A reusable surgical implement is provided that is formed of a core positioned within an enclosure. The core is formed of a suitable rigid, and optionally flexible material to enable the implant to conform to the desired use for the implement in a surgical procedure. The material forming the enclosure is also stretchable and flexible to accommodate the configuration and/or any flexing of the core, and is biologically inert to enable the implant to be sterilized after use for use in subsequent surgical procedures while protecting the material forming the core. The enclosure can be molded around the core in separate portions or components using multiple molding steps to form an enclosure with the desired attributes.

An electrode with varying impedances includes a plurality of layers that are compressed together with varying compressions forces. A first compression force is used at the perimeter of the electrode and a second compression force is used towards the center of the electrode. The first compression force at the perimeter is lesser than the second compression force towards the center and creates a greater measured impedance at the perimeter of the electrode than at the center of the electrode.

The present disclosure provides a composition. The composition contains (A) an ethylene-based polymer; and (B) a slip agent blend, the slip agent blend containing (i) from greater than 50 wt % to 99 wt % of a first polydimethylsiloxane having a number average molecular weight (Mn) from 30,000 g/mol to less than 300,000 g/mol; and (ii) from 1 wt % to less than 50 wt % of a second polydimethylsiloxane having a number average molecular weight (Mn) from 300,000 g/mol to 2,000,000 g/mol, based on the total weight of the slip agent blend. The present disclosure also provides a film with a layer containing said composition.

A method for producing a converter element, a converter element and a light emitting device are disclosed. In an embodiment a method for producing a converter element providing at least one phosphor and a liquid polysiloxane resin and preparing a cured polysiloxane powder from a first fraction of the liquid polysiloxane resin. The method further includes preparing a mixture including the at least one phosphor, the cured polysiloxane powder and a second fraction of the liquid polysiloxane resin, casting and curing the mixture to a cured layer and singulating the cured layer.

Provided are fluorine-free, oleophobic layers including one more or polydimethylsiloxane resin layers. The layers can be disposed on a portion of or all of a surface of a substrate. Also provided are methods of making and using same.

An object of the present invention is to provide a polyorganosilsesquioxane that can form a hard coat layer having high surface hardness through in-mold injection molding and can form a tack-free coating film, and thus is suitable as a material for a hard coat layer of a transfer film that can be wound as a roll. The present invention relates to a polyorganosilsesquioxane having a constituent unit represented by Formula (1) below; wherein a molar ratio of a constituent unit represented by Formula (I) below to a constituent unit represented by Formula (II) below, namely [(constituent unit represented by Formula (I))/(constituent units represented by Formula (II))], is from 20 to 500; a ratio of constituent units represented by Formula (1) below and constituent units represented by Formula (4) below relative to a total amount (100 mol %) of siloxane constituent units is from 55 to 100 mol %; a number average molecular weight is from 2500 to 50000; and a molecular weight dispersity (weight average molecular weight/number average molecular weight) is from 1.0 to 4.0; and a curable composition including the polyorganosilsesquioxane.

This disclosure provides compositions and methods for an oriented film that may include a core layer consisting essentially of biaxially oriented linear low-density polyethylene, wherein the core layer has a first side and a second side. Further, the film may include a first sealant layer consisting essentially of biaxially oriented linear low-density polyethylene on the first side, and a second sealant layer consisting essentially of biaxially oriented linear low-density polyethylene on the first side, wherein the linear low-density polyethylenes in each of the film's layers may be of more than one type/grade, have the same or different densities, or both. Further still, the film is 30 m or less in thickness, has a water-vapor transmission rate of 1 g/m.sup.2/d at 38 C. and 90% relative humidity, and has an oxygen transmission rate of 100 cm.sup.3/m.sup.2/d at 23 C. and 0% relative humidity.

Provided is a composition for forming a hard coating layer, which includes an epoxy siloxane resin, a crosslinking agent including a compound having an alicyclic epoxy group, a thermal initiator including a compound represented by a specific chemical formula, a photoinitiator, a fluorine-substituted (meth)acrylate compound, and silica nanoparticles surface-modified with a fluorine compound, and forms a hard coating layer having excellent hardness and antifouling property and suppressing curling.

Provided is an antifouling hard coating film including a cured layer of a composition for forming a hard coating layer including an epoxy siloxane resin, disposed on a substrate, and an antifouling layer including a fluorine-substituted silsesquioxane resin, disposed on the cured layer, the antifouling hard coating film having excellent interlayer bonding force, hardness, and antifouling property, and suppressed curling.

The present invention relates to a resin composition for an interlayer, comprising a copolymer of a monomer mixture containing a (meth)acryloyl compound and a siloxane compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group wherein an ethylenically unsaturated group equivalent is 2000 to 20000 g/mol.