A coating composition is described that can be completely biodegradable and well suited for use in laminating films to substrates. The coating composition contains a biodegradable polymer, such as a polyvinyl alcohol polymer. The coating composition can be applied to a biodegradable film and then adhered to a substrate, such as a paper substrate.

A multilayer barrier film for food packaging comprises an outer layer comprising a first polymeric material having a moisture vapor transmission rate (MVTR) of greater than or equal to 10 gram.Math.mil/100 in.sup.2/day; a first inner layer adjacent to the outer layer, the first inner layer comprising a first retortable grade ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) copolymer; a second inner layer adjacent to the first inner layer, the second inner layer comprising a second polymeric material having a moisture vapor transmission rate (MVTR) of greater than or equal to 10 gram.Math.mil/100 in.sup.2/day; a third inner layer adjacent to the second inner layer, the third inner layer comprising a second retortable grade EVOH copolymer; and a sealing layer adjacent to the third inner layer; wherein the first polymeric material is not a retortable grade EVOH copolymer. Excellent recovery of oxygen barrier over time is achieved by these films and retortable containers made therefrom.

The present invention pertains to a laminated glass for a vehicle, the laminated glass including a first glass sheet, a second glass sheet and an intermediate film sandwiched between the first glass sheet and the second glass sheet, in which: the total thickness of the first glass sheet, the second glass sheet and the intermediate film is 4.0 mm or more; the first glass sheet is formed of a borosilicate glass containing, in terms of oxide by molar percentage, 1.0% or more of B.sub.2O.sub.3; and when a radio wave (TM wave) with a frequency of 79 [GHz] is made incident at an incident angle of 60° to the first glass sheet, the transmission property S21 is -4.0 [dB] or more.

The invention relates to a sound protection panel for cladding a wall of an automotive vehicle, the panel includes a mass-spring system. The panel has a lower spring layer based on a resiliently compressible material, an upper mass layer based on resiliently compressible foam flakes, the flakes being bound together by a two-component fibre-based bonding agent comprising a core. The core is fusible at a high temperature or infusible, and a sheath fusible at a lower temperature, the flakes being fused with the sheath to form an upper agglomerated layer.

To provide a quantum dot-containing resin sheet or film, a method for producing the same, and a wavelength conversion member that can, in particular, solve the problem of aggregation of the quantum dots and the problem with the use of a scattering agent, suppress a decrease in light conversion efficiency, and improve the light conversion efficiency of a resin molded product containing quantum dots. The quantum dot-containing resin sheet or film of the present invention includes a stack of a plurality of resin layers, at least one of the resin layers containing quantum dots, and the plurality of resin layers is integrally molded through co-extrusion.

A decorative sheet comprises a substrate layer; a pattern layer provided on the first front surface of the substrate layer; and a thermoplastic resin layer provided on the second front surface of the pattern layer. A test piece of 8 mm width from the decorative sheet is taken; the storage modulus is measured with an initial chuck distance of 10.77 mm, a start temperature of 30° C., an end temperature of 150° C., a temperature increase rate of 5° C./min, and a measurement frequency of 1.0 Hz. The ratio of the difference between the second storage modulus and a third storage modulus when the decorative sheet changes from the transition region to a rubbery flat region to the difference between a first storage modulus when the environmental temperature is 30° C. and a second storage modulus when the decorative sheet changes from a glassy region to a transition region is 3.5 or less.

A method of forming an ophthalmic laminate lens, includes: forming a planar laminate (100) by adhering a first stretched polymer layer (115) to a first side of a thermoplastic elastomer layer (120), and adhering a second polymer layer (125) to a second side of the thermoplastic elastomer layer (120), the first stretched polymer layer (115) having a thickness greater than 250 μm, the second polymer layer (125) having a thickness greater than 250 μm, and the thermoplastic elastomer layer (120) having a thickness in a range of 15 μm to 150 μm; thermoforming the planar laminate (100) into a curved laminate (105), the curve laminate (105) having a pre-molding curvature; arranging the curved laminate(105) in a mold (145a); and molding, via the mold set (145a, 145b) at a predetermined temperature and a predetermined pressure, the curved laminate (105) with a polymer melt (140) into a curved lens, wherein a temperature of the polymer melt (140) is above a stretch temperature of the first stretched polymer layer (115).

A sheet expressing a good tactile sensation and a molded product thereof. By configuring a resin sheet including hairlike bodies arranged regularly on at least one surface of an underlayer in which a continuous phase is formed without any structural boundary between the underlayer and the hairlike bodies, and the underlayer and the hairlike bodies have at least partially a crosslinked structure, a molded product expressing a good tactile sensation is obtained.

A multilayer flexible tube includes an inner layer including a melt processable fluoropolymer, wherein the melt processable fluoropolymer includes a terpolymer including a tetrafluoroethylene, a hexafluoropropylene, and a vinylidene fluoride (THV); a tie layer including a polymeric blend of a terpolymer including a tetrafluoroethylene, a hexafluoropropylene, and a vinylidene fluoride (THV) with a poly vinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a polyamide, a polyetheramide block copolymer, or combination thereof; and an outer layer including a melt processable polymer having a shore hardness less than a shore hardness of the inner layer.

A roof system comprising a roof substrate, a first membrane including first and second opposed planar surfaces, and a second membrane including opposed first and second planar surfaces, where said second membrane is adhered to said roof substrate through an adhesive disposed on said roof-substrate contacting portion of the first membrane, and where said second membrane is adhered to said first membrane through said adhesive disposed on a lap portion of said second membrane.