Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a fiber-spreading method which can form a thin spread fiber sheet having a large and uniform spread width by uniformly distributing fibers of a fiber bundle having an increased number of fibers. Since a set of regions Si each including a pair of a fiber-spreading region Ai and an expansion region Bi are arranged in a movable region M set so that the fibers of the fiber bundle can move in the width direction, the fiber-spreading region Ai moving the fibers in the width direction while bending the fibers by letting a fluid pass through the fiber bundle, thereby spreading the fiber bundle to a spread width Wi (i=1, . . .

Abstract: Light-emitting devices are prepared by coating a porous substrate using a polymer-assisted deposition process. Solutions of metal precursor and soluble polymers having binding properties for metal precursor were coated onto porous substrates. The coated substrates were heated at high temperatures under a suitable atmosphere. The result was a substrate with a conformal coating that did not substantially block the pores of the substrate.

Abstract: Provide a glass-containing resin molded product having no skin layer formed on its surface and free from sink marks, warping and other forms of deformation, where such glass-containing resin molded product is characterized in that it is made of one type of resin selected from the group that includes polyethylene resin, polypropylene resin, polyethylene terephthalate resin and polyamide resin, that it contains solid, spherical glass beads with an average particle size of 10 to 40 ?m and the glass blending ratio of these solid, spherical glass beads is 40 to 70 percent by weight, and that in these ranges no skin layer is formed on the surface of such glass-containing resin molded product when measured by the laser Raman method.

Abstract: There is provided a coating material for a honeycomb structure, the coating material including inorganic particles or organic particles having D90/D10 of 5 to 50 with D10 of 50 ?m or less and D90 of 4 ?m or more (wherein D10 and D90 are values of 10% diameter and 90% diameter, respectively, in volume-based integrated fraction of a particle diameter distribution measured by a laser diffraction/scattering method from the smaller particle diameter side).

Abstract: A composite wood product and its method of manufacture. The wood product comprises aligned, substantially straight wood strands cut from veneer, disposed side by side lengthwise in substantially parallel relationship with adhesive bonding together the strands. The product is produced in a billet having a width in the range of about 3 ft. to 12 ft. and with a thickness in the range of about 1.1 inches to 2 inches. The strand ends are distributed in a specific pattern that approximates maximizing the minimum distance between strand ends. The wide sides of the billet are coated with a dark colored resin. The billet may be sawn lengthwise into sizes used for joists and rafters. Such a sawn product (e.g. 1.5? by 9.25?) has the wide sides a dark resin color and the narrow sawn sides mostly wood colored. The strands are parallel to its length.

Abstract: A composition comprising polymeric particles having an average particle diameter from 0.5 to 30 ?m and Vicker's scale hardness from 100 to 700 Kgf/mm2. The composition also contains a film-forming polymer having Tg no greater than 80° C. The average refractive index difference measured from 400 nm to 1100 nm between the polymeric particles and the film-forming polymer is no greater than 0.04.

Abstract: A composition containing polymeric particles. The polymeric particles have an average particle diameter from 30 to 300 nm and a Vicker's scale hardness from 100 to 700 Kgf/mm2. The composition also contains a film-forming polymer having Tg no greater than 80° C. The refractive index difference between the polymeric particles and the film-forming polymer is at least 0.04.

Abstract: A fluororesin film, of which discoloration, a change in the visible light transmittance and a decrease in the mechanical strength can be suppressed for a long period of time even though it contains titanium oxide, the fluorescent film having a pigment dispersed in a fluororesin, which pigment are composite particles each comprising a particle containing titanium oxide, a first covering layer containing cerium oxide and a second covering layer containing silicon oxide in this order from the inside, wherein the amount of cerium oxide is from 5 to 30 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of titanium oxide, the amount of silicon oxide is from 5 to 60 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of titanium oxide, and the average particle size of the composite particles is from 0.15 to 3 ?M; and a process for its production.

Abstract: An aluminum titanate-based ceramic is provided having an anisotropic microstructure which includes the reaction products of a plurality of ceramic-forming precursors. The batch contains at least one precursor in fibrous form. The inorganic ceramic has low thermal expansion. Porous ceramic bodies and the method of manufacture are also provided.

