Abstract: A self-stratifying coating composition is provided. The self-stratifying coating can include a base layer having a telechelic resin with reactive end groups and an alkoxide oligomer. In addition, a top layer having an acrylate and/or methacrylate such as a fluorinated acrylate, a fluorinated methacrylate, a fluorinated hydrocarbon copolymerized with an acrylate, a fluorinated hydrocarbon copolymerized with a methacrylate and combinations thereof, and a crosslinking agent can be included. In addition, the base layer and the top layer can have an interfacial surface tension therebetween that is within a range of about 15 to 60 mJ/cm2.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an electronic component mounted on a substrate and metal conductors electrically connecting the electronic component. A conformal coating overlies the metal conductors and comprises a polymer into which a phosphine compound is impregnated and/or covalently bonded. Accordingly, the conformal coating is able to protect the metal conductors from corrosion caused by sulfur components (e.g., elemental sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, and/or sulfur oxides) in the air. That is, the phosphine compound in the polymer reacts with any corrosion inducing sulfur component in the air and prevents the sulfur component from reacting with the underlying metal conductors. Preferably, the phosphine compound in the polymer does not react with other components in the air (e.g., carbon dioxide) which would otherwise deplete its availability for the target reaction. The phosphine compound may be rendered completely non-volatile by covalently bonding it directly into the polymer backbone.

Abstract: A material and an associated method of formation. A self-assembling block copolymer that includes a first block species and a second block species respectively characterized by a volume fraction of F1 and F2 with respect to the self-assembling block copolymer is provided. At least one crosslinkable polymer that is miscible with the second block species is provided. The self-assembling block copolymer and the at least one crosslinkable polymer are combined to form a mixture. The mixture having a volume fraction, F3, of the crosslinkable polymer, a volume fraction, F1A, of the first block species, and a volume fraction, F2A, of the second block species is formed. A material having a predefined morphology where the sum of F2A and F3 were preselected is formed.

Abstract: A complex sheet structure includes a base plate, a microstructure layer, and a shielding layer. The microstructure layer is formed on the base plate and has a first side and an opposite second side. The microstructure layer has a plurality of prismatic structures, and the base plate touches the first side of the microstructure layer. The shielding layer covers the second side of the microstructure layer and contains a low light-transmittance material.

Abstract: Provided are a multi-layered sheet, a backsheet for a photovolatic cell, a method of preparing the same and a photovoltaic module. The multi-layered sheet in which a resin layer including a fluorine-based resin has excellent durability and weather resistance, and also exhibits strong interfacial adhesion to a substrate or polymer coating layer is provided. When a drying process is performed at a low temperature in preparation of the multi-layered sheet, production cost can be reduced, producibility can be increased, and degradation in the quality of a product caused by thermal deformation or thermal shock can be prevented. Such a multi-layered sheet may be effectively used as a backsheet for various photovoltaic cells.

Abstract: Provided are a polarizer protective film containing a (meth)acrylic resin as a main component and being excellent in adhesion with a polarizer, a polarizing plate including the polarizer protective film and a polarizer which are unlikely to peel off from each other, and an image display apparatus of high quality using the polarizing plate. The polarizer protective film of the present invention includes a coating layer containing a (meth)acrylic resin (B) as a main component on at least one surface of a film containing a (meth)acrylic resin (A) as a main component.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition comprising, or produced from, an organic acid-modified ionomer and silica filler having oil absorption greater than 100 g oil/100 g silica. Also disclosed are articles produced from the composition such as golf balls.

Abstract: A floor coating material of the present invention contains (a) 20 to 40% by mass of a vinyl ester resin or an unsaturated polyester resin; (b) 50 to 70% by mass of a vinyl monomer and/or a (meth)acrylate monomer; (c) 1 to 20% by mass of a modifying agent (provided that the total amount of the components (a) to (c) is 100% by mass); and (d) 0.1 to 15 parts by mass of at least one radical polymerization initiator selected from the group consisting of organic peroxides, UV initiators and electron-beam initiators, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the components (a) to (c).

Abstract: An at least partially metalized plastic product for cosmetic and perfume packaging comprising a plastic body, the plastic body being directly covered at least partially by a metal layer, wherein the plastic is a polyolefin selected from: polyethylene, polypropylene, their copolymer or their mixture; and in that when the polyolefin comprises at least one polypropylene or a copolymer of polypropylene-polyethylene, this polyolefin has an infrared spectrum having: a peak at the wave number of 720 cm?1 of a height at least equal to 20; or a peak at the wave number of 809 cm?1 of a height less than 20, a peak at the wave number of 840 cm?1 of a height less than 50, a peak at the wave number of 899 cm?1 of a height less than 20, and a peak at the wave number of 997 cm?1 of a height less than 60.

