The present disclosure provides embodiments of improved area-selective deposition (ASD) processes and methods for selectively depositing polymer films on a variety of different target material. More specifically, the present disclosure provides improved ASD processes and related methods that use a cyclic vapor deposition process, which sequentially exposes a surface of a substrate to a polymer precursor followed by an initiator to selectively deposit a polymer thin film on a target material exposed on the substrate surface. The process of sequentially exposing the substrate surface to the precursor and the initiator can be repeated for one or more cycles of the cyclic vapor deposition process until a predetermined thickness of the polymer thin film is selectively deposited on the target material. In one embodiment, sequentially pulsed initiated chemical vapor deposition (spiCVD) is used to selectively deposit the polymer thin film on the target material.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a coated metallic or non-metallic substrate, to the coated substrate obtainable in particular by the method according to the invention, and to the use of the coated substrates according to the invention.

Hexavalent chromium-free slurry formulations which are suitable in the production of ceramic overlay coating systems are described. The formulations provide superior hot corrosion and heat oxidation protection for superalloy substrates. A basecoat slurry and topcoat slurry are provided. The basecoat slurry includes an aluminum phosphate based aqueous solution having a molar ratio of Al:PO.sub.4 higher than about 1:3 with the incorporation of metal oxide particles. The topcoat slurry includes an aluminum phosphate based aqueous solution having a molar ratio of Al:PO.sub.4 higher than about 1:3. Both of the basecoat slurry and the topcoat slurry are hexavalent chromium-free.

Compositions for treating a substrate to provide increased lubricity to portions of the substrate surface that come into contact with the surface of a mating component are provided. The treated substrates provide improved lubricity, while maintaining adhesion between the surface of the substrate and an overlying polymer coating and imparting corrosion resistance to the substrate surface. The compositions include a silanol coupling agent in combination with lubricating particles, and an acid, which are dissolved or dispersed in a mixture of organic solvent and water.

Provided is a powder coating device including a powder fluidization tank including a bottom member, a fixing member to which the powder fluidization tank is fixed, a coupling support member coupling and supporting the bottom member to the fixing member, and a vibration mechanism coupled to the bottom member, wherein the coupling support member includes a rubber laminate in which an elastic member and a rigid member are stacked, and is pressed by the bottom member and the fixing member.

The present invention relates to a method for coating a component of a turbomachine in a bath, in which method, the component is partially immersed in the bath containing a coating material; the component is rotated at least intermittently around an axis of rotation, which lies outside of the bath, during the at least partial immersion; the component is at most immersed partially over and beyond the rotation.

The present invention relates to: a rust-proofing treatment method comprising the step of treating an object that comprises a metal or an alloy and is heated to a temperature higher than 180° C. or an object that has, formed on the surface thereof, a film or layer comprising a metal or an alloy and is heated to a temperature higher than 180° C. with an aqueous solution containing an inorganic acid or an inorganic salt, or comprising the step of treating an object comprising a metal or an alloy or an object having, formed on the surface thereof, a film or layer comprising a metal or an alloy with an aqueous solution containing at least one component selected from silicic acid, a silicic acid salt, phosphoric acid, a phosphoric acid salt, a monohydrogen phosphate salt, a dihydrogen phosphate salt and a zirconium salt; and an article characterized by being rust-proofing-treated by the rust-proofing treatment method.

Described are medical devices including expandable tubular bodies configured to be implanted into a lumen, wherein the outer surface of the expandable tubular bodies are coupled to a polymer(s).

Tunable multi-layer thermoplastic polymer sealants and tunable two-layer conductive thermoplastic polymer sealants, and substrates and assemblies comprising the tunable multi-layer sealants; and edge seals and fillet seals produced comprising such sealants; and substrates, components and objects comprising the tunable edge seals and fillet seals, and methods for making and applying such edge seals and fillet seals are disclosed.

A method for producing secondary battery electrodes includes a step of preparing a moisture powder formed of aggregated particles that contain a plurality of electrode active material particles, a binder resin, and solvent, wherein the solid phase, liquid phase, and gas phase in at least 50 number % or more of the aggregated particles in the moisture powder form a pendular state or a funicular state; a step of forming a coating film composed of the moisture powder on an electrode current collector, while the gas phase remains present; a step of forming a depression in the coating film by carrying out, using a die having an elevation of prescribed height, depression/elevation transfer into the coating film; and a step of carrying out depression/elevation transfer, using a die having an elevation higher than the elevation of prescribed height, by pressing the higher elevation into the depression that has been formed.