Abstract: Graphene aerogels with high conductivity and surface areas including a method for making a graphene aerogel, including the following steps: (1) preparing a reaction mixture comprising a graphene oxide suspension and at least one catalyst; (2) curing the reaction mixture to produce a wet gel; (3) drying the wet gel to produce a dry gel; and (4) pyrolyzing the dry gel to produce a graphene aerogel. Applications include electrical energy storage including batteries and supercapacitors.

Abstract: A bonding material for a honeycomb structure comprises inorganic particles in which D90/D10 is from 10 to 500, D10 is 100 ?m or less and D90 is 4 ?m or more, and the D10 and D90 are the values of 10% diameter and 90% diameter from a smaller particle diameter side, respectively, in volume-based integrated fractions of a particle diameter distribution measurement by a laser diffraction/scattering method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to biodegradable multiphase compositions characterized in that they comprise three phases: (a) a continuous phase composed of a matrix of at least one tough hydrophobic polymer incompatible with the starch; (b) a nanoparticulate dispersed starch phase with mean dimensions of less than 0.3 ?m, (c) a further dispersed phase of at least one rigid and fragile polymer with modulus greater than 1000 MPa. Such compositions having a Modulus greater than 300 MPa and a substantial isotropy in the two longitudinal and transverse directions in relation to tear propagation.

Abstract: A method of making a composite includes providing a particle suspension comprising colloidal particles (430) and a soluble matrix precursor (440); and co-depositing the particles and the matrix precursor on a surface in a process that provides a composite of an ordered colloidal crystal comprised of colloidal particles (430) with interstitial matrix (440). Optionally the templated colloidal particles can be removed to provide a defect-free inverse opal structure.

Abstract: The present composite structural article is a material which is in a plate-like shape and has mutually adhered fibers, and a foam that is arranged in a gap among fibers and is adhered to the fibers. The fibers are oriented from one surface side toward the other surface side thereof, and the content of the foam is in the range from 7% to 68% by weight based on 100% by weight of the total of fibers, foam and adhesive agent. The foam has preferably a size so as to pass through a sieve having an opening of 19 mm according to JIS Z8801.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a process for processing fibers of polyethylene having a molecular weight Mw of at least 10.000.000 g/mol and the use of the so-obtained fiber pieces.

Abstract: A PCD body comprises a skeletal mass of inter-bonded diamond grains defining interstices between them. At least some of the interstices contain a filler material comprising a metal catalyst material for diamond, the filler material containing Ti, W and an additional element M selected from the group consisting of V, Y, Nb, Hf, Mo, Ta, Zr Cr, Zr and the rare earth elements. The content of Ti within the filler material is at least 0.1 weight % and at most 20 weight %. The content of M within the filler material is at least 0.1 weight % and at most 20 weight %, and the content of W within the filler material is at least 5 weight % and at most 50 weight % of the filler material.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic-inorganic hybrid composition containing a metal oxide (A) having a particle diameter of 1-400 nm and a polymer emulsion particle (B) having a particle diameter of 10-800 nm. The polymer emulsion particle (B) is obtained by polymerizing a hydrolysable silicon compound (b1) and a vinyl monomer (b2) having a secondary and/or tertiary amide group in the presence of water and an emulsifying agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to biodegradable multiphase compositions comprising a continuous phase composed of a matrix of at least one tough hydrophobic polymer incompatible with the starch and a nanoparticulate dispersed starch phase with mean dimensions of less than 0.25 m. The compositions are characterized by breaking load, Young's Modulus and breaking energy.

Abstract: There is provided a connecting structure with high reliability produced at low cost through the production process simplified by connecting connection electrodes, each including an organic film as an oxidation preventing film, to each other using a conductive adhesive. An electrode-connecting structure in which a first connection electrode 2 and a second connection electrode 10 are connected to each other with a conductive adhesive layer 9 therebetween includes organic films 6 and 11 formed on at least the first connection electrode and conductive particles 8 contained so that major axes of the particles are oriented in a thickness direction of the conductive adhesive layer and the average length of the major axes is larger than the total thickness of at least the organic films and the conductive adhesive layer, wherein the conductive particles pierce the organic films and contact the first connection electrode and the second connection electrode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a carbon nanotube assembly includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes having a length of 10 ?m or less in a major axis direction assembled with a space filling rate of 30% or more.

