Abstract: A composite film comprising: (i) a heat-stabilised oriented polyester substrate comprising a UV-absorber in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 10% based on the total weight of the polyester substrate, and (ii) on one or both surfaces of the substrate a polymeric coating layer, which has a thickness in the range of from about 10 nm to about 200 nm, and which comprises an ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) copolymer, wherein the composite film exhibits a shrinkage at 150° C. for 30 minutes of less than 0.1% in both the longitudinal and transverse dimensions of the film, and use thereof in the manufacture of photo-voltaic cells.

Abstract: A method includes depositing a thin film on a first surface of a first substrate and moving a second surface of a second substrate into contact with the thin film such that the thin film is located between the first and second surfaces. The method further includes generating electromagnetic (EM) radiation of a first wavelength, the first wavelength selected such that the thin film absorbs EM radiation at the first wavelength. Additionally, the method includes directing the EM radiation through one of the first and second substrates and onto a region of the thin film until the first and second substrates are fused in the region.

Abstract: A soft magnetic exchange-coupled composite structure, and a high-frequency device component, an antenna module, and a magnetoresistive device including the soft magnetic exchange-coupled composite structure, include a ferrite crystal grain as a main phase and a soft magnetic metal thin film bound to the ferrite crystal grain by interfacial bonding on an atomic scale. A region of the soft magnetic metal thin film adjacent to an interface with the ferrite crystal grain includes a crystalline soft magnetic metal.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a flexible electrophotographic imaging member having an optically clear, cross-linked anticurl back coating of melamine formaldehyde to effect complete and absolute imaging member flatness.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multilayer heat shrinkable film incorporating an oxygen barrier material and layer comprising a styrene polymer or blend of styrene polymers, where the shrinkage of the film in at least one of MD, TD is at least 30% at 90° C. The invention is further directed to a method of manufacturing a bag from said multilayer heat shrinkable film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a laminate film comprising forming a layer by curing a liquid crystalline composition containing a liquid crystalline compound that has a polymerizable group and is solid at 25° C. and forming, on the layer, a polymer layer from a composition containing a polymer, the liquid crystalline compound migrating into the polymer layer after forming the polymer layer until the compound becomes 0.1% by mass to 30% by mass relative to the solid content mass of the polymer layer, wherein the method includes selecting the liquid crystalline compound and the polymer from combinations having a heat of crystallization of a mixture obtained by mixing the two at a mass ratio of 9:10, of 0.75 J/g or less. White cloudiness along with crystallization of the liquid crystalline compound is not generated easily in the method of the present invention.

Abstract: Electrically conductive synthetic fiber and fibrous substrate (e.g. synthetic leather) are disclosed. The electrically conductive polymeric fiber and polymeric fibrous substrate are made electrically conductive by the use of an electrically conductive polymer disposed on the fibers and in contact with inorganic desiccant particles located at the surface of the fibers. The new material finds utility as an electrode for devices and as a resistive heating element, and as a pathway to efficient thermoelectrics.

Abstract: A CVD process for depositing a zinc oxide coating is provided. The CVD process includes providing a moving glass substrate. The CVD process also includes forming a gaseous mixture of an alkyl zinc compound and an inert gas as a first stream, providing a first gaseous inorganic oxygen-containing compound in a second stream and providing a second gaseous inorganic oxygen-containing compound in the second stream, a third stream or in both the second and third streams. Additionally, the CVD process includes mixing the streams at or near a surface of the moving glass substrate and a zinc oxide coating is formed thereon. A method for forming a coated glass article is also provided. Additionally, a coated glass article is provided.

