An object of the present invention is to provide a new electroless plating film which can prevent the diffusion of molten solder to a metal material constituting a conductor. The present invention is an electroless Co—W plating film, wherein content of W is in an amount of 35 to 58 mass % and a thickness of the film is 0.05 μm or more.

A process for making a card includes the steps of forming a core layer having a first surface and a second surface, disposing an uncured decorative ceramic layer of ceramic particles disposed in a resin binder over the first surface of the core layer, such as by spray coating, and curing the uncured decorative ceramic layer to form a cured decorative ceramic layer. Card products of the process may have a core layer of metal, ceramic, or a combination thereof that form a bulk of the card.

An object of the present invention is to provide a conveyor belt rubber composition having excellent wear resistance and gouging resistance, a method for producing the conveyor belt rubber composition, a conveyor belt formed using the conveyor belt rubber composition, and a belt conveyor equipped with the conveyor belt. The present invention relates to a conveyor belt rubber composition containing a diene rubber containing less than 50 mass % of an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene copolymer, wherein the aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene copolymer has a content of repeating units derived from an aromatic vinyl of 20 mass % or less, and a proportion of a vinyl structure in repeating units derived from a conjugated diene of 8 mol % or less.

Disclosed herein are nanostructured plasmonic materials. The nanostructured plasmonic materials can include a first nanostructured layer comprising: a first layer of a first plasmonic material permeated by a first plurality of spaced-apart holes, wherein the first plurality of spaced apart holes comprise a first array; and a second nanostructured layer comprising a second layer of a second plasmonic material permeated by a second plurality of spaced-apart holes, wherein the second plurality of spaced apart holes comprise a second array; wherein the second nanostructured layer is located proximate the first nanostructured layer; and wherein the first principle axis of the first array is rotated at a rotation angle compared to the first principle axis of the second array.

A method for producing a coated steel sheet having a tensile strength TS of at least 1450 MPa and a total elongation TE of at least 17% includes the successive steps of providing a cold rolled steel sheet made of a steel having a chemical composition comprising, in weight %: 0.34%≤C≤0.45%, 1.50%≤Mn≤2.30%, 1.50≤Si≤2.40%, 0%<Cr≤0.7%, 0%≤Mo≤0.3%, 0.10%≤Al≤0.7%, and optionally 0%≤Nb≤0.05%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet at an annealing temperature AT higher than the Ac3 transformation point of the steel, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it down to a quenching temperature QT lower than the Ms transformation point of the steel and comprised between 150° C. and 250° C., and reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 450° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at the partitioning temperature PT for a partitioning time Pt of at least 80 s, and coating the steel sheet by galvannealing, with an alloying temperature GAT comprised between 470° C. and 520° C.

An embedded light source in a composite panel. A first electrode and a second electrode are associated with a first layer of material. A light source is positioned in electrical communication with the first electrode and the second electrode. An assembly comprising the first layer of material, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the light source is processed to form a multilayer panel with an embedded light source.

The invention relates to a method for producing a hot-rolled strip composed of a bainitic multi-phase steel and having a Zn—Mg—Al coating, comprising the following steps: melting a steel melt containing (in weight percent): C: 0.04-0.11, Si: <=0.7, Mn: 1.4-2.2, Mo: 0.05-0.5, Al: 0.015-0.1, P: up to 0.02, S: up to 0.01, B: up to 0.006, and at least one element from the group Nb, V, Ti in accordance with the following condition: 0.02<=Nb+V+Ti<=0.20, the remainder being iron including unavoidable steel-accompanying elements resulting from the melting process, casting the steel melt into a preliminary material, in particular a slab or a block or a thin slab, hot rolling the preliminary material into a hot-rolled strip having a final rolling temperature in the range of 800 to 950° C., cooling the hot-rolled strip to a winding temperature less than 650° C., winding the hot-rolled strip at a winding temperature less than 650° C., cooling the wound hot-rolled strip to room temperature in still air, wherein the microstructure of the wound hot-rolled strip then has a bainite fraction greater than 50% after the hot rolling, heating the hot-rolled strip to a temperature greater than 650° C. and less than Ac3, in particular less than Ac1+50° C., cooling the hot-rolled strip to zinc bath temperature, hot-dip coating the heated hot-rolled strip in a zinc alloy molten bath containing (in weight percent): Al: 1.0-2.0, Mg: 1.0-2.0, the remainder being zinc and unavoidable impurities. The invention further relates to the hot-rolled strip produced in accordance with the method above and to shaped, dynamically highly loadable components, in particular motor vehicle parts, that are produced from said hot-roiled strip and that are resistant to corrosive and abrasive influences.

The present invention relates to a protective layer against CMAS, to a CMAS-resistant article comprising the protective layer according to the invention, and to a process for preparing a corresponding article.

A coated steel material including: a base steel, and a coating layer containing a Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer disposed on a surface of the base steel, wherein the coating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and, in a backscattered electron image of the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer that is obtained at a time of observing the surface of the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer after polishing to ½ of the layer thickness, under a scanning electron microscope at a magnification of 100×, Al crystals are present, and the average value of the cumulative circumferential length of the Al crystals is 88 to 195 mm/mm.sup.2.

The present invention is a liquid-repellent film or sheet that exhibits an excellent liquid repellency, and a packaging material using the same. The liquid-repellent film or sheet comprises: a substrate layer (2); an adhesive layer (3) that comprises a thermoplastic resin, and is formed on at least one plane of the substrate layer (2); and a liquid-repellent layer (4) that comprises a resin (6) having a liquid-repellent moiety, and hydrophilic particles (5), and is formed on the surface of the adhesive layer (3).