Abstract: Dipeptidylpeptidase IV inhibitor (herein referred to as DPP-IV) that may be 98.5-100% pure is a high-dose drug capable of being directly compressed with specific excipients into sold form dosage forms, such as tablets and capsules having desired, hardness, disintegrating ability and acceptable dissolution characteristics. DPP-IV is not inherently compressible and thus presents formulation problems. Excipients used in the formulation enhance the flow and compaction properties of the drug and tableting mix. Optimal flow contributes to uniform die fill and weight control. The binder used ensures sufficient cohesive properties that allow DPP-IV to be compressed using the direct compression method. The tablets produced provide an acceptable in vitro dissolution profile.

Abstract: A method is described for recycling used clothes and domestic textile. After examining and sorting the received material (2) and subdividing the received material in a large number of mutually different material streams (3) with to a higher or lesser extent profit making product (WMP) and to a higher or lesser extent loss making product (VGP), the method comprises the steps of: selecting one or more of the loss making products; possibly removing, at least partly, undesirable materials such as for instance rubber, glue, elastic; reducing the size of the selected product; mixing the reduced product with a resin; pressing the resulting mass in a desired shape; —allowing the mass pressed in shape to harden.

Abstract: The invention relates to biodegradable nano-polymer compositions, or nanocomposites, comprising poly(lactic acid) and co-polyester polymer with adipic acid compounded with nanoparticles of a mineral material having a degree of purity of at least 99.9%, preferably 99.99%, selected from the group of silica and magnesium silicate. In addition, the present invention refers to a process for manufacturing the said compositions as well as biodegradable articles made on the basis of such compositions, such as molded, formed and extruded articles.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a nanostructured material comprising nanoparticles bound to its surface. The nanostructured material comprises nanoparticles which are bound to the surface, wherein the nanoparticles have a maximal dimension of about 20 nm. Furthermore, the nanostructured material comprises pores having a maximal dimension of between about 2 nm to about 5 ?m. The nanoparticles bound on the surface of the nanostructured material are noble metal nanoparticles or metal oxide nanoparticles or mixtures thereof. The present invention also refers to a method of their manufacture and the use of these materials as electrode material.

Abstract: A polycrystalline diamond (PCD) material and method for making the PCD material are provided. The PCD so produced comprises a skeletal diamond structure formed of intergrown diamond grains and defines interstitial regions between the diamond grains. The skeletal diamond structure contains metal carbide structures or particles that are occluded from the interstitial regions by diamond.

Abstract: Provided is a power storage device separator that is realized in the form of a heat-resistant, solvent-resistant, and dimensionally stable thin film. Also provided is a power storage device separator that can be realized in the form of a thin film which has excellent ion permeability and low resistance, which makes short-circuiting between electrodes and self-discharging difficult to occur, and in addition, which has excellent durability even after long periods of use under high temperature environments in the presence of organic solvents and ionic solutions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a porous alumina self-supporting film which has a sufficient strength to be used as a self-supporting film, is flexible and has a high transparency; an alumina sol that is composed of fibrous or needle-like boehmite particles dispersed in a solution and that has a high storage stability; and methods for producing such a film and such an alumina sol. More specifically, the invention provides a porous alumina self-supporting film which is composed of a collection of fibrous or needle-like alumina hydrate particles or alumina particles having an average breadth of 1 to 10 nm, an average aspect ratio (length/breadth) of 30 to 5,000 and an average length of 100 to 10,000 nm, has an orientation, has a pore distribution with a pore diameter dpeak of 0.

Abstract: Described herein are open celled foams including a matrix of interconnected spheres. Also described herein are methods of making open celled foams as well as making composite members with open celled foam coatings covering at least a portion of the composite member. The open celled foams described herein are silicone based materials and can be used to coat implants such as breast implants and function to encourage tissue ingrowth and reduce capsular formation.

Abstract: In a known method for producing quartz glass that is doped with nitrogen, an SiO2 base product is prepared in the form of SiO2 grains or in the form of a porous semi-finished product produced from the SiO2 grains and the SiO2 base product is processed into the quartz glass with the nitrogen chemically bound therein in a hot process in an atmosphere containing a reaction gas containing nitrogen. From this starting point, a method is provided for achieving nitrogen doping in quartz glass with as high a fraction of chemically bound nitrogen as possible. This object is achieved according to the invention in that a nitrogen oxide is used as the nitrogen-containing reaction gas, and that a SiO2 base product is used that in the hot process has a concentration of oxygen deficient defects of at least 2×1015 cm?3, wherein the SiO2 base product comprises SiO2 particles having an average particle size in the range of 200 nm to 300 ?m (D50 value).

