A method of fabricating a polymer composite material by mixing a polymer material with a planar material, depositing the mixture on a substrate, and stretching the resulting thin film, is described. Polymer composite materials produced using said method and ballistic resistant materials comprising said polymer composite materials are also described.

Stable preparations of composite particles based on organic polymer and inorganic particles contain, as the organic polymer, an addition polymer containing moieties derived from polymerization of an unsaturated carboxylic acid in addition to vinyl ester, (meth)acrylic ester, olefin, vinyl aromatic, and/or vinyl halide monomers.

A composite and method for producing the composite by incorporating wood or wood pulp fibres with a suitable thermoplastic polymer and coupling agent are described. Homogeneous, void-free transparent/translucent thermoplastic materials in the form of pellets, films or three-dimensional moldable products are produced. The wood pulp fibres can be discrete natural fibres, and flexible assemblies of nano to micro elements, e.g., assemblies of aggregated carbon nanotubes. It is also possible to use our vacuum-assisted co-extrusion process to produce hybrid composites comprising the wood pulp fibre and a further rigid fibre, like glass or carbon fibres, and a flexible fibre or fibrillar network, like cellulose fibres or cellulose filaments. The thermoplastic resin can be, but not limited to, polyolefins, like polypropylene or polyethylene, or polyesters, like polylactic acid, or co-polymers, like acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene terpolymer.

A protein/polysaccharide/essential oil nano-edible film. The essential oil nano-edible film includes the following raw materials in parts by weight: 1-8 parts of a quinoa protein-Atrina pectinata polysaccharide nanocomposite, 2-11 parts of an Atrina pectinata polysaccharide-essential oil nanocomposite, 1-12 parts of a quinoa protein, 2-16 parts of Atrina pectinata polysaccharide, and 5-53 parts of water. The present invention helps to solve the problem, in a conventional protein film, of the loss of flavor and even toxic side effects caused by the adding of a plasticizer and a crosslinking agent to improve the mechanical strength, the use of a lipid substance that has the capability to easily form a dense molecular network structure to improve the water and gas barrier properties, and the migration of an additive, the plasticizer, or a polymer degradation by-product thereof generated in reaction, and a solvent remaining in the polymerization reaction from the film to food.

Proposed is a method for producing a polymeric piezoelectric composite having boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) dispersed therein, the method including: a solution-providing step for providing a polymeric solution; a dispersing step for dispersing BNNT in the polymeric solution; and an electro spinning step for electro spinning the polymeric solution with BNNT dispersed therein, thereby producing micro- and/or nano fibers based polymeric piezoelectric composites.

Proposed is a method for producing a polymeric piezoelectric composite having boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) dispersed therein, the method including: a solution-providing step for providing a polymeric solution; a dispersing step for dispersing BNNT in the polymeric solution; and an electro spinning step for electro spinning the polymeric solution with BNNT dispersed therein, thereby producing micro- and/or nano fibers based polymeric piezoelectric composites.

A partially separated fiber bundle having a surface of a reinforcing fiber coated with a sizing agent containing a water-soluble polyamide-based resin, in which a separated fiber section consisting of a plurality of separated fiber bundles and an unseparated fiber section are provided alternately along a longitudinal direction of the reinforcing fiber bundle consisting of a plurality of single yarns, wherein the reinforcing fiber bundle contains 600 fibers/mm or more and less than 1,600 fibers/mm of fibers per unit width while the reinforcing fiber has a drape level of 120 mm or more and 240 mm or less.

Embodiments are directed to compositions comprising (i) amphiphilic block copolymer, (ii) resin material; and amine modified graphene oxide; where the composition shows a synergic effect in critical strain energy release rate (Glc) value versus predicted value calculated by adding (i) the Glc value for neat resin material, plus (ii) the difference in Glc found when adding the amphiphilic block copolymer to the resin material versus the neat resin material, plus (iii) the difference in Glc found when adding the amine modified graphene oxide to the resin material versus the neat resin material.

An aqueous curable adhesive composition comprises an aqueous polymer dispersion and a polyamine compound having at least two amino groups. A laminated article comprises at least two substrates and the aqueous curable adhesive composition.

The present invention relates to environmentally friendly flame retardant materials based on renewable resources and industrial waste streams. The materials have advantageous intumescent properties, charring, gas phase radical traps and thermal stability. The present invention further relates to processes for the preparation of the flame retardant materials and to plastic materials comprising said flame retardant materials.