Abstract: An example of the coated tool disclosed herein includes a substrate, a metal layer established on the substrate, a continuous metal carbide layer established on the metal layer, and a smooth, continuous, terminated diamond like carbon (DLC) layer established on the metal carbide layer. The DLC layer is to prevent metal, from a workpiece upon which the tool is to act, from adhering to the tool.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an insulating film for a printed circuit board, a resin coated copper (RCC), a flexible copper clad laminate (FCCL), and a printed circuit board manufactured by using the same. More specifically, the RCC, the FCCL, and the printed circuit board manufactured by using the insulating film for the printed circuit board according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the insulating film including an insulating layer, and a primer layer formed on one surface of the insulating layer and including a benzocyclobutene (BCB)-based resin, may have a low coefficient of thermal expansion and high peel strength.

Abstract: A reflective film or article including a substrate, a smoothing layer adjoining and extending across at least a portion of the first major surface of the substrate, a tie layer having a first major surface adjoining and extending across at least a portion of the second major surface of the substrate, and a metallic layer adjoining and extending across at least a portion of the second major surface of the tie layer. The smoothing layer includes poly(methyl methacrylate) and a first block copolymer having at least two endblock polymeric units and at least one midblock polymeric unit derived from first and second monoethylenically unsaturated monomers selected from a methacrylate, acrylate, vinyl ester, or combination thereof, respectively, each endblock having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of at least 50° C., and each endblock having a Tg no greater than 20° C.

Abstract: The invention provides articles and methods for making such articles including a substrate coated on at least one region thereof with a layer of nanocomposites nano-cellulose materials and nanoparticles.

Abstract: The gas barrier property of a laminate constituted by a base material containing a resin or a rubber and an oxide glass is improved. A composite member containing an oxide glass 2 formed as a layer densely on a base material 1 containing a resin or a rubber, in which the oxide glass is bonded to the base material by irradiating the oxide glass with an electromagnetic wave and softening and fluidizing the oxide glass.

Abstract: A glass-surface composite is described for arrangement in front of a visual display, in front of an operating panel and/or for use as a decorative element, in particular in a motor vehicle. The glass-surface composite comprises a glass layer provided by way of surface, a flexible backing layer and an adhesive layer which connects the glass layer to the backing layer two-dimensionally. In addition, a tablet computer is described that includes such a glass-surface composite.

Abstract: There is provided an electroactive composition. The composition has (a) a host material having Formula I and (b) an electroactive dopant capable of electroluminescence having an emission maximum between 500 and 700 nm. In Formula I: R1 to R8 are the same or different and can be H, alkyl, or alkoxy, or adjacent R groups may be joined together to form a 5- or 6-membered aliphatic ring, with the proviso that at least one of R1 to R8 is not H, Ar1 to Ar4 are the same or different and are aryl groups, A is the same or different at each occurrence and can be a single bond or a phenylene group, and a and b are the same or different and are an integer of 0-2.

Abstract: The invention provides fluorinated polymeric articles formed a composition including a fluoropolymer. The fluoropolymer is formed using a fluorinated monomer that provides the fluoropolymer with most or all of the fluorine atoms not directly covalently attached to an atom of the fluoropolymer backbone. The fluoropolymer can also include a non-fluorinated hydrophilic monomer in a weight amount greater than the fluorinated monomer. The fluoropolymer composition also includes an ultraviolet light (UV)-reactive group capable of covalent bonding to promotes formation of the fluorinated polymeric article. The fluorinated polymeric article can be in the form of a durable lubricious coating on the surface of an implantable medical device. Coatings of the invention exhibit excellent wet/dry lubricity, durability, and controlled swelling.

Abstract: To provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film that can satisfy durability even when a thin pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is formed. A pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film comprising an optical film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on at least one side of the optical film, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is formed by a pressure-sensitive adhesive, comprising: a (meth)acrylic polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 1,500,000 to 2,800,000; containing, as a monomer component, 3 to 10% by weight of a heterocyclic ring-containing acrylic monomer; 0.5 to 5% by weight of a carboxyl group-containing monomer; 0.05 to 2% by weight of a hydroxyl group-containing monomer; and 83 to 96.45% by weight of an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer, and a crosslinking agent.

