 wt parts metal hydroxide, provided that the total amount of pigment and metal hydroxide in the skin layer is at least 0.001 wt parts.

Abstract: Pyrogenically produced aluminum oxide, in which the BET specific surface area is greater than 115 m2/g and the Sears index is over 8 ml/2 g and the dibutyl phthalate absorption as a powder measured with a 16 g weighed portion is not measurable, is produced by means of flame oxidation or preferably flame hydrolysis, whereby a vaporizable aluminum compound is used as starting material. The aluminum oxide can be used as an ink-absorbing substance in inkjet media and also as a filler, as a substrate, as a catalytically active substance, as a starting material for the production of dispersions, as a polishing material (CMP applications), as a ceramic raw material, in the electronics industry, in the cosmetics industry, as an additive in the silicone and rubber industry, to adjust the rheology of liquid systems, as a heat stabilizer, in the paint industry.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a coating composition for a hard coat layer of a plastic lens, which comprises (A) a hydrolyzate of a specific alkoxysilane compound, (B) fine particles of an oxide of silicon, aluminum, tin, antimony, zirconium, tungsten or titanium or composite fine particles made of oxides of any two oxides of these, (C) a polyurethane and (D) a curing agent, and the coating composition is applied onto a plastic lens surface to give a scratch-resistant plastic lens.

Abstract: A surface treatment, especially for titanium and aluminum alloys, forms a pigmented sol-gel film covalently bonded on the metal surface to produce desired color, gloss, reflectivity, electrical conductivity, emissivity, or a combination thereof usable over a wide temperature range. The coating retains its characteristics and impact resistance following exposures to temperatures at least in the range from −321° F. to 750° F. An aqueous sol containing an alkoxyzirconium and an organosilane with an organic acid catalyst and zirconium stabilizer is applied to etched or grit blasted substrates by dipping, spraying, or drenching, to produce bonds in a single application comparable in strength and performance to standard anodize controls. Parameters affecting performance include the sol composition, the Si/Zr ratio, the ratio of sol ingredients, the concentration of the sol, the carrier solvent, solution age, catalysts, surface pretreatment, application method, curing process, and primer used.

Abstract: Corrosion- and chip-resistant coatings for high tensile steel components, such as automotive coil springs, are formed from a coating powder composition of “toughened” epoxy resin. In a single coat embodiment, the entire coating is loaded with at least 75 phr zinc powder. In a dual coat embodiment, an inner coat is loaded with at least 75 phr zinc and an outer, zinc-free coating is reinforced by the addition of fibers and/or by a foaming agent which renders it porous.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayer film which is useful as a refractive polarizer film or a semi-transparent film. The multilayer film comprises a first layer comprising of a polyester whose main recurring unit is ethylene-2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylate and a second layer comprising mainly of a thermoplastic resin which is different from the polyester of the first layer, wherein at least one of the first and second layers contains 0.001 to 0.5 wt % of inert fine particles having an average particle diameter of 0.01 to 2 &mgr;m; the first and second layers each have a thickness of 0.05 to 0.3 &mgr;m and are laminated alternately to form a laminate comprising at least 11 layers; the laminate is oriented at least in one direction; and the second layer has a lower refractive index than the first layer at least in one direction. This multilayer film has excellent handling properties such as film formability and windability and an easily adjustable reflectance.

Abstract: An improved method of forming an abradable thermal barrier coating comprises providing a spray-dried powder of M-CrAlY and a solid lubricant, such as CoNiCrAlY—BN. Unlike powders provided for use with plasma spray guns, the powder is essentially free of polyester or other organic fugitive additives provided to increase porosity. The powder is applied using a combustion spray process and results in a M-CrAlY abradable coating that has an average porosity comparable to that of a plasma-applied coating but with smaller and more uniform pore distribution, and without requiring post-application heat treatments to remove fugitive materials. Deposition efficiency is also increased.

Abstract: A crosslinkable thermal interface material is produced by combining at least one rubber compound, at least one amine resin and at least one thermally conductive filler. This interface material takes on the form of a liquid or “soft gel”. The gel state is brought about through a crosslinking reaction between the at least one rubber compound composition and the at least one amine resin composition. Once the foundation composition that comprises at least one rubber compound, at least one amine resin, and at least one thermally conductive filler has been prepared, the composition must be compared to the needs of the electronic component, vendor, or electronic product to determine if a phase change material is needed to change some of the physical properties of the composition.

Abstract: A flexible and stretchable sheet material that is capable of being stretched to conform to a three-dimensional substrate to form a protective and decorative coating thereon is comprised of a thin flexible support having adhered thereto a protective and decorative layer such as a paint layer comprising a colorant incorporated in a film-forming binder. Both the support and the protective and decorative layer are characterized by a very high degree of thickness uniformity and the sheet material exhibits a high level of surface uniformity, an ability to undergo substantial elongation, and a substantially uniform quality and appearance; whereby it can be stretched and bent in the process of bonding it to a substrate and still achieve a defect-free coating of uniformly attractive appearance.

