The present disclosure is directed towards a formulation for piezoelectric materials. The formulation may be printed including 2D or 3D printing. The formulation contains ceramic particles, a sol-gel, a high boiling point solvent and a binder.

The present invention provides a paper ball-like graphene microsphere, a composite material thereof, and a preparation method therefor. Such paper ball-like graphene microspheres are obtained by chemically reducing graphene oxide microspheres to slowly remove oxygen-containing functional groups on the surface of the graphene oxide to avoid the volume expansion caused by rapid removal of the groups, thereby maintaining a tight bond between graphene sheets without separation; and removing the remaining small number of oxygen-containing functional groups and repairing defect structures in the graphene oxide sheets by means of high temperature treatment, such that the graphene structure becomes perfect at an ultrahigh temperature (2500 to 3000° C.), thereby further improving the bonding ability between the graphene sheets in the microspheres and achieving a dense structure.

The challenge of the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating composition having good coating workability and good finished appearance. The aqueous coating composition of the present invention is an aqueous coating composition including an aqueous base component (I) and a water-dispersible curing agent (II), wherein the aqueous base component (I) includes an aqueous acrylic resin dispersion (A) and an aqueous polyolefin wax dispersion (B), wherein the water-dispersible curing agent (II) includes a water-dispersible polyisocyanate (C), wherein at least one of the aqueous base component (I) and the water-dispersible curing agent (II) includes an organic solvent (D) having a solubility in water at 20° C. of 0.5 to 10 g/100 gH.sub.2O, wherein the aqueous acrylic resin dispersion (A) has a hydroxyl value in the range of 5 to 200 mgKOH/g, wherein an acid value in the range of 5 to 100 mgKOH/g, and wherein a number-average molecular weight in the range of 1,000 to 100,000, and the aqueous polyolefin wax dispersion (B) has an average particle diameter in the range of 50 to 1,000 nm.

A powdery and/or granular material for a thermosetting resin is provided. The powdery and/or granular material contains fine polymer particles (A) that contain a rubber-containing graft copolymer that includes an elastic body and a graft part grafted to the elastic body. The fine polymer particles (A) have a volume-average particle size of not less than 90 nm; and the polymer of the graft part has a weight-average molecular weight of not more than 200000.

Hollow particles each having a shell composed of at least one layer, wherein the at least one layer contains a nitrogen atom-containing resin having a refractive index of 1.57 or less.

Proposed are copper sulfide nanoparticles having a core-shell structure included in a coating composition for blocking near-infrared light, and a method of manufacturing the same. More particularly, a method of manufacturing copper sulfide nanoparticles having a core-shell structure includes manufacturing CuS nanoparticles, manufacturing Cu.sub.2-xS nanoparticles by heating a mixed solution of the CuS nanoparticles, a reducing agent, and a solvent, and manufacturing Cu.sub.2-xS@Cu.sub.2-yO core-shell nanoparticles by heating a mixed solution of the Cu.sub.2-xS nanoparticles, an oxidizing agent, and a solvent.

This invention relates to a thermally conductive potting composition, comprising a first part comprising at least one epoxy resin; at least one thermally conductive filler; and at least one metal complex; and a second part comprising at least one curing agent. The first part of the thermally conductive potting composition exhibits high thixotropic index and therefore the first part is easily stored. After the first part and the second part is mixed, the thermally conductive potting composition exhibits low thixotropic index and the meets the requirement for potting process.

The present invention relates to a flexible plastic film, and more specifically to a flexible plastic film having excellent flexibility while exhibiting high hardness. According to the present invention, the flexible plastic film exhibits flexibility, bending property, high hardness, scratch resistance and high transparency, and hardly has a risk of damaging the film even in a state of being warped for a long period of time, and thereby can be usefully applied to flexible mobile devices, display devices, front face and display unit of various instrument panels, and the like.

An ink composition including a nanomaterial and a liquid vehicle, wherein the liquid vehicle includes a composition including one or more functional groups that are capable of being cross-linked is disclosed. An ink composition including a nanomaterial, a liquid vehicle, and scatterers is also disclosed. An ink composition including a nanomaterial and a liquid vehicle, wherein the liquid vehicle includes a perfluorocompound is further disclosed. A method for inkjet printing an ink including nanomaterial and a liquid vehicle with a surface tension that is not greater than about 25 dyne/cm is disclosed. In certain preferred embodiments, the nanomaterial includes semiconductor nanocrystals. Devices prepared from inks and methods of the invention are also described.

A polymerizable composition is described comprising at least one monomer, oligomer, polymer, or a combination thereof comprising ethylenically unsaturated groups; and at least one cyclic imide monomer comprising an α, β-unsaturated carbonyl. The cyclic imide monomer comprises an imide group and the α, β-unsaturated carbonyl in a heterocyclic ring wherein the ring comprises at least 6 covalently bonded atoms. Also described are cyclic imide monomers, (e.g. hardcoat) compositions, methods of making a coated substrate, cyclic imide monomers, and methods of making cyclic imide monomers.