Abstract: A hard film excellent in abrasion resistance and heat resistance includes: a first film consisting of AlaCrb(SiC)c?dN, where ? denotes one or more elements of groups IVa, Va, VIa (except Cr) of the periodic table, B, C, Si, and Y; a b, c, and d are atom ratios within ranges of 0.35?a?0.76, 0.12?b?0.43, 0.05?c?0.20, and 0?d?0.20, respectively; an atom ratio b/a of Cr to Al is within a range of 0.25?b/a?0.67; and a+b+c+d=1 is satisfied. The first film disposed on a top surface, the hard film having a total thickness Ttotal within a range of 0.5 ?m to 15 ?m with a thickness T1 of the first film or, if another film portion having the same film components as the first film is included, a thickness including the film thickness T1 and the another film portion accounting for 20% or more of the total thickness Ttotal.

Abstract: A base steel sheet has a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on a surface thereof, in which, in a steel sheet structure in a range of ? thickness to ? thickness centered around ¼ thickness of a sheet thickness from a surface, a volume fraction of a retained austenite phase is 5% or less, and a total volume fraction of phases of bainite, bainitic ferrite, fresh martensite, and tempered martensite is 40% or more, an average effective crystal grain diameter is 5.0 ?m or less, a maximum effective crystal grain diameter is 20 ?m or less, and a decarburized layer with a thickness of 0.01 ?m to 10.0 ?m is formed on a surface layer portion, in which a density of oxides dispersed in the decarburized layer is 1.0×1012 to 1.0×1016 oxides/m2, and an average grain diameter of the oxides is 500 nm or less.

Abstract: A chromium-based reflective coating for a polymeric substrate, wherein the coating has a thickness of 200 nm or less and is an alloy of chromium and a dopant material, the dopant material being selected from the hexagonally close-packed transition metals, the alloy having a crystal structure of a primary body-centered cubic phase in coexistence with a secondary omega hexagonally close-packed phase.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer coating system deposited on at least a portion of a solid body surface and containing in the multilayer architecture Al—Cr—B—N individual layers deposited by means of a physical vapor deposition method characterized in that in at least a portion of the overall thickness of the multilayer coating system the Al—Cr—B—N individual layers are combined with Ti—Al—N individual layers, wherein the Al—Cr—B—N and Ti—Al—N individual layers are deposited alternately one on each other, and wherein the thickness of the Al—Cr—B—N individual layers is thicker than the thickness of the Ti—Al—N individual layers, and thereby the residual stress of the multilayer coating system is considerably lower in comparison to the residual stress of the corresponding analogical Al—Cr—B—N monolayer coating.

Abstract: Antimicrobial devices such as molded components can include surfaces which have a microbial field disruptive hyper-conductive layer covered by a dielectric surface layer, to continuously disinfect said surfaces. Also, the present invention relates to generally antimicrobial dressings and more particularly to dermal dressings and bandages providing antiseptic disinfection, comprising typical modern dressings and bandages stratified in close proximity to microbial field disruptive hyper-conductive elements or alloys which deactivate microbes by disrupting the electric field generated by and used by the microbes, and isolated the wound or surgical site tissue from said conductors with a layer or layers of dielectric film.

Abstract: In a light emitting element using an organic metal complex which can convert an excited triplet state into a light emission, a red color light emitting element exhibiting a high light emission efficiency and an excellent color purity is provided. A material used in a hole transporting layer and a host contained in a light emitting layer and an electron transporting layer has a triplet excitation energy larger than a triplet excitation energy of the organic metal complex which is a light emitting substance to enable a current efficiency and an external quantum efficiency of the light emitting element to be improved. It is possible to obtain a current efficiency of 2.0 cd/A or more and an external quantum efficiency of 5% or more. The color purity is excellent. The CIE chromaticity coordinate is X?0.7 and Y?0.3 to make it possible to exceed an NTSC standard.