Abstract: A direct drawing type lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a water-resistant support having provided thereon, an image-receiving layer comprising inorganic particles and a binder resin. The combination of an inorganic particles is made up of at least one kind of metal sulfide particle having an average particle size of sum 0.01 to 5 &mgr;m and at least one kind of particle which may be a metal oxide particle having an average particle size of sum 0.01 to 5 &mgr;m or a metal oxide hydrate having an average particle size of 0.01 to 5 &mgr;m. The binder resin is a complex composed of a resin containing a siloxane bond.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a laminated photocatalytic pulp paper having a variety of uses such as a filter material, a packaging material, a construction material and the like, which has the antibacterial property, the bad smell degrading property and harmful substance oxidatively degrading property, is useful for use in air treatment, water treatment and soil treatment and, at the same time, can improve the photocatalytic activity effect itself of titanium oxide. According to the present invention, there is provided a laminated photocatalytic pulp paper characterized in that a wastepaper pulp is laminated on a photocatalytic pulp composition in which 40-95 wt % of a pulp and/or a paper having the water content of 3 wt % or less, an average fiber diameter of 5-300 &mgr;m and an average fiber length of 0.1-70 mm are blended with 5-60 wt % of titanium oxide, and a paper string comprising this pulp paper.

Abstract: A structure material of the present invention consisting essentially of 20 parts by weight or more of a polymer mixture consisting essentially of of a thermoplastic aromatic polyester and a thermoplastic aliphatic polyester on the basis of 100 parts by weight of the structure material. The polymer mixture comprises 3 to 40 parts by weight of the aliphatic polyester on the basis of 100 parts by weight of the polymer mixture.

Abstract: A binder resin containing a mixture of carboxyl group containing chlorinated polyolefins and an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer. The binder resin is incorporated in primer formulations for application on substrates including polyolefinic materials.

Abstract: There is disclosed a resin-coated metal sheet for a part of electronic machinery and tools, which is a metal sheet coated with a resin on the surface, wherein a resin layer is composed of one or more resin selected from polyester-series, epoxy-series, phenol-series and alkyd-series resins, the resin layer has a 0.1 to 10 &mgr;m thickness, and the resin layer contains 2 to 60 parts by weight of nickel with 0.1 to 100 &mgr;m of an average value in terms of maximum longer diameters, to 100 parts by weight of the resin. The resin-coated aluminum sheet is excellent in anti-fingerprint property and formability, as well as excellent in electric characteristics.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronically conductive particle comprising an acicular substrate in contact with an electronically conductive polymer. Another embodiment comprises an article comprising electronically conductive particles comprising an acicular substrate in contact with an electronically conductive polymer. A further embodiment comprises a method for making electronically conductive particles comprising providing at least one acicular substrate, combining at least one monomer with said at least one acicular substrate, and mixing at least one catalyst with said at least one acicular substrate and said at least one monomer.

Abstract: The invention provides a curable two layer effect providing coating system which provides a visual appearance and effect previously obtainable only with a curable three layer effect providing coating system. The two layer effect providing coating system of the invention consists essentially of a first layer consisting of a first coating composition (a), and a transparent second layer applied directly to the first layer and consisting of a second coating composition (b) comprising an effective amount of an interference metal oxide coated mica having a hue shift of at least 100°. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the first coating composition (a) will be tinted so as to match the color of the second coating composition (b) when viewed at an angle of 110° from vertical.

Abstract: A coating for gypsum board includes a binder, a soy protein, and two or more pigments. Two of the pigments include calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate and the magnesium carbonate makes up at least 20% by weight of the coating on a dry basis.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium for use in reproduction with an MR head, which comprises: a non-magnetic substrate; a non-magnetic layer including a binder resin having dispersed therein a non-magnetic powder on the non-magnetic substrate; and a magnetic layer on the non-magnetic layer “has a thickness of at most 0.15 &mgr;m and”, wherein the magnetic layer is obtained by applying a magnetic coating material on the applied, dried and cured non-magnetic layer, the magnetic layer includes a metal magnetic powder with a mean major axis length of from 0.03 to 0.07 &mgr;m, and a saturation magnetization &sgr;s of from 100 to 125 Am2/kg “an X ray crystal particle size Dx of from 50-150 Å,”, and the center line mean roughness Ra of the magnetic layer surface is 5 nm or less.