Abstract: Presently described are multilayer optical films comprising an optical stack comprising at least one first birefringent optical layer; at least one (e.g. isotropic) second optical layer having a birefringence of less than 0.04 at 633 nm, and optionally at least one skin layer. The second layer, skin layer, or a combination thereof comprises a blend of at least one methyl methacrylate polymer and at least one styrene-acrylonitrile polymer.

Abstract: An antimicrobial coating system and method are described. In some embodiments, a system may include a composition. The composition may include one or more bridged polycyclic compounds. At least one of the bridged polycyclic compounds may include at least two cyclic groups, and at least two of the cyclic groups may include quaternary ammonium moieties. In some embodiments, a method may include applying an antimicrobial coating to an oral surface, a surface of a construction substrate, a surface of a marine substrate, a surface of a medical device, or a surface of a personal care device. The protective coating may be antimicrobial. A protective coating may include antimicrobial bridged polycyclic compounds. Bridged polycyclic compounds may include quaternary ammonium compounds. Bridged polycyclic compounds based coating systems may impart self-cleaning properties to a surface (e.g., a tooth surface).

Abstract: Coated polymer compositions having improved dielectric strength are disclosed. The coated polymer compositions can comprise a polymer substrate and an inorganic material. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to phenothiazine-base macromonomer compounds and methods of making the same.

Abstract: There is provided a polymeric film comprising one or more thermoplastic polyurethane and one or more acrylic polymer comprising, as polymerized units, one or more hydrogen-bondable monomer.

Abstract: The present invention describes thermoformable coextruded film suitable for use in packaging applications having at least a first polymeric layer serving as an outermost exterior-film layer and comprising a cycloaliphatic polyester, an aromatic polyester or blends thereof; a second polymeric layer serving as a thermoforming-assist layer and comprising a polyolefin; and a third polymeric layer serving as an innermost exterior-film layer and comprising a heat-sealing polyolefin material. The films of the present invention are oxygen-permeable in that they exhibit an oxygen transmission rate of between 32-1000 cm3/100 in2/24 h. atm.

Abstract: Methods are provided for obtaining soluble or insoluble poly(iptycenylene vinylene) homo- and co-polymers via a soluble precursor polymer. The polymers obtained by the methods can be used in electronic or opto-electronic devices, e.g., chemosensors.

Abstract: Described herein are compositions comprising (a) 92 to 99 weight percent, of polyoxymethylene with number average molecular weight from 65,000 to 250,000 g/mole; and (b) 1 to 8 weight percent of an imidized acrylic resin obtained by treating an acrylic polymer with a monoalkyl amine, wherein the weight percents of a and b are based on their combined weight, and monoalkyl group has from one to five carbon atoms, the degree of imidization is 20% to 100% and the acid level is from 0 to about 2 weight percent of the imidized acrylic resin. The composition has significantly higher heat deflection temperature than the neat polyoxymethylene. Processes of increasing heat deflection temperature of POM compositions are described herein by blending (a) and (b), wherein the resultant melt-mixed composition has a 200% increase or greater in time to 5% creep strain relative to the same melt-mixed composition lacking (b).

Abstract: To provide an adhesive composition which shows high adhesion with a glass substrate and has excellent heat resistance, moisture resistance and moist heat resistance, an adhesive optical film comprising an adhesive layer made of the adhesive composition, which shows high adhesion between the adhesive layer and an optical film and effectively suppresses the occurrence of adhesive residue and lack of adhesive and also has excellent heat resistance, moisture resistance and moist heat resistance, and an image display device comprising the adhesive optical film, the adhesive optical film comprises an optical film 1, an adhesive layer 3 made of a water dispersible adhesive composition comprising, as raw monomers, an alkyl (meth)acrylate ester whose alkyl group has 4 to 18 carbon atoms, a carboxyl group-containing vinyl monomer, a phosphoric acid group-containing vinyl monomer, and a copolymerizable vinyl monomer which is optionally copolymerizable with the above monomers, wherein a carboxyl group concentration is fr

