Insulators and polymer-coated insulators are provided. The insulators can include thermally-insulating nanoparticles and a binder configured to volatilize at a volatilization temperature. Insulators can also include an inorganic thermally-insulating material forming a porous structure. The porous structure can be configured to reduce the mean free path of gases in the insulator as compared to gases outside the porous structure. Polymer-coated insulators including an inorganic thermally-insulating material and a polymer coating disposed on the surface of the inorganic thermally-insulating material are also provided. Insulators can also include thermally-insulating nanoparticles and an opacifier. The opacifier can include a carbonaceous material coated with a refractory material that inhibits oxidation of the carbonaceous material at a carbon oxidation temperature. The insulators or polymer-coated insulators can be disposed between battery cells or battery cell blocks in an apparatus.

Articles are described comprising a surface layer comprising at least one long hydrocarbon chain silane compound (C8-C36) bonded to a siliceous layer such as diamond-like glass. In an embodiment, the siliceous layer has a porosity of no greater than 10% and a thickness no greater than 1 micron. In another embodiment, the siliceous layer comprises 10-50 atomic percent carbon and the article further comprises an organic polymeric base member or a hardcoat layer. Also described are coating compositions comprising at least one C8-C17 hydrocarbon silane compound and at least one C18-C36 hydrosilane compound.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing at least one layer of a film wherein the method comprises the steps of; providing a first suspension comprising microfibrillated cellulose, providing a second suspension comprising microfibrillated dialdehyde cellulose, mixing the first suspension with the second suspension to form a mixture, applying said mixture to a substrate to form a fibrous web and drying said web to form at least one layer of said film. The present invention further relates to a film comprising said at least one layer.

An object of the present invention is to provide a laminate having a good appearance, such as surface smoothness (thickness uniformity); high surface hardness; recoatability that enables the functional layer to be provided on the hard coat layer; and a function, such as scratch resistance and stain repellency. The present invention relates to a laminate including a laminated portion constituted of two or more layers including a hard coat layer and a functional layer in contact with the hard coat layer, and a substrate in contact with the hard coat layer, the functional layer being the outermost surface of the laminate: wherein the hard coat layer is a cured product layer of a curable composition containing a polyorganosilsesquioxane and silica particles, the silica particles including a group containing a (meth)acryloyl group on the surface.

There is provided a pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprising a polyurethane polymer that comprises the reaction product of a polyisocyanate component and a polyol component. The polyol component has a hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) less than 10. The polyurethane further comprises 0.5 to 10 wt.-% of hydrophilic polymerized units having an HLB greater than 12, such as a reaction product of a polyethylene glycol polymer. In another embodiment, the polyurethane further comprises pendent ethylenically unsaturated groups. Also described are articles such as laminating tapes and protective films as well as methods of bonding substrates with the pressure sensitive adhesive and laminating tape.

A display includes a display panel and a first protection sheet. The display panel has flexibility and a light output face. The first protection sheet is provided on the light output face and includes a first shock dispersion layer, a first strain relaxation layer, and a first shock absorption layer. The first shock dispersion layer includes a flexible reinforced-glass member, a flexible hard-coat film, or a flexible double-sided hard-coat film. The first strain relaxation layer includes a wet-laminated layer or a dry-laminated layer that is in close contact with a surface of the first shock dispersion layer adjacent to the display panel. The first shock absorption layer includes a gel layer having a thickness of submillimeter order or greater. The first shock absorption layer, the first strain relaxation layer, and the first shock dispersion layer are laminated in this order from the light output face of the display panel.

To provide a scintillator panel which is less likely to be influenced by film thickening, has high brightness and MTF, and has reduced noise.

A scintillator panel including a laminate in which a scintillator layer and a non-scintillator layer are repeatedly stacked in a direction substantially parallel to a radiation incident direction, wherein the laminate has an inclined structure in which a lamination angle of each layer in the laminate is changed in a sector shape and extrapolated surfaces of each layer intersect on a single line.

The present invention provides an adhesive resin layer and an adhesive resin film which can prevent generation of air bubbles even when they are thermally deformed after adhering to a substrate, and have good followability to deformation of a substrate of a laminate in which a substrate, an adhesive resin layer, and a substrate are laminated in an order. More particularly, the present invention is a monolayered adhesive resin layer comprising an acrylic-based adhesive resin composition, wherein the adhesive resin composition contains at least an acrylic-based polymer, an acrylic-based monomer or an acrylic-based oligomer, and a thermopolymerization initiator, the adhesive resin layer has pressure sensitive adhesiveness on both surfaces at an ambient temperature, and in differential scanning calorimetry at a temperature raising rate of 10 C./min, heat generation is observed at 80 C. or higher, and at least one peak is confirmed between 120 C. and 210 C.

A packaging material for batteries, which has high puncture strength, while having excellent moldability and electrolyte solution resistance. A packaging material for batteries, which is formed of a laminate that sequentially includes at least a base layer, a stainless steel foil and a thermally fusible resin layer in this order, and wherein an acid-resistant coating film layer is formed on at least the thermally fusible resin layer-side surface of the stainless steel foil.

There are provided a soundproof structure, which can have high soundproofing performance in a wide frequency band and in which visual recognition of through-hole can be suppressed, and a sound absorbing panel and a sound adjusting panel using the soundproof structure. A sheet member having a plurality of through-holes passing therethrough in a thickness direction and a sound absorbing body disposed in contact with one main surface of the sheet member are provided. An average opening diameter of the through-holes is 0.1 m or more and less than 100 m. Assuming that the average opening diameter of the through-holes is (m) and an average opening ratio is a parameter A expressed by A=+.sup.2 is 92 or less.