A thermal insulating additive, product formed therefrom, and method of making the same, wherein the thermal insulating additive comprises a plurality of hollow polymeric particles having an average particle size up to about 0.3 micrometers. The hollow polymeric particles exhibit a mechanical strength in a compression test up to about 420 psi and a thermal conductivity that is less than 0.150 W/m-k. The hollow polymeric particles are individually formed as an alkaline swellable core that is at least partially encapsulated with two or more shell layers; the alkaline swellable core prior to swelling exhibits an average particle size that is less than about 50 nanometers.

A process for forming voided latex particles is improved by combining swelling and polymerization of an outer shell into a single step. The process includes contacting multi-stage emulsion polymer particles comprising a core, at least one intermediate shell, with a swelling agent, and polymerizing an outer shell after said contacting with swelling agent wherein the core and the at least one intermediate shell are contacted with swelling agent in the presence of less than 0.5% monomer based on the weight of the multi-stage emulsion polymer particles, and substantially all of the swelling occurs during polymerization of the outer shell.

The present disclosure provides a polyalkylene carbonate-based resin having excellent thermal stability, thereby having an improved heat shrinkage phenomenon, and a molded article produced using the same. The polyalkylene carbonate-based resin includes 100 parts by weight of a base resin including a polyalkylene carbonate resin and a polylactide resin, and 5 parts by weight to 10 parts by weight of a heat shrinkage prevention agent, wherein the base resin includes the polyalkylene carbonate resin and the polylactide resin in a weight ratio of 6:4 to 4:6, and the heat shrinkage prevention agent is one or more selected from the group consisting of a polyalkyl(meth)acrylate-based resin, a polyalphaolefin-vinyl acetate-based resin, and a polyoxyalkylene-based resin.

A light reflective resin film includes a reflective stack including a resin layer, and the resin layer has a melting resistance of 2000 MΩ or less. The melting resistance is measured by bringing a copper plate into contact with a resin layer in a molten film state and applying a voltage of 50 V to the copper plate. By improving the energization performance of the resin layer, it is possible to reduce or eliminate the optical pattern in the light reflective resin film.

A thermoplastic composition includes: a thermoplastic polymer including from about 30 wt % to about 90 wt % poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and from about 5 wt % to about 70 wt % of a poly(carbonate-siloxane) copolymer having a siloxane content of from about 20 wt % to about 60 wt %; and a plurality of photoluminescent materials including quantum dots.

The present invention relates to self-supported elastomeric film made from a composition comprising polymer latex particles bearing ethylenically unsaturated groups pending from the polymeric backbone of the latex particles wherein the ethylenic unsaturation is separated from the polymeric backbone by at least 3 chemical bonds, to an article comprising the self-supported elastomeric film and to a method for making a self-supported elastomeric film from a composition comprising said polymer latex particles.

The present application relates to a method of applying particles, an optical film and a method of manufacturing an active liquid crystal device. In the method of applying particles of the present application, the particles can be uniformly applied on a base material and fixed while maintaining the shape of particles. The optical film of the present invention produced by the above method can have excellent particle dispersity. A method of manufacturing an active liquid crystal device using the above method can maintain a cell gap uniformly while simplifying the manufacturing process and preventing gravity defects.

This invention provides an easy-to-tear resin film. Such easy-to-tear resin film is an easy-to-tear, unstretched resin film composed of a blend of a polyethylene terephthalate-based resin with the second resin having a difference in SP value from the polyethylene terephthalate-based resin of 1.1 to 4.0 (cal/cm.sup.3).sup.0.5. This invention also provides a laminate film 1B for a packaging material comprising the easy-to-tear, unstretched resin film 10 between the inner layer film 20 serving as a heat seal surface and the surface layer film 30 comprising an isophthalic acid-modified polyethylene terephthalate resin having a copolymerization ratio of isophthalic acid component of 0 mol % to 5 mol %.

The present invention aims to provide a method for producing a glass-fiber-reinforced polyamide resin composition which can stably provide a molded product that has excellent weather resistance, and has a highly excellent appearance (textured surface uniformity). According to the present invention, there is provided a method for producing a glass-fiber-reinforced polyamide resin composition by using an extruder, wherein the composition contains a crystalline aliphatic polyamide resin (A), an amorphous polyamide resin (B), an acrylic resin (C), mica (D), glass fiber (E) and a master batch of carbon black (F) in a specific ratio by mass, respectively, wherein the composition further contains a specific amount of a copper compound (G), and wherein the extruder has a supply port for raw materials, a side-feeder, and a discharge port, which are arranged in this order from an upstream side being a raw material-supply side, characterized in that, the ingredients (A), (B), (C) and (F) as well as a dispersion of the ingredient (G) are supplied to the extruder from the supply port for raw materials, and the ingredients (D) and (E) are supplied to the extruder from the side-feeder.

A process for fabricating a thermochromic film is disclosed which includes the steps of dispersing a predetermined amount of vanadium dioxide (VO.sub.2) nanoparticles in a predetermined amount of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), stirring a mixture thereof for a first predetermined amount of time, generating cross-links to molecule chains of the PMMA in the mixture, and blade coating a predetermined thickness of the cross-linked mixture on a substrate to form the thermochromic film.