A reusable, fiber containing pulp product is described that is highly suited for use in the manufacture of paper products. The reusable, fiber containing pulp product provides a mixture of fibers and small, dense polymer/particle fragments. The polymer/particle fragments within the reusable, fiber containing pulp product have a size range and density that facilitates efficient removal of the polymer/particle fragments using pressure screens.

Disclosed herein are engineered composite materials suitable for applications that can benefit from a composite material capable of interacting with or responding to, in a controlled or predetermined manner, changes in its surrounding environment. The composite material is generally comprised of a gradient layer structure of a sequence of at least three gradient-contributing layers of microscale particles, wherein a mean particle size of particles of neighboring gradient-contributing layers in the cross section of the gradient layer structure varies from layer to layer, thereby forming a particle size gradient, and in contact with the gradient layer structure, a densely packed particle structure including densely packed microscale particles, wherein a mean particle size of the densely packed microscale particles does not form a particle size gradient in the cross section of the densely packed particle structure.

Multilayer film prepared by a layer-by-layer process that is an effective barrier for humidity and oxygen.

The present invention relates to composition comprising a blend of at least one boron source and at least one silicon source, and the composition further comprises particles selected from particles having wear resistance properties, particles having surface enhancing properties, particles having catalytic properties or combinations thereof, wherein the blend comprises boron and silicon in a weight ratio boron to silicon within a range from about 3:100 wt:wt to about 100:3 wt:wt, wherein silicon and boron are present in the blend in at least 25 wt %, and wherein the at least one boron source and the at least one silicon source are oxygen free except for inevitable amounts of contaminating oxygen, and wherein the blend is a mechanical blend of particles in and the particles have an average particle size less than 250 m. The present invention relates further to a method for providing a coated product and a coated product obtained by the method.

A security element, preferably a security wire, for a secure document, that may include a masking structure for reducing the visibility of a surface of the element when the latter is located inside the document or on the surface of the document, the masking structure comprising a nanometric filler and a multilayer interference pigment.

The invention provides a method and system for electrolytically coating an article. The method includes providing an article to be coated and disposing the article in an electrolytic cell. The cell includes an anode, a cathode in operable communication with the article, and an electrolyte bath. During electrolysis, the electrolyte bath comprises cobalt ions, phosphorous acid, and tribological particles selected from the group consisting of refractory materials, solid lubricants and mixtures thereof dispersed therein. The method further includes applying steady direct electric current through the anode, the electrolyte bath and the cathode to coat the article with cobalt, phosphorous and the tribological particles. An improved composition of matter is also provided that may be used as a coating, or the composition may be electroformed on a mandrel to form an article made from the composition of matter.

A coating composition which imparts antifog properties to substrates coated therewith. The coating compositions are removable and utilize nanoparticles functionalized with epoxy groups. The removable coating compositions are particularly useful on personal protection equipment such as face masks, shields, and protective glasses.

An adhesive tape (1), in particular a double-sided adhesive tape has a substrate made of plastic with a self-adhesive, pressure-sensitive layer (3) consisting of a pressure-sensitive adhesive containing a UV-crosslinkable acrylate as primary constituent. In order to achieve an at least moderate, preferably increased adhesive force on nonpolar surfaces (4a) as well as preferably an increased shear strength, while preserving the advantages of the use of UV-crosslinkable acrylates in the adhesive coating and ensuring an at least moderate, preferably increased adhesive force on steel, the pressure-sensitive adhesive contains powdered silicon dioxide, wherein the substrate (2) made of plastic is configured as a film. The pressure-sensitive adhesive is modified with tackifying resins, such as pinene, indene and/or colophonium resins, their disproportioned, hydrated, polymerized, esterified derivates and/or salts and/or terpene and/or terpene phenol resins and/or aliphatic, aromatic, alkyl aromatic hydrocarbon resins, and/or with one or several C5- to C9-hydrocarbon resin(s).

The present invention provides a hard coating film having high hardness and excellent properties. The hard coating film has high hardness and is not easily curled.

A laminate having excellent abrasion resistance to physical stimuli such as dust. The laminate comprises a base layer, a hard coat layer and a top coat layer comprising flaky metal oxide fine particles all of which are formed in this order. The flaky metal oxide fine particles are hardened by at least one method selected from the group consisting of ionizing material exposure, ionizing radiation exposure, infrared exposure, microwave exposure and high-temperature vapor exposure.