Provided are a decorative film including, in the following order, a temporary support, a colored layer, a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a protective layer, in which the decorative film is a film for viewing the colored layer through the cholesteric liquid crystal layer; a decoration method or a method for manufacturing a decorative molded article; and a decorative molded film including, in the following order, a base material, a colored layer, a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a protective layer, or including, in the following order, a colored layer, a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, a base material, and a protective layer, in which the decorative molded film is a film for viewing the colored layer through the cholesteric liquid crystal layer.

The present disclosure relates to a color wrapping film for a vehicle, which has an excellent impact resistance and excellent scratch restorability due to a base layer and a coating layer formed of a polyurethane-based material, and suppresses discoloration caused by an external environment by adding a color pigment to a separate layer.

A tint film for application to a target surface, such as a headlight, includes a release liner, an adhesive layer, an at least partially transparent cast layer, and a tint layer. The tint layer is provided as an at least partially light-transparent layer, which may be printed upon the at least partially transparent layer using an ink-jet printing process. In addition, the adhesive layer is configured to have low-tack, so as to facilitate the ease in which the tint film is applied. In some cases, the at least partially transparent layer and the at least partially light-transparent tint layer may be formed together as a composite layer in a casting process.

A self-healing vacuum insulation panel and a method of manufacture are provided. The vacuum insulation panel includes a self-healing, multi-layer barrier film including a separator between a curing agent and a curable resin. Upon damage to the separator, the curing agent penetrates the separator due to a pressure differential across the barrier film and reacts with the curable resin to seal any cuts or punctures. The curing agent and the curable resin can be selected to have long term stability and a short reaction time with no need for external stimuli. As a result, the multi-layer barrier film can retain the internal vacuum and maintain a desirably low thermal conductivity using low-cost, commercially available epoxies and curing agents.

Provided are methods of preparing an electrically activated shape memory polymer composite capable of thermal shape reformation using electric power to heat the composite through its matrix glass transition temperature. The methods may include providing a polymer matrix component comprising a diglycidyl ether resin and at least one curing agent, adding into the polymer matrix component at least one nano-filler component, sonication and mixing the polymer matrix component and the nano-filler component to form a mixture, curing the mixture under curing conditions, and laminating the cured mixture with at least one elastic laminated layer.

The disclosure relates to a car glass protection film having a self-restoration performance. More specifically, the film comprises: a substrate layer; a urethane coating layer formed on one surface of the substrate layer; a self-restoration layer formed on the upper surface of the urethane coating layer; a protection film layer formed on the upper surface of the self-restoration layer; and an adhesion layer formed on the other surface of the substrate layer. A car glass protection film having the structure described above does not show a separation phenomenon, which may be caused by temperature change, ultraviolet light, and external impact, exhibits excellent impact resistance by the urethane coating layer, and can recover from fine scratches by the self-restoration layer.

A foldable display device includes a display panel including a folding area and a planar area which is adjacent to the folding area, a window on the display panel, and a window protective layer on the window. The window protective layer includes a restoration layer including a soft pattern corresponding to the folding area, a plastic film on the restoration layer, and a hard coating layer on the plastic film.

Self-healing, hydrophobic composites and related methods are provided. A method of repelling water may comprise forming a layer of a self-healing, hydrophobic composite comprising a porous network of entangled polymer fibers and a hydrophobic phase change material infused throughout the network, on a surface of a substrate to form a treated surface; and exposing the treated surface to water, wherein the treated surface exhibits a native water droplet contact angle which is greater than that of an untreated surface without the layer of the composite.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a surface protective film laminate, surface protective film and its producing method. The surface protective film which has excellent smoothness, light transmission properties, transparency, scratch resistance, weather resistance and self-healing properties. The present invention provides, as a solution, a surface protective film wherein three layers, namely, a protective layer, a transparent base film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer are laminated in this order, said protective layer being formed of a thermosetting polyurethane which is a cured product of a polyether polyol, an aliphatic isocyanate, an alcohol-based curing agent and a non-amine catalyst.

A fabric and elastomeric material (referred to as a fabric trilayer) combined with a sealant may be applied in such a fashion so as to eliminate or minimize air entrapment in an elastomeric composite structure that forms a seal-sealing volume. The performance of the self-sealing volume is dramatically improved with this minimizing of air entrapment. Surprisingly and unexpectedly, this construction approach may be accomplished without significantly adding to the weight or thickness of the volume and without affecting the outer dimension of the self-sealing volume. Thus, a method and system for forming a self-sealing volume are described. The system includes an elastomeric composite structure comprising at least one layer of an elastomeric material derived from a neat (no solvent) elastomeric material that does not substantially react at room temperature.