Various embodiments relate to plastic-metal junctions and methods of making the same via laser-assisted joining. The present invention provides a method of forming a junction between a metal form and a solid plastic. The method can include laser treating a surface of a metal form to generate a feature (e.g., a plurality of at least one of pores and grooves) in the surface of the metal, wherein the laser has an angle of incidence with the surface of the metal of other than 0 degrees. The method can include contacting the metal surface including the feature with a flowable resin composition. The method can include curing the flowable resin composition to form the solid plastic, to provide the junction between the metal form and the solid plastic.

Various embodiments relate to plastic-metal junctions and methods of making the same via laser-assisted joining. The present invention provides a method of forming a junction between a metal form and a solid plastic. The method can include laser treating a surface of a metal form to generate a feature (e.g., a plurality of at least one of pores and grooves) in the surface of the metal, wherein the laser has an angle of incidence with the surface of the metal of other than 0 degrees. The method can include contacting the metal surface including the feature with a flowable resin composition. The method can include curing the flowable resin composition to form the solid plastic, to provide the junction between the metal form and the solid plastic.

An apparatus, according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a base comprised of a plastic material and having an exterior surface and an interior surface. At least one layer of ion treated glass is attached to the exterior surface and at least one input device is mounted to the base. A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, providing at least one layer of ion treated glass in a desired shape, molding a plastic body to one side of the ion treated glass such that an opposite side of the ion treated glass forms a vehicle exterior surface, and assembling at least one input device to the plastic body.

A process for 3D printing articles made of carbon or graphite includes producing a flowable polymeric mixture from a UV permeable and polymerizable polymer or cellulose and a UV crosslinkable resin, admixing the polymeric mixture with sugar and/or cellulose until the mixture has a consistency such that it can be filled into a 3D printer and processed thereby, homogenizing the mixture at room temperature or elevated temperature, filling a 3D printer with the mixture, layerwise printing a shaped article with simultaneous exposure to UV radiation for layerwise crosslinking of the UV crosslinkable resin, cleaning the shaped article, introducing the UV precured shaped article into a furnace and stabilizing the UV precured shaped article in air at a predetermined stabilizing temperature until all volatile constituents have outgassed from the prefabricated shaped article and subsequently high temperature treating the shaped article for carbonization or graphitization in a furnace under protective gas.

A single stage OPF-to-carbon preform shape forming method includes positioning an oxidized PAN fiber preform with a female forming tool, positioning a vacuum bag over the oxidized PAN fiber preform, and vacuum forming the oxidized PAN fiber preform into a shaped body. The vacuum formed shaped body (while still in the shape forming fixture) may be loaded into a carbonization furnace and carbonized. The vacuum bag may be burned away in the carbonization furnace during carbonization.

A carbon material having a continuous porous structure oriented to the stretching axis is provided, which carbon material can be used as a structural material excellent in interfacial adhesion. The porous carbon material has a continuous porous structure in at least a portion thereof, in which the continuous porous structure has an orientation degree measured by a small-angle X-ray scattering method or an X-ray CT method of 1.10 or more.

A filter apparatus includes: a housing having an inlet for supplying sewage or waste water into the housing, and an outlet for discharging purified water from the housing; and filter media arranged inside the housing. Each of the filter media includes: a porous substrate; a nanofiber web laminated on both surfaces of the porous substrate; and a fuse reinforcement material interposed between the nanofiber web and the porous substrate. The porous substrate is surrounded by the nanofiber web except for an upper edge of the porous substrate to form a protruding portion. The apparatus further includes: a discharge pipe connected to the outlet and including a fixing portion fixed to the protruding portion of the porous substrate and a connection tube connected to the fixing portion and connected to the outlet; and a pump connected to the outlet for pumping the purified water out of the housing.

A filter apparatus includes: a housing having an inlet for supplying sewage or waste water into the housing, and an outlet for discharging purified water from the housing; and filter media arranged inside the housing. Each of the filter media includes: a porous substrate; a nanofiber web laminated on both surfaces of the porous substrate; and a fuse reinforcement material interposed between the nanofiber web and the porous substrate. The porous substrate is surrounded by the nanofiber web except for an upper edge of the porous substrate to form a protruding portion. The apparatus further includes: a discharge pipe connected to the outlet and including a fixing portion fixed to the protruding portion of the porous substrate and a connection tube connected to the fixing portion and connected to the outlet; and a pump connected to the outlet for pumping the purified water out of the housing.

Porous polymeric materials having a very high content of thermally conductive and/or electrically conductive fillers. Process for the preparation of the porous composite material including at least one binder-forming polymeric phase and one or more fillers, this process including the stages of hot mixing, by the molten route, the polymeric phase, the fillers and a sacrificial polymeric phase, so as to obtain a mixture, of shaping the mixture and of removing the sacrificial polymeric phase.

The present disclosure provides a port. In an embodiment, a port is provided and includes (i) an optional top portion, (ii) a base, and a channel extending through the optional top portion and the base for passage of a flowable material, and (iii) a septum extending across the channel. The septum comprises an ethylene/?-olefin multi-block copolymer.