Abstract: A system for self-repairing matrices such as concrete or cementitous matrices, polymeric matrices, and/or fibrous matrices, including laminates thereof. The system includes repair agents retained in and/or on vessels, such as hollow fibers, within the matrix. Upon impact, the vessel rupture, releasing the chemicals. For multi-layer laminates, the systems provides a total dynamic energetic circulation system that functions as an in situ fluidic system in at least one layer or area. The energy from the impact ruptures the vessels to release the chemical(s), and mixes the chemical(s) and pushes the chemical(s) and/or resulting compound through the matrix. The repair agents can withstand high temperatures, such as the heat of processing of many laminates, e.g., 250-350° F.

Abstract: A coated article which includes a cement fiberboard substrate and a radiation-curable coating system applied to the substrate. The coating system includes an aqueous dispersion of water-dispersible polymer particles, one or more olefinic compounds and water, and may be provided in the form of one or more coating compositions that may be applied in one or more layers, wherein each of the coating compositions is preferably an aqueous composition, or can be mixed with another composition (e.g., on the substrate) to form an aqueous composition.

Abstract: A method for dry graphene transfer comprising growing graphene on a growth substrate, chemically modifying a transfer substrate to enhance its adhesion to graphene, contacting the graphene on the growth substrate with the transfer substrate and transfer printing; and separating the transfer substrate with attached graphene from the growth substrate. The growth substrate may be copper foil. The transfer substrate may be a polymer, such as polystyrene or polyethylene, or an inorganic substrate. Also disclosed is the related composite material made by this process.

Abstract: An adhesive label (1) includes a support (3), an adhesive layer (4) placed on the support (3), and a non-adhesive resin layer (5) containing an inorganic filler, the non-adhesive resin layer being placed on the adhesive layer (4). An inorganic material has heat conductivity higher than that of a resin material and is contained in the resin layer (5) to enhance a coefficient of heat conductivity of the resin layer (5), whereby the resin layer (5) can be heated rapidly and uniformly. Consequently, the resin layer (5) can be opened stably with low activating energy, which is suitable for a portable label issuing device.

Abstract: A radiation detection apparatus comprising a sensor panel and a scintillator panel is provided. The scintillator panel including a substrate, a scintillator disposed on the substrate, and a scintillator protective film that has a first organic protective layer and an inorganic protective layer, and covers the scintillator. The scintillator protective film is located between the sensor panel and the scintillator. The first organic protective layer is located on a scintillator side from the inorganic protective layer. A surface on a sensor panel side of the scintillator is partially in contact with the inorganic protective layer.

Abstract: A polymer film has a markedly improved resistance to erosion in the electrical field (so-called corona stability) when permanently subject to partial discharge.

Abstract: The invention relates to an orthopedic implant made of a ceramic metal composite. The composite (28, 48, 54) includes one phase that is a biocompatible metal or metal alloy and a second phase of ceramic particles examples of which include carbides, nitrides and/or oxides. In some embodiments, the implant comprises a homogeneous ceramic layer (24) as part of a multi-layered composition. In some embodiments, the multilayered composition comprises a homogeneous metal layer (32).

Abstract: Present invention provides a film and an article including the film. The film includes first layer, second layer and third layer. The first layer includes a polymer dielectric material. The second layer is disposed on at least one surface of the first layer and includes inorganic oxide dielectric material. The third layer is disposed on the first or second layer and includes a nitride or oxynitride material.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes various building materials used in the building and construction industry, and to buildings or objects constructed therefrom, and to methods of making these building materials. The building materials comprise a polymeric material, such as sodium alginate and/or calcium alginate which confers significant flame-, fire- and heat-resistance or imperviousness to the materials. Other substances can be added to the materials to improve cross-linking and/or to produce resistance to fungal degradation. The building materials which can be produced, processed, or treated using the alginate polymers of the invention include, but are not limited to, wood products; masonry products; wall, roofing, flooring and siding products; and paint products. Further, sodium alginate in the form of a gel may be used as a firebreak to effectively stop the advance of grass fires, wildfires, and forest fires.

Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention provides electrically conductive and radio frequency (RF) transparent films that include a graphene layer and a substrate associated with the graphene layer. In some embodiments, the graphene layer has a thickness of less than about 100 nm. In some embodiments, the graphene layer of the film is adhesively associated with the substrate. In more specific embodiments, the graphene layer includes graphene nanoribbons that are in a disordered network. Further embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods of making the aforementioned electrically conductive and RF transparent films. Such methods generally include associating a graphene composition with a substrate to form a graphene layer on a surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments include adjuvant formulations containing an alkoxylated alkanol adjuvant having the following alkanol structure: where the total number of carbon atoms of R1 and R2 are from about 3 to about 36, R2 can be hydrogen or C1 to C18, and R2 may or may not be branched, and wherein the alkoxylate is one of ethylene oxide, propylene, or mixture thereof. Further embodiments included methods for making and using the alkoxylated alkanol adjuvant formulations.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a helmet structure for reducing kinetic energy transmission. The helmet receives contact of an object that transfers kinetic energy to a first layer having material that displaces in response to applied shearing force. The helmet uses a second layer having material that displaces in response to applied shearing force and uses a third layer having material that does not displace in response to applied shearing force to transfer kinetic energy laterally with respect to the skull. Helmet layers can have material with different mechanical responses, including elastic or rubbery elastic. The outer slip layer may also contain reinforcement particles such as metal, glass and ceramic. In one embodiment, each layer in the structure has a different shear modulus and each layer has a higher shear modulus than the immediately preceding layer. The shear modulus of each layer is modified by adding rigid reinforcement to the layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a barrier laminate comprising at least one organic layer and at least one inorganic layer, wherein the organic layer is formed by vacuum vapor deposition of a composition containing a radical-polymerizing monomer and a polymerization initiator, followed by curing the composition, and the polymerization initiator is liquid at 30° C. under one atmosphere and/or has a melting point of not higher than 30° C.

Abstract: A plate member for touch panel and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The plate member for touch panel includes: a transparent substrate; an intermediate transparent layer on the transparent substrate; and a conductive transparent layer on the intermediate transparent layer, wherein at least one of the intermediate transparent layer and the conductive transparent layer includes a peroxide composition.

Abstract: An antireflection structure is provided. The antireflection structure includes a substrate layer having a substrate refractive index; a first inorganic layer disposed on the substrate layer and having a first refractive index different from the substrate refractive index, where a thickness of the first inorganic layer is in a range of 1 to 40 nm; and a second inorganic layer disposed on the first inorganic layer and having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index.

Abstract: An assembly for fabricating a structure having a crystalline film, includes a rigid substrate, a conductive layer in operative contact with the rigid substrate, a first precursor material of the crystalline film in operative contact with the conductive layer, and a flexible substrate include a contact surface, wherein the contact surface of the flexible substrate is in operative contact with the first precursor material opposite from the conductive layer. A crystalline film structure, crystalline film structure produced thereby, methods of making the assembly and the crystalline film structure, respectively, are also described herein.

Abstract: For the purpose of solving problems inherent to a white Al2O3 spray coating, i.e. drawbacks that the injury resistance, corrosion resistance, heat resistance, abrasion resistance and the like are poor and the light reflectance is high because the coating is porous and weak in the bonding force among particles, there are proposed a spray coating member having excellent injury resistance and the like in which a surface of a substrate is covered with a colored Al2O3 spray coating of a luminosity lower than grayish white, achromatic or chromatic color.

Abstract: The aluminum-nitride-based composite material according to the present invention is an aluminum-nitride-based composite material that is highly pure with the content ratios of transition metals, alkali metals, and boron, respectively as low as 1000 ppm or lower, has AlN and MgO constitutional phases, and additionally contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a rare earth metal oxide, a rare earth metal-aluminum complex oxide, an alkali earth metal-aluminum complex oxide, a rare earth metal oxyfluoride, calcium oxide, and calcium fluoride, wherein the heat conductivity is in the range of 40 to 150 W/mK, the thermal expansion coefficient is in the range of 7.3 to 8.4 ppm/° C., and the volume resistivity is 1×1014 ?·cm or higher.

Abstract: A method of bonding includes using a bonding layer having a fluorinated oxide. Fluorine may be introduced into the bonding layer by exposure to a fluorine-containing solution, vapor or gas or by implantation. The bonding layer may also be formed using a method where fluorine is introduced into the layer during its formation. The surface of the bonding layer is terminated with a desired species, preferably an NH2 species. This may be accomplished by exposing the bonding layer to an NH4OH solution. High bonding strength is obtained at room temperature. The method may also include bonding two bonding layers together and creating a fluorine distribution having a peak in the vicinity of the interface between the bonding layers. One of the bonding layers may include two oxide layers formed on each other. The fluorine concentration may also have a second peak at the interface between the two oxide layers.

