The instant disclosure relates to ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer resin composition and/or pellets thereof including one or more fluorine-containing micro-particles. The ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer resin compositions and/or pellets thereof may have a melting pressure of 1.7 to 7.0 MPa at a shear rate of 20 s.sup.1 and a melting point temperature of 190 C. EVOH films formed from the EVOH may have a Charpy impact strength of at least 2.3 KJ/m.sup.2 according to ISO 179-1 at 23 C. and an elongation at break of at least 17.8% according to ISO 527-2 at 23 C.

Provided is highly stable and versatile multilayered structure or articles, based on cellulose nanomaterials, tailored and processed for a variety of applications, as superior materials in the food packaging industry.

A friction material includes a friction-generating layer, a core layer, and a base layer. The friction-generating layer presents a friction-generating surface and includes a friction-generating material. The friction-generating material includes friction-adjusting particles. The core layer is adjacent to the friction-generating layer and includes a core material. The core material includes core fibers. The base layer is adjacent to the core layer such that the core layer is disposed between the friction-generating and base layers. The base layer presents a bonding surface facing opposite the friction-generating surface of the friction-generating layer. The base layer includes a fibrous material. The fibrous material includes base fibers chosen from aramid fibers, carbon fibers, cellulose fibers, acrylic fibers, polyvinyl alcohol fibers, glass fibers, mineral fibers, and combinations thereof. A resin is present in at least one of the friction-generating layer, the core layer, and the base layer.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a surface protection film having superior oil resistance. Provided is a surface protection film having a coating layer obtained by curing an isocyanate compound, on one surface of a protection layer formed of a polyurethane.

The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cellulosic film (cellulose film), particularly a cellulosic food packing film, especially a detectable cellulosic film, which cellulosic film comprises detectable particles incorporated therein, as well as to the cellulosic film thus produced and to its applications and usages (i.e. its use).

The present invention discloses a transfer film having a photonic crystal structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The transfer film having photonic crystal structure is obtained by forming a photonic crystal layer on an assembly substrate, and transferring the photonic crystal layer on the assembly substrate onto the printing substrate. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing the above transfer film.

Cork-based textile article and process for the manufacturing thereof In a cork-based textile article, comprising: a first substrate (F,1) comprising a natural/synthetic fabric or non-woven fabric obtained from a mixture of fibres and cork particles; and a second substrate (B,10) comprising an elastomeric polymer mixed with an amount of cork particles not lower than 5% by weight, and a curing agent, the first and the second substrates (1,10) being coupled therebetween at high pressure, so as to obtain a curing of the elastomeric polymer, whereby an effect wholly similar to leather, or suede or a biodenim, with a high cork content, is obtained.

Films, sheets or profiles useful as optical reflectors may be prepared by extruding a melt-processable acrylic resin composition comprised of acrylic polymer, white pigment and, optionally one or more additives such as impact modifiers, matting agents, UV stabilizers, antioxidants and processing additives onto a layer of ABS, acrylic or other thermoplastic. Alternatively, a monolithic film or sheet or profile useful as an optical reflector is obtained by forming the acrylic resin composition using a melt-processing technique such as extrusion or injection molding without a substrate layer.

A metamaterial laminate having at least the following elements (a) at least one polymer nanofiber mesh having polymer nanofibers embedded with conductive nanoparticles, and (b) at least two films, wherein the polymer nanofiber mesh is sandwiched between the two films. Included are methods of making the laminate. A method to produce cross-direction and multilayers of multi-material nanofibrous polymer using an electrospun technique is presented. The laminate can be used in a method where it is incorporated in a structure and provides stress information by scanning with an electromagnetic radiation to determine physical change within the structure. The nanofiber polymer provides electric conductivity information detected by electrochemical analyzer.

A transfer film includes a first substrate and a transfer layer, in which the transfer layer includes a hard coat layer and an adhesive layer in that order from the first substrate side, the hard coat layer has an elongation at 25? ? C. of 10% or more and 60% or less, and in which letting a thickness of the hard coat layer expressed in units of ?m be t, and letting the elongation of the hard coat layer expressed in units of % be E1, the value of t?E1/100 is 1.40 or more.