The substrate for a printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film having insulating properties, and a metal layer stacked on at least one surface of the base film, in which the base film includes a portion where a transition metal in group 10 of the periodic table is present. The transition metal in group 10 is preferably nickel or palladium. The portion where the transition metal in group 10 is present preferably includes a region having an average thickness of 500 nm and extending from an interface with the metal layer.

The invention relates to medical devices and, more in particular, to medical devices suitable for use as stents that contain an antimicrobial coating and, optionally, a drug customized to patients requirements. The invention also relates to methods for obtaining devices having the above features.

There is provided with a method for manufacturing a resin product. One embodiment includes performing a modification process on a portion of a surface of the resin product not less than two times by different methods to modify the portion such that a plating metal can be deposited on the portion.

The invention relates to an aqueous alkaline pre-treatment solution for use prior to deposition of a palladium activation layer on a substrate in manufacturing an article with an integrated circuit and a method and use thereof, wherein the solution comprises: at least one hydroxycarboxylic acid or salt thereof according to the general formula (I)

[RCH.sub.2—(RCH).sub.n—COO.sup.−].sub.m M.sup.m+  (I)

wherein n is integer from 2 to 4 and m is 1 or 2, R is independently H or OH with proviso that at least one R is OH, and wherein M.sup.m+ with m: 1 is hydrogen, ammonium or alkali metal; or M.sup.m+ with m: 2 is earth alkali metal, at least one polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester, at least one sulphonated fatty acid or a salt thereof.

The platability improver of the present invention comprises heterophasic-polymer particles having a coefficient of variation in particle diameter of 40%-90%. It is preferable that the proportion of polymer particles each having a particle diameter of 0.05 μm or larger be 80% by volume or more with respect to all the heterophasic-polymer particles and the proportion of polymer particles each having a particle diameter of 0.05 μm or larger but smaller than 0.15 μm be 10%-60% by volume with respect to all the heterophasic-polymer particles.

A transistor manufacturing method includes: forming a first insulator layer of which formation material is a fluorine-containing resin, on a substrate having a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a semiconductor layer so as to cover the semiconductor layer; forming a second insulator layer so as to cover the first insulator layer; forming a base film on at least part of a surface of the second insulator layer; and after depositing a metal which is an electroless plating catalyst on a surface of the base film, forming a gate electrode on the surface of the base film by electroless plating, wherein the forming of the base film is performed by applying a liquid substance which is a formation material of the base film to the surface of the second insulator layer, and the second insulator layer has a higher lyophilic property with respect to the liquid substance than the first insulator layer.

A process for the large-scale manufacturing vertically standing hybrid nanometer scale structures of different geometries including fractal architecture of nanostructure within a nano/micro structures made of flexible materials, on a flexible substrate including textiles is disclosed. The structures increase the surface area of the substrate. The structures maybe coated with materials that are sensitive to various physical parameters or chemicals such as but not limited to humidity, pressure, atmospheric pressure, and 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 structure and substrate with a material which can be used to sense physical parameters and chemicals as listed previously. An embodiment with the structures on a textile substrate coated with a conductive, malleable and bio-compatible sensing material for use as a biopotential measurement electrode is provided.

A multilayer curable resin film comprising a first resin layer comprising a first curable resin composition including a polyphenylene ether oligomer (A1) with an end modified by an aromatic vinyl group and a curing agent (A2) and a second resin layer comprising a second curable resin composition including an alicyclic olefin polymer (B1) and a curing agent (B2), a prepreg comprised of this including a fiber substrate, and a laminate, cured product, composite, and multilayer circuit board obtained using these are provided.

A phenol resin composition used in a resin molded body for which a plating process is applied to a surface includes component (A), which is phenol resin and component (B), which is calcium carbonate.

Disclosed are a thermoplastic resin composition, a method of preparing the same, and a molded part manufactured using the same, wherein the thermoplastic resin composition includes a-1) 1 to 30% by weight of a first graft polymer obtained by graft-polymerizing an aromatic vinyl compound and a vinyl cyanide compound onto a conjugated diene rubber having an average particle diameter of 0.05 μm or more and less than 0.2 μm; a-2) 5 to 45% by weight of a second graft polymer obtained by graft-polymerizing an aromatic vinyl compound and a vinyl cyanide compound onto a conjugated diene rubber having an average particle diameter of 0.2 to 0.5 μm; b) 50 to 80% by weight of an aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound copolymer; and c) 1 to 10% by weight of a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester polymer.