The present invention discloses a method of making a non-biodegradable flexible packaging substrate biodegradable. The method comprises the steps of (i) providing a substrate web from an unwind to a coating station (402), (ii) applying thin layer of uniform deposition of a curable coating on atleast one surface of the substrate partially or completely by the coating station wherein the external surface of the substrate is essentially coated, (iii) curing the coating applied on the substrate web by a curing unit, and (iv) collecting the coated substrate web in roll at rewind. Further, the thickness of the thin layer of uniform deposition is in the range of 0.01 gsm to 10 gsm. Representative drawing

The present invention provides a thermoplastic resin pellet capable of obtaining a molded body which is excellent in metallic coloring properties, surface smoothness property, and flow mark suppressing properties, and has a sufficient metallic appearance. The present invention relates a metallic-tone thermoplastic resin pellet comprising 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (A), 0.5 to 10 parts by mass of metallic particles (B), and 0 to 10 parts by mass of plate-like, fibrous and/or granular filler (C), wherein the pellet has a cylindrical shape having a circular or elliptical cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and the pellet has a length of 0.5 to 2.8 mm and a cross-sectional major diameter of 0.5 to 2.8 mm.

The present disclosure relates to a thermoplastic resin composition including a thermoplastic resin, carbon fiber, carbon nanotube, plate-shaped graphite, and metal fiber, which has excellent mechanical properties and electromagnetic wave shielding performance.

Molded polymer foam articles are described as having a novel foam structure. The polymer foam articles include a continuous polymer matrix defining a plurality of pneumatoceles therein which is present throughout the entirety of the article. The surface region is further characterized as having compressed pneumatoceles. The novel foam structure is achieved even when molding polymer foam articles comprising a shape and volume wherein a sphere having a diameter between 2 cm and 1000 cm would fit within the article in at least one location without protruding from a surface of the article, and the article further has a total volume of more than 1000 cm.sup.3. Methods of making a stabilized molten polymer foam, and of making a molded polymer foam article using the stabilized molten polymer foam are also described.

A fiber-reinforced polymer composition a plurality of continuous fibers embedded and distributed within a thermoplastic polymer matrix is provided. The thermoplastic polymer matrix constitutes from about 20 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of the composition and the continuous fibers constitute from about 10 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of the composition. Further, the polymer composition has a deflection temperature under load of about 60° C. or more as determined in accordance with ISO 75:2013 at a load of 3.5 MPa.

Provided is a method of producing a polycarbonate resin pellet containing a polycarbonate resin serving as a component (A), a silicone compound serving as a component (B), and an ester of an aliphatic carboxylic acid having 12 to 22 carbon atoms and glycerin serving as a component (C), the production method including a step including introducing a blend containing the component (A), the component (B), and the component (C) into an extruder, and melt-kneading the blend in the extruder under such a condition that a temperature of a molten resin at an outlet of the extruder is 260° C. or more and 325° C. or less, followed by extrusion molding to provide a polycarbonate resin pellet, the resultant polycarbonate resin pellet containing 0.01 part by mass or more and 0.25 part by mass or less of the component (B), and 0.015 part by mass or more and 0.25 part by mass or less of the component (C) with respect to 100 parts by mass of the component (A).

The present invention relates to plastic films with improved laser engraving capability, chemical resistance and mechanical stress, special embodiments of such films in the form of co-extrusion films, layer structures comprising such films, use of such films, as well as security documents, preferably identification documents, containing such films.

A sensor system comprises a LiDAR unit, a camera for visible light and a cover through which light arrives at the LiDAR unit and the camera. The cover comprises a layer containing dyes.

The light transmission of the cover in the range from 380 nm to 780 nm is 3% to 25% and in the range from 380 nm to 1100 nm is 40% or more. The attenuation of the LiDAR signal by the cover is such that at least 65% of the original signal intensity reaches the LiDAR detector.

The layer containing dyes contains a composition comprising i) at least 70% by weight of a transparent thermoplastic polymer, ii) at least one green and/or red dye and iii) at least one red and/or violet dye.

The product of the sum of the weight % fractions of dyes ii) and iii) and the thickness of the layer containing dyes is 0.041 to 0.12 wt % mm.

Finally, the composition contains 0% to 0.0005% by weight of IR absorbers.

The present application provides polymer materials having the desired properties for implantation into a human or animal body, in particular, biocompatibility, biodegradability, radiopacity and mechanical properties. Methods of making such polymer materials, compositions or devices comprising such polymer materials, and uses of such polymer materials, compositions and devices are also disclosed.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method for making recyclable polymers and a method for decomposing the polymers back to the monomers which can then be reused. The polymer are stable to aqueous and/or acid conditions and may have a formula II

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The method to decompose the polymer back to the monomers may comprise heating the polymer in a protic organic solvent.