An encapsulant of a photovoltaic module, intended for coating a photovoltaic cell, having a composition which does not include any cross-linking agent and including: an ethylene—alkyl acrylate copolymer, the copolymer making up 70% to 96% of the weight of the composition; a silane, making up 0.1% to 2% of the weight of the composition; wherein the composition also includes a terpolymer of ethylene—acrylic ester—maleic anhydride or glycidyl methacrylate, the terpolymer making up 2% to 29.9% of the weight of the composition. Also relates to the use of such an encapsulant in a photovoltaic module as well as to a photovoltaic module including such an encapsulant.

The present disclosure relates to a high light transmittance photovoltaic encapsulating material, which is prepared by the following process: subjecting 100 mass parts of a photovoltaic encapsulating material matrix resin or a graft-modified matrix resin, 0.001 to 5 mass parts of an oxygen- or sulfur-containing compound, 0.01 to 10 mass parts of a reactive plasticize 0.01 to 1.5 mass parts of an initiator, 0.01 to 10 mass parts of an assistant cross-linker, 0.1 to 3.0 mass parts of a silane coupling agent, 0.1 to 0.4 mass parts of an ultraviolet light absorber, and 0.1 to 1.0 mass part of light stabilizer to pre-mixing, melt extrusion, film casting, cooling, slitting, and coiling. The light transmittance of the photovoltaic encapsulating material is improved, and the refractive indexes of glass/front-layer encapsulating material/cell match each other, thereby increasing the sunlight utilization ratio of a module, and optimizing the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the module.

A composition comprising an ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer that comprises the following properties: a) a total unsaturation/1000C≥0.30; b) a molecular weight distribution (MWD)≤3.0; c) a TGIC broadness parameter B.sub.1/4≤8.0. A solution N polymerization process to prepare an ethylene/alpha-olefin/interpolymer, said process comprising polymerizing, in one reactor, at a reactor temperature ≥150° C., a reaction mixture comprising ethylene, an alpha-olefin, a solvent, and a metal complex as described herein. A method to determine the TGIC broadness parameter B.sub.1/x of a polymer composition comprising one or more olefin-based polymers.

A solar cell module is disclosed including, in sequence from a light-receiving surface side, a surface glass layer having a thickness of 0.4 mm or more and 1.6 mm or less, a first sealing layer, cells, a second sealing layer, and a back protective layer, wherein the back protective layer comprises, in sequence from a side closer to the second sealing layer, a first resin sheet layer having a flexural modulus of 1500 MPa or more and 5000 MPa or less, a second resin layer having a maximum bending load of 8N/10 mm or more and 100N/10 mm or less, wherein the maximum bending load is measured by a method in accordance with a bending test (JIS K7171) except that only the span between supports is changed to 48 mm, and a third resin sheet layer having a flexural modulus of 1500 MPa or more and 5000 MPa or less.

A solar cell module is disclosed including, in sequence from a light-receiving surface side, a surface glass layer having a thickness of 0.4 mm or more and 1.6 mm or less, a first sealing layer, cells, a second sealing layer, and a back protective layer, wherein the back protective layer comprises, in sequence from a side closer to the second sealing layer, a first easy-adhesion resin layer having adhesiveness to the second sealing layer, a second resin sheet layer having a flexural modulus of 1500 MPa or more and 4000 MPa or less, a third resin layer being in a foam state and having a flexural modulus of 200 MPa or more and 1000 MPa or less, and a fourth resin layer having a flexural modulus of 10000 MPa or more and 45000 MPa or less.

Disclosed are an adhesive film, an anti-PID encapsulation adhesive film, a composition forming the adhesive film, and a photovoltaic module and laminated glass. The composition includes: an ethylene copolymer matrix resin, an amide organic compound, a metal oxide and/or metal hydroxide, the metal oxide is selected from one or more of the components aluminum oxide, calcium oxide, zinc oxide, banum oxide, magnesium oxide, zirconium oxide, titanium oxide, tin oxide, vanadium oxide, antimony oxide, tantalum oxide, niobium oxide, layered transition metal oxide, or ZnO-doped Al.sub.2O.sub.3, CaO/SiO.sub.2-doped Al.sub.2O.sub.3, MgO-doped Al.sub.2O.sub.3, SiO.sub.2-doped ZrO.sub.2, and TiO.sub.2-doped ZrO.sub.2, and the metal hydroxide is selected from one or more of the components calcium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, zinc hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide, iron hydroxide and barium hydroxide. Alternatively, the composition includes: a matrix resin, a metal ion trapping agent and an organic co-crosslinker. The adhesive film has a better anti-PID effect, photoelectric conversion efficiency and encapsulation performance.

A composition comprising the following components a)-c): a) an alpha composition comprising a multimodal ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer, and wherein the alpha composition comprises the following properties: i) an Mz/Mn≥8.0, ii) a density from 0.855 to 0.890 g/cc, iii) a V100 (100° C.)≤2,000 Pa.Math.s, iv) a V1.0 (100° C.)≥15,000 Pa.Math.s, v) a Mn≥16,000 g/mol; b) a peroxide; and c) a silane coupling agent.

A composition comprising the following: a) an ethylene/alpha-olefin/interpolymer; b) a peroxide; c) a “Si-containing compound” selected from the following (i) through (v): (i), where each R is independently selected from a C1-C3 alkyl, and n is from 1 to 16; (ii), where each R is independently methyl or ethyl, and n is from 1 to 18; (iii), where each R is independently methyl or ethyl; (iv) a vinyl oligomericsiloxane; or (v) any combination of (i) through (iv).

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A method for separating a laminate structure in which a resin layer is formed on a substrate includes applying a shear load to the laminate structure from a direction intersecting a lamination direction of the resin layer; and pulverizing the substrate, and the resin layer is separated from the substrate at an interface between the substrate and the resin layer.

The present invention relates to a multilayer element (LE) and to a multilayer laminated glass layer element (GLE2), the use of the multilayer element (LE) and the multilayer laminated glass layer element (GLE2) for producing an article, an article comprising multilayer element (LE) or multilayer laminated glass layer element (GLE2), a layer element of at least two layers, the use of the polymer composition of the invention to produce a multilayer element (LE) or a multilayer laminated glass layer element (GLE2), as well as to a process for producing the multilayer element (LE) and an article thereof, as well as to a process for producing the multilayer laminated glass layer element (GLE2) and an article thereof.