A multilayer foam film with an enhanced perceived surface whiteness comprising for light-blocking, signage, and general packaging application is disclosed. In an embodiment, the film has a bulk density of less than 0.962 gr/cm.sup.3 wherein more than 50% of the cells in the foam layer are closed cells. In an embodiment, the multilayer foam film has a thickness greater than 1 mil and one of the solid skin layers contains white pigment. In another embodiment the white skin layer has a skin whiteness value of greater than 80 according to ASTM E313-73, and a skin layer tint value of less than 1 according to ASTM E313-73, and The lightness value (L*) of the white skin layer of greater than 90 in CIE L*a*b* dimension according to ASTM E308. In an embodiment, the film has a very smooth surface with a smoothness value of less than 25 in Sheffield smoothness unit configuration according to TAPPI T 538.

One or more nanofiber yarns can be placed in contact with one or more nanofiber sheets. The nanofiber yarns, which include single-ply and multi-ply nanofiber yarns, provide added mechanical stability to a nanofiber sheet that decreases the likelihood of a nanofiber sheet wrinkling, folding, or otherwise becoming stuck to itself. Furthermore, the nanofiber yarns integrated with the nanofiber sheet can also act as a mechanism to prevent the propagation of tears through the nanofiber sheet. In some cases, an infiltrating material can be infiltrated into interstitial spaces defined by the nanofibers within both the nanofiber yarns and the nanofiber sheets. The infiltrating material can then form a continuous network throughout the nanofiber yarns and the nanofiber sheet.

A bonded diamond assembly and a method of forming the assembly. The assembly comprises a polycrystalline diamond wafer having a largest linear dimension of between 25 mm and 200 mm, a substrate and a bonding layer located between the diamond and the substrate and bonding them together. The bonding layer, when inspected using ultrasound using a resolution of 50 m, a focal length selected to inspect the bonding layer, and frequencies of 100 MHz and 30 MHz, comprises low numbers of voids extending either across the thickness of the bonding layer and low numbers of voids that do not extend across the thickness of the bonding layer.

Cards made in accordance with the invention include a specially treated thin decorative layer attached to a thick core layer of metal or ceramic material, where the thin decorative layer is designed to provide selected color(s) and/or selected texture(s) to a surface of the metal cards. Decorative layers for use in practicing the invention include: (a) an anodized metal layer; or (b) a layer of material derived from plant or animal matter (e.g., wood, leather); or (c) an assortment of aggregate binder material (e.g., cement, mortar, epoxies) mixed with laser reactive materials (e.g., finely divided carbon); or (d) a ceramic layer; and (e) a layer of crystal fabric material. The cards may be dual interface smart cards which can be read in a contactless manner and/or via contacts.

Disclosed herein is an electrically conductive sized fiber including a fiber and a sizing composition adhered to a surface of the fiber, wherein the sizing composition includes at least one sizing compound and a plurality of graphene oxide nanoparticles, The present disclosure also discloses fiber-reinforced resin composites, articles including fiber-reinforced resin composites and methods of making such electrically conductive sized fiber and articles therefrom.

An embodiment relates to a multilayer graphite sheet with excellent electromagnetic shielding capability and thermal conductivity, and a manufacturing method therefor, wherein the multilayer graphite sheet has a multilayer structure of five or more layers in total and can be manufactured to have a thick thickness of 70 m or more such that the electromagnetic shielding capability can be significantly improved. In addition, the multilayer graphite sheet is manufactured by graphitizing a hybrid laminate in which heterogeneous materials are mixed such that thermal conductivity and electromagnetic shielding capability can be simultaneously realized at a lower cost, thereby being useful as a thick film sheet which used in various applications such as home appliances and electric vehicles.

There is provided a fishing rod preventing or suppressing deviation or inclination of a fitting on a surface of a rod body. The fishing rod includes an elongated cylindrical rod body, a fitting having a mounting portion and mounted to an outer peripheral surface of the rod body via the mounting portion, a first layer formed by winding a first sheet so as to enclose the mounting portion and the rod body, the first sheet being made of a fiber-reinforced resin or a resin having a thermal shrinkage rate of 2.5% or lower, and a second layer formed by winding a second sheet made of a fiber-reinforced resin on an outer side of the first sheet, wherein a temperature at which a loss tangent of the first sheet has a maximum value is different from a temperature at which a loss tangent of the second sheet has a maximum value.

Method of manufacturing a vertically aligned laminated graphene based thermally conductive film. The method comprising: attaching first and second graphene film using a layer of nanoparticles and an adhesive; forming a layered film comprising a predetermined number of graphene film layers by repeating the steps of arranging a layer of nanoparticles, arranging an adhesive and attaching a graphene film; and laminating the layered film by applying pressure and heat to cure the adhesive, thereby forming a laminate film; cutting the laminate film at an angle in relation to a surface plane of the film to form the vertically aligned laminated graphene based thermally conductive film.

A method for manufacturing an ultrasound generator with high laser-induced damage threshold is disclosed. The method includes forming an uncured prepolymer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film on a substrate; spraying a solution containing light-absorbing nano-particles onto a surface of the uncured PDMS film, and then permeating the light-absorbing nano-particles into the uncured PDMS film; and curing the uncured PDMS film containing the light-absorbing nano-particles spatially distributed therein to form a composite film of nano-particles and PDMS, wherein the light-absorbing nano-particles permeated and diffused into the uncured PDMS film are dispersed such that a mean distance between the light-absorbing nano-particles in the PDMS film is substantially equal to or larger than a thermal diffusion length during a temporal width of an irradiation laser pulse, thus alleviating an exceedingly high thermal load, which can cause film damage or ablation, caused by nano-particles agglomerated or densely packed with a particle-to-particle mean distance smaller than the thermal diffusion length, ultimately resulting in the increase of laser-induced damage threshold and the maximum-available ultrasound output from the photoacoustic ultrasound generator.

An exemplary extruded heater assembly includes, among other things, a backing, a heating layer having a conductive ink printed on a film, and a wear layer. The heating layer is sandwiched between the backing and the wear layer. An exemplary method includes, among other things, extruding together a backing, a heating layer having a conductive ink printed on a film, and a wear layer to provide an extruded structure. The method further includes mounting the extruded structure within a wheel well of a vehicle.