Abstract: A sheet molding compound (SMC) is provided with superior conductivity properties based on the use of graphitics. A process for exfoliation of GnP and turbostratic carbon is also provided. By exfoliating the graphitics, a reduced amount of material can confer comparable properties relative to native GnPs or turbostratic carbon thereby reducing the amount of material usage, but also reducing negative effects to the base resin formulation through inclusion of these additives. Particular utility is found in thermoset resin molding to produce articles that are amenable to electrostatic coating and other surface treatments that rely on surface conductivity and especially in the realm of vehicle body parts.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sole for a footwear article. The sole is formed from an elastomeric compound comprising at least one elastomer, and at least one graphene based material, in an amount ranging from 0.1 wt % to 5 wt % relative to the weight of said at least one elastomer, essentially uniformly distributed in said at least one elastomer.

Abstract: There is provided a thermosetting powder coating material capable of forming a cured product having excellent workability at coating and high plasticity as well as heat resistance, resulting in heat resistance and crack resistance at bending processing. (A) denotes a bisphenol type epoxy resin having epoxy equivalent weight of 600 to 800 g/eq (not including 800 g/eq), (B) a rubber-modified epoxy resin, (C) a bisphenol type phenyl resin curing agent (D) a compound for activating (C), (D1) an imidazole compound and (D2) an amine-epoxy adduct type compound. The thermosetting powder coating material is composed of a finely pulverized composition. The composition comprises (A), (C) and (D) but does not comprise (B). (D) comprises (D1) and (D2), and a weight ratio of (D2) with respect to (D1) is 1.0 or more and 3.7 or less when (D1) is 1.

Abstract: A radial tire (10), with the sidewalls thereof (20), and the tread thereof (30) arranged for minimizing the temperature of the tire while guaranteeing its electrical conductivity. The tread (30) comprises two wings (311, 312) and a central portion (32). These components rest on a base layer (33) radially on the inside of the tread (30). The base layer (33) contains a lateral portion (331, 332) partly in contact with a tread wing (311, 312). This structure of the crown of the tire, in contact with the carcass reinforcement makes it possible to constitute a preferential conductive pathway of the electric charges between the rim and the ground when the tire is mounted on its rim and flattened on the ground.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen with a cylindrical housing including an opening at an end portion of the housing on a pen tip side of the housing, a cylindrical member disposed in the housing and fixed to the housing at a part on the pen tip side of the housing, and a core body formed in a rod shape by a material containing a pigment, the core body including a body portion inserted into the cylindrical member through the opening of the housing and a pull-out portion configured to enable the core body to be pulled out of the housing. A diameter of the body portion of the core body inserted into the cylindrical member is larger than a difference between an outer diameter of the cylindrical member and an inner diameter of the cylindrical member.

Abstract: A method of making a flexible pipe layer, which method comprises: commingling polymer filaments and carbon fibre filaments to form an intimate mixture, forming yarns of the commingled filaments, forming the yarns into a tape, and applying the tape to a pipe body to form a flexible pipe layer.

Abstract: Provided is a polyester or co-polyester resin used in the manufacture of preforms suitable for making bottles and containers containing a carbon black, particularly lamp black carbon black, with a primary particle size in a range of from 100 to 160 nanometers.

Abstract: Rubber components of a tire comprising a diene elastomer and at least 1 phr of reduced graphene oxide nanoparticles having a specific surface area of at least 700 m2/g, an oxygen content of no more than 6 at %, and a ratio of non-aromaticity to aromaticity ID/IG of at least 0.7 as determined by Raman spectroscopy. Methods of preparing such rubber compositions in an internal mixer for achieving good distribution and dispersion are also included.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display device including a display panel, an inorganic layer directly contacting the display panel, and a carbon layer directly contacting the inorganic layer. A thickness of the carbon layer is about 1 nm to about 10 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a shortened fibrous carbon nanohorn aggregate (CNB) obtained by shortening a CNB having a length of 1 ?m or more and a diameter in the short direction in the range of 30 to 100 nm, by oxidizing, stirring in an acid solution, subjecting to an ultrasonic treatment in a liquid, followed by cutting. The shortened CNB has an end surface on which no tip of the plurality of single-walled carbon nanohorns is disposed toward the longitudinal direction at least one end in the longitudinal direction, and has an excellent dispersibility by shortening the length to less than 1 ?m.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rubber composition that includes an aromatic-compound based resin and a styrene-butadiene copolymer and a tire using the same as the tread rubber or a component thereof. The rubber composition provides improved wet traction.