Abstract: A film that contains a thermoplastic polyurethane and water-soluble polymer is provided. The film is both elastic and water-sensitive (e.g., water-soluble, water-dispersible, etc.) in that it loses its integrity over time in the presence of water. The dual attributes of elasticity and water-sensitivity may be achieved by reducing the tendency of the thermoplastic polyurethane and water-soluble polymer to form separate phases. Namely, phase separation may cause the elastomer to act as a barrier and limit the ability of the water-soluble polymer to contact water and thereby disperse. To minimize such phase separation, a variety of aspects of the film construction may be selectively controlled, such as the nature of the thermoplastic polyurethane and water-soluble polymer, the relative amount of each component, and so forth.

Abstract: A method of assembling a part for a motor vehicle is shown. The method comprises the steps of providing at least one of the parts with a first adhesive for bonding with the other part, the first adhesive being activated under the effect of a first predetermined condition, providing at least one of the parts with a second adhesive for bonding with the other part, the second adhesive being different from the first adhesive and suitable for activating under the effect of a second predetermined condition different from the first predetermined condition. The parts are then assembled together by the first adhesive by exposing the parts to the first predetermined condition in such a manner as to define a mutual relative position of the parts in the assembled part, and in the absence of the second predetermined condition, and the assembled-together parts are exposed to the second predetermined condition.

Abstract: A polymer composition includes a block copolymer, at least one oligomeric solvent, and at least one solid additive. The block copolymer is mixed with the solvent and the solid additive at a temperature above 150° C. to form the polymer composition. The solid additive blooms to the surface of the polymer composition during the useable life of polymer composition, thereby decreasing the shelf-life and usable life of parts, such as golf club grips, created therefrom.

Abstract: An optical film for a display device including a substrate and a coating layer in which a first material has a first range of surface energy value and a second material has a second range of surface energy value smaller than the first range of surface energy value such that the first material is mainly distributed on a first side of the coating layer contacting the substrate and the second material is mainly distributed on a second side of the coating layer opposite to the first side.

Abstract: Multilayer structures useful as a backsheet for an electronic device, e.g., a photovoltaic cell, comprise (A) a top layer comprising a polyolefin resin, e.g., ethylene vinyl acetate, and having a top facial surface and a bottom facial surface, (B) a tie layer comprising an adhesive, e.g., an ethylene glycidyl methacrylate, having a top facial surface and a bottom facial surface, the top facial surface in adhering contact with the bottom facial surface of the top layer, and (C) a bottom layer comprising a polyolefin having at least one melting peak greater than 125° C., e.g., a polypropylene, and having a top facial layer and a bottom facial surface, the top facial surface in adhering contact with the bottom facial surface of the tie layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-functional label slide, particularly to a label slide adapted to be marked by means of laser induction, thermal induction or ink-jet process. The label slide comprises a substrate wherein at least one area is formed as a mark area. The mark area at least comprises the following structure: a first label layer formed on at least one side of the mark area and a second label layer formed on one side of the first label layer opposite to the substrate. Therefore, the label slide of the invention can be marked by at least two marking ways mentioned above.

Abstract: Sealable, thermoformable, heat-shrinkable multi-layer film having a symmetrical construction around a two-ply inner layer, and having a heat shrinkability in machine direction and in cross direction of in each case at least 20% at 93° C., the heat-shrinkability being substantially unaffected by thermoforming, and use thereof with specially equipped packaging machines.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a medium (“substrate”) usable with inkjet printing apparatus (either or both piezoelectric and thermal inkjet, or other forms of inkjet printing), and methods for forming and using the same. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a base material component and an image enhancing layer including a metallic salt disposed either or both on at least one side of the base medium and mixed within the base medium thereon. The present invention is further directed to printable articles including the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to transferable curable non-liquid film on a release substrate, process for making same, bonding processes utilizing same, assemblies comprising substrates bonded together using same and the cure product of said films. Pre-applied materials are also described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition comprising at least one photo-initiator and at least one (meth)acryl-polymer having units that are derived from (meth)acryl-monomers that have at least one double bond and 8 to 40 carbon atoms in the alkyl residue. The present invention furthermore relates to a monomer mixture comprising at least one (meth)acryl-monomer having at least one double bond and 8 to 40 carbon atoms in the alkyl residue and at least one photo-initiator monomer and a (meth)acryl-polymer that can be obtained by polymerization of said monomer mixture. The present invention furthermore relates to a method for producing a coating. The present invention furthermore relates to a coated object comprising a coating obtained by said method.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cover tape which comprises at least a base layer (A), an intermediate layer (B), a peeling layer (C), the primary component of which is a thermoplastic resin, and a heat seal layer (D), the primary component of which is a thermoplastic resin that can be heat sealed to a carrier tape. The tensile storage modulus (c) of the thermoplastic resin that constitutes the peeling layer (C) is within the range of 1×106 Pa to 1×108 Pa. The tensile storage modulus (d) of the thermoplastic resin that constitutes the heat seal layer (D) is within the range of 1×108 Pa to 1×1010 Pa. The ratio of (c) and (d) satisfies 1×104?(d)/(c)?1×10. This kind of cover tape has the appropriate peel strength and sufficiently low fluctuation in peel strength when heat sealed to a thermoplastic resin carrier tape.