Abstract: Use of a precursor of an n-dopant for doping an organic semiconductive material, as a blocking layer, as a charge injection layer, as an electrode material, as a storage material or as a semiconductor material itself in electronic or optoelectronic components, the precursor being selected from the following formulae 1-3c:

Abstract: It is an object to provide a novel material having a bipolar property, a light emitting element provided with the novel material, and a display device that includes the light emitting element. It is an object to provide a pyrazine derivative represented by the following general formula (g-1).

Abstract: A transparent electrode includes a conductive layer and an intermediate layer disposed adjacent to the conductive layer. The intermediate layer contains a diazacarbazole derivative represented by the following general formula (1). The conductive layer is composed of silver as a main component. In the general formula (1), E1 to E8 each represent C(R1) or N with one of E1 to E4 being N and one of E5 to E8 being N, and R and R1 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substitute. [Chem.

Abstract: An article comprises a body and at least one protective layer on at least one surface of the body. The at least one protective layer is a thin film having a thickness of less than approximately 20 microns that comprises a ceramic selected from a group consisting of Y3Al5O12, Y4Al2O9, Er2O3, Gd2O3, Er3Al5O12, Gd3Al5O12 and a ceramic compound comprising Y4Al2O9 and a solid-solution of Y2O3—ZrO2.

Abstract: Provided are a film for food packaging, capable of having excellent adhesion with a metal deposition layer and thus retaining moisture barrier property while having superior flexibility, transparency, and biodegradability, and a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A composite pane having a sun protection and a heat protection function is described. The composite pane has an outer pane having an outer surface and an inner surface, an inner pane having an outer surface and an inner surface, and a thermoplastic intermediate layer, having at least a sun protection coating on at least the inner surface, the outer surface, or in the thermoplastic intermediate layer, and a heat protection layer on the inner surface. The sun protection layer has at least one functional layer containing at least silver, and the heat protection layer has at least one functional layer containing at least one metal of the group consisting of niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, and zirconium.

Abstract: The invention provides coated substrates comprising a substrate and a barrier coating on at least one surface of the substrate. The barrier coating comprises (i) vermiculite, (ii) polymer capable of forming a film, (iii) chemical stabilizing agent selected from materials that contain cationic functionality selected from lithium, alkyl C2-C6 ammonium, allyl ammonium, heterocylclic ammonium, morpholonium, ammonium and amino C3-C6 alkyl carboxylic acids; lithium cations in combination with anions selected from carboxylic, phosphoric, phosphonic, sulfonic and fatty acids, lithium chelating agents, and lithium salts, ammonia, C3-C6 amine, heterocyclic amines, lithium hydroxide, morpholine, and morpholine oleate; and (iv) cross-linking agent. The invention also provides articles coated with such coatings, methods and mixtures for making such coated substrates and articles.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element which has achieved both high luminous efficiency and low driving voltage by containing a light-emitting element material, which comprises a specific pyrene compound, in one of the layers that constitute the light-emitting element, preferably in a light-emitting layer or in an electron-transporting layer.

Abstract: An insulation sheet made from silicon nitride comprising: a sheet-shaped silicon-nitride substrate which contains ?-silicon-nitride crystal grains as a main phase; and a surface layer which is formed on one face or both front and back faces of surfaces of the silicon-nitride substrate and is formed from a resin or a metal which includes at least one element selected from among In, Sn, Al, Ag, Au, Cu, Ni, Pb, Pd, Sr, Ce, Fe, Nb, Ta, V and Ti. A semiconductor module structure using the insulation sheet made from silicon nitride.