Abstract: A soft-melted parison is disposed in molds forming a shape of a measurement pipeline portion 10, the parison is expanded by means of gas inflow, and blow molding is performed. The shapes of a pipe body 11, a fluid inlet portion 12, and a fluid outlet portion 13 are formed by an inner mold of the molds. Ultrasonic wave input-output portions 14a and 14b bulging outwards in a sealed manner are formed on both sides positioned in the oblique direction of the pipe body 11 with respect to a center line of the pipe body 11. Parts of the ultrasonic wave input-output portions 14a and 14b are wall surfaces 15a and 15b for attaching ultrasonic wave transmission-reception units. The measurement pipeline portion 10 is obtained by cutting end portions of the fluid inlet portion 12 and the fluid outlet portion 13 after the parison is solidified.

Abstract: A powder for solid freeform fabrication includes a first resin particle and a second resin particle, wherein MFR2 is greater than MFR1 and a ratio of MFR2 to MFR1 is from 2 to 5, where MFR1 represents a melt mass-flow rate (MFR) of the first resin particle and MFR2 represents a melt mass-flow rate of the second resin particle.

Abstract: Compounds having an elastomer material, a filler material, at least one additive material, and at least one accelerant material are disclosed. In various embodiments, the filler material comprises a graphene-based carbon material. In various embodiments, the graphene-based carbon material comprises graphene comprising up to 15 layers, carbon aggregates having a median size from 1 to 50 microns, a surface area of the carbon aggregates at least 50 m2/g, when measured via a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method with nitrogen as the adsorbate, and no seed particles.

Abstract: Provided is an antistatic powder coating composition, which includes single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) having specific physical properties as a conductive additive, thereby providing an environmentally friendly coating exhibiting excellent coating workability and constantly demonstrating stable surface resistance, irrespective of the thickness of a film.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electroconductive resin composition that has excellent electroconductivity and high mechanical strength. The electroconductive resin composition according to the present invention comprises 75-99 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin (A), 1-25 parts by mass of a carbon material (B), and more than 1 part by mass but not more than 10 parts by mass, per 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the thermoplastic resin (A) and the carbon material (B), of a modified polyolefin wax (C), wherein the carbon material (B) is a granular carbon material having an average grain diameter of 500 nm or less or a fibrous carbon material having an average fiber length of 1000 ?m or less.

Abstract: A skin-covered foamed molded article having excellent lightweight property, bending rigidity, and favorable dimensional stability, which includes: a skin material composed of a hollow molded body produced by blow-molding an extruded parison; and an expanded bead molded article located inside the skin material, wherein the skin material has an average wall thickness of from 1.0 mm to 5.0 mm, the skin material includes a glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene-based resin containing glass fiber in a range of from 5 mass % to 30 mass %, the glass fiber has a weight-average fiber length of from 0.4 mm to 1.5 mm, the expanded bead molded article includes a polypropylene-based resin, the peeling strength between the skin material and the expanded bead molded article is 0.1 MPa or higher, and the longitudinal linear expansion coefficient of the skin-covered foamed molded article (100) at from 23° C. to 80° C. is 7×10?5/° C. or lower.

