A primary homo staple fiber including a melt-modified polyester component having a melt temperature in the range of 100 degrees Celsius to 260 degrees Celsius and configured in staple fiber form. Also, a non-woven composite article including a primary homo staple fiber including a melt-modified polyester component configured in staple fiber form and having melt temperature in the range of 100 degrees Celsius to 260 degrees Celsius. Also, a non-woven composite article including a non-woven composite material, the non-woven composite material including a fibrous first component of singular fibers of melt-modified polyester configured in a staple fiber form, and a fibrous second component including one or more fibers of various type, the fibrous first and second components are blended together, and the melt-modified polyester includes a low melting point polyethylene terephthalate (LPET) polyester as a primary binder in the non-woven composite material.

Provided is decorative film capable of keeping the brightness and that hardly changes in color during the continuous use. Decorative film is disposed on the surface of a resin base located in a path of a beam of a radar device. The decorative film includes: composite particles, each including a silver particle made of silver and compound including nickel and oxygen, the compound adhering to the silver particle so as to partially surround the surface of the silver particle; and light-transmissive binder resin to bind the composite particles dispersed in the decorative film. Content of the nickel is in a range of 0.5 to 30.0 mass % relative to the silver.

Provided are a resin blend for melt processing, a pellet and a method of preparing a resin article using the same. The resin blend may include a first resin, and a second resin having a difference in melt viscosity from the first resin of 0.1 to 3000 pa*s at a shear rate of 100 to 1000 s.sup.?1 and a processing temperature of the resin blend. The resin blend can improve mechanical and surface characteristics of a resin article. Further, since coating or plating is not required for manufacturing a resin article, a manufacturing time and/or cost can be reduced, and productivity can be increased.

The present invention relates to a method of preparing green form polystyrene resin. More specifically, recyclable expandable material from general waste is made use of along with virgin expandable material and virgin hardening polymer for preparing green form polystyrene resin. Further, extruding the mixture yields green form compounded polystyrene resin with high melt flow index or gas injection into the green form compounded polystyrene resin results in synthesis of green form expandable capsules or beads thereof with desired properties. The present invention further facilitates the production of polystyrene molded foam used for insulation by puffing expandable green form capsules with pre-expander.

A method and a system for producing a change in a medium. The method places in a vicinity of the medium at least one energy modulation agent. The method applies an initiation energy to the medium. The initiation energy interacts with the energy modulation agent to directly or indirectly produce the change in the medium. The system includes an initiation energy source configured to apply an initiation energy to the medium to activate the energy modulation agent.

A syntactic foam including a matrix material and a filler material. The filler material may include microspheres of metallic glass material, the microspheres may be hollow microspheres.

A fiber laminate W is configured by laminating first to fourth fiber layers. The fiber laminate is provided with a taper section, in which the thickness changes depending on the position in the longitudinal direction. The first to fourth fiber layers are formed by discontinuous fibers and are configured with the orientation angles of the discontinuous fibers aligned in one direction. The orientation angles of the discontinuous fibers in the first to fourth fiber layers are different. In addition, the first to fourth fiber layers are provided with thickness changing sections, in which the thickness changes continuously while the density of fibers is kept constant irrespective of the position in the longitudinal direction. The taper section is configured by stacking the thickness changing sections. The change amount of the thickness of each thickness changing section is the same irrespective of the position in the longitudinal direction.

The present invention relates to porous films comprising (A) from 51 wt.-% to 99.9 wt.-% based on the total weight of the film of at least one porous metal-organic framework material, the material comprising at least one at least bidentate organic compound coordinated to at least one metal ion; (B) from 0.1 wt.-% to 49 wt.-% based on the total weight of the film of at least one fibrillated fluoropolymer, and (C) 0 wt.-% to 48.9 wt.-% based on the total weight of the film of an additive component. The invention further relates to a composition for preparing such a film and its use.

An inkjet ink includes a) an aqueous medium; and b) capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core; wherein the capsules are dispersed in the aqueous medium using a dispersing group covalently bonded to the polymeric shell; wherein the core contains a photoinitiator and one or more chemical reactants capable of forming a reaction product upon application of UV light; wherein the capsules have an average particle size of no more than 4 m as determined by dynamic laser diffraction; and wherein the photoinitiator is a diffusion hindered photoinitiator selected from the group consisting of multifunctional photoinitiators, oligomeric photoinitiators, polymeric photoinitiators and polymerizable photoinitiators.

A method of fabricating plastic products having a preselected color, comprising preparing a dispersion of pigment of the preselected color in cottonseed oil; supplying a preselected plastic resin for the product to be fabricated to a process machine having a rotating screw; furnishing the dispersion to the process machine at a position adjacent to threaded portion of the rotating screw; and blending the dispersion and the resin by rotating the screw.