Fabricating a layer including lithium lanthanum zirconate (Li.sub.7La.sub.3Zr.sub.2O.sub.12) layer includes forming a slurry including lanthanum zirconate (La.sub.2Zr.sub.2O.sub.7) nanocrystals, a lithium precursor, and a lanthanum precursor in stoichiometric amounts to yield a dispersion including lithium, lanthanum, and zirconium. In some cases, the dispersion includes lithium, lanthanum, and zirconium in a molar ratio of 7:3:2. In certain cases, the slurry includes excess lithium. The slurry is dispensed onto a substrate and dried. The dried slurry is calcined to yield the layer including lithium lanthanum zirconate.

Fabricating a layer including lithium lanthanum zirconate (Li.sub.7La.sub.3Zr.sub.2O.sub.12) layer includes forming a slurry including lanthanum zirconate (La.sub.2Zr.sub.2O.sub.7) nanocrystals, a lithium precursor, and a lanthanum precursor in stoichiometric amounts to yield a dispersion including lithium, lanthanum, and zirconium. In some cases, the dispersion includes lithium, lanthanum, and zirconium in a molar ratio of 7:3:2. In certain cases, the slurry includes excess lithium. The slurry is dispensed onto a substrate and dried. The dried slurry is calcined to yield the layer including lithium lanthanum zirconate.

Base material arrangements having at least two layers can accommodate the addition of antifungal material (nanofiller), such as in denture base resin without significantly compromising the mechanical properties and/or translucency of the base material arrangements. Antifungal agents such as nanosilver and nanozirconia can be used to modify a surface layer of the material arrangements, such as the denture base, to overcome certain known shortcomings of the modified materials, e.g., typical acrylic resins containing nanosilver and nanozirconia.

A resin composition comprises: a base resin containing an oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator; and inorganic oxide particles, wherein the inorganic oxide particles are lump-shaped aggregated particles, and the volume average particle size of the inorganic oxide particles measured by an X-ray small angle scattering method is 5 nm or more and 800 nm or less.

A casting in the form of a sink, including a basin having a base, a rear wall, a front wall and two interconnecting side walls, and also a circumferential rim that extends to the side of the basin and consists of flat rim sections that extend in a straight line from the lateral edges of the rear wall, the side walls and the front wall. The sink is composed of a composite material including a cured polymeric binder and filler particles intercalated therein. A skirt that surpasses the height of the front wall at least in sections adjoins at least the rim section of the front wall, and its outer face extends at right angles from the outer face of the rim section and in a straight line up to the end thereof.

Polymer composite photonic crystal materials are disclosed as coatings which have high reflection (>30%) in a specific range of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as ultraviolet (<400 nm), visible (Vis, 400 nm-700 nm), or near-infrared radiation range (NIR, 700-2000 nm), and relatively low reflection (<20% reflection) in a second, different range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Surprisingly, it was found that through a formulation and additives approach, the optical properties of polymer composite photonic crystal films can be selectively modified from a variety of different coating methods, including spray deposition.

An optical member including a lens substrate and a hard coat layer, wherein the hard coat layer is a cured product of a curable composition including an inorganic oxide, an ultraviolet absorber, and an antioxidant, and wherein the curable composition contains an inorganic oxide having an absorption edge at a wavelength of 300 to 450 nm, a curable composition including an inorganic oxide, an ultraviolet absorber, and an antioxidant, wherein the curable composition contains an inorganic oxide having an absorption edge at a wavelength of 300 to 450 nm, and a method for producing an optical member, including a step of coating the curable composition as described in onto a lens substrate and curing the composition to form a hard coat layer.

A heat ray shielding fine particle dispersion body and a heat ray shielding laminated transparent substrate that as well as exhibit heat ray shielding properties and suppressing a scorching sensation on the skin when used in structures such as window materials and the like, also enable usage of communication devices, imaging devices, sensors and the like that use near-infrared light interposing the heat ray shielding film or the heat ray shielding glass, containing a transparent thermoplastic resin, and wherein heat ray shielding fine particles are dispersed in the transparent thermoplastic resin, the heat ray shielding fine particles having elements L, M, tungsten, and oxygen, and a hexagonal crystal structure represented by a general formula (L.sub.AM.sub.B) W.sub.CO.sub.D, wherein the element L is an element selected from K, Rb, Cs, and the element M is one or more elements selected from K, Rb, and Cs and is different from the element L.

A resin composition for coating an optical fiber comprises: a base resin containing a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator; and hydrophobic inorganic oxide particles, wherein the photopolymerizable compound comprises urethane (meth)acrylate and aliphatic epoxy (meth)acrylate, and the content of the aliphatic epoxy (meth)acrylate is 1.0% by mass or more and 45% by mass or less based on the total amount of the photopolymerizable compound.

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.