Abstract: A lubrication method including lubricating a sliding member which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a liquid crystal polymer and polyetheretherketone by using a lubricating oil composition which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a mineral oil and alkyl benzene as a lubricating base oil.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a flexible temperature-sensitive pressure sensor based on nanoparticle array quantum conductance, and an assembly method and application thereof. The sensor includes a high polymer film, metal nanoparticle arrays, metal microelectrodes, and an external circuit for conductance measurement; at least one group of metal nanoparticle arrays are deposited on upper and lower surfaces of the high polymer film, and in the same group, positions of metal nanoparticle arrays on the upper and lower surfaces are in one-to-one correspondence; the metal microelectrodes are arranged on two sides of each group of metal nanoparticle arrays and are symmetrically distributed on the upper and lower surfaces of the high polymer film; and the external circuit for conductance measurement is electrically connected to the metal microelectrodes. Conductance response signals of the nanoparticle arrays in the present invention have an exponential relationship with a distance between particles.

Abstract: A process for the production of highly carbonaceous material, including combining a structured precursor including fibres and an unstructured precursor, in the form of a fluid, wherein the fluid has a viscosity of less than 45,000 mPa·s?1 at the temperature at which the combination step occurs, and including at least a cyclic organic or aromatic compound in the molten state, or in solution at a concentration by weight of less than or equal to 65%, in order to obtain a combined precursor corresponding to the structured precursor covered by the unstructured precursor, wherein the process further includes step of thermal and dimensional stabilization of the combined precursor in order to obtain fibres covered with a cyclic organic or aromatic compound deposit, and a step of carbonization of the fibres covered with a cyclic organic or aromatic compound deposit in order to obtain a highly carbonaceous material.

Abstract: A rubber composition for a tread comprising: 10 to 30 parts by mass of carbon black A having an iodine adsorption amount of 130 mg/g or more and 20 to 50 parts by mass of carbon black B having an iodine adsorption amount of 110 mg/g or more and less than 130 mg/g based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component comprising 25 to 45% by mass of a styrene-butadiene rubber having a styrene content of 15% by mass or less and a vinyl content of from 30 to 50 mol %, 45 to 65% by mass of an isoprene-based rubber and 5 to 15% by mass of a butadiene rubber, wherein assuming that a content of the carbon black A is X part by mass, a content of the carbon black B is 0.6X to 4.5X part by mass.

Abstract: To provide a thermally conductive sheet that has high thermal conductivity. A method for producing a thermally conductive sheet S includes a step of obtaining a thermally conductive composition by mixing a reactive liquid resin, which forms a rubbery or gelatinous matrix when crosslinked, a volatile liquid having a boiling point 10° C. or more higher than a curing temperature of the reactive liquid resin, and a thermally conductive filler; a step of forming a molded body by crosslinking and curing the reactive liquid resin at a temperature 10° C. or more lower than the boiling point of the volatile liquid; and a step of evaporating the volatile liquid by heating the molded body, in which these steps are performed sequentially.

Abstract: Provided is a graphene additive, having a viscosity between 1000 and 40000 cps and a grind fineness not greater than 15 ?m, and comprising: nano-graphene sheets and a silane coupling agent, wherein a weight ratio of the nano-graphene sheets to the silane coupling agent is 0.1-15:99.9-85, and carbon atoms on a surface of the nano-graphene sheets form chemical bonds Si—O—C with oxygen substituents of the silane coupling agent. The present application further provides a method of preparing the graphene additive.

Abstract: A random mat material including fiber bundles, said fiber bundles including fibers having an average fiber length of 5 to 100 mm, and having an average number N of fibers in the fiber bundle that satisfies: 1.5 × 10 5 D 2 < N < 4.5 × 10 5 D 2 wherein D is the average diameter of fibers in the fiber bundle, expressed in micrometers, and the standard deviation SDN of the number of fibers in a fiber bundle satisfies: 1,000<SDN<6,000 wherein at an end of the fiber bundle, the number of the fibers in a fiber bundle becomes less from center to edge of the fiber bundle in a fiber direction.

