The invention relates to a substrate intended in use to contact a fouling agent, the substrate including a coating comprising polysaccharide, which coating serves to reduce or prevent fouling of the substrate caused by contact from the fouling agent, in comparison to an equivalent uncoated substrate. The invention also relates to the anti-fouling coating, to apparatus comprising such coating and to related methods of reducing or preventing fouling of a substrate intended in use to contact a fouling agent.

The invention relates to a substrate intended in use to contact a fouling agent, the substrate including a coating comprising polysaccharide, which coating serves to reduce or prevent fouling of the substrate caused by contact from the fouling agent, in comparison to an equivalent uncoated substrate. The invention also relates to the anti-fouling coating, to apparatus comprising such coating and to related methods of reducing or preventing fouling of a substrate intended in use to contact a fouling agent.

Described herein are methods of syntheses and therapeutic uses of covalently modified peptides and/or proteins. The covalently modified peptides and/or proteins allow for improved pharmaceutical properties of peptide and protein-based therapeutics.

A coating composition may include kaolin having a shape factor less than about 70 and calcium carbonate, wherein less than about 90% by weight and greater than about 60% by weight of particles of the calcium carbonate have an equivalent spherical diameter (esd) less than 2 microns. The coating composition may include a thickener present in an amount ranging from about 0.1% to about 0.9% by active dry weight of the composition. A coating composition may include kaolin having a shape factor less than about 70 and calcium carbonate having a mean particle size (d50) of at least about 2.4 microns and a steepness factor of at least about 30. The coating composition may be a paper basecoat composition or a paperboard basecoat composition. A paper or paperboard product may include the coating composition on at least one surface of the paper product or paperboard product.

A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, an encapsulation layer, a black matrix layer, and an oleophobic layer. The encapsulation layer is disposed on a surface of the substrate. The black matrix layer is disposed on the encapsulation layer. The black matrix layer includes a through hole. The through hole extends through the black matrix layer to expose the encapsulation layer. The oleophobic layer covers the black matrix layer.

A silver powder, wherein the silver powder satisfies D.sub.50-IPA>D.sub.50-W, where in measurement of a volume-based particle size distribution of the silver powder by a laser diffraction particle size distribution analysis, D.sub.50-IPA (m) is a cumulative 50% point of particle diameter of the silver powder when isopropyl alcohol (IPA) is used as a measurement solvent for dispersing the silver powder, and D.sub.50-W (m) is a cumulative 50% point of particle diameter of the silver powder when water is used as a measurement solvent for dispersing the silver powder, and wherein a phosphorus content in the silver powder is 0.01% by mass or more but 0.3% by mass or less.

A silver powder, wherein the silver powder satisfies D.sub.50-IPA>D.sub.50-W, where in measurement of a volume-based particle size distribution of the silver powder by a laser diffraction particle size distribution analysis, D.sub.50-IPA (m) is a cumulative 50% point of particle diameter of the silver powder when isopropyl alcohol (IPA) is used as a measurement solvent for dispersing the silver powder, and D.sub.50-W (m) is a cumulative 50% point of particle diameter of the silver powder when water is used as a measurement solvent for dispersing the silver powder, and wherein a phosphorus content in the silver powder is 0.01% by mass or more but 0.3% by mass or less.

Provided is a freezing inhibitor which has excellent freezing inhibitory effect and excellent safety, while being able to be mass-produced. According to the present invention a freezing inhibitor which contains water-insoluble fibers that are derived from at least one substance, selected from the group consisting of celluloses, chitins and chitosans is used.

Provided is a freezing inhibitor which has excellent freezing inhibitory effect and excellent safety, while being able to be mass-produced. According to the present invention a freezing inhibitor which contains water-insoluble fibers that are derived from at least one substance, selected from the group consisting of celluloses, chitins and chitosans is used.

The application relates to a laminated porous film having a heat-resistant layer that is suitable for a separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent cycle characteristics, and a coating liquid for forming the heat-resistant layer. A coating liquid containing a filler, a binder, and a solvent, wherein a hydrophilicity parameter A of the filler defined by formula (1) is 0.35 to 0.65:

Hydrophilicity parameter A=BET.sub.1/BET.sub.2 (1)

wherein, in formula (1), BET.sub.1: the specific surface area of the filler calculated using a BET method from a differential adsorption isotherm obtained by subtracting, from a first adsorption isotherm measured by adsorbing water vapor to the filler, a second adsorption isotherm; and BET.sub.2: the specific surface area of the filler calculated using a BET method from a differential adsorption isotherm measured by adsorbing nitrogen to the filler.