A thermally conductive silicone composition that has high thermal conductivity and excellent workability and misalignment resistance, and contains, in specific ratios: a silicone gel cross-linked product (A); a silicone oil (B) not containing either aliphatic unsaturated bonds or SiH groups and being used as a surface treatment agent for components (C) and (D); an aluminum powder (C) including (C-1)-(C-3), (C-1) being an aluminum powder having an average particle diameter of 40-100 μm, (C-2) being an aluminum powder having an average particle diameter of at least 6 μm and less than 40 μm, and (C-3) being an aluminum powder having an average particle diameter of at least 0.4 μm and less than 6 μm; a zinc oxide powder (D) having an average particle diameter of 0.1-10 μm; and a volatile solvent (E).

The present invention provides an latex auxiliary composition for producing a latex solution, comprising: a sulfur-free crosslinking agent, which has aluminum oxide, calcium chloride, magnesium oxide, and zirconium dioxide; and a biomass filler, which has sorbitol, polyacrylate, laurate, 1,2-glycerol diacetate, and 1,3-glycerol diacetate; wherein when the sulfur-free crosslinking agent and biomass filler are added to the latex solution, based on 100 parts of the latex, the amount of the sulfur-free crosslinking agent is 0.1˜5.0 parts, and the amount of the biomass filler is 0.1˜20.0 parts.

An exemplary embodiment provides a method for preparing a latex composition for dip forming, the method including: (a) preparing a monomer mixture including a conjugated diene-based monomer, an ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer and an ethylenically unsaturated acid monomer; (b) introducing an additive including an inorganic solvent, an emulsifier and starch into the monomer mixture; and (c) preparing a copolymer latex by polymerizing the monomer mixture, wherein a content of the starch is 0.1 to 4.9 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the monomer mixture.

Provided is a thermally conductive silicone composition whose cured product exhibits no cracks and voids, and has a favorable thermal conductivity. The thermally conductive silicone composition contains: (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two silicon atom-bonded aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbon groups per each molecule, and having a kinetic viscosity of 10 to 1,000,000 mm.sup.2/s at 25° C.; (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane; (C) gallium and/or a gallium alloy that have a melting point of −20 to 70° C.; (D) a thermally conductive filler having an average particle size of 0.1 to 100 pin; (E) a platinum group metal catalyst; (F) a palladium powder; and (G-1) an organopolysiloxane represented by the following general formula (1):

##STR00001## wherein R.sup.1 independently represents an aliphatic unsaturated bond-free substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 independently represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or an acyl group.

A golf ball material contains (i) fine particles that have an average particle size of less than 300 μm and are composed of a crosslinked multi-component copolymer having conjugated diene units, non-conjugated olefin units and aromatic vinyl units; and (ii) a thermoplastic resin. The conjugated diene units include butadiene units, the non-conjugated olefin units include units selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene and 1-butene units, the aromatic vinyl units include styrene units, and the content of the conjugated diene units in the multi-component copolymer is 5 wt % or more. This golf ball material is soft, has an excellent rebound resilience and also has a good processability.

A golf ball material contains (i) fine particles that have an average particle size of less than 300 μm and are composed of a crosslinked multi-component copolymer having conjugated diene units, non-conjugated olefin units and aromatic vinyl units; and (ii) a thermoplastic resin. The conjugated diene units include butadiene units, the non-conjugated olefin units include units selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene and 1-butene units, the aromatic vinyl units include styrene units, and the content of the conjugated diene units in the multi-component copolymer is 5 wt % or more. This golf ball material is soft, has an excellent rebound resilience and also has a good processability.

Provided is a resin composition for laser direct structuring on which a plating can be formed and demonstrating low loss tangent, a molded article, and, a method for manufacturing a plated molded article. The resin composition for laser direct structuring contains a polycarbonate resin and a laser direct structuring additive, and the polycarbonate resin containing 5% by mass or more, relative to all structural units, of a structural unit represented by formula (1). In formula (1), each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and W.sup.1 represents a single bond or a divalent group).

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A composition contains (a) a polysiloxane; and (b) 0.15 weight-percent or more and 85 weight-percent of less, relative to composition weight dispersed in the polysiloxane, of zinc oxide particles having an average particle size of less than one micrometer and greater than one nanometer as determined as the volume weighted median value of particle diameter distribution using a laser diffraction particle size analyzer.

The present invention relates to a resin composition comprising an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with an ethylene unit content of 20 mol % or more and 60 mol % or less, a divalent metal hydroxide (B) and a monovalent metal compound (C), wherein a content of the divalent metal hydroxide (B) is 5 ppm or more and 5000 ppm or less, and a mass ratio (C/B) of the amount of the monovalent metal compound (C) in terms of the monovalent metal atom to the amount of the divalent metal hydroxide (B) in terms of the divalent metal atom is 0.025 to 100. Thus, there is provided a resin composition containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer having excellent long run property during melt molding and excellent color phase in long-term melt molding.

Provided is an irradiation-crosslinked ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) composition containing: EPDM 30 to 80 phr (parts per hundred resin) free of a crosslinking agent, a polyolefin (PO) resin 10 to 50 phr, a silicone rubber 5 to 40 phr, a flame retardant 20 to 30 phr, a crosslinking accelerator 5 to 10 phr, a crosslinking assistant 1 to 5 phr, an antioxidant 5 to 15 phr, and a lubricant 0.25 to 5 phr. Provided is a cable produced by: providing the irradiation-crosslinked EPDM composition; first kneading the composition using a kneader; second kneading the first kneaded composition using a roll mill; extruding the second kneaded composition using an extruder, and then cutting the extruded composition to produce pellets as a raw material for the cable; forming a cable of a predetermined length by extruding the pellets using an extruder; and irradiation-crosslinking the formed cable using an electron beam accelerator.