Abstract: A molded article of a fiber-reinforced resin contains at least a bundled aggregate [A] of discontinuous reinforcing fibers and a matrix resin [M], wherein the average layer thickness h in the molded article of the fiber-reinforced resin is 100 ?m or less and the CV value of the average layer thickness h is 40% or less; and a compression molding method therefor. It is possible to reliably and greatly reduce the occurrence of stress concentration in the molded article and to thereby achieve higher mechanical properties and further reduce variation in the mechanical properties.

Abstract: Unique 3-PPB monobenzoate analogs useful as plasticizers in polymeric dispersions, such as plastisols, melt compounds, and adhesives among other applications. The analogs are structurally similar to and/or derived from 3-phenylpropyl benzoate and heretofore were not known for use in industrial applications, particularly not as a plasticizer in polymeric applications including without limitation plastisols and adhesives. Depending on the application, the advantages rendered by the use of the inventive monobenzoate analogs include, among other things, excellent solvating properties and rheology, low viscosity and significantly improved viscosity over time, comparable or improved Tg suppression, set and open times, as well as health, safety and environmental advantages, over traditional plasticizers.

Abstract: Provided is a polyamide resin composition capable of yielding highly abrasion-resistant molded article, while keeping high mechanical strength, and, a molded article using the polyamide resin composition. The polyamide resin composition contains (A) polyamide resin, (B) polyolefin wax, and (C) at least one metal salt selected from alkali metal salt and alkali earth metal salt, and the (A) polyamide resin contains (a-1) semiaromatic polyamide resin.

Abstract: A conductive film of the present invention includes an elastomer and a flake-like carbon material. An amount of the flake-like carbon material in the conductive film is 20 parts by mass or more and 60 parts by mass or less when a total solid content excluding a conductive agent is 100 parts by mass. A gloss level of a surface of the conductive film measured at an incidence angle of 20° is more than 0.4% and less than 10%. A method for producing a conductive film of the present invention includes the steps of preparing a liquid composition including an elastomer, a conductive agent including at least one of graphite powder and expanded graphite powder, and a solvent; subjecting the liquid composition to a grinding treatment using a wet jet mill; and applying the liquid composition after the grinding treatment to a base material, and curing the coating film.

Abstract: A conveyor belt includes a cut and gouge resistant cover layer defining a load carrying surface, a pulley layer disposed parallel to the cover layer, and a carcass comprising one or more reinforcement layers, where the carcass is disposed between the cover layer and the pulley layer. The cover layer is formed by curing an admixture including a rubber component, a sulfur curative, and an additive including oxidized high density polyethylene, maleated high density polyethylene, and/or non-functionalized high density polyethylene. The rubber component includes styrene-butadiene rubber and natural rubber. The cut and gouge resistant cover layer has a cut resistance and gouge resistance value of 1.00 grams or less, after the admixture is cured, and the cut and gouge resistant cover layer has an abrasion resistance of value of 110 or less after the admixture is cured.

Abstract: The invention provides processes for producing precomposite particles by mixing silicon particles, polyacrylonitrile and one or more carbon additives (C additives) based on one carbon polymorph, optionally one or more organic pore formers and optionally one or more inorganic additives, each in the form of a powder, wherein no solvent is added before and during the mixing, and the inorganic additives are selected from the group comprising halides of the alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, carbonates of the alkali metals, zinc oxide, magnesium carbonate and nickel sulfide, wherein the polyacrylonitrile, the silicon, particles and/or the C additives are wholly or partly initially charged prior to the mixing or are wholly or partly metered in during the mixing, with the proviso that, without polyacrylonitrile in the initial charge, the silicon particles and/or the C additives are at least partly metered in together with polyacrylonitrile or after addition of polyacrylonitrile.

Abstract: The invention relates to preparation of a rubber composition which contains polybutadiene elastomers with balanced reinforcing filler network, rubber composition prepared thereby and tire with at least one component comprised of such rubber composition.

Abstract: Provided is a composite resin material that yields a resin molded body which has not only a low volume resistivity but also excellent electroconductivity and/or antistatic properties and whose volume resistivity is unlikely to be increased even when subjected to, for example, a washing treatment with ozone water. The composite resin material contains a polychlorotrifluoroethylene and carbon nanotubes and has an average particle diameter of 500 ?m or smaller.

