In the glass fiber-reinforced resin molded article, the glass fiber has a flat cross-sectional shape having a ratio of the major axis to the minor axis (major axis/minor axis) in the range of 5.0 to 10.0, the thermoplastic resin is polyaryletherketone, the number average fiber length L of the glass fiber having a length of 25 μm or more contained in the glass fiber-reinforced resin molded article is in the range of 50 to 300 μm, the proportion P.sub.S of the glass fiber having a length of 25 to 100 μm contained in the glass fiber-reinforced resin molded article is in the range of 20.0 to 60.0%, the proportion P.sub.L of the glass fiber having a length of 500 m or more is in the range of 1.0 to 15.0%; and the L, P.sub.S, P.sub.L satisfy the following formula (1). 39.5≤L×P.sub.S.sup.2/(1000×P.sub.L)≤82.4 . . . (1)

A nanocomposite blend membrane and fabrication methods for making the nanocomposite membrane are disclosed. The nanocomposite blend membrane can be utilized in fuel cells. The nanocomposite blend membrane may include a blend polymer with a first sulfonated polymer and a second sulfonated polymer, as well as sulfonated tungsten trioxide (WO.sub.3) nanoparticles.

The invention relates to biomaterials based on plastics, such as polyaryl polyether ketone (PEK), and to methods for producing and using same. The following describes how a mechanically stable coating made of a porous bone substitute material, e.g. Nano Bone®, is applied to polyaryl polyether ketone (PEK), e.g. polyether ether ketone (PEEK), as a result of which the problem of poor cell adhesion on plastics surfaces of this kind can be solved. The bone substitute material can be applied both dry as a powder and also in a wet spraying method. The coating is a result of briefly melting the polymer surface and the resulting partial penetration of the previously applied layer. In the process, the molten polymer penetrates into nanopores of the bone substitute material and thus establishes a firm connection.

A foam molding composition from which a foam molded body and a foamed electric wire can be produced having excellent heat resistance, a small average cell size, a high foaming ratio, and good outer diameter stability. The foam molding composition includes a resin (A) having a pyrolysis temperature of 330° C. or higher and at least one compound (B) selected from phosphoric acid esters and salts thereof and phosphoric acid ester complex compounds. Also disclosed is a foam molded body obtained from the foam molding composition, an electric wire including a core wire and a covering material covering the core wire obtained from the foam molding composition, and a method for producing the foam molded body.

The invention describes powders for use in the production of spatial structures, i.e. molded bodies, using layer build-up methods, as well as methods for their efficient production. The powders have the special feature that they have good flow behavior, for one thing, and at the same time, have such a composition that the molded body that can be produced with the powder, using rapid prototyping, has significantly improved mechanical and/or thermal properties. According to a particularly advantageous embodiment, the powder has a first component that is present in the form of essentially spherical powder particles, which is formed by a matrix material, and at least one further component in the form of stiffening and/or reinforcing fibers, which are preferably embedded in the matrix material.

A reinforcement sheet has a composite layer including fibres and a polymer A and a coating layer including polymer B, each polymer having at least 65 mol % of a repeat unit of formula:

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wherein for each polymer A and B, t1, and w1 independently represent 0 or 1 and v1 represents 0, 1 or 2. A method of forming the reinforcement sheet is also disclosed, in addition to a method for forming an article comprising a laminate of the reinforcement sheets and the article comprising such a laminate. The repeat unit may be ether-ether-ketone.

The invention relates to a composite for production of an acoustic membrane, wherein the composite comprises an internal carrier layer and at least two adhesive layers on the two surfaces of the carier layer, and wherein the carrier layer is a layer of a polyaryl ether ketone film; and also to a corresponding membrane for acoustic transducers.

Provided is a method for producing a modeled object easily producible and capable of effectively increasing mechanical properties in modeling using a three-dimensional printer. The method for producing a modeled object includes the steps of: preparing a resin composition containing inorganic fibers with an average fiber length of 1 μm to 300 μm and an average aspect ratio of 3 to 200 and a thermoplastic resin; and modeling an object using the resin composition on a fused deposition modeling-based three-dimensional printer to produce a modeled object, wherein in modeling the object on the fused deposition modeling-based three-dimensional printer, a deposition pitch is less than 0.20 mm and a road width is less than 0.20 mm.

A film containing a resin composition containing an aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) and a fluorine-containing copolymer (II). The fluorine-containing copolymer (II) defines a dispersed phase at an average dispersed particle size of 5 .Math.m or smaller. The aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) has a crystallinity of lower than 6%.

A poly(etherimide) includes repeating units derived from polymerization of a biphenol dianhydride and an organic diamine. A method of making the poly(etherimide) includes contacting the biphenol dianhydride and the organic diamine under conditions effective to provide a poly(etherimide). The poly(etherimide) can be useful in a variety of articles, for example in an optoelectronic component.