Abstract: A method of producing reduced graphene oxide and reduce graphene oxide produced by the method are provided. The method of producing reduced graphene oxide involves forming a graphene oxide-dispersed solution comprising graphene oxide and a surfactant that comprises at least two aromatic functional groups, reducing the graphene oxide-dispersed solution to obtain a layered structure of reduced graphene oxide comprising the at least two aromatic functional groups, and dispersing the layered structure of reduced graphene oxide in a solvent to produce a multi-layered reduced graphene oxide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate with a transparent electrode, which has a transparent electrode layer on at least one surface of a transparent film base material. The transparent film base material has a transparent dielectric material layer containing an oxide as a main component on a surface at the transparent electrode layer side. In one embodiment of the present invention, the transparent electrode layer is a crystalline transparent electrode layer that has a crystallinity degree of 80% or more. In this embodiment, the crystalline transparent electrode layer has a resistivity of 3.5×10?4 ?·cm or less, a thickness of 15 nm to 40 nm, an indium oxide content of 87.5% to 95.5%, and a carrier density of 4×1020/cm3 to 9×1020/cm3, and the substrate with the transparent electrode preferably has a heat shrinkage start temperature of 75° C. to 120° C. as measured by thermomechanical analysis.

Abstract: A patternable material can be prepared with an elastomeric relief image-forming layer. The patternable material has a relief image-forming elastomeric layer and also has a layer disposed on the entire surface of this elastomeric layer. This layer includes a reaction product of a non-fluorinated metal oxide precursor and a hydrolyzable fluoroalkylsilane. The reaction product is formed by applying a reactive composition of the noted components over the entire surface.

Abstract: Getter systems are provided including one or more deposits of getter materials, wherein at least one of the deposits is in contact with a layer of a material having H2O transport properties.

Abstract: An organic-inorganic hybrid electroluminescent device having a semiconductor nanocrystal pattern prepared by producing a semiconductor nanocrystal film using semiconductor nanocrystals, where the nanocrystal is surface-coordinated with a compound containing a photosensitive functional group, exposing the film through a mask and developing the exposed film.

Abstract: An organic light emitting device includes a substrate; a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer including an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes a first intermediate layer including a first host and a first dopant, a second intermediate layer including the first dopant, and a third intermediate layer including a second host and the first dopant interposed between the first electrode and the emission layer. The organic light emitting device has a long lifetime.

Abstract: A coating based on diamond-like is formed from a plurality of films of diamond-like carbon formed alternatingly over one another and in this respect a film in which no portion or only a much lower portion of doped fluorine is contained. A film in which fluorine or at least fluorine with a higher portion than the film arranged thereunder or thereabove are formed alternatingly over one another. The coating could be manufactured by using a target of pure carbon. Films are deposited on a surface of a substrate by means of a PVD process, with the portion of fluorine contained in doped form. Films are formed alternately being varied by varying a supplied volume flow of a fluorine/carbon compound or sulfur/fluorine compound as a precursor.

Abstract: A transparent panel is described. The transparent panel has at least one transparent substrate and at least one electrically conductive coating on at least one surface of the transparent substrate. The electrically conductive coating has at least two functional layers which are arranged one above the other, and each functional layer has at least an optically highly refractive material layer, which has a refractive index greater than or equal to 2.1, and a smoothing layer, which is above the optically highly refractive material layer. The smoothing layer contains at least one non-crystalline oxide, a first matching layer, which is above the smoothing layer, an electrically conductive layer, which is above the first matching layer, and a second matching layer, which is above the electrically conductive layers. The total thickness of all the electrically conductive layers is between 40 nm and 75 nm, and the electrically conductive coating has a low ohm/square sheet resistance.

Abstract: Methods and articles are provide for: a substrate having first and second opposing surfaces; an intermediate layer substantially covering the first surface of the substrate, the intermediate layer being between about 1-5 microns in thickness and having a hardness of at least 15 GPa; a first outer layer substantially covering the intermediate layer; and a second outer layer substantially covering the first outer layer, and having a hardness of at least 15 GPa.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an article having: a substrate and a RuO2 coating having nanoparticles of RuO2. Also disclosed herein is an article having: a substrate and a RuO2 coating. The coating is made by: immersing the substrate in a solution of RuO4 and a nonpolar solvent at a temperature that is below the temperature at which RuO4 decomposes to RuO2 and warming the substrate and solution to ambient temperature under ambient conditions to cause the formation of the coating.

Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet having high corrosion resistance after painting includes, on a mass percent basis, C: 0.05% to 0.15%, Si: 0.1% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.7%, Al: ?1.00%, P: ?0.025%, S: ?0.025%, and Cr: 0% to 0.8% as chemical components, the remainder being Fe and incidental impurities. The galvannealed steel sheet includes a galvannealed layer in an amount of 20 to 120 g/m2 per side, a percentage of exposed zinc metal of the galvannealed layer surface being 20% or more and less than 80%, and an amount of internal oxidation in a region disposed not more than 5 ?m from the surface of the steel sheet is 0.02 g/m2 or more and 0.1 g/m2 or less: Si?0.68%, Cr??1.25Si+0.85, and Si>0.68%, Cr=0, wherein Si and Cr denote respective contents (mass %) of Si and Cr.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for treating metal substrates that include contacting the metal with pretreatment compositions comprising: (a) a group IIIB metal, a group IVB metal and/or a group VB metal; and (b) a rheology modifier composition.

Abstract: A prism sheet as an optical functional sheet is a multilayer sheet, and includes a prism layer as an optical functional layer containing an organic material and a multilayer film. The multilayer film includes a film base and a first adhesive layer provided on the film base. The prism layer is formed on the first adhesive layer in a subsequent process. The thickness of the first adhesive layer is at least 0.1 ?m. The first adhesive layer contains at least 10 mass % of polyolefin.

Abstract: A uniaxially-stretched, high yield extruded film comprising a polyetherimide comprising units derived from polymerization of an aromatic dianhydride with a diamine selected from a meta-phenylene diamine, a para-phenylene diamine, and a combination thereof, wherein the polyetherimide is endcapped with an a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic primary monoamine; and wherein the high yield extruded film comprises at least 90 weight % of the polyetherimide before extrusion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polyester film comprising at least one base layer (B) and at least one antimicrobially active coating, where this antimicrobial coating a) comprises an ammonium silane of the following formula (I): where R1 and R2 are in each case identical or different and, independently of each other, are hydrogen moieties or C1-C8-alkyl moieties, which are straight-chain or—in the case of C3-C8-alkyl moieties—can be branched, R1 and R2 preferably being identical and being —CH3; in aqueous dispersions, one, two or all of the R1 moieties are hydrogen; n is greater than 0 and smaller than 10, preferably from 2 to 5, and particularly preferably 3; m is greater than 0 and smaller than 30, preferably from 6 to 25, and particularly preferably from 15 to 20, and very particularly preferably 17; X? is chloride, sulfate, or nitrate; and b) the thickness of the coating is smaller than 1 ?m, preferably smaller than 0.3 ?m, and particularly preferably smaller than 0.15 ?m.

Abstract: The invention relates to a glazing comprising a transparent glass substrate containing ions of at least one alkali metal and a transparent layer mad of silicon oxycarbide (SiOxCy) having a total thickness E with (a) a carbon-rich deep zone, extending from a depth P3 to a depth P4, where the C/Si atomic ratio is greater than or equal to 0.5, and (b) a carbon-poor surface zone, extending from a depth P1 to a depth P2, where the C/Si atomic ratio is less than or equal to 0.4, with P1<P2<P3<P4 and (P2-P1)+(P4-P3)<E the distance between P1 and P2 representing from 10% to 70% of the total thickness E of the silicon oxycarbide layer and the distance between P3 and P4 representing from 10% to 70% of the total thickness E of the silicon oxycarbide layer.

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 surface-tensioned sapphire plate and a corresponding manufacturing process. The plate may include a planar sapphire substrate and at least one layer disposed on the surface of the substrate for tensing the substrate. The layer may include at least 50 wt.-% of aluminum oxide (Al2O3). The manufacturing process for producing of a sapphire plate may include providing a planar sapphire substrate, and coating at least one surface of the substrate with a layer tensing the substrate. The layer may include at least 50 wt.-% of aluminum oxide (Al2O3).