Abstract: Ink jet printing on a non-absorbent substrate involves a wet primer having a primer viscosity. The wet primer is applied on the non-absorbent substrate. An ink jet ink having an ink jet viscosity lower than the primer viscosity is jetted over the wet primer while the primer is still wet. The wet primer and ink are simultaneously cured on the substrate.

Abstract: A lithium ion battery includes a positive electrode comprising carbon fibers, a binder composition with conductive carbon, and a lithium rich composition. The lithium rich composition comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of Li1+x(My MzII MwIII)O2 where x+y+z+w=1, and where M, MII and MIII are interchangeably manganese, nickel and cobalt, and LiM*2-xMx*IIO4, where M* and M*II are manganese and nickel, respectively, with x=0.5. A negative electrode comprises carbon fibers having bound thereto silicon nanoparticles, and a mesophase pitch derived carbon binder between the silicon nanoparticles and the carbon fibers. An electrolyte is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. Methods of making positive and negative electrodes are also disclosed.

Abstract: An electrophoretic medium comprises a plurality of charged particles disposed in a fluid. The fluid comprises at least about 75, and preferably at least about 95, percent by weight of a hydrocarbon selected from monounsaturated nonenes, nonane and methyloctane. The electrophoretic medium is especially useful in microcell electrophoretic media comprising a substrate having a plurality of cavities, and a sealing layer closing the open ends of the cavities, the cavities being filled with the electrophoretic medium.

Abstract: An anti-vibration rubber composition includes the following components (A) to (C) and a sliding agent, wherein the sliding agent includes the following component (D), and wherein a content of the component (C) with respect to 100 parts by weight of the component (A) falls within a range of from 0.1 parts by weight to 10 parts by weight: (A) a diene rubber; (B) carbon black; (C) a white filler; and (D) an organopolysiloxane-modified polypropylene. The anti-vibration rubber composition can eliminate a reduction in sliding property due to a temperature environment or continuous use, and can effectively suppress an increase in frictional resistance against a mating member.

Abstract: A unitary graphene-based continuous graphitic fiber comprising at least 90% by weight of graphene planes that are chemically bonded with one another having an inter-planar spacing from 0.3354 to 0.4 nm and an oxygen content of 0.01 to 5% by weight, wherein the graphene planes are parallel to one another and parallel to a fiber axis direction and the graphitic fiber contains no core-shell structure, have no helically arranged graphene domains, and have a porosity level less than 5% by volume. This fiber can be produced by a continuous filament of graphene oxide gel having living graphene oxide molecules or functionalized graphene chains dissolved in a fluid medium. The filament is deposited onto a supporting substrate under a molecule-aligning stress condition along the filament axis direction and then subjected to drying and heating treatments.

Abstract: A plurality of surface mounting components are arranged on a component mounting surface of a transfer substrate. A resin layer is formed on the transfer substrate and the plurality of surface mounting components are buried in the resin layer. The resin layer is peeled off the transfer substrate, with the plurality of surface mounting components buried in the resin layer, to expose a surface resin layer. An intermediate auxiliary layer is provided on the exposed surface of the resin layer. The intermediate auxiliary layer has openings to expose respective mounting terminals of the surface mounting component. Metal materials are arranged in the openings. A wiring sheet which includes a thermoplastic resin sheet with an electrode pattern and a plurality of unmetallized via patterns is joined to the intermediate auxiliary layer so that each of the via patterns aligns with a respective one of the openings in the intermediate auxiliary layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to the co-use of a) a certain type of silica and b) a certain type of graphite, wherein the silica and the graphite are used in a weight ratio in a range of from 1:1 to 1:10, for decreasing the thermal conductivity of vinyl aromatic polymer foam.

Abstract: Provided herein is a thermoplastic composite resin composition for shielding electromagnetic waves that may exhibit excellent mechanical properties and superior electromagnetic wave shielding performance without including a metal material.

