The present invention provides constructs including a tubular biodegradable polyglycolic acid scaffold, wherein the scaffold may be coated with extracellular matrix proteins and substantially acellular. The constructs can be utilized as an arteriovenous graft, a coronary graft, a peripheral artery bypass conduit, or a urinary conduit. The present invention also provides methods of producing such constructs.

The disclosure provides a system of thermoset shape memory poly(urea-urethane) with permanent reshaping property and its application. The breakthrough of the present invention is that the reshaping temperature can be tuned in a wide range by incorporation of urea bonds into the polymer network. The permanent shape for shape memory poly(urea-urethane) can be repeatedly and cumulatively reshaped at certain temperature, largely facilitating the fabrication of complex structures.

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator, which includes a porous film containing a polyolefin-based resin as a main component, has a difference of not more than 2.5 between (a) a white index measured on a surface of the porous film which has not been irradiated with ultraviolet light having 255 W/m.sup.2 and (b) a white index measured on the surface of the porous film which has been irradiated, for 75 hours, with the ultraviolet light having 255 W/m.sup.2.

The invention relates to a method for producing a bent thermoplastic composite, comprising 35% or less in volume of a polymeric matrix including (meth)acrylic polymers, and at least 65% in volume of fiber, where the method includes (a) a step of providing the thermoplastic composite; (b) a step of heating a portion of the thermoplastic composite, said heating being selected between, conduction, radial and/or volumetric and the heating duration and/or the heating temperature being selected according to at least the thickness of the thermoplastic composite; (c) a step of creating a bent section in the heated portion by bending the heated portion; and (d) a step of cooling the bent section to solidify it and to form a bent thermoplastic composite, at a cooling temperature and/or a cooling duration selected in accordance with the glass transition temperatures (Tg) of the bent thermoplastic composite.

The present invention relates to a (meth)acrylic composition suitable for (meth)acrylic polymeric compositions and (meth)acrylic polymeric composites, its method of preparation, its use and obtained (meth)acrylic polymeric compositions and (meth)acrylic polymeric composites. In particular the present invention relates to a (meth)acrylic composition that is crosslinked once polymerized and that is suitable for (meth)acrylic composites and more particular for reinforcing elements or fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) rebars. More particularly the present invention relates to a (meth)acrylic composition suitable for producing reinforcing elements or FRP rebars, preparing such a (meth)acrylic composition, composite reinforcing elements or rebar comprising it after polymerization and method of preparing such a composite reinforcing elements or FRP rebar. The present invention also relates also to the use of such a (meth)acrylic composition and the use of reinforcing elements or FRP rebars for concrete.

The present invention provides constructs including a tubular biodegradable polyglycolic acid scaffold, wherein the scaffold may be coated with extracellular matrix proteins and substantially acellular. The constructs can be utilized as an arteriovenous graft, a coronary graft, a peripheral artery bypass conduit, or a urinary conduit. The present invention also provides methods of producing such constructs.

The present invention provides constructs including a tubular biodegradable polyglycolic acid scaffold, wherein the scaffold may be coated with extracellular matrix proteins and substantially acellular. The constructs can be utilized as an arteriovenous graft, a coronary graft, a peripheral artery bypass conduit, or a urinary conduit. The present invention also provides methods of producing such constructs.

The present invention provides constructs including a tubular biodegradable polyglycolic acid scaffold, wherein the scaffold may be coated with extracellular matrix proteins and substantially acellular. The constructs can be utilized as an arteriovenous graft, a coronary graft, a peripheral artery bypass conduit, or a urinary conduit. The present invention also provides methods of producing such constructs.

A method for manufacturing a part made of composite material including a thermoplastic or thermosetting matrix reinforced with fibers includes the following steps: winding or depositing pre-impregnated fibers about a mandrel so as to form a preform, the fibers being formed of a thermoplastic or thermosetting material and being pre-impregnated with a thermoplastic or thermosetting matrix; winding a heat-shrinkable film around the preform; polymerizing the intermediate product obtained by winding the film about the preform at a polymerization temperature depending on the composite material used; and removing the heat-shrinkable film from the intermediate product so as to obtain a one-piece part made of composite material and including the mandrel.

A composite material includes a laminate in which fiber sheets are laminated. The laminate has a bendable portion that is to be bent along a mold. In a region of the laminate from an end edge on a bent side to the bendable portion, the laminate is divided into layers along a plate thickness direction of the laminate.