Abstract: A UV-curable composition for optical discs contains a fluorine-containing UV-curable resin having a poly(perfluoroalkylene ether) chain and a UV-curable group. The fluorine-containing UV-curable resin exhibits good compatibility with the composition and satisfactorily localizes in and near a surface of a coating film. Thus, the composition can be used to form an outermost layer of an optical disc such that the droplet size of grease such as that constituting fingerprints adhering to the outermost layer is reduced and scattering of light having a short oscillation wavelength passing through the outermost layer is suppressed. Accordingly, an optical disc on and from which signals can be satisfactorily recorded and read is formed.

Abstract: A multilayer optical body is disclosed. The optical body includes an optical film including polyester, a first skin layer is disposed on at least one side of the polyester optical film, and a strippable skin layer is disposed on the first skin layer. The first skin layer includes a mixture of a polyacrylate and a second polymer. Methods of making such optical bodies are also disclosed.

Abstract: A color filter comprising a cured layer of a photosensitive resist composition comprising a highly reactive polyacrylate monomer and a process for the preparation thereof are provided. The color filter is especially useful for low temperature applications such as electrophoretic displays, polymer dispersed liquid crystal displays, OLED devices and the like.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment discloses a shape memory polymer material (SMP) including a glue material chemically grafted onto a surface of the SMP material wherein the SMP material is capable of transforming between a permanent shape and a temporary shape.

Abstract: The invention discloses water-based paint compositions which comprise a copolymer of polymerizable unsaturated monomer having polyoxyalkylene chain; hydroxyl-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomer having no polyoxyalkylene chain; polymerizable unsaturated monomer having at least one cationic functional group selected from the group consisting of tertiary amino groups and quaternary ammonium salt groups; at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of bridged alicyclic hydrocarbon group-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomers and C6-18 alkyl group-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomers; and other polymerizable unsaturated monomer: a hydroxyl-containing resin: and a melamine resin having a weight-average molecular weight within the range of 1,000-5,000. The invention also discloses film-forming methods using the compositions.

Abstract: Systems and methods for the formation of nanostructures, including carbon-based nanostructures, are generally described. In certain embodiments, substrate configurations and associated methods are described.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a multilayer composition containing fluoropolymer and method for fabricating the same, and a solar cell module. The multilayer composition includes: a fluoropolymer layer; a non-fluorinated polymer layer; and an adhesion promoter layer formed between the fluoropolymer layer and the non-fluorinated polymer layer, wherein the adhesion promoter layer includes aromatic diamines or aromatic polyamines.

Abstract: A heat insulation/heat dissipation sheet including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer or a heat-conducting pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a heat-conducting layer, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer or a heat-insulating pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a heat-insulating layer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer or a heat-insulating pressure-sensitive adhesive layer laminated in order between the heat-generating component and the component to be protected, adjacent to the heat-generating component, for connecting the components. Further, an intra-device structure including the heat insulation/heat dissipation sheet with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a heat-conducting layer side thereof adhered to a heat-generating component side and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a heat-insulating layer side thereof adhered to a component to be protected.