Abstract: A structural element, in particular for an aircraft, such as an airplane, contains a laminate having a plurality of layers made of a fiber composite plastics material with carbon fibers, a lightning protection layer and optionally an electrically insulating dielectric protection layer. The laminate contains at least one hybrid layer, which comprises a carbon fiber-absorption fiber composite, the elongation at break of the absorption fiber being greater than the elongation at break of the carbon fibers.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ultrasonic endoscope in which wiring can be reliably fixed to a wire housing space of an ultrasonic-oscillator housing part, and a method of manufacturing the ultrasonic endoscope. According to the present invention, a wire housing space is encapsulated from the outside by sealing a gap formed between an ultrasonic oscillator and an ultrasonic-oscillator housing part with sealing members. With this configuration, the wire housing space can be sufficiently filled with filling agent for fixing wires in the wire housing space. This achieves an ultrasonic endoscope in which the wires can be reliably fixed to the wire housing space of the ultrasonic-oscillator housing part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a silicone rubber composition having specific dielectric properties which can be used as insulator material in high voltage direct current applications and a method for the manufacture of cable accessories like cable joints. The invention comprises as well a method for the determination of the optimum dielectric properties and the related amount of dielectric active additives.

Abstract: A liquid crystal polyester resin composition includes a liquid crystal polyester (A) including repeating units represented by formulae (I) to (III), a liquid crystal polyester (B) including repeating units represented by formulae (IV) and (V), and surface-treated glass fibers (C) including an epoxy resin on the surface thereof, wherein the mass ratio of (A) to (B) [A/B] is from 90/10 to 45/55, the content of (C) is from 10 to 130 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of (A) and (B), and as measured in a bending test using a strip-like molded article (length: 127 mm, width: 12.7 mm, thickness: 0.5 mm), the bending strength and the bending elastic modulus of the liquid crystal polyester resin composition are equal to or more than 330 MPa and equal to or more than 20 GPa, respectively.

Abstract: The present teachings provide methods for providing populations of single-walled carbon nanotubes that are substantially monodisperse in terms of diameter, electronic type, and/or chirality. Also provided are single-walled carbon nanotube populations provided thereby and articles of manufacture including such populations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerisable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer sustained alignment type.

Abstract: Provided herein is a method of forming a composition by co-processing nanocarbon aggregates and carbon black aggregates, which includes providing nanocarbon aggregates, providing carbon black aggregates, and mixing the nanocarbon aggregates and the carbon black aggregates such that the nanocarbon aggregates disperse into looser aggregates of nanocarbons and carbon black, or individualized nanocarbons dispersed among the carbon black aggregates.

Abstract: A tire rubber composition comprises from 30 to 60 parts by weight of a silica, from 20 to 50 parts by weight of a carbon black with a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of from 120 to 150 m2/g, and from 50 to 80 parts by weight of an inorganic filler, which includes the silica and the carbon black, are blended per 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber that includes from 50 to 80 wt. % of a terminal-modified styrene-butadiene rubber having a vinyl unit content of 40 wt. % or more, and from 20 to 50 wt. % of butadiene rubber; an oil component in the rubber composition being from 10 to 30 parts by weight in total.

Abstract: The present invention provides rubber compositions that can achieve both abrasion resistance and low heat build-up properties, and pneumatic tires including such rubber compositions. The present invention relates to a rubber composition containing one or more carbon blacks, at least one of which is produced from a feedstock oil that has a BMCI value of not greater than 150 and an aliphatic hydrocarbon content of not less than 30% by mass.

Abstract: A transparent film includes: a base material; and at least one scratch resistant layer of which indentation hardness is 300 MPa or greater and of which a thickness is 50 to 1,000 nm on an outermost surface of the transparent film at one side or both sides of the base material, and a number of times of folding endurance of the transparent film measured by an MIT testing machine according to JIS P8115 (2001) is 1,000 times or greater.