Abstract: An abrasion resistant coated film including a polyester film coated with a highly crosslinkable melamine coating with a crosslinking density of greater than about 50% and less than about 100%, wherein the coating is cured after transverse stretching and heat setting the film, a melamine coating having a crosslinking density between about 50% and about 100% containing between about 0.01% by weight and about 1.0% by weight of a colloidal particle selected from the group consisting of silica, TiO2, graphite and blends thereof, and a method of producing an abrasion resistant coated film including stretching a polyester film in the machine direction to form a uniaxially oriented film, applying a coating of highly crosslinkable melamine with a crosslinking density between about 50% and about 100% onto the uniaxially oriented film, heating and stretching the coated film in the transverse direction and curing the coating on the coated film.

Abstract: A media transport belt with excellent electrostatic absorption, resistance to dielectric breakdown, and ink resistance, which comprises a tubular film made of polymer material, an electrode pattern formed on the surface of the tubular film, and an electrode protective layer with volume resistance of from 109 to 1015 &OHgr;·cm dielectric constant of equal to or greater than 3.0 on the electrode pattern.

Abstract: Non-spherical particles including a major dimension, for example flakes of material, are positioned with the major dimension oriented generally along an article surface in respect to which the particle is disposed. The particles, disposed in a fluid medium, the viscosity of which can be increased to secure the particles in position, are positioned using a force on the particles. The force includes torque force from a magnetic field, force from flow of the fluid medium, the force of gravity, and the force of surface tension alone or in combination with the force of gravity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a white biaxially oriented polyester film having a two-layer structure of layer A/layer B, wherein the layer A contains a polyester having a melting point of 240° C.-260° C. and containing titanium dioxide in a proportion of 5-30 wt %, the layer B contains a polyester having a melting point of 210° C.-235° C., and the film shows a dimensional change of not more than 2%, which is obtained by thermally adhering a layer B side of the film to a metal plate to give a laminate, which is heat-treated at 210° C. for 2 minutes, and subjecting the film after the treatment to the measurement, a film-laminated metal plate using the polyester film and a metal container obtained by forming this film-laminated metal plate. The polyester film of the present invention has superior heat resistance and is capable of stably covering the surface of a metal plate even after a heat treatment during a can forming process and the like.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a coating composition comprising a pigment, a water-dispersible urethane resin, and a solvent effective amount of a water-soluble solvent. The water-dispersible urethane resin exists as a colloidal dispersion in water but when mixed with a water-soluble solvent swells to provide a dispersion having a viscosity sufficiently high in the solvent so as to maintain the pigment in suspension in the solvent for a time sufficient to apply the coating composition. The present invention is also directed to a method for coating a substrate with the novel coating composition and to a coated substrate prepared by the novel method.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a piezoelectrically actuated relay that switches and latches by means of a solid slug and liquid metal is disclosed. The relay operates by means of a longitudinal displacement of a piezoelectric element in extension mode displacing a liquid metal drop and causing it to wet between at least one contact pad on the piezoelectric element or substrate and at least one other fixed pad to close the switch contact. This motion of the piezoelectric element is rapid and causes the imparted momentum of the solid slug and liquid metal drop to overcome the surface tension forces that would hold the bulk of the liquid metal drop in contact with the contact pad or pads near the actuating piezoelectric element. The switch latches by means of surface tension and the liquid metal wetting to the contact pads.

Abstract: A resin-bonded type magnet molded from a composition comprising a magnetic powder and a resin powder in which a resin binder comprises at least one unsaturated polyester resin cured product as the main ingredient. The resin binder contains a peroxide or a reaction product thereof capable of curing at a temperature of 150° C. or lower, and an anisotropic magnetic field of the magnetic powder is 50 kOe or more, and 50% by weight or more of the particles of magnetic powder has a grain size of 100 &mgr;m or less. The resin-bonded type magnet is obtained by molding by an injection molding process, an injection molding, a compression process, an injection compression molding process, an injection pressing molding process, or a transfer molding process.

Abstract: Provided is a particulate magnetic recording medium having good processing properties and being inexpensive to produce, similar to prior recording media, wherein by controlling the magnetic clusters that appear due to recording at short wavelengths and thinning of the magnetic layer, good high-density characteristics are achieved in combination with MR heads. The magnetic recording medium comprising an essentially nonmagnetic lower layer and a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder and a binder in this order, wherein the magnetic layer has a thickness ranging from 0.01 to 0.15 &mgr;m and a coercivity equal to or higher than 159 kA/m, ferromagnetic particles contained in the ferromagnetic powder have a size less than ½ of the minimum recording wavelength, and an average size of magnetic cluster at DC erase is equal to or higher than 0.5×104 nm2 and less than 5.5×104 nm2.

