Methods for manufacturing articles, including articles of footwear, apparel, and sporting equipment are provided. The methods comprise decorating a plurality of foam particles. The decorating can comprise applying a coating on the foam particles, or embossing or debossing the foam particles, or both. The decorating can comprise applying a coating on the foam particles by printing, painting, dyeing, applying a film, or any combination thereof. The plurality of foam particles are affixed utilizing aspects of additive manufacturing methods. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.

Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for treating hyperuricemia (HUA). The pharmaceutical composition includes a polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as active ingredients. The polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer is formed by copolymerization of the following two parts: a selectively oxidized polysaccharide with 2,3-dialdehydo, and a polyamine with an amino functional group; the polyamine with an amino functional group and the selectively oxidized polysaccharide with 2,3-dialdehydo can form a net structure by means of covalent crosslinking, resulting in a hydrogel with an amino functional group or a granular polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer, wherein the amino functional group in the hydrogel with an amino functional group or the granular polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer can be protonated so as to form a cationic copolymer of a three-dimensional network structure having a protonated site, and the nitrogen content of the cationic copolymer and the nitrogen content of the polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer are above 12.3 wt %, and both the cationic copolymer and the polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer are water-insoluble.

The present invention relates to a polymeric gel comprising crosslink points, which are dissociated in response to nitrogen monoxide, and to a method for preparing a hydrogel, the method comprising the steps of: a) polymerizing a mixture of monomers comprising a monofunctional hydrophilic monomer and a monomer comprising a plurality of functional groups comprising an o-phenylenediamine residue; and b) separating a hydrogel formed by the polymerization.

Disclosed herein is a porous polymeric material having a repeating unit according to Formula (I) or (IV), wherein each of A and E has a -conjugated system and each of X and G contain a flexible tetraphenylethylene (TPE) group. Also disclosed herein are fluorescent chemical sensors or biosensors or environmental monitoring assay or nanosheets or a composite material comprising the polymer, and a method of detecting a volatile organic chemical or a metal ion in solution phase.

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The hydrogel composition of the present invention includes an amphiphilic block polymer having a hydrophilic block chain having 20 or more sarcosine units and a hydrophobic block chain having 10 or more lactic acid units, and water as a dispersion medium. In the hydrogel composition, the amphiphilic block polymer is preferably present as hydrogel nano-particles having a particle diameter of 100 nm or less. The hydrogel can be prepared by mixing an amphiphilic block polymer with an aqueous liquid. The hydrogel is preferably substantially free of an organic solvent.

Provided is a method to recycle valuable materials included in a photovoltaic module having a resin back sheet or the like, for efficiently and easily recovering the valuable materials by removing the resin components from the photovoltaic module. The method of recovering valuable materials from a photovoltaic module, includes: a loading step of loading a photovoltaic module (X) having a resin back sheet and a sealing resin layer on a heat-resistant porous molded body (A) with the back sheet surface facing down; and a heating step of heating a load including the photovoltaic module (X) and the porous molded body (A) in a heating furnace in an oxidizing atmosphere to melt and then combust the resin components.

Described is a triblock copolymer of the formula ABC wherein B is a hydrogenated vinyl aromatic block having a T.sub.g of 110 C. and comprising 30-90 wt. % of the copolymer; C is a rubbery block having a T.sub.g25 C. and comprising 10-70 wt. % of the copolymer; and A is an block derived from ring-opening polymerization, substantially incompatible with both B and C blocks.

The present invention relates to an ion exchanging membrane, a method for manufacturing the same, and an energy storage system comprising the same. The ion exchanging membrane includes a porous support including a plurality of pores, a first ion conducting material located on one surface of the porous support, and a second ion conducting material located on the other surface of the porous support, in which the first ion conducting material and the second ion conducting material are polymers including hydrophilic repeating units and hydrophobic repeating units, and the first ion conducting material and the second ion conducting material have different molar ratios of the hydrophilic repeating units and the hydrophobic repeating units.

According to the ion exchanging membrane, it is possible to improve overall efficiency of the energy storage system by improving both performance efficiency and voltage efficiency of the energy storage system due to excellent ion-conductivity performance and reduced membrane resistance and ensure durability of the energy storage system by having excellent morphological stability and reducing a crossover of vanadium ions.

A thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising a blend of (A) a thermoplastic organic polyether block amide copolymer, (B) a silicone composition comprising (B1) a silicone base comprising (B1a) a diorganopolysiloxane polymer having a viscosity of at least 1000000 mPa.Math.s at 25 C. and an average of at least 2 alkenyl groups per molecule and (B1b) a reinforcing filler in an amount of from 1 to 50% by weight based on the weight of (B1a), (B2) an organohydrido silicone compound which contains an average of at least 2 silicon-bonded hydrogen groups per molecule, (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst, and optionally: one or more additives component (D), wherein the weight ratio of thermoplastic organic polyether block amide copolymer (A) to the silicone composition (B) is in the range 50:50 to 95:5, and wherein component (B2) and (C) are present in an amount sufficient to cure said silicone composition (B1).

A method for preparing block polyether amide foamed particles with sandbag structure includes: premixing modifier, filler and coupling agent, melting and blending the premixed raw materials, and preparing blended particles I with core-shell structure after underwater granulation or water tank granulation; premixing the blended particles I with block polyether amide raw material, melting and blending the premixed raw material, and preparing block polyether amide blended particles II with sandbag structure after underwater granulation or water tank cutting; putting the quantitative blended particle II into an autoclave, introducing quantitative environment-friendly physical foaming agent until the foaming agent and G2 blende particles reach a homogeneous system, evacuating autoclave pressure through a valve, and taking out block polyether amide blended particles III containing the foaming agent; and transferring the blended particles III into a thermostatic equipment at softening temperature of particles, and obtaining the block polyether amide foamed particles after heat preservation.