A thermoplastic roofing membrane comprising a planar-shaped thermoplastic body, said planar body having opposed first and second external planar surfaces, where said first surface includes an ethylene-based olefinic block copolymer and a fatty acid amide, where the amount of fatty acid amide provides the surface with a coefficient of friction (ASTM D 1894) of less than 0.250.

A composite floor comprises a coextrusion layer compression molded using a coextrusion process. The layer comprises a first stone-plastic layer, a stone-plastic foaming layer, and a second stone-plastic layer sequentially arranged from top to bottom. The stone-plastic foaming layer is used as the main material layer, which reduces a whole weight of the floor; and the first stone-plastic layer and the second stone-plastic layer are arranged at two sides of the stone-plastic foaming layer, respectively, so that the composite floor is more stable. It is more environmentally friendly and simple in manufacturing to use the coextrusion process for compression molding by avoiding bonding using glue. Use of the coextrusion process makes various layers bond more compact, with little delamination and warpage due to effect of environmental changes. The composite floor has a low expansion rate and shrinkage rate, excellent in performance and long in service life.

A two layer and/or a three-layer device is disclosed that allows samples therein to remain at a warmer or a colder temperature than would be ordinarily possible without the use of the two or three-layer device. The two-layer device contains an interior layer that comprises the sample, and a middle or intermediate layer that comprises chemical species that undergoes an exothermic or endothermic reaction. The three layer device further has an outer layer that contains an insulating layer. When the three layer device is used for samples, the temperature of the sample can remain at a temperature around 11 C. or less for at least about 5.5 to 6 hours.

A geopolymer cement and a method of producing the same are provided. A geopolymer cement binder may be provided including a geopolymer precursor and magnesium oxide as an alkali activator. The geopolymer cement binder may be mixed with water using high shear mixing.

A gypsum wallboard having a core with a central core layer and one or more densified layers is disclosed. At least one densified layer contains salt absorbent particles of zeolite and/or hydrotalcite to improve adhesion of the gypsum core to a cover sheet. Also, methods of making the gypsum wallboard and a wall system for employing the gypsum wallboard are disclosed.

An insulating material is used that contains a silica xerogel, and a nonwoven fabric fiber capable of generating carbon dioxide by reacting with atmospheric oxygen at a temperature of 300 C. or more. The insulating material uses oxidized acrylic as the nonwoven fabric fiber. A device uses the insulating material installed as a part of a heat insulating or a cold insulating structure, or installed between a heat-generating part and a casing.

Devices, systems, and methods for mitigating thermal runaway in electrical energy storage batteries. A pouch includes a seal and a sealed opening. Within the pouch are a porous support material (such as concrete, glass, cellulous, etc.) and a heat absorbing material (such as water, hydrogel, an organic liquid, etc.) For example, water may be a heat absorbing material and a glass framework may be used as a support material. For example, a pouch may be placed on either side of a lithium battery in a battery pack, and when the lithium battery enters thermal runaway, the heat absorbing material my change phase from a liquid to a vapor, and the vapor pressure causes the sealed opening to open, and the vapor to escape the pouch. This allows the heat to be released from the battery pack and protects the neighboring batteries from an increase in temperature.

A gypsum-based acoustic panel wherein in the panel includes a core layer of foamed gypsum, face side and back side layers of non-woven encasing the core layer, and the panel has an alpha.sub.w-value of between 0.4 and 0.7 and specific flow resistances of <15000 Pa s/m, methods for their preparation and their uses.

Disclosed is an improved facer mat for use as a cover sheet for gypsum board. Also disclosed are gypsum boards containing such mat facers on one or both major surfaces of the board (face and back sides when installed), a method of manufacturing such board, and a method of making the mat. The mat can comprise glass, thermoplastic, and/or thermoset fiber. In preferred embodiments, binder is included with the fiber. The mat has outer and inner surfaces. The mat comprises a first region adjacent to the outer surface defined along a horizontal plane of the mat, the first region having a first substantial thickness, and a second region adjacent to the inner surface defined along a horizontal plane of the mat, the second region having a second substantial thickness. The first region has (a) more hydrophilicity than the second region, (b) more wettability than the second region, and/or (c) less density than the second region.

A plaster-based board includes a core made of plaster positioned between two coating layers, in which a textile including fibers of a thermoplastic polymer constitutes at least one of the coating layers and/or the textile is embedded in the plaster constituting the core.