A material comprising a fine fiber pulp is provided. The fine fiber pulp has a plurality of fine fibers have an average diameter of less than 1 micron and an average length of less than 1 millimeter. In embodiments, the fine fibers formed of a polymer. The material can be created according to a method in which the fine fiber strands are formed from a polymer melt or a polymer solution, the fine fiber strands are cooled to a temperature of less than −25° C. to increase brittleness of the fine fibers, and the fine fiber strands are granulated into the fine fiber pulp.

A process for manufacturing a display device, an optical device or an illuminating device includes casting a polyamide solution onto a base at temperature below 200° C. to obtain a film, heating the film on the base at temperature sufficient to make the film solvent resistant and obtain a polyamide film, forming on a surface of the polyamide film one of a display element, an optical element and an illumination element to form a display device, an optical device or an illumination device, and de-bonding the base from the display device, the optical device or the illuminating device. The polyamide solution comprises a solvent, an aromatic polyamide dissolved in the solvent, and a multifunctional epoxyde, where the aromatic polyamide comprises at least one functional group that reacts with an epoxy group, the aromatic polyamide comprises a first repeat unit of formula (I) and a second repeat unit of formula (II)

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Provided are treated carbon fibers particularly suited for making thermoplastic composites with polyamide resin, and methods to make such treated carbon fibers.

Some variations provide a reworkable ionomer composition comprising: a polymer containing a plurality of ionic monomers disposed in a chain backbone of the polymer, wherein the ionic monomers have a monomer charge polarity that is either positive or negative; and a plurality of ionic species disposed within the chain backbone of the polymer, wherein the ionic species have opposite charge polarity compared to the monomer charge polarity, wherein the ionic species and the ionic monomers are ionically bonded, and wherein the ionic species are capable of undergoing a reversible oxidation-state transition of at least +1 or −1 when in the presence of a redox reagent. The polymer may be selected from the group consisting of polyurethanes, polyacrylates, polyamides, polyesters, polyureas, polyurethane-ureas, polysiloxanes, polycarbonates, and combinations thereof. Many options for ionic monomers and ionic species are disclosed. These reworkable ionomers are useful for many commercial applications, including coatings and polymer parts.

The present invention relates to a polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer composition [Y] in which a rubber composition [X] and a phenol resin-based crosslinking agent [IV] are dynamically crosslinked, the rubber composition [X] comprising a polyamide [I] including 30 to 100% by mole of a terephthalic acid structural unit and having a melting point of 220 to 290° C.; an ethylene-α-olefin-unconjugated polyene copolymer rubber [II] including structural units of ethylene, an α-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and an unconjugated polyene, respectively; and an olefin-based polymer [III] including 0.3 to 5.0% by mass of a functional group structural unit, (the total of [I] to [IV]: 100% by mass).

An intermediate base material has high handleability and shape conformity to complicated shapes and serves to perform high-yield production, even by low pressure molding, of fiber reinforced plastic material that do not suffer from significant generation of molding defects, such as creases and voids, that can cause a decrease in strength and that has good mechanical characteristics, decreased variations therein, and high dimensional stability. The prepreg includes a layer containing reinforcement fibers impregnated with a resin composition and the impregnation rate with the resin composition in the prepreg is in a predetermined range. It is characterized by being an incised prepreg having a plurality of incisions, being at least partly formed of reinforcement fibers with a predetermined fiber length, and having a reinforcement fiber content by volume Vf in a predetermined range.

Amide-based elastomer expanded particles comprising, as a base resin, a non-crosslinked amide-based elastomer having a Shore D hardness of 65 or less, and having an average cell diameter of 20 to 250 μm.

The invention provides new composite materials containing aerogels blended with thermoplastic polymer materials at a weight ratio of aerogel to thermoplastic polymer of less than 20:100. The composite materials have improved thermal insulation ability. The composite materials also have better flexibility and less brittleness at low temperatures than the parent thermoplastic polymer materials.

The embodiments herein relate to a benzoxazine resin composition, a prepreg, and a carbon fiber-reinforced composite material. More specifically, the embodiments herein relate to a benzoxazine resin composition that provides a carbon fiber-reinforced composite material that is suitable for use as a manufacture material due to its superior mechanical strength in extreme use environments, such as high temperature and high moisture, as well as a prepreg, and a carbon fiber-reinforced composite material. An embodiment comprises a benzoxazine resin composition having a multifunctional benzoxazine resin; a multifunctional epoxy resin that is a liquid at 40° C. and has three or more glycidyl groups; a sulfonate ester; and optionally at least one thermoplastic resin. The resin may include an interpenetrating network structure after curing.

A resin composition includes a polyamide resin, and a graphene oxide.