A therapy pack system provides a reusable self-adhering therapy pack to skin. The therapy pack may be for example, an ice pack, heat pack or hot and cold pack. A sticky polymer gel is mounted onto a polymer casing of the therapy pack. The polymer gel is re-usable to attach the therapy pack to a user's skin at the site needing therapy. The polymer gel also buffers the skin from heat or freezer burn associated with applying a hot/cold pack to skin for an extended period. A chloride based compound may be added to the polymer gel to prevent the gel from freezing. In some embodiments, a non-woven fabric patch may support the polymer gel adhesive providing an additional layer of protection to the skin while simultaneously allowing the gel to self-adhere the therapy pack to the user.

A fire-resistant glazing includes at least three transparent plies and at least two transparent fire-resistant layers wherein each fire-resistant layer is an interlayer for two plies and each outer ply has a bending stiffness between 1.5 and 15 times greater than a bending stiffness of at least one inner ply. In one aspect, each outer ply has thickness from 0.20 mm to 16.00 mm greater than the thickness of the at least one inner ply.

The disclosure relates to articles and components thereof, including outsoles, which can be used in conditions normally conducive to the accumulation of soil. In particular, the disclosure relates to articles and components thereof with a material including a hydrogel, where the hydrogel-containing material defines an external surface or side of an article. The hydrogel-containing material can prevent or reduce the accumulation of soil during use. A portion of the hydrogel-containing material is embedded into a substrate body, or a portion of the hydrogel-containing material is disposed on the outer side surface of the substrate body in a junction. The substrate body can have a lip extending from a shaft such that the shaft and the lip form the junction. Embedding the material in the substrate body, or disposing it in the junction, can minimize or prevent delamination of the hydrogel containing material during normal use.

Provided is an organ model having a property such that each layer suitably peels off, a property such that sliding or a sense of catching is present besides a sense of elasticity that is felt when a surgical knife cuts the organ model open, and a property such that ligation can be performed without burying of a suture thread, and a property such that a knot of the thread gets caught on the organ model. An organ model being a laminated body in which plural layers each formed of a hydrogel material are laminated, and one or more of the layers is each a fiber group-containing layer in which fiber groups are approximately continuously present inside the layer and over the plane of the layer.

The present invention relates to a process for producing adhesive and sterile silicone, to the adhesive and sterile silicone as such and to a wound dressing comprising a layer of the adhesive and sterile silicone.

Surgical repair grafts may include at least one biotextile layer and a bioabsorbable carrier matrix including carrier particles attached to the at least one biotextile layer. The carrier particles may include an active agent. The carrier particles may include non-concentric internally aqueous chambers each surrounded by a lipid membrane. The carrier particles may be configured to release the active agent upon exposure to an aqueous fluid. The carrier particles may be attached to the at least one biotextile layer at discrete attachment sites as islands that are spaced apart from each other to provide axial compliance to the surgical repair graft during bending of the surgical repair graft.

In a first aspect, the present disclosure relates to a decorative patch, wherein the decorative patch comprises a first layer and a transparent second layer, wherein the first layer and transparent second layer form a first structure comprising at least one cavity, wherein the at least one cavity comprises an aqueous fluid, and wherein the aqueous fluid comprises a plurality of chloroplasts, a glucose oxidase for converting glucose to gluconolactone, and a monomer or oligomer capable of reacting with gluconolactone.

A dual mode conductive hydrogel-based strain sensor is provided, which includes both ion conductive mechanism and electron conductive fillers. The hydrogel-based strain sensor includes a hydrogel layer with a first cross-linked hydrogel-forming polymer network and a second cross-linked hydrogel-forming polymer network. The second cross-linked hydrogel-forming polymer network interpenetrates into the first hydrogel-forming polymer network without cross-linking between the two networks. A water-based liquid is entrained by the first and second crosslinked hydrogel-forming polymer networks in an amount of approximately 50-75 wt % of the hydrogel. The water including an ionically-conducting salt in an amount of 5-25 wt % of the formed hydrogel. Conductive fillers include two or more of graphene, carbon nanotubes, and MXene. Stretchable conductive electrodes formed on the hydrogel layer and are selected from conductive particle-filled elastomers, stretchable metal meshes, and stretchable conductive fabrics.

A solar and thermal regulating window structure including: an optically-transparent housing frame; a reversible liquid absorbent material layer positioned in the housing frame; a thermally-reflective layer having high solar transmittance and high thermal reflectance positioned over the liquid absorbent material layer; a liquid, being absorbed in the liquid absorbent material layer below a selected transition temperature, and being positioned over the liquid absorbent material layer above the selected transition temperature, such that when below the selected transition temperature, the window structure facilitates indoor solar heating through solar transmittance during daytime and facilitates indoor heat insulation through thermal reflectance during daytime and nighttime, when above the selected transition temperature, the window structure facilitates indoor heat dissipation through thermal emission; and an optical film with high transmittance for both solar and thermal radiation, configured to seal the liquid absorbent material layer, liquid, and thermally-reflective layer in the housing frame. The window structure enables passive all-day thermal management in different climates.