The present invention provides a particularly advantageous form of alkaline earth metal hydroxystannate and alkaline earth metal stannate exhibiting a BET specific surface area of from 20 to 200 m2/g. A method of producing such particulate material and evidence of its benefits in use such as in at a reduction in a polymer sample at elevated temperature is also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a “safety-by-design” method for the preparation of nanoparticles, to a method for the preparation of a nanocomposite material, and to the use of a direct liquid injection device so as to prepare nanoparticles or nanocomposite materials in a “safety-by-design” process.

A composition comprising: a) electrically conductive fibers comprising carbon, a conductive oxide, or a metal; and having an average diameter from 1 to 20,000 nm and an average length at least five times the average diameter; and b) electrically nonconductive particles with an average diameter from 1 to 20,000 nm.

A conductive ink composition is disclosed comprising conductive solids and a medium, wherein the conductive solids comprise glass flakes coated with an electrically conductive coating. Optionally, the electrically conductive coating may comprise a conductor selected from the group comprising silver, nickel, gold, metal nanoparticles, indium tin oxide, fluorine doped tin oxide. The conductive ink composition may comprise a percentage by weight of glass flakes coated with an electrically conductive coating less than or equal to 50%. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing the conductive ink composition, a printed article, and a method of manufacturing the printed article.

The present invention provides a bio-electrode composition including a polymer compound having both an ionic repeating unit A and a (meth)acrylate repeating unit B, wherein the ionic repeating unit A is a repeating unit selected from the group consisting of sodium salt, potassium salt, and ammonium salt having either or both partial structures shown by the following general formulae (1-1) and (1-2), and the (meth)acrylate repeating unit B is a repeating unit shown by the following general formula (2). ##STR00001##
This can form a living body contact layer for a bio-electrode with excellent electric conductivity, biocompatibility, and light weight, which can be manufactured at low cost and does not cause large lowering of the electric conductivity even when it is wetted with water or dried.

The present invention relates to high-voltage components, especially for electromobility, comprising polymer compositions based on at least one polyamide and at least one pigment system based on mixed oxides containing titanium dioxide, tin oxide and zinc oxide, and to the use of such a pigment system for production of polyamide-based high-voltage components or for marking of polyamide-based products as high-voltage components by laser.

The present invention relates to high-voltage components, especially for electromobility, comprising polymer compositions based on at least one polyester and at least one pigment system based on mixed oxides containing titanium dioxide, tin oxide and zinc oxide, and to the use thereof for production of polyester-based high-voltage components or for marking of polyester-based products as high-voltage components by laser.

The present disclosure relates to a resin composition for optical fiber coating, the resin composition including a base resin containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator; and inorganic oxide particles, in which a volume average particle size of the inorganic oxide particles as measured by a small angle X-ray scattering method is 800 nm or less, and a standardized dispersion of the volume average particle size is 60% or less.

A paint system contains an anti-fouling metal oxide and a fumed silica, wherein the fumed silica has a BET surface area of 150 to 400 m.sup.2/g, a tamped density of 100 to 300 g/l, and a thickening of less than 500 mPas, in which the percentage by weight of silica≤the percentage by weight of the metal and/or oxide thereof, based on the total weight of the paint system. The paint system also contains at least one water-binding organic and/or inorganic filler.

A transfer film satisfies at least one of the following (1) or (2). (1) The transfer film comprises a temporary support, and a first transparent layer including a polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and a resin, and the first transparent layer further contains a metal oxide particle containing titanium oxide and tin oxide. (2) The transfer film comprises a temporary support, and a first transparent layer including a polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and a resin, and a second transparent layer, and the second transparent layer contains a metal oxide particle containing titanium oxide and tin oxide.