Abstract: The present invention provides a barrier-forming film (A) useful for manufacturing various packaging container, which has a higher barrier-formability to prevent permeation of oxygen gas or steam, and a manufacturing method thereof. The barrier-forming film of the invention comprises a substrate film (1) having a vapor-deposited film (2) of an inorganic oxide, and by applying an annealing treatment thereto to limit the steam permeability within a range of from 2.0 to 0.000001 g/m2.day, and the oxygen permeability, within a range of from 2.0 to 0.000001 cc/m2.day.

Abstract: An ink jet recording material which enables the recorded ink images to exhibit enhanced light fastness, water resistance and hot moisture resistance, includes an ink receiving layer formed on a support material and containing a light fastness-enhancing agent containing hydroquinone-&bgr;-D-glucoside, a salt of pyrocatechol-3,5-disulfonic acid and/or salt of p-hydroxybenzenesulfonic acid, and an inorganic pigment and a cationic polymeric material which are in the form of a plurality of composite particles prepared by mixing an aqueous dispersion of inorganic pigment particles with a cationic polymeric material having a molecular weight of 100,000 or more, to cause the aqueous dispersion of the inorganic pigment particles to be coagulated with the cationic polymeric material, and subjecting the resultant coagulate of the inorganic pigment with the cationic polymeric material to pulverization to form inorganic pigment-cationic polymeric material composite particles having an average composite particle size of 10

Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic film structures having improved barrier and/or mechanical properties and methods for making the film structures. These improvements are achieved by incorporating into the thermoplastic film structures a polymeric nanocomposite comprising a polymer and nanosize particles of a modified clay.

Abstract: Oxygen barrier polyamide compositions exhibiting high oxygen scavenging capability suitable for extended shelf-life, packaging applications. Thus a polyamide composition comprises a polyamide homopolymer, copolymer, or blends thereof, and at least one polyamide reactive, oxidizable polydiene or oxidizable polyether. The polyamide products are particularly suited to making barrier packaging articles such as monolayer or multi-layer films, sheets, thermoformed containers and coinjection/coextrusion blow molded bottles comprising PET, polyolefin or polycarbonate as structural layers. Such articles are useful in a variety of oxygen-sensitive food, beverage, pharmaceutical and health care product packaging applications.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical component, which has an electrically conductive composition that is stable at high temperatures, and includes a partially pyrolized carbon based powder filler and a host matrix. The present invention also relates to an electrophotographic system which further is stable at conventional ambient environmental use conditions, such as different humidity levels and/or ambient temperature ranges.

Abstract: The present invention is directed, in general, to an improved material and method of planarizing a surface on a semiconductor wafer and, more specifically, to a method of altering the properties of polymers, preferably thermoplastic foam polymers, used in polishing applications. The chemical and mechanical properties thermoplastic foam substrates can be transformed by inorganic, inorganic-organic, and or organic—organic grafting techniques, such that the polymer foam is endowed with new set of properties that more desirable and suitable for polishing.

Abstract: An electrical contact element for electrically connecting an electric device and providing current transmission in an electric device wherein the electrical contact element comprises a metallic body, and wherein at least one contact surface, present on the body, is completely or partially coated with a friction-reducing layer. The friction-reducing layer comprises a metal salt.

Abstract: The present invention provides polyamide layered films suitable for packaging applications, each film having a base layer made of a polyamide polymer and an easy-sliding layer made of a polyamide polymer containing inorganic fine particles at 0.15 to 3.00 wt %, the easy-sliding layer being formed on at least one surface of the base layer, and the first static friction coefficient between the easy-sliding layer side surfaces of the layered films at 23° C. in a 65% RH atmosphere being 0.70 or lower, or the second static friction coefficient between the easy-sliding layer side surfaces of the layered films at 23° C. in a 80% RH atmosphere being 0.95 or lower.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminate film where on at least one face of a substrate layer selected from polyester film and aliphatic polyamide film, there is provided a polyamide layer in which the chief component is an aromatic polyamide of glass transition temperature at least 60° C., as a layer to undergo vapour deposition, and (1) the centre-line average roughness (Ra) of the face which is to undergo vapour deposition is in the range 0.005 to 0.03 &mgr;m, or (2) between the substrate layer and the polyamide layer, a layer comprising a single polymer or a plurality of polymers of SP value 10 to 15 is interposed between the substrate A layer and the polyamide C layer; and the invention offers film for vapour-deposition which is outstanding in its processability in vapour-deposition, and in its gas barrier properties.

Abstract: A process for the production of solid polymeric or composite substrates having surfaces with enhanced release properties is described. The process comprises (a) surface activation and (b) surface silylation and room temperature vulcanization (RTV) curing of the surface of a solid polymeric or composite substrate.