Abstract: The present invention provides a separator for an electric double layer capacitor comprising a porous sheet containing fibrillated heat-resistant fibers, polyester fibers having a fineness of 0.01 dtex to less than 0.10 dtex, and fibrillated cellulose, which is suitable for use as a separator for an electric double layer capacitor operating at high voltages of 3 V or more.

Abstract: Successful dispersion approaches are described for the formation of dispersion of dry powders of inorganic particles. In some embodiments, it is desirable to form the dispersion in two processing steps in which the particles are surface modified in the second processing step. Composites can be formed using the well dispersed particles to form improved inorganic particle-polymer composites. These composites are suitable for optical applications and for forming transparent films, which can have a relatively high index or refraction. In some embodiments, water can be used to alter the surface chemistry of metal oxide particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides high strength nonwoven wipe materials and the process of making the materials. The high strength nonwoven wipe materials contain cellulosic fibers, synthetic fibers, or mixtures thereof, with bicomponent fibers and optionally, a binder. The present invention provides a high strength, high elongation, reduced stiffness nonwoven wipe material with superior tensile strength.

Abstract: Tensile strength after heat aging of articles molded from melt-fabricable perfluoropolymer is improved by incorporating polytetrafluoroethylene as dispersed submicrometer-size particles into the melt-fabricable perfluoropolymer.

Abstract: This disclosure provides improved composite materials and methods for making the composite materials. Specifically, binder-free composite materials have been developed that have a network of CNTs in which one or more types of particles or fibers is embedded. The composite materials may be made by filtering suspensions containing carbon nanotubes, particles or fibers of interest, or both carbon nanotubes and particles or fibers of interest. The particles may be silicon particles, activated carbon particles, particles of a lithium compound, any other particles, or a combination thereof. The composite materials have a large number of applications, including electrical devices.

Abstract: An oriented thermoplastic elastomer film having reduced permeability and improved fatigue resistance comprising a dynamically vulcanized polymer blend of (A) a halogenated isobutylene elastomer and (B) polyamide, the film is produced by casting or blowing the above polymer blend under the condition such that a shear rate at a die lip for casting or blowing is regulated to control the molecular arrangement in the film, whereby the planar birefringence (PBR) of the resultant film becomes greater or equal to 0.002 and a production process of the same.

Abstract: Flexible optically transparent nano structured polymer material is based on the composition that includes the derivatives of polyurethanes, hardening agent, antistatic additive and modifiers. The structure of polymer includes nano and micro-domains and clusters of various sizes and configurations that are located in a certain order in the volume of the polymer and play the role of micro lenses that provide the concentration of the light and to concentration of light on the optical device and strengthen wave of optical radiation. The transparent polymer laminated, encapsulated or coated of incident light-facing surface of optical devices including the photovoltaic modules and imparts higher conversion efficiencies to photovoltaic modules, a high optical transparency, is resistant to the humidity and destructive effects of UV, has a good adhesion to the surface of the optical devices, and a good stability to deformation.

Abstract: A composite, carbon based material that can be used for enhancing the dynamic stiffness of objects, in the case where it for instance is applied as a coating, comprises at least one layer of substantially parallel carbon pillars. The pillars extend from the bottom surface up to the top surface of the layer, substantially perpendicularly to said surfaces, have substantially hexagonal or pentagonal cross-sections and a relatively weak conical shape, their cross-section widening from their bottom ends to their top ends. The carbon based pillars can typically have a cross-sectional dimension in the range of 50-200 ?m such as about 100 ?m and have heights in the range of 50 ?m-2 mm. The pillars can be seen as built from macro-sized aggregates that have at least one dimension in the nano range, e.g. in the range of 10-800 run, and include carbon, oxygen and hydrogen and in most cases also nitrogen.

