The disclosure relates to articles comprising a substrate, a pressure sensitive adhesive, and a release layer, wherein the release layer comprises at least one silicone carbonate polymer.

The present invention provides a release film having good releasability such that a release force is light, and also suppresses silicone transfer from the film surface. The present invention relates to a release film having a surface layer on a substrate layer, in which a main component of the surface layer is a resin component, the resin component contains a modified acrylic-based resin having a polysiloxane component, and a relationship between a ratio M.sub.T of a content of silicon to a content of all elements existing on an outermost surface of the surface layer and a ratio M.sub.B of a content of silicon to a content of all elements existing at a position in a depth of 10 nm from the outermost surface of the surface layer vertically toward the substrate layer satisfies (i) 5M.sub.T/M.sub.B30 or (ii) M.sub.B=0, and 8.5M.sub.T30.

A coating that maintains favorable water-repelling and stain-proofing properties is provided. A photopolymerizable coating composition includes a component (a): a urethane (meth)acrylate and a component (b): photopolymerizable (meth)acrylic compounds, as photopolymerizable components, wherein the component (b) includes a component (b1): a photopolymerizable acrylic compound having a structural unit derived from a fluorosilsesquioxane derivative represented by the following Formula (1); a component (b2): a fluorine surfactant, and a component (b3): a photopolymerizable acrylic compound having no urethane units and having no fluorine atoms.

A separator containing a substrate and a release layer formed on at least one side of the substrate wherein the separator shows a strain of not more than 7% when a load of 5N/20 mm is applied for one minute in the pulling direction, and when the substrate is cut in half in the thickness direction to divide the separator into two, an apparent elastic modulus in the pulling direction of one of the divided separators is larger than an apparent elastic modulus in the pulling direction of the other divided separator.

The present invention provides an adhesive tape composition and an adhesive tape prepared from same. Based on the total weight of the adhesive tape composition, the adhesive tape composition comprises: 25-75 wt. % of an acrylate monomer; 20-70 wt. % of an epoxy resin; 0.001-3 wt. % of a free radical photoinitiator; 0-10 wt. % of a fumed silica; and 0.02-5 wt. % of a cationic thermal initiator. According to the present invention, an adhesive tape having a room temperature retention time as long as 6 months that can be cured at low temperature such as 80 degree C. can be produced from the adhesive tape composition.

A processing tape may include a base layer, an adhesive layer disposed on the base layer, a protection release film on the adhesive layer, and a first release layer interposed between the adhesive layer and the protection release film. The first release layer may include a silicone-based material and may be non-photo-curable.

A laminate is provided, more particularly an adhesive tape, comprising a) a release liner having at least one carrier layer (CL) and also, applied to this carrier layer (CL), at least one silicone coating (SC) of specific addition-crosslinked or radically crosslinked pressure-sensitive silicone adhesives, and b) at least one further layer (L1), comprising polyacrylate-based adhesives with low tack at room temperature or heat-activable bondable adhesives which have little or no pressure-sensitive adhesion at room temperature. The use of an arrangement as a release liner is also provided, where the arrangement comprises a carrier layer (CL) and also, applied to this carrier layer (CL), a silicone coating (SC) of specific addition-crosslinked or radically crosslinked pressure-sensitive silicone adhesives.

A flexible sheet of aligned carbon nanotubes includes an array of aligned nanotubes held in a polymer matrix material. The carbon nanotubes have an average length of between about 50 microns and about 500 microns. The polymer matrix has an average thickness of between about 10 microns and about 500 microns. The flexible sheet has a density of about 0.2 to about 1.0 g/cc and includes between about 98 to about 60 weight percent aligned carbon nanotubes and between about 2 and about 40 weight percent polymer. A tape of aligned carbon nanotubes, a method for producing a tape of aligned carbon nanotubes, a method of producing the flexible aligned carbon nanotube sheet material and a method of increasing unidirectional heat conduction from a work piece are also disclosed.

A processing tape may include a base layer, an adhesive layer disposed on the base layer, a protection release film on the adhesive layer, and a first release layer interposed between the adhesive layer and the protection release film. The first release layer may include a silicone-based material and may be non-photo-curable.

Provided is a curable organopolysiloxane releasing agent composition for a thermally sensitive paper wherein a releasing layer that has high adhesion and a good peeling force that is cured quickly at a low temperature without producing curing failures when coated on a thermally sensitive coloring layer, and that is resistant to gellification at room temperature, and that has superior ease of handling, can be formed. The curable organopolysiloxane releasing agent composition comprises: (A) one or more organopolysiloxanes having an alkenyl group with a number of carbon atoms between 4 and 12, where the inclusion proportion of vinyl (CH.sub.2?CH) within the alkenyl group is between 0.5 and 3.0 mass %; (B) an organohydrogen polysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms (SiH) in a single molecule; (C) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst; and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction inhibiting agent.