A prepared mold tool having a thermoplastic surface layer polymer coating on the mold surface of the mold tool or prepared prepreg having a thermoplastic surface layer polymer coating on the surface of the thermoplastic fiber reinforced prepreg are described that enhance first ply laydown of thermoplastic fiber reinforced composite prepregs onto mold tools for prepreg forming or in situ tape placement. Resulting thermoplastic fiber reinforced composite parts from a thermoplastic fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite material having structural reinforcement fibers with one or more high performance polymers, and a thermoplastic surface layer polymer coating which forms a polymer blend with the high performance polymers of the thermoplastic fiber reinforced composite material thereby imparting improved properties, and methods for making and using same, are provided herein.

A betaine-containing polymer film that can be formed on a substrate surface using living polymerization such as controlled radical polymerization is disclosed.

The present invention provides a layered body having high hardness and excellent flexibility and useful as a substitute material for glass, and the layered body includes a substrate film, a hard coat layer on one face of the substrate film, and a resin-cured layer on the other face of the substrate film. The layered body is not cracked when wound on a 30 mm-diameter cylinder and has a hardness of 0.5 to 1.5 GPa when an indenter is pushed in 500 nm by a nano-indentation method and/or a hardness of 0.29 to 1.10 GPa at 500 mN load using a micro-hardness tester.

A composite material is produced from carpet waste and a binding agent, in intimate association, and may also include wood fiber or chips and/or other additives. A method of manufacturing a composite material includes shredding carpet waste, coating the carpet waste with a binding agent, and subjecting the shredded, coated carpet waste to elevated heat and pressure. As an additional step, the composite material may be actively cooled to prevent deformation of the material.

Waterproof engineered floor and wall planks have a veneer layer bonded with a plastic composite core, and an underlayer, preferably an underlayer of cork.

Waterproof engineered floor and wall planks have a veneer layer bonded with a plastic composite core, and an underlayer, preferably an underlayer of cork.

Waterproof engineered floor and wall planks have a veneer layer bonded with a plastic composite core, and an underlayer, preferably an underlayer of cork.

The present disclosure relates to polymer coatings covalently attached to the surface of a substrate and the preparation of the polymer coatings, such as poly(N-(5-azidoacetamidylpentyl)acrylamide-co-acrylamide) (PAZAM), in the formation and manipulation of substrates, such as molecular arrays and flow cells. The present disclosure also relates to methods of preparing a substrate surface by using beads coated with a covalently attached polymer, such as PAZAM, and the method of determining a nucleotide sequence of a polynucleotide attached to a substrate surface described herein.

The invention concerns an adhesive composition consisting of at least one ethylene polymer or copolymer, said composition comprising at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid ester comonomer, and at least one functional comonomer, useful in an extrusion-coating process for application on a support or in an extrusion-lamination process for bonding together several supports of different type or not, in a wide temperature range. The invention is characterized in that said composition has an unsaturated carboxylic acid ester content higher than 5 wt % and in that the functional comonomer consists of at least one reactive function in the form of an acid group, anhydride or epoxy, whereof the proportion is less than 1 wt % of the composition. Said composition has advantageous uses, in particular for bonding together substrates selected among aluminum, paper or cardboard, cellophane, films based of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyamide, polyester, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), polyacrylonitrile (PAN) resins, oriented or not, metal-coated or not, physically or chemically treated or not and films coated with a thin inorganic barrier layer, such as polyester (PET, SiOx or AlOx).

A barrier film including a first layer formed of a semicovalent inorganic material and a second layer formed of an ionic inorganic material is provided. Here, the first layer and the second layer are alternately disposed. The barrier film having an improved moisture barrier property compared to a gas-barrier plastic composite film of the prior art manufactured using only a metal oxide or nitride may be provided.