A silver-coated resin particle having a resin particle and a silver coating layer provided on a surface of the resin particle, in which an average value of a 10% compressive elastic modulus is in a range of 500 MPa or more and 15,000 MPa or less and a variation coefficient of the 10% compressive elastic modulus is 30% or less.

A method of producing a film-attached resin base may include supplying a surface treatment gas including at least fluorine gas to a resin base including reinforcing fibers so that embrittled regions are formed in a surface of the resin base and the reinforcing fiber present near the surface of the resin base is modified at least partially; removing at least the embrittled regions so that an uneven surface is formed on the resin base and the reinforcing fiber is at least partially exposed in the uneven surface; and forming a film onto the uneven surface of the resin base.

The present disclosure is drawn to 3D printing kits and methods of making 3D printed articles. In one example, a 3D printing kit can include a powder bed material, a fusible fluid, and an activator fluid. The powder bed material can include polymer particles. The fusible fluid can include a radiation absorber. The fusible fluid can be to selectively apply to the powder bed material. The activator fluid can include a non-conductive electroless metal plating activator. The activator fluid can also be to selectively apply to the powder bed material.

A support for supporting a component to be plated in a chromic acid-free plating process, the support having a contact surface comprising iodine-treated and/or bromine-treated plastic.

A method for manufacturing a laminate, the method comprising a process of forming a silver-particle layer on a substrate, the process comprising allowing an aqueous solution of ammoniacal silver nitrate to contact with an aqueous solution of a reducing agent, and the aqueous solution of a reducing agent comprising a phenol compound as the reducing agent.

A microstructure comprises a plurality of interconnected units wherein the units are formed of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) tubes. The graphene tubes may be formed by photo-initiating the polymerization of a monomer in a pattern of interconnected units to form a polymer microlattice, removing unpolymerized monomer, coating the polymer microlattice with a metal, removing the polymer microlattice to leave a metal microlattice, depositing an h-BN precursor on the metal microlattice, converting the h-BN precursor to h-BN, and removing the metal microlattice.

An ornament includes a base material; and a silver particle layer containing silver particles and disposed on the base material, wherein the silver particle layer has surface resistivity of 10.sup.4Ω/□ or more, and the silver particles are stacked in the silver particle layer in a thickness direction of the silver particle layer.

A metallized plastic component includes a base body of at least one light-permeable plastic to which a metal layer is applied into which at least one illuminatable structure is introduced. The at least one illuminatable structure is formed by an area in the metal layer in which a plurality of light-permeable openings is arranged in a dot matrix.

This disclosure includes coatings for increasing the physical and/or chemical properties of articles, for example, tubular metal articles such as those found in the oil and gas industry, as well as processes for making such coatings and articles comprising such coatings.

A process for the large scale manufacturing of vertically standing hybrid nanometer-scale structures of different geometries, including fractal architecture made of flexible materials, on a flexible substrate including textiles is disclosed. The nanometer-scale structures increase the surface area of the substrate. The nanometer-scale structures may be coated with materials that are sensitive to various physical parameters or chemicals such as but not limited to temperature, humidity, pressure, atmospheric pressure, electromagnetic signals originating from biological or non-biological sources, volatile gases, and pH. The increased surface area achieved through the disclosed process is intended to improve the sensitivity of the sensors formed by coating of the nanometer-scale structure and substrate with a material which can be used to sense physical parameters and chemicals as listed previously. An embodiment with nanometer-scale structures on a textile substrate coated with a conductive, malleable and bio-compatible sensing material for use as a biopotential measurement electrode is provided.