Abstract: The present invention discloses films, papers, and fabrics (both woven and non-woven) that are more receptive to inks or dyes. These ink/dye receptive products are made by coating the surface of the film, paper, or fabric with certain acrylate polymers. These ink/dye receptive films, papers and fabrics have the ability to then be used in making laminated and coated products. The subject invention more specifically discloses an ink/dye receptive film which is comprised of a base film which is coated with an acrylate polymer, comprised of 1 weight percent to 20 weight percent repeat units of at least one unsaturated aliphatic olefin monomer containing from 4 to 30 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous emulsion comprising at least a vinyl polymer, said vinyl polymer comprising: a) 45 to 99 wt % of itaconate ester monomers having formula (I), wherein R and R? are independently an alkyl or an aryl group; b) 0.1 to 15 wt % of ionic or potentially ionic unsaturated monomers; c) 0 to 54 wt % of unsaturated monomers, different from a) and b); and 0.9 to 54.9 wt % by weight of total monomers of a chaser monomer composition added subsequently and polymerised after the polymerisation of monomers a), b) and c); wherein a)+b)+c) and the chaser monomer composition add up to 100%; and wherein the aqueous emulsion contains less than 0.5 wt % free itaconate ester monomers of formula I based on the total weight of the aqueous emulsion.

Abstract: The invention relates to the production of a transparent, weather-resistant barrier film by lamination, extrusion lamination (adhesive lamination, melt lamination or hotmelt lamination) or extrusion coating. The film can also contain a scratch-resistant coating. For this purpose, two or more transparent film composites, which consist in each case of two externally disposed polyolefin or polyester layers which are in each case inorganically coated and glued to the inorganic layer on the inside, are connected to each other. Said composite is laminated with a weather-resistant, transparent film (e.g. PMMA or PMMA polyolefin coextrudate or PMMA polyester coextrudate). The inorganic oxide layers have the property of a high optical transparency while having at the same time a good barrier effect against water vapour and oxygen while the PMMA layer exhibits weather resistance stability.

Abstract: A building element selected from a roofing tile or siding element may be formed from a first cementitious mixture and a second cementitious mixture containing a photocatalytic cementitious mixture. The first cementitious mixture and the photocatalytic cementitious mixture may be co-formed into a shaped uncured two layer monolith having a base layer of the first cementitious mixture and a top layer of the photocatalytic cementitious mixture. The shaped uncured two layer monolith is then cured. The resulting building element may be algae-resistant.

Abstract: A label of the present invention is characterized by a three-dimensional design image printed theron on the basis of two-dimensional image data obtained by three-dimensionally correcting at least one data selected from two dimensional data (X,Y) and color data (R,G,B) to two-dimensionally convert height data (Z) among three-dimensional data (X,Y,Z) and the color data (R,G,B) obtained by actually measuring a surface of a three-dimensional model. Such a label can be provided with printed images giving three-dimensional impressions close to the three-dimensional model (real model).

Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer structure useful for preparing highly abrasion-resistant protective liners, including tubular articles such as multilayer tubes or pipes.

Abstract: An improved adhesive composition having increased bond strength between a celluosic board and plastic film substrate is provided. The adhesive composition having improved adhesion includes a modified starch component, polyethylenimine and water. Articles having improved adhesion and methods of making the articles having improved adhesion are also provided.

Abstract: Polymer compositions, methods of making polymer compositions, structures having the polymer composition covalently bonded to the surface of the structure, methods of attaching the polymer to the surface of the structure, methods of decreasing the amount of microorganisms formed on a structure, and the like, are disclosed.

Abstract: An elastomeric article, such as a glove or a condom, is coated with a compound containing silicone, collagen and allantoin.

Abstract: An engineered nano-composite coating may include hydrophobic an hydrophilic domains, may be applied to transparent and non-transparent substrates using a continuous process, may be UV curable and may impart antifogging characteristics to the substrate.

Abstract: A corrosive gas resistant laminate comprises an outer polymer layer desirably containing a volatile corrosion inhibitor therein, a corrosion gas resistant barrier layer that can be a hydrophilic polymer, and a tie layer located between said outer and said barrier layers. The various laminates have improved transmission resistance with regard to corrosive gases such as oxygen, hydrogen sulfide, and halogen gases such as chlorine. The laminates can be used to protect metal during storage and transit.

Abstract: A conventional polymer is grafted from a plasma polymer layer provided at a substrate surface by radical polymerisation initiated from plasma induced radicals present at or in the plasma polymer, particularly radicals provided during deposition of the plasma polymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface of a substrate, or the substrate itself, exhibiting superhydrophobic characteristics when treated with a formulation comprising a hydrophobic component, nano-structured particles and water. The superhydrophobicity can be applied either over the entire surface, patterned throughout or on the substrate material, and/or directly penetrated through the z-directional thickness of the substrate material.