Abstract: Described is a multilayer film laminate having at least three layers, and gas barrier properties. The multilayer film laminate comprises sequentially: (I) at least two first layers, each of the first layers (I) having, on one side only, a vapor deposited coating selected independently from the group consisting of aluminum, SiOx and a metal oxide of main group 2 or 3 of the periodic table of the elements; and (II) an exterior polyolefin heat sealing layer. Also described is a method of using the multilayer film laminate as a barrier film in vacuum insulation panels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for process for preparing a coating by

Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic film structures having improved barrier and/or mechanical properties and methods for making the film structures. These improvements are achieved by incorporating into the thermoplastic film structures a polymeric nanocomposite comprising a polymer and nanosize particles of a modified clay.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium using a biaxially oriented aromatic polyamide film as a nonmagnetic support resulting in hardly any improper windings or edge damages. The magnetic recording medium includes a magnetic layer containing ferromagnetic powders dispersed in a binder formed on the nonmagnetic support, wherein the biaxially oriented aromatic support has a ratio of the loss tangent at a temperature of 40° C. to the loss tangent at a temperature of 100° C. of 0.7 or higher.

Abstract: A resin composition comprising (a) 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin containing nitrogen atom(s) in structural units thereof; and (b) 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of an iron compound catalyst comprising at least one iron oxide-based compound selected from the group consisting of iron oxide hydroxide particles or iron oxide particles, which has an average particle size of 0.05 to 2.0 &mgr;m; and has a specific oxidation activity. Such a resin composition is inhibited from generating hydrocyanic acid upon the combustion, though the composition contains nitrogen atom(s) in structural units thereof.

Abstract: A thermoplastic composite having a multiplicity of layers and comprising: I) a layer of a polyamide molding composition, II) a layer of a polyester molding composition, and III) a layer of an adhesion promoter adherent to I and II comprising at least 50% by weight of a blend of: a) from 20 to 80% by weight of a polyamide, prepared from &agr;) at least one diamine having from 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and &bgr;) an essentially stoichiometrically equivalent amount of at least one dicarboxylic acid comprising at least 5 mol % of a dicarboxylic acid having from 10 to 36 carbon atoms, and b) from 80 to 20% by weight of a polyester, prepared from &agr;) a mixture of from 30 to 95 mol % of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid having from 6 to 20 carbon atoms and from 70 to 5 mol % of the same dicarboxylic acid as in the polyamide of the adhesion promoter, having from 10 to 36 carbon atoms, and &bgr;) at least one diol having from 2 to 12 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A laminate comprising an ion conductive material having excellent ion conductivity at room temperature or at lower temperatures, a small water content, sufficiently high mechanical strength and storage stability to allow for handling the ion conductive material in practice, and a form which is easily integrated into an electrochemical element or electrochemical devices. Also disclosed is a production method thereof, and a method of producing a battery, a capacitor or an electrochemical element or apparatus using the laminate. The laminate comprises an intermediate layer of an ion conductive material having on the upper and lower portions thereof outer layers having an ion conductivity lower than that of the intermediate layer. Furthermore, at least one of the outer layers is a layer comprising a non electron-conductive material.

Abstract: The invention provides a resin composition for a fiber reinforced composite which can be used to produce a prepreg excellent in tackiness, drapability and windability around a mandrel, and also provides a prepreg in which reinforcing fibers are impregnated with a resin composition, and a fiber reinforced composite obtained from them. The resin composition includes a thermosetting resin and a thermoplastic resin with a weight average molecular weight of 200,000 to 5,000,000.

Abstract: The present invention provides aromatic polyamide resin moldings comprising at least one surface that is 1.0 nm or more in root-mean-square roughness and is 80 nm or less in 10-point average roughness, both of the roughness being as determined by atomic force microscopy, and that is 9.8 GPa or more in tensile Young's modulus at least in one direction. Such aromatic polyamide resin moldings serve effectively as material for film, film for magnetic recording medium in particular, that is highly resistant to scraping and has highly uniform surface protrusions.

Abstract: A transparent multilayer structure is disclosed such as a flexible self-supporting container for a flowable food product such as fruit juice. The transparent multilayer structure possesses superior barrier properties to oxygen, water vapor and aromatic gases. The multilayer structure may include an exterior layer having a metal oxide deposition laminated to an interior layer through use of an adhesive. In one embodiment, the metal oxide is SiOx where x has a value between 1.5 and 2.2 thereby allowing for a transparent multilayer structure. The metal oxide may be deposited on the exterior layer through a number of various methods. An exemplary method is plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The exterior layer may be composed of a polymer material integrated with a clay mineral between 0.1% and 10% weight of the polymer material. The polymer material may be selected from the group consisting of polyamide, polyethylene terephthalate, copolymers of polyethylene terephthalate and mixtures thereof.