There is provided a water-based alkaline composition for forming an insulating layer of an annealing separator on a soft magnetic alloy, this composition comprising ceramic particles with a particle size of less than 0.5pm and at least one polymer dispersion as a binding agent, the polymer dispersion comprising one or more mixed polymerisates from the group made up of acrylate polymers, methacrylate polymers, polyvinyl acetate, polystyrene, polyurethane, polyvinyl alcohol, hydroxylated cellulose ether, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and polyvinyl butyral, and having a pH value of between 8 and 12, preferably between 9 and 11.

Disclosed is a liquid polymerizable composition including a chain-growth polymerization dispersing monomer, a step-growth polymerization monomer system and inorganic nanoparticles homogeneously dispersed in the monomers, as well as its use for the preparation of a transparent polymeric material having a high refractive index and low haze and its use in the optical field.

Disclosed are a near-infrared absorbing composition, an optical structure, and a camera module and an electronic device including the same. The near-infrared absorbing composition includes a copper complex, a metal oxide particle, an amine-based compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a polymerizable compound having 2 to 4 functional polymerizable groups.
N(R.sub.1)(R.sub.2)(R.sub.3)  [Chemical Formula 1] Definitions of Chemical Formula 1 are the same as described in the detailed description.

This disclosure relates to a glucose-sensing electrode including a nanoporous metal layer and an electrolyte ion-blocking layer formed over the nanoporous metal layer. The nanoporous metal layer is capable of oxidizing both glucose and maltose without an enzyme specific to glucose in the glucose-sensing electrode. The electrolyte ion-blocking layer is configured to inhibit Na.sup.+, K.sup.+, Ca.sup.2+, Cl.sup.−, PO.sub.4.sup.3− and CO.sub.3.sup.2− from diffusing toward the nanoporous metal layer such that there is a substantial discontinuity of a combined concentration of Na.sup.+, K.sup.+, Ca.sup.2+, Cl.sup.−, PO.sub.4.sup.3− and CO.sub.3.sup.2− between over and below the electrolyte ion-blocking layer.

To provide a laminate for frost prevention, a heat exchanger including the laminate, and a coating agent for frost prevention, which have excellent reduction or prevention effect of frost growth. A laminate for frost prevention of an embodiment of the present embodiments including: a substrate, and a frost prevention layer containing first inorganic nanoparticles and a hydrophilic binder and exhibiting a water contact angle of 19.0 degrees or less.

Provided are a laminate and a surface coating agent exhibiting an excellent low gloss appearance. The laminate includes a substrate and a surface layer containing resin beads having an average particle diameter of 4 micrometers or greater and 20 micrometers or less, inorganic nanoparticles, and a binder, wherein the surface layer contains 100 parts by mass or more of the resin beads and the inorganic nanoparticles in total, based on 100 parts by mass of the binder and has a surface glossiness of 6.0 GU or less at 60 degrees.

A dispersion liquid according to the present invention is a dispersion liquid containing metal oxide particles which have been surface-modified with a silane compound and a silicone compound, in which, when the dispersion liquid is dried by vacuum drying to separate the metal oxide particles, and a transmission spectrum of the separated metal oxide particles is measured in a wavenumber range from 800 cm.sup.−1 to 3800 cm.sup.−1 with a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer, Formula (1) below: IA/IB≤3.5 is satisfied (in the formula, “IA” represents a spectrum value at 3500 cm.sup.−1 and “IB” represents a spectrum value at 1100 cm.sup.−1).

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a composition that delivers high barrier properties in fewer coating steps. The present invention solves this problem by providing a composition for gas barrier purposes that contains at least one carboxyl-containing resin (A), at least one divalent metal compound (B), and at least one alcohol (C). The alcohol (C) content of the composition is between 85 and 98 wt %, and the water content of the composition is 1% or less. The present invention, furthermore, is one that provides a gas barrier coating agent containing this composition for gas barrier purposes and a laminate having a substrate and a coat layer obtained by applying this coating agent.

The present invention relates to an anti-reflective film including: a hard coating layer; and a low refractive index layer including a binder resin, and hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles which are dispersed in the binder resin, wherein in a graph of the measurement of the friction force with a TAC film measured by applying a load of 400 g to the surface, the maximum amplitude (A) is 0.1 or less based on the average friction force.

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of preparing a transparent varnish composition. The method comprises the steps of providing a binder, adding to the binder 1 to 40 wt % precipitated calcium carbonate particles by weight of the composition, wherein the precipitated calcium carbonate particles have an average D.sub.50 particle size of 60 to 120 nm measured by dynamic light scattering, fewer than 10% of the precipitated calcium carbonate particles by volume of the total precipitated calcium carbonate particles have a particles size of 75 nm or less, fewer than 10% of the precipitated calcium carbonate particles by volume of the total precipitated calcium carbonate particles have a particles size of 110 nm or more, the steepness of the particle size distribution is in the range of 1.3-1.55, and dispersing the precipitated calcium carbonate in the composition.