Abstract: A method to render stone, ceramic, or cementitious structures water repellent is disclosed. The method includes the step of contacting the stone, ceramic, or cementitious structures with an alkylphosphonic acid. The alkylphosphonic acid can be dispersed in an aqueous medium and can be at least partially neutralized with ammonia, an amine, or a basic alkali salt.

Abstract: The invention relates to a nanostructured porous oxyfluoride film deposited onto a substrate, to a method for its production, and also to various applications. The oxyfluoride has a porous semicrystalline structure and a refractive index of 1.08 to 1.25, measured in the visible range for a relative humidity level below 80%. Its chemical composition corresponds to the formula (Mg(1?x)Cax)(1?y)MyF(2+(n?2)y?2z?t)Oz(OH)tM?w in which n is the valency of M, n being 1 to 4, M represents at least one element chosen from Al, Si, Ge and Ga, M? represents at least one element chosen from the group composed of Co, Cr, Ni, Fe, Cu, Sb, Ag, Pd, Cd, Au, Sn, Pb, Ce, Nd, Pr, Eu, Yb, Tb, Dy, Er and Gd, and 0?w<0.1; 0?x?1; 0?y?0.5; z<1; z+t>0 and t<2.

Abstract: An anti-wear layer arrangement, in particular for components of a fuel injection system that are subjected to high pressures and high temperatures. The anti-wear layer arrangement has a protective layer formed from tetragonally bonded amorphous carbon or having a proportion of tetragonally bonded amorphous carbon, and also an adhesion promoter layer having titanium between the structural element and the protective layer. The adhesion promoter layer contains at least one oxidation-resistant element in addition to titanium.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing stretchable electrodes, where electrically conductive carbon particles, especially carbon nanotubes, are introduced into a coating comprising an elastomer. In said method, a preparation of non-aggregated carbon particles having an average particle diameter ranging from=0.3 nm to=3000 nm in a solvent acts upon a coating comprising an elastomer. The solvent can cause a coating comprising an elastomer to swell. The duration of the action is calculated so as to be insufficient to dissolve the elastomer. Optionally, another electrically conductive layer is applied. The invention also relates to a stretchable electrode obtained in said manner and to the use thereof.

Abstract: A dendrimer according to example embodiments may include a triphenylamine core, wherein a conjugated dendron having no heteroatoms is coupled to the triphenylamine core. An organic memory device according to example embodiments may include an organic active layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the organic active layer includes the dendrimer according to example embodiments. A barrier layer may be provided between the first and second electrodes. A method of manufacturing the organic memory device according to example embodiments may include forming an organic active layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, the organic active layer including the dendrimer according to example embodiments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electroluminescent devices, comprising a compound of the formula (I) as a component of the transporting/injecting and/or electron blocking layer. The compounds of formula (I) may function alone, or in combination with dopants to provide improved efficiency, driving voltage and/or lifetime of electroluminescent devices.

Abstract: A flexible substrate for a display device comprises a polymer resin, an inorganic fiber material, and an antistatic agent, and has a surface resistivity of less than 1011?. A display device includes the flexible substrate.

Abstract: A superconductor is provided, including material having stacked first and second layers, each of the layers with a network of cations surrounded by oxygen anions. The material has an ilmenite crystal structure and a basic composition of type ABX3, where A and B are elements dominantly occupying the cation sites of the first and the second layers, correspondingly, at least one of the elements A and B being a transition metal, and X is an anion element dominantly occupying the anion sites.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a multi-layer insulation (MLI) composite material includes a first thermally-reflective layer and a second thermally-reflective layer spaced from the first thermally-reflective layer. At least one of the first or second thermally-reflective layers includes bandgap material that is reflective to infrared electromagnetic radiation. A region between the first and second thermally-reflective layers impedes heat conduction between the first and second thermally-reflective layers. Other embodiments include a storage container including a container structure that may be at least partially formed from such MLI composite materials, and methods of using such MLI composite materials.

Abstract: The invention relates to the providing of a coated reinforcement, coating thereof ultimately allowing for the providing of a fiber-reinforced product, particularly in the infusion method, having exceptional mechanical properties, wherein the composition of the coating comprises a solid resin and carbon nanotubes and said composition has been subjected to heat treatment above the melting temperature of the softening range and below the cross-linking temperature of the solid resin, which is self-crosslinking as applicable, wherein the composition is fixed on the surface of the reinforcement.

