A core/shell polymer material suitable for three-dimensional printing is provided. The core/shell polymer material may include at least one amorphous polymer as a core particle and at least one semicrystalline polymer as a shell material surrounding the core particle.

The present invention relates to the use of a composition comprising from 60-98 wt. % of polypropylene, from 2-40 wt. % of aromatic polycarbonate and from 0.1-10 wt. % of compatibiliser for the manufacture of a foamed article, wherein the compatibiliser is a BAB or AB type of block copolymer comprising a polypropylene block A and a polyester or polycarbonate block B, or wherein the compatibiliser is a graft copolymer of the type ABn having a polypropylene backbone A and polyester or polycarbonate block(s) B grafted thereon, with n being at least 1, and wherein the polyester or polycarbonate blocks B have an average M/F ratio from 2-25, wherein M is the number of backbone carbon atoms in the polyester or polycarbonate not including carbonyl carbon atoms, and F is the number of ester or carbonate groups in the polyester or polycarbonate block, and wherein the wt. % is based on the sum of the amount polypropylene, polycarbonate and compatibiliser.

Curable silicone elastomer compositions having enhanced adhesive properties with respect to a wide variety of substrates are described. The compositions described herein are provided with a phenylmethylpolysiloxane based additive which comprises at least one, alternatively at least two Si—H groups per molecule and at least one, alternatively at least two epoxide functional groups per molecule. Said phenylmethylpolysiloxane based additives provide resulting elastomers with improved heat-humidity stabilization.

The invention relates to a material including a support consisting of a porous composite material including at least one polymer phase forming a binder based on at least one polymer selected from thermoplastic polymers, elastomers, and elastomer thermoplastics, and at least one filler selected from thermally conductive fillers, the pores of the support consisting of the porous composite material being partially or entirely filled with at least one phase-change material. The invention also relates to a method for producing said material.

To provide a composite comprising a resin foam and a resin member different from the resin foam, which can suppress deterioration of the outer appearance of the resin member.

A composite comprising a resin foam formed by using a blowing agent containing 1-chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and a resin member different from the resin foam, containing a resin selected from the group consisting of a polycarbonate resin, a polystyrene resin, a polyphenylene ether resin, an acrylonitrile/butadiene/styrene resin and a styrene/acrylonitrile copolymer resin.

A subject-matter of the present invention are new complexes comprising cyclic alkylene carbonates and polyamides, processes for their preparation and uses. Additionally, a subject-matter of the invention is the use of alkylene carbonates for recycling, solubilization, purification, and/or powdering of polyamide-based materials.

Boride particles represented by a general formula XB, (where X is at least one kind of metal element selected from Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Sr, Ca, and m is a number indicating an amount of boron in the general formula) are provided, wherein an amount of carbon included in the boride particles is 0.2% by mass or less, as measured by a combustion-infrared absorption method.

A polycarbonate-polysiloxane includes specific amounts of first carbonate units having the structure

##STR00001##

wherein R.sup.1 is a C.sub.6-C.sub.16 divalent aromatic group, second carbonate units having the structure

##STR00002##

wherein R.sup.2 is a C.sub.17-C.sub.40 divalent aromatic group having the structure

##STR00003##

wherein R.sup.f, R.sup.g, R.sup.h, R.sup.i, R.sup.j, R.sup.k, X.sup.b, j, m, n, x, and y are defined herein. The polycarbonate-polysiloxane is useful for forming thin extruded films, which in turn are useful for fabricating electrostatic film capacitors.

Porous polymeric materials having a very high content of thermally conductive and/or electrically conductive fillers. Process for the preparation of the porous composite material including at least one binder-forming polymeric phase and one or more fillers, this process including the stages of hot mixing, by the molten route, the polymeric phase, the fillers and a sacrificial polymeric phase, so as to obtain a mixture, of shaping the mixture and of removing the sacrificial polymeric phase.

Provided by the present invention is a high melt strength styrene resin composition. The composition includes the following components proportioned according to certain parts by weight: a styrene resin or a styrene alloy, a tackifier, an antioxidant and a lubricant. Compared to the existing technology, the present invention has the following beneficial effects: 1. a random copolymer used as the tackifier in the present invention is thermodynamically compatible with the styrene resin and the alloy thereof, does not experience phase separation, and has excellent mechanical properties; 2. the random copolymer used as the tackifier in the present invention has a moderate molecular weight, and is more easily plasticized than a rubber powder, a SAN powder having a high molecular weight, a heat-resistant powder, and so on, thus having better processability, uniform thickness, and low shrinkage rate, and not frequently experiencing the problem of surface defects.