Abstract: A thermally-conductive compound for forming a layer which is conformable between a first heat transfer surface and an opposing second heat transfer surface to provide a thermal pathway therebetween. The compound is an admixture of a thermal grease component and a dispersed constituent forming discrete domains within the grease component, the domains being form-stable at normal room temperature in a first phase and conformable between the first and second heat transfer surface in a second phase, and the domains having a domain transition temperature above normal room temperature from the first phase to the second phase. The dispersed constituent may be a fusible, i.e., low temperature melting, metal or metal alloy.

Abstract: A ferromagnetic metal powder for magnetic recording containing iron as the main constituent and MAl2O4 (wherein M is a transition metal), wherein the coercive force (Hc) thereof is from 135 to 240 kA/m, the saturation magnetization (&sgr;s) is from 100 to 150 A·m2/kg, the average major axis length of the particles thereof is from 30 to 80 nm, the average acicular ratio of the particles is from 4.0 to 8.0, and the variation coefficient of the major axis lengths is from 3 to 25%. A magnetic recording medium having on a support a non-magnetic layer and at least a magnetic layer containing the above-described ferromagnetic metal powder, said medium has good short wavelength output and good S/N.

Abstract: A laminar structure is disclosed that comprises a tacky mastic at least partially in contact with a ultra-violet (UV) light and moisture barrier. The structure can be employed for protecting a wide range of substrates such as wood, metal, concrete, cement, among other substrates. The structure can be cut or shaped into a virtually unlimited array of configurations. A release layer can be applied onto at least a portion of one or more sides of the structure. The release layer can be removed from the structure prior to applying the structure onto the substrate to be protected. Once applied the structure can protect the substrate from moisture, UV, microbial and animal attack.

Abstract: Coating for high temperature gas turbine components that include a MCrAlX phase, and an aluminum-rich phase, significantly increase oxidation and cracking resistance of the components, thereby increasing their useful life and reducing operating costs. The aluminum-rich phase includes aluminum at a higher concentration than aluminum concentration in the MCrAlX alloy, and an aluminum diffusion-retarding composition, which may include cobalt, nickel, yttrium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, rhodium, cadmium, indium, cerium, iron, chromium, tantalum, silicon, boron, carbon, titanium, tungsten, rhenium, platinum, and combinations thereof, and particularly nickel and/or rhenium. The aluminum-rich phase may be derived from a particulate aluminum composite that has a core comprising aluminum and a shell comprising the aluminum diffusion-retarding composition.

Abstract: A form-in-place, electrically-conductive gasket is disclosed. The gasket, foamed, gelled or unfoamed is made of one or more elastomer resins, such as silicone urethane and/or thermoplastic block copolymers and is either filled with a conductive filler and lined onto a desired substrate or lined onto the substrate unfilled and then coated with a conductive outer layer, such as a silver filled elastomer or a conductive flocked layer. A process and system for making the gaskets are also disclosed.

Abstract: A solar control light transmitting thermoplastic polymer sheet is provided which contains flakes of metal pigment that are aligned coplanar with the upper face of the sheet. The sheet transmits a controlled amount of light while reflecting a significant amount and absorbing the rest. In an alternative, the sheet has a co-extruded second layer of UV-protective thermoplastic polymer formed on top of the first layer.

Abstract: A new class of solar selective absorption coatings are disclosed. These coatings comprise a structured metallic overlayer such that the overlayer has a sub-micron structure designed to efficiently absorb solar radiation, while retaining low thermal emissivity for infrared thermal radiation. A sol-gel layer protects the structured metallic overlayer from mechanical, thermal, and environmental degradation. Processes for producing such solar selective absorption coatings are also disclosed.

Abstract: The magnetic and magnetotransport properties of field-aligned single domain half-metallic CrO2 powders have been studied. Needle-shaped nanoparticles of CrO2 have been aligned in a strong magnetic field. The aligned powder sample shows a strong anisotropy along the alignment direction. The conduction mechanism of the aligned CrO2 powder sample has been examined and is consistent with the intergranular spin dependent tunneling. Negative tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of about 41% is achieved in a small field in the vicinity of the coercive field at 5 K. The magnetoresistance (MR) versus field curve shows two well-separated narrow peaks at the coercive fields and resembles that of a magnetic tunnel junction. This junction-like MR results from the narrow switching field distribution of the aligned powders. The results suggest that the aligned magnetic CrO2 particles may find novel applications in spin transport structures and devices.

Abstract: A metallized thermoplastic label includes a first skin layer containing a thermoplastic and a first cavitating agent, wherein the first skin layer has a first side and a second side, the first skin layer is cavitated, and the first side of the first skin layer is adapted to be used in contact with a cold glue adhesive. The label further includes a cavitated core layer and a second skin layer that is metallized. The particle size of the cavitating agent in the core layer is selected to achieve a desired appearance, especially luster, of the metal layer.