Waterproof engineered floor and wall planks have a veneer layer bonded with a plastic composite core, and an underlayer, preferably an underlayer of cork.

Waterproof engineered floor and wall planks have a veneer layer bonded with a plastic composite core, and an underlayer, preferably an underlayer of cork.

Provided is a transparent sheet that is prevented from curling, is excellent in external appearance, prevents the progress of a crack, and the rupture, of its glass, and is excellent in flexibility. A transparent sheet of the present invention includes: an inorganic glass; and a resin film bonded onto one side, or each of both sides, of the inorganic glass through an adhesion layer, in which: the inorganic glass has a thickness of from 35 m to 100 m; the adhesion layer has a single-layer thickness of more than 10 m and (the thickness of the inorganic glass0.3) m or less; the adhesion layer has a modulus of elasticity at 25 C. of from 1.2 GPa to 10 GPa; and a ratio of a total thickness of the resin film to the thickness of the inorganic glass is from 0.9 to 4.

The present disclosure describes articles, such as medical articles, containing a substrate having disposed thereon a hydrophilic gel material (e.g., a shaped hydrophilic gel material or a coating of a hydrophilic gel material) and methods for making such articles. Methods are provided for making hydrophilic gel materials from a precursor composition that contains a polar solvent and a polymerizable material that is miscible with the polar solvent.

An interior panel for use in an aircraft cabin includes an inner core including a first surface and an opposing second surface. The interior panel also includes a first honeycomb layer coupled to the first surface and a second honeycomb layer coupled to the second surface. The inner core includes an integral forming tool configured to shape the first honeycomb layer and the second honeycomb layer. The interior panel also includes a first skin layer coupled to the first honeycomb layer and a second skin layer coupled to the second honeycomb layer.

Systems and methods for radiative cooling and heating are provided. For example, systems for radiative cooling can include a top layer including one or more polymers, where the top layer has high emissivity in at least a portion of the thermal spectrum and an electromagnetic extinction coefficient of approximately zero, absorptivity of approximately zero, and high transmittance in at least a portion of the solar spectrum, and further include a reflective layer including one or more metals, where the reflective layer has high reflectivity in at least a portion of the solar spectrum.

The present invention is a film capacitor comprising a dielectric film and a metal layer, the dielectric film being a resin film obtained by stretching an unstretched film produced using a crystalline hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene ring-opening polymer, and heating the resulting stretched film, and the resin film having a softening point of 250 to 320 C., a thermal shrinkage ratio of 0.01 to 5.0% when heated at 200 C. for 10 minutes, a loss tangent (tan ) of 0.0001 to 0.0010, and a coefficient of static friction of 0.01 to 1.00. The present invention provides a film capacitor that includes a resin film as a dielectric film, the resin film exhibiting excellent heat resistance, excellent withstand voltage properties, and excellent workability.

This invention provides a polysulfone with a formula (I) as below:

##STR00001## wherein, R.sub.2 independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring; X is a linking group having both an ester group and a hydroxyl group; R.sub.3 is an aliphatic linking group with more than 3 carbons or an aromatic linking group with at least two aromatic rings, and at least two of the aromatic rings are joined by an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a isopropylidene group or a hexafluoroisopropylidene group; and R is an terminal group with an epoxy group.

A dental article such as a dental tray aligner or a dental crown that includes a substrate including a polymeric material having a modulus of elasticity that reduces upon exposure to water and a water-resistant coating on the substrate, where the water-resistant coating comprises parylene. In some examples, the water-resistant coating may include one or more layers that include parylene.

A light modulating device includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a light modulating cell disposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, a first bonding layer disposed between the first transparent substrate and the light modulating cell, and a second bonding layer disposed between the second transparent substrate and the light modulating cell. The first bonding layer and the second bonding layer each are a bonding element containing a non-pressure-sensitive adhesive component. The first bonding layer is an OCR, and the second bonding layer is an OCA.