The present disclosure is drawn to an adhesive printable film. The film can include a polymeric film substrate, an image receiving layer, and an adhesive layer. The polymeric film substrate can have a first side and a second side, and can be transparent or translucent. The image receiving layer can be applied on the first side and can include a crosslinked polymeric network and polymeric particles dispersed therein. The peelable adhesive layer can be applied on the second side and can include a continuous matrix polymer having adhesive particles and plastic particles dispersed therein.

Elastomeric components, such as a shoe outsole, are treated with a plasma application to clean and activate the elastomeric component. The application of plasma is controlled to achieve a sufficient surface composition change to enhance adhesion characteristics while not adversely physically deforming the elastomeric component. The plasma treatment is applied to increase carbonyl functional group concentrations within an altered region of the elastomeric component to within at least a range of 2%-15% of carbon atomic percentage composition. The cleaning and activation is controlled, in part, by ensuring a defined height offset range is maintained between the elastomeric component and the plasma source by a generated tool path. The elastomeric component may then be adhered, with an adhesive, to another component.

A pre-lithiated film and a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The pre-lithiated film comprises: a 1 ?m-50 ?m base film and a 0.02 ?m-100 ?m pre-lithiated coating coated on the base film; the pre-lithiated coating includes: 1 wt %-99.99 wt % of a pre-lithiated material, 0 wt %-98.99 wt % of a coating material, 0.01 wt %-10 wt % of a binder, 0 wt %-10 wt % of a conductive additive material, 0 wt %-2 wt % of a dispersing agent and 0 wt %-2 wt % of an aid. The pre-lithiated material is a material that can produce an electrochemical reaction to release lithium ions under voltage control. The pre-lithiated material specifically includes: Li.sub.xM1.sub.yA.sub.z, Li.sub.xM2.sub.y(PO.sub.4).sub.z, Li.sub.xM2.sub.y(SiO.sub.4).sub.z, Li.sub.2S, and Li.sub.xM1.sub.yS.sub.z, wherein x, y and z are integers or non-integers and satisfy the balance of electrovalence of a chemical formula; M1 is one or a combination of a metallic element, a transition metal element, a rare earth element, an alkali metal, an IVA group element; M.sub.2 is one or a combination of a metal element, a transition metal element, a rare earth element, an alkali metal, and an IVA group element; and A is one or a combination of O, F, Cl, S and N elements.

An embodiment includes a system comprising: a monolithic shape memory polymer (SMP) foam having first and second states; wherein the SMP foam includes: (a) polyurethane, (b) an inner half portion having inner reticulated cells defined by inner struts, (c) an outer half portion, having outer reticulated cells defined by outer struts, surrounding the inner portion in a plane that provides a cross-section of the SMP foam, (d) hydroxyl groups chemically bound to outer surfaces of both the inner and outer struts. Other embodiments are discussed herein.

The invention provides a gas barrier film with low deterioration in the gas barrier property before and after high-temperature hot water treatment. The gas barrier film has a gas barrier coating film, formed as a composite film comprising a network structure having a mesh structure with SiOSi bonds as the basic lattice and a water-soluble polymer crystallized as microcrystals, incorporated into the mesh of the network structure, wherein a barrier coating agent, obtained by mixing a condensate solution of an alkoxysilane hydrolysate prepared as a mixed solution in which the proportion of bonded states of the silicon atoms of the condensate with Q1 and Q2 structures is at least 60% of the total silicon atoms, with a crystalline water-soluble polymer, is coated on a base material film, either after forming or without forming an aluminum oxide vapor deposition film, to form a coating layer.

This disclosure relates to superhydrophobic materials and/or surfaces comprising a shrinkable polymer substrate and at least one polysiloxane layer, wherein the materials and/or surfaces comprise microscale wrinkles and nanoscale features that form hierarchical structures. Methods of making and uses thereof are