A touch screen display that includes a touch screen user interface having a plurality of layers that includes a top surface layer. The display includes a coating composition coating the top surface layer. The coating composition includes metal-modified cerium oxide nanoparticles (mCNPs) having a predominantly 3+ cerium surface charge and in a range of about 3-30 nm in size and in an amount that is in a range of about 1 weight percentage of a mixture having a binder and the mCNPs and m is an antimicrobial promoting metal that is non-ionizing. The touch screen display is incorporated into various machines or electronic devices. The coating composition forms a self-disinfecting surface that is optically transparent.

A polishing liquid containing abrasive grains, a hydroxy acid, a polyol, a cationic compound, and a liquid medium, in which a zeta potential of the abrasive grains is positive and a weight average molecular weight of the cationic compound is less than 1000.

Anti-corrosive conversion coating compositions are disclosed. The anti-corrosive conversion coating compositions include a biopolymer and a rare earth element compound. Implementations of the anti-corrosive conversion coating composition can include where the biopolymer includes chitosan, starch, inulin, dextran, pullulan, or a combination thereof. The rare earth element compound may include one or more of the lanthanide series of elements, scandium, yttrium, or a combination thereof. The rare earth element compound may include a hydroxide of a rare earth element, an oxide of a rare earth element, or a combination thereof. Coated articles and methods for applying the anti-corrosive conversion coating compositions are also disclosed.

The present invention is directed to nanoporous cerium oxide nanoparticle (NCeONP) macro-structures in polymeric elastomers. Such macrostructures can be used to modify the mechanical properties of the polymeric elastomer and influence the response to UV exposure.

Disclosed are an antioxidant for a fuel cell having both antioxidative properties and proton conductivity, and a method of producing the same. The antioxidant may include: a metal oxide having antioxidant properties; and a proton conductive functional group bonded to the metal oxide, in which the proton conductive functional group may include a sulfonic acid group attached to the metal oxide by a sulfonation bond.

The present invention provides a fluoropolymer containing fluorosulfonyl groups capable of forming a polymer electrolyte membrane with high conductivity and hot water resistance, a method for its production, a fluoropolymer containing acid-form sulfonic acid groups and a method for its production, a polymer electrolyte membrane, a membrane-electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell. The method for producing a fluoropolymer containing fluorosulfonyl groups of the present invention comprises copolymerizing a monomer m1 (CF.sub.2═CFCF.sub.2O-Q.sup.1-SO.sub.2F) and TFE in a reactor at a temperature of from 150 to 200° C. in the presence of a radical polymerization initiator, wherein the radical polymerization initiator is continuously or sequentially added into the reactor so that the concentration of the radical polymerization initiator is kept to at most 2.5 mass ppm of the initial feed of the monomer m1 present in the reactor before initiation of the copolymerization during the copolymerization, and the molar ratio of the total feed of the monomer m1 to the total feed of tetrafluoroethylene is from 1.5 to 20

An ultraviolet detection material includes a composite oxide including aluminum, strontium, cerium, lanthanum and manganese, and an organic polymer. The ultraviolet detection material is not excited by an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength longer than 310 nm and is excited by an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength equal to or shorter than 310 nm, thereby emitting light having a peak of an emission wavelength in 480 nm or longer and 700 nm or shorter.

The present disclosure relates to a photopolymerizable composition capable of improving UV transmittance while maintaining excellent performance such as dielectric constant and sensitivity of a display device, and a cured film and a display device using the same.

Pressure-responsive particles include pressure-responsive base particles and first inorganic oxide particles, in which the pressure-responsive base particles contain a styrene-based resin which contains styrene and other vinyl monomers as polymerization components and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin which contains at least two kinds of (meth)acrylic acid esters as polymerization components and in which a mass ratio of the (meth)acrylic acid esters to all polymerization components is 90% by mass or higher, Db/Da which is a ratio of a number average particle diameter Db of the first inorganic oxide particles to a number average particle diameter Da of the pressure-responsive base particles is 0.05 or higher and 0.25 or lower, the pressure-responsive particles have at least two glass transition temperatures, and a difference between a lowest glass transition temperature and a highest glass transition temperature is 30° C. or higher.

To provide a liquid composition capable of forming a polymer electrolyte membrane which is excellent in the initial power generation characteristics when made into a membrane electrode assembly, and which is excellent in durability and has few defects. This liquid composition comprises a liquid medium, a sulfonic acid group-containing fluorocarbon polymer and a hardly soluble cerium compound, wherein the ion exchange capacity of the sulfonic acid group-containing fluorocarbon polymer is from 1.36 to 2.50 meq/g dry resin, the average particle size of the hardly soluble cerium compound is from 1 nm to 3,000 nm, and the ratio of the total number of moles of cerium atoms in the hardly soluble cerium compound to the total number of moles of sulfonic acid groups in the sulfonic acid group-containing fluorocarbon polymer is from 0.001 to 0.3.