Abstract: Provided is a transparent graphene film which is prepared by maintaining the primary reduced state of a graphene oxide thin film via chemical reduction, reducing the graphene oxide thin film with chemical vapor deposition, and doping nitrogen, thereby enhancing the conductivity and enabling the control of work function and a manufacturing method thereof. According to the present disclosure, a flexible, transparent, electrical conductivity-enhanced, and work function controllable graphene film can be large area processed and produced in large quantities so that can be applied in real industrial processes by forming a graphene oxide thin film on a substrate, performing the primary chemical reduction using a reducing agent, and performing further the secondary thermal reduction and nitrogen doping by injecting hydrogen and ammonia gas through chemical vapor deposition equipment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat dissipating substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The heat dissipating substrate comprises a substrate and a ceramic layer with thermal conduction and electrical insulation disposed on the substrate. In addition, the ceramic thermally conductive and electrically insulating layer has a plurality of sheet structures stacked on each other. Because the plurality of sheet structures have a buffer space, the ceramic thermally conductive and electrically insulating layer is buffered during thermal expansion.

Abstract: Described herein are compounds generally comprising an indeno[2?,3?:3,4]naptho[1,2-b]pyran structure. Such compounds may be useful for their photochromic properties, and be used in certain photochromic compositions. Such compositions may further comprise other photochromic compositions and/or materials. Additionally, such compounds and/or compositions may be suitable for preparing certain photochromic articles. Also described herein are methods for preparing certain photochromic compounds, compositions, and articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic photoactive component, especially a solar cell or a photodetector, built up from a plurality of layers, wherein at least one of the layers comprises at least one di-indeno[1,2,3-cd:1?,2?,3?-lm]perylene compound of the general formula in Illustration 1, wherein each R1-R16 is independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, unsubstituted or substituted, saturated or unsaturated C1-C20-alkyl, C1-C20-heteroalkyl, C6-C20-aryl, C6-C20-heteroaryl, saturated or unsaturated carbocycle or heterocycle, which may be the same or different, wherein two adjacent radicals R1-R16 may also be part of a further saturated or unsaturated, carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, wherein the ring may comprise C, N, O, S, Si and Se, and the use of the said component.

Abstract: A laminate includes: a crystallized polyglycolic acid-based resin layer containing 100 parts by mass of a crystallized polyglycolic acid-based resin having a spherulite diameter of 1 to 30 ?m and 0.0075 to 0.20 parts by mass of at least one nucleating agent selected from the group consisting of boron nitride particles, molybdenum sulfide particles, and tungsten sulfide particles; and a thermoplastic resin layer adjacent to the crystallized polyglycolic acid-based resin layer.

Abstract: A three-dimensional modeling device, including: a stage having a powder material deposited thereon for lamination; a supply mechanism supplying the powder material for each one layer on the stage; a plurality of heads having a plurality of nozzles ejecting a liquid for formation of a model, respectively, and capable of ejecting the liquid to the powder material supplied onto the stage by the supply mechanism; and a moving mechanism moving the plurality of heads in different directions relative to the stage, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to plasterboard panels comprising novel bonding agents and to methods of making the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a film resistor (1) comprising a carbon-containing material (3) into which clusters (4) of conductive cluster material are introduced, wherein the conductive cluster material has a positive temperature coefficient. The clusters (4) are surrounded by a graphite casing and embedded in the carbon-containing material (3). Furthermore, the cluster material is present in a thermodynamically stable phase.

Abstract: Reinforced boards and/or walls, and methods of producing thereof. In some non-limiting examples, there is provided a reinforced gypsum board and a process for the production thereof. In one example, the reinforced board may include one or more reinforcing elements, e.g., to enhance the rigidity of the board and/or to provide support for the board.

Abstract: Provided is a laser imageable media that forms both a vesicular bubble image and an infrared image upon exposure to laser radiation. The laser imageable media comprises (1) a substrate, preferably a transparent plastic substrate, (2) an infrared absorbing layer comprising an infrared absorbing compound, preferably an aminium radical cation compound, that exhibits a reduction in infrared absorption when exposed to the laser radiation, and (3) a polymeric layer comprising an organic polymer, preferably nitrocellulose, overlying the infrared absorbing layer. The vesicular image on a transparent plastic substrate is readable with a visible scanner without the use of any reflective background material behind the transparent plastic substrate.

