This invention is in the field of surface modification. In particular, the invention relates to the surface modification of microfluidic devices to alter surface hydrophobicity characteristics.

A barrier layer is provided. The barrier layer includes a porous structure, which includes a polymer material, an oxide and a fluoro-containing material. A chemical bond is formed between the oxide and the polymer material. The fluoro-containing material, the polymer material and the oxide are assembled as a composite structure.

A resin powder having a high bulk density and an average particle size of at most 50 μm from resin particles containing a fluorocopolymer as the main component and having a melting point of 260 to 320° C., where the fluorocopolymer contains a unit containing a carbonyl group-containing group, a unit based on tetrafluoroethylene, and a unit based on a perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) or a unit based on hexafluoropropylene. A method of producing the resin powder by subjecting resin particles (A) having an average particle size of at least 100 μm to mechanical pulverization treatment. The resin particles (A) is made of a material (X) having a fluorocopolymer (X1) as the main component, which has a unit (1) based on a monomer containing at least one functional group selected from a carbonyl group-containing group, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group and an isocyanate group, and a unit (2) based on tetrafluoroethylene.

The present invention provides a multi plate screw press sludge dewatering machine and a helical shaft thereof. The multi plate screw press sludge dewatering machine includes fixed rings, movable rings, the helical shaft, a sludge inlet tank and a sludge discharging tank; the helical shaft adopts a variable diameter variable pitch helical shaft, a lead angle arrangement sequence of a helical blade of the whole helical shaft is gradual reduction from the sludge discharging tank to the sludge inlet tank, and the lead angle arrangement sequence is gradually reduced from 16°-22° to 6°-14°; a pitch of the helical shaft is gradually increased along a direction from the sludge inlet tank to the sludge discharging tank; a diameter of a shaft body of the helical shaft is gradually increased along with a direction of the sludge discharging tank from a ⅓ position of a shaft length; and blockage prevention plates are arranged on two sides of the bottom of the helical blade. The helical shaft in the present invention is specially designed, so that the pitch is more reasonable, a helical angle is gentler, frictional resistance when sludge passes through the helical shaft may be effectively reduced, and phenomena of shaft blockage and shaft sticking of the sludge may be reduced.

Provided are resin composition and a molded article produced therefrom, the resin composition comprising: a polycarbonate resin; a rubber-modified aromatic vinyl-based copolymer resin; a conductive additive including a carbon fiber and a carbon nanotube; talc; and a foaming agent, wherein the carbon fiber and the carbon nanotube are contained in a weight ratio of 1:0.1 to 1:0.4.

A molded article containing a copolymer including a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit, wherein a surface roughness Ra of the molded article is 0.20 μm or less, and a water contact angle of the molded article is 80 degrees or less. Also disclosed is a method for producing the molded article.

A composite material and a foam prepared from the composite material are provided. The composite material includes a network polymer, a fluorine-containing polymer fiber, and a reinforcement fiber. The polymer network is a crosslinking reaction product of a polymer and an oligomer, wherein the polymer is polyamide, polyester, polyurethane, or a combination thereof, and the oligomer is a vinyl aromatic-co-acrylate oligomer with an epoxy functional group. The oligomer has a weight percentage of 1% to 10%, based on the weight of the network polymer. The ratio of the weight of the reinforcement fiber to the total weight of the network polymer and the fluorine-containing polymer fiber is from 1:9 to 4:6.

A tetrafluoroethene copolymer having a melting point of from about 240° C. to 325° C., a melt flow index (MFI at 372° C. and 5 kg load) of 0.5-80 grams/10 minutes and having at least 70% by weight of units derived from tetrafluoroethene and further comprising units derived from at least one perfluorinated alkyl allyl ether (PAAE) comonomer corresponding to the general formula: CF.sub.2═CF—CF.sub.2—O—Rf (I) where Rf is a perfluorinated alkyl residue having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms and wherein the alkyl chain of the residue may be interrupted once or more than once by an oxygen atom and further, optionally, comprising units derived from perfluoromethyl vinyl ether (PMVE), perfluoroethyl vinyl ether (PEVE) and a combination thereof and wherein the content of units CA derived PAAEs and, optionally, PMVE, PEVE or a combination thereof, is at least 1.0% by weight.

The formation of microporous surfaces through polymer induced phase separation in a photopolymer solvent mixture using photopolymerization via light self-focusing and self-trapping. The self-trapping of light sets fixed regions of brightness and darkness, sustained by the polymerization of light, and then wave guiding within the substrate. Phase separation occurs with the solvent phase separating in the regions of darkness and crosslinking in the regions of brightness. Upon removal of the solvent, precise and uniformly dispersed pores are created in the surface. The pore size and spacing may be tuned by adjusting the weight fraction of the photopolymer solvent mixture as well as through changes in the mask pattern.

The present disclosure relates to a polyphenol-modified hydrocarbon composition-based prepreg and a copper clad laminate prepared therefrom. The present disclosure uses polyarylether or polyolefin resin modified with hydroxyl end, amino end or mercapto end as the matrix resin and epoxy resin as the main curing agent to construct a hydrocarbon composition with excellent dielectric properties.