Abstract: Provided is a sintered silicon wafer in which the maximum crystal grain size is 20?m or less and the average crystal grain size is 1?m or more but not more than 10?m; specifically, provides is a sintered silicon wafer having the following mechanical properties measured by collecting a plurality of test samples from the sintered silicon wafer having a diameter of 400mm or more, namely, the average deflecting strength based on a three-point bending test of 20kgf/mm2 or more but not more than 50kgf/mm2, the average tensile strength of 5kgf/mm2 or more but not more than 20kgf/mm2, and the average Vickers hardness of Hv 800 or more but not more than Hv 1200. The provided sintered silicon wafer is a sintered compact wafer having a fixed strength and mechanical properties similar to those of single-crystal silicon even when it is a sintered silicon wafer of large-size disk shape.

Abstract: Plane structure composed of a cohesive assembly of contiguous cellular cells having any cross section and essentially parallel walls from one cell to another, characterized in that the walls of the cells comprise at least two portions based on different polymeric compositions, the junction between said portions being substantially parallel to the plane of the structure.

Abstract: The present invention describes polymer compositions containing boron nitride particles that are encapsulated in layers of turbostratic carbon. The polymers so prepared exhibit enhanced thermal conductivity.

Abstract: The present invention provides an air-permeable porous structural body that can be used for a vent plug or the like and imposes a low environmental load in waste treatment or the like after use, and also provides a vent plug using the porous structural body. Further, the invention provides an air-permeable porous structural body that can be molded by injection molding that has high productivity. The porous structural body has an overall structure entirely occupied by a structure composed of an infinite number of spherical or ellipsoidal cavities having a diameter of 1 ?m to 100 ?m. Holes are open in cavity walls and the cavity is linked to another cavity by the holes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fibre assembly comprising high-performance polymeric fibres and bonding fibres, the fibre assembly comprising at least 70% by weight of high-performance polymeric fibres and at most 30% by weight of bonding fibres, the fibre assembly having a layered arrangement of the fibres and at least some of the fibres being bonded together by points of contact obtainable by softening of the bonding fibres. The present invention further describes an insulation system comprising a fibre assembly of the invention.

Abstract: A polycrystalline diamond (PCD) material 10 comprising at least 88 volume percent and at most 99 volume percent diamond grains 12, the mean diamond grain contiguity being greater than 60.5 percent. The PCD material 10 is particularly but not exclusively for use in boring into the earth.

Abstract: A fluorescent article includes an underlayer colored fluorescent film and an overlayer colored fluorescent film, which is provided over the underlayer colored fluorescent film. The underlayer colored fluorescent film includes a first fluorescent colorant in an underlayer acrylic matrix. The overlayer colored fluorescent film includes a second fluorescent in an overlayer acrylic matrix.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods of making articles of semiconducting material and semiconducting material articles formed thereby, such as articles of semiconducting material that may be useful in making photovoltaic cells.

Abstract: A single-layer matte film or sheet which comprises a filler and a biodegradable resin (A) comprising a blend of a biodegradable polyester (a1) having a glass transition temperature Tg of 10° C. or lower and a biodegradable polyester (a2) having a glass transition temperature Tg of 30° C. or higher, and in which at least one side thereof has a surface gloss (45-degree gloss) as measured in accordance with ASTM-D2457-70 of 60% or lower.

Abstract: The present subject matter relates generally to design, synthesis, and characterization of materials with well-defined porous networks of molecular dimensions in which the size and surface energy of the pores can be externally and reversibly controlled to dynamically modulate the adsorption and transport of molecular species.

Abstract: A polymeric film comprising a) a transparent polymer and b) an inorganic filler based on aluminum hydroxide able to show a low coefficient of thermal expansion still retaining a high transparency and a low tendency to brittleness. The invention also refers to an optical device comprising said polymeric film.

Abstract: A high oscillator strength thin film has an absorption constant greater than or equal to 106 cm?1.

Abstract: A heat-resisting ultrafine fibrous separator of the present invention is prepared by an electrospinning process, formed of ultrafine fibers of heat-resisting polymer resin having a melting point more than 1800 C or not having the melting point, or ultrafine fibers of polymer resin capable of swelling in an electrolyte, together with the ultrafine fibers of heat-resisting polymer resin. Also, polyolefine fine particles providing a shutdown function are dispersed in the heat-resisting resin or the polymer resin capable of swelling in the electrolyte. The heat-resisting ultrafine fibrous separator of the present invention has the shutdown function, low thermal contraction, thermal endurance, excellent ionic conductivity and excellent adhesive property with an electrode, so a battery having excellent cycling characteristics, and having high-energy density and high capacity can be prepared.