A silicone pressure sensitive adhesive composition is curable to form a silicone pressure sensitive adhesive. The silicone pressure sensitive adhesive composition can be coated on a substrate and cured to form a protective film. The protective film can be adhered to an anti-fingerprint coating on display glass, such as cover glass for a smartphone.

To provide Provided is a curable silicone composition and applications thereof. The curable silicone composition has hot-melt properties, excellent workability, and curing characteristics such as overmolding, and a cured product obtained therefrom does not become hard or brittle, even if left at a temperature of 150° C. or higher for a long time. A The curable silicone composition comprises: an organopolysiloxane resin component which is non-hot-meltable, comprises a siloxane unit represented by SiO.sub.4/2 making up at least 20 mol % or more of the total siloxane units, and has a mass loss of 2.0 mass % or less when exposed to 200° C. for 1 hour; a liquid straight-chain or branched chain organopolysiloxane; and a curing agent.

An adhesive for separatably attaching a support to a circuit side of a wafer to process a rear surface of the wafer, the adhesive including a component (A) that is cured by a hydrosilylation reaction and a component (B) containing a phenyl group-containing polyorganosiloxane, wherein a ratio in % by mass of the component (A) to the component (B) is 95:5 to 30:70. A separation method including applying the adhesive onto a first body to form an adhesion layer, attaching a second body to the adhesion layer, heating the adhesion layer from a side of the first body to cure the adhesive to form a layered body, processing the layered body, and carrying out separation between the adhesion layer, and the first and second bodies. The processing may be polishing the rear surface of the wafer.

A kit for protecting a display screen of an electronic device having an in-screen fingerprint sensor is provided. The kit includes a screen protector at least partially formed from a transparent material and an interface coupler configured to be positioned between the screen protector and the display screen proximate the in-screen fingerprint sensor. The interface coupler includes a transparent carrier layer, a first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer is positioned on a first surface of the transparent carrier layer and configured to be affixed to the display screen of the electronic device, the first adhesive layer comprising a silicone adhesive or a gel or a gel-like material. The second adhesive layer is positioned on a second surface of the transparent carrier layer and configured to be affixed to the screen protector.

The invention relates to an adhesive composition comprising at least one silyl polymer comprising at least one hydrolyzable alkoxysilane group; at least one polyvinyl ether compound; and at least one curing catalyst, and also to the use of said composition as an adhesive and also to self-adhesive articles comprising at least one support layer and at least one layer of said composition.

A silicone pressure sensitive adhesive composition containing: (A) a polydiorganosiloxane gum having a number average molecular weight≥500,000 g/mol, where the polydiorganosiloxane gum is terminated with an aliphatically unsaturated group; (B) a polydiorganosiloxane polymer having a number average molecular weight≤100,000 g/mol and an aliphatically unsaturated group content of >0.13 weight %; where starting materials (A) and (B) are present in a weight ratio (B)/(A) of 0.4 to 1.6; (C) a polyorganosilicate resin having a number average molecular weight<4,000 g/mol, where starting materials (A), (B) and (C) are present in a weight ratio (C)/(B+A) of 1.4 to 2; (D) a polyorganohydrogensiloxane; where starting materials (A), (B), and (D) are present in amounts sufficient to provide a molar ratio of silicon bonded hydrogen atoms/silicon bonded aliphatically unsaturated groups (SiH/Vi ratio) of 4 to 30 in the composition; (E) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst; (F) an anchorage additive; and (G) a solvent. It is suitable for use in protective films for ultrasonic fingerprint sensors in display devices.

A multilayer self-adhesive fouling release coating composition includes an optional removable underlying liner; an adhesive layer applied over and to the optional underlying liner when the latter is present; and a synthetic material layer applied over and to the adhesive layer. Optionally, an intermediate silicone tie coat is applied over and to the synthetic material layer. A silicone fouling release top coat is applied over and to the synthetic material layer, or, when present, over and to the intermediate silicone tie coat. Optionally, a removable polymeric film is applied over and to the fouling release top coat.

A method of producing an electrically conductive material includes hardening, at a temperature in a range of 120° C. to 300° C., an electrically conductive adhesive that constitutes: (A) a polyether polymer having a backbone of a repeating unit of the formula —R.sup.1—O—, wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and an end group which is a hydrolyzable silyl group; and (B) silver particles.

An adhesive film or the like which is a laminate containing a substrate film containing a polycarbonate, a primer layer laminated on the surface of the substrate film, and an adhesive layer laminated on the surface of the primer layer opposite the substrate film.

The present invention relates to an electrically conductive composition comprising a silicone resin comprising at least one vinyl-group; a silicone cross-linker having at least one Si—H group; electrically conductive particles; a solvent; an adhesion promoter; a catalyst; and an inhibitor, wherein ratio between Si—H groups and vinyl-groups is equal or greater than 1.3 but equal or less than 10.