A thermally conductive filler can exhibit high thermal conductive properties with a reduced specific gravity, a thermally-conductive composite material and a wire harness contains such a thermally conductive filler, and a method manufactures a thermally conductive filler. A thermally conductive filler contains base particles and a coating layer coating the particles, the coating layer contains a gel-like substance that is bonded to the surfaces of the base particles through chemical bonding and coats the surfaces of the base particles, and a thermally-conductive substance that is dispersed in the layer of the gel-like substance and has a higher thermal conductivity and a larger specific gravity than the base particles and the gel-like substance. Also, a thermally-conductive composite material is obtained by dispersing the thermally conductive filler in a matrix material. Furthermore, a wire harness contains the thermally-conductive composite material.

There are provided a layered body and a display device including the same, the layered body including a substrate layer and a resin layer disposed on at least one surface of the substrate layer, in which the resin layer contains a light scattering agent (A), and, when the contact angle of the substrate layer with respect to diiodomethane is indicated by θs (°) and the contact angle of the resin layer with respect to diiodomethane is indicated by θr (°), the following formula: |θs - θr| ≤ 21 is satisfied.

An optical fiber ribbon comprises a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel and a connecting resin layer containing a ribbon resin for coating and connecting the plurality of optical fibers, wherein each of the plurality of optical fibers has an outer diameter of 220 μm or less; each of the plurality of optical fibers includes a glass fiber, a primary resin layer, and a colored secondary resin layer; the colored secondary resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenylphosphine oxide; and a content of phosphorus in the colored secondary resin layer is 0.03 mass % or more and 0.30 mass % or less, and an amount of a phosphorus-tin complex at the surface of the colored secondary resin layer is 300 ppm or more and 7000 ppm or less.

A light filtering glass container including a glass container coated with a light filtering coating obtained by curing a polymerizable composition including semi-conductive nanoparticles. The absorbance through a 5-micrometer thick light filtering coating is greater than 0.5 for each light wavelength ranging from 350 nm to λ.sub.cut, λ.sub.cut being in the range from 420 nm to 480 nm, and the difference of lightness between the uncoated glass container and the glass container with the light filtering coating is lower than 5.

A method for obtaining a curved laminated glazing unit, includes applying an enamel coating to a part of a first face of a first glass sheet so as to create at least one enameled zone and at least one unenameled zone, applying a sacrificial layer to a part, called the sacrificial zone, of a first face of a second glass sheet, simultaneously bending the first and second glass sheets, the sacrificial zone being disposed at least in line with at least one part of an enameled zone, removing the sacrificial layer, either during the bending or after the bending step, and laminating the first and second glass sheets by a thermoplastic interlayer.

A luminescent layer is described comprising an Eu.sup.2+ doped inorganic luminescent material comprising or consisting essentially of the elements Al and/or Si and the elements O and/or N, the doped inorganic luminescent material converting radiation of the UV region between 200 nm and 400 nm of the solar spectrum into the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) region (400 nm-700 nm) of the solar spectrum, wherein the Si concentration in the inorganic luminescent material is selected between 0 and 45 at. %, the Al concentration between 0 and 50 at. %, the O concentration between 0 and 70 at. %, the N concentration between 0 and 60 at. % and the Eu2+ between 0.01 and 30 at. %.

Luminescent greenhouse glazing structures are described wherein the glazing structures comprise: a glass pane for a greenhouse; and, one or more Eu.sup.2+ doped amorphous inorganic luminescent thin film layers provided over the glass pane, wherein the one or more Eu.sup.2+ doped amorphous inorganic luminescent layers comprise or consist essentially of the elements Al and/or Si and the elements O and/or N; and, wherein the Si concentration is selected between 0 and 45 at. %, the Al concentration between 0 and 50 at. %, the O concentration between 0 and 70 at. %, the N concentration between 0 and 60 at. % and the Eu.sup.2+ between 0.01 and 30 at. %.

A composition that is easily applied, clear, well-bonded, and superhydrophobic is disclosed. In one aspect, the composition includes a hydrophobic fluorinated solvent, a binder comprising a hydrophobic fluorinated polymer, and hydrophobic fumed silica nanoparticles. Also disclosed is a structure including a substrate coated with the composition, as well as a method for making the composition and a method of coating a substrate with the composition.

A coating that can be easily applied, clear, well-bonded, and superhydrophobic is disclosed. In one aspect, an article comprises a coating layer, the coating layer having an inward surface and an opposing outward surface, the inward surface disposed adjacent a substrate surface. The coating layer comprises a hydrophobic fluorinated polymer and a plurality of nanoparticles. The plurality of nanoparticles includes nanoparticles on the outward surface of the coating layer.

A foldable cover article has a total thickness t≤300 μm, which is bendable to a minimum bending radius r≤20 mm without breakage and a pencil hardness HR≥HB. The foldable cover article includes a glass or glass-ceramic substrate with a thickness 5 μm≤t1≤150 μm and a polymer layer and/or a hard material coating with a total thickness 5 μm≤t2≤150 μm. For each 20 mm width of the foldable cover article, when the foldable cover article is broken upon bending along the direction perpendicular to the width, a number of projects with a longest linear extension L≥5 mm is less than 10 and/or a number of projects with a longest linear extension L<5 mm is less than 50.