Abstract: Aromatic and aromatic/heteroaromatic molecular structures with controllable electron conducting properties are derived from the incorporation of electron active substituents in selective positions.

Abstract: Substrates may be bonded according to a method comprising contacting a first bonding surface of a first substrate with a second bonding surface of a second substrate to form an assembly; and compressing the assembly in the presence of an oxidizing atmosphere under suitable conditions to form a bonding layer between the first and second surfaces, wherein the first bonding surface comprises a polarized surface layer; the second bonding surface comprises a hydrophilic surface layer; the first and second bonding surfaces are different.

Abstract: In a substrate body with an antimicrobial surface area consisting of an antimicrobially effective material, spherical adsorbents in the form of activated carbon spheres are embedded in the surface of the antimicrobially effective material for retaining any microbes on the substrate body until they are eliminated by the antimicrobially effective material.

Abstract: Ultrathin layers of organic polymers or organic-inorganic hybrid polymers are deposited onto a substrate using molecular layer deposition methods. The process uses vapor phase materials which contain a first functional group and react only monofunctionally at the surface to add a unit to the polymer chain. The vapor phase reactant in addition has a second functional group, which is different from the first functional group, or a blocked, masked or protected functional group, or else has a precursor to such a functional group.

Abstract: The present invention provides an appliance for chip removal applications comprising a vibration-damping material wherein the vibration-damping material is a material arranged by nano-dimensional cluster form. The present invention additionally provides a method for manufacturing said appliance. The present invention provides also an appliance obtainable by said method. Additionally the present invention provides an article or work piece for use in an appliance for chip removal applications. Also a computer program is provided for controlling the above method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming an organic molecular film structure that can maintain desired functions characteristic to the organic material and that can be realized as a thin film, and the organic molecular film structure. An organic molecular film structure forming method for forming an organic molecular film on a base material comprises the steps of: i) forming a monomolecular film (12) that contains first organic molecules (12a) by chemically bonding a surface of the base material (10) and the first organic molecules (12a); and ii) causing second organic molecules (15) to be present inside the monomolecular film (12) by bringing the second organic molecules (15) into contact with the monomolecular film (12). Accordingly, it is possible to form an organic molecular film that can maintain desired functions characteristic to the organic material and that can be realized as a thin film.

Abstract: A transparent conductive film includes a transparent film substrate; and a first and second crystalline transparent conductive laminate, wherein the second crystalline layer is located between the transparent film substrate and the first transparent conductive layer, and a second content of the tetravalent metal element oxide of the second transparent conductive layer is higher than a first content of the tetravalent metal element oxide of the second transparent conductive layer. The transparent conductive film allows a reduction in crystallization time.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to coating deposition and coatings for dental and orthopedic devices that provide prevention or reduction of ion leakage and, in some situations, improved aesthetic appearances.

Abstract: A carbon nanotube composite structure includes a matrix and a carbon nanotube structure. The matrix has a surface. The carbon nanotube structure is incorporated in the matrix. A distance between the carbon nanotube structure and the surface is less than 10 micrometers. The carbon nanotube structure includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes joined with each other by van der Waals attractive force.

Abstract: A multilayer thermal insulation composite for fire protection applications. The composite includes a fibrous insulation layer, at least one inorganic heat absorbing layer disposed on one side of the fibrous insulation layer, and at least one superinsulation layer disposed on at least one side of the composite adjacent the heat absorbing layer or the fibrous insulation layer. The composite may further include a scrim layer comprising a high temperature resistant, flexible, woven or non-woven scrim or scrim and high temperature resistant material disposed around the multilayer thermal insulation composite partially or substantially totally encapsulating the composite. The composite is lightweight and flexible, exhibits reduced heat transfer to the cold-face, with improved thermal insulation capability.

Abstract: It is an objective of the invention to provide a slide part in which a seal member formed of an elastic body is in sliding contact with a hard member. There is provided a slide part comprising: a hard member having an amorphous carbon coating containing nitrogen formed on an outermost surface of a substrate; and a seal member formed of an elastic body, the seal member being in sliding contact with the hard member, wherein: content of the nitrogen in the coating is 3 at. % or more and 25 at. % or less, taking a total content of the carbon and the nitrogen in the coating as 100 at. %; the seal member contains fluorine at least in a sliding contact surface region thereof; and content of the fluorine in the surface region of the seal member is equal to or more than the nitrogen content in the coating.