A printing assembly for thermal transfer printing is disclosed. The assembly comprises at least one first printing system comprising a transfer member having an imaging surface on the front side, a coating station at which a monolayer of thermoplastic particles is applied to the imaging surface, an imaging station at which electromagnetic radiation (EM) is applied, optionally via the rear side of the transfer member, to selected regions of the imaging surface to render the particles coating the selected regions tacky, a transfer station at which only the regions of the particles coating that have been rendered tacky are transferred to a substrate to form an adhesive image; and at least one more downstream printing system. The transfer member includes on its front side an EM radiation absorbing layer, the imaging surface being formed on, or as part of, the absorbing layer, and on its rear side a body which can optionally be transparent to EM radiation.

A carbonaceous filler-containing polyols dispersion obtained by blending a carbonaceous filler with polyols, wherein the carbonaceous filler has a component content (anhydrous basis weight) with 80% or more fixed carbon, less than 8% volatile content, and less than 4% ash content by industrial analysis, the carbonaceous filler has a phenolic hydroxy group per external specific surface area of 0.005 mmol/m.sup.2 or more, the carbonaceous filler is a carbon based material having an average particle diameter (D50) of 0.1 to 100 μm, and the carbonaceous filler-containing polyols dispersion is characterized by including 1 to 80 parts by weight of the carbonaceous filler with respect to 100 parts by weight of the polyols.

Disclosed are a method for manufacturing an electrode, an electrode manufactured thereby, a membrane-electrode assembly including the electrode, and a fuel cell containing the membrane-electrode assembly. The method includes the steps of: preparing an electrode forming composition by mixing a catalyst with an ionomer; applying a low-frequency acoustic energy to the electrode forming composition to perform resonant vibratory mixing so as to coat the ionomer on the surface of the catalyst; and coating the electrode forming composition to manufacture an electrode.

Disclosed are a method for manufacturing an electrode, an electrode manufactured thereby, a membrane-electrode assembly including the electrode, and a fuel cell containing the membrane-electrode assembly. The method includes the steps of: preparing an electrode forming composition by mixing a catalyst with an ionomer; applying a low-frequency acoustic energy to the electrode forming composition to perform resonant vibratory mixing so as to coat the ionomer on the surface of the catalyst; and coating the electrode forming composition to manufacture an electrode.

The present invention relates to a filler comprising a recovered carbon black having an iodine adsorption number, measured according to ASTM D-1510-17 of between 9 g/kg and 160 g/kg, preferably between 115 g/kg and 140 g/kg. The present invention also relates to a composite material comprising a rubber and a filler according to the invention. Moreover, the present invention relates to an article comprising said composite material, wherein the article is for example a tyre, such as, a passenger car tyre, a truck tyre, an agricultural tyre, an OTR (off-the-road) tyre, an aircraft tyre, a solid tyre, a bicycle tyre or a mining tyre.

An electrode catalyst support, capable of improving the power of a fuel cell, and an electrode catalyst and a solid polymer fuel cell using the same. Provided is carbon black wherein pores which are at most 6 nm in pore diameter have a cumulative pore volume of less than 0.25 cm.sup.3/g, a specific surface area by BET is 500 to 900 m.sup.2/g, and a volatile matter content is 1.0 to 10.0%. Also provided are an electrode catalyst for a fuel cell comprising a support which includes this carbon black, and a solid polymer fuel cell having the electrode catalyst.

The present invention generally relates to a method for preparing a carbon black of high resistivity through the surface treatment of the carbon black which exhibits conductivity, and a carbon black prepared by this method.

The present invention generally relates to a method for preparing a carbon black of high resistivity through the surface treatment of the carbon black which exhibits conductivity, and a carbon black prepared by this method.

A composite polymer composition comprising partially crystallized carbon black. The composition exhibits superior thermal transfer properties in plastic formulations. The polymer precursor exhibits excellent rheology when compared to similar compositions comprising traditional carbon blacks. The composite polymers provide for higher loading of more thermally conductive carbon blacks in a variety of composite polymer compositions.

The present invention relates to a method of improving aqueous dispersibility of conductive carbon powders, and to a method of preparing a colloid solution of conductive carbon powders. The present invention comprises a step of exposing conductive carbon powders to a plasma jet or reacting same with a plasma-treated reaction gas, wherein the step is characterized by reacting the plasma-treated reaction gas (ionized gas) with the conductive carbon powders, and accordingly by using plasma, the aqueous dispersibility of the conductive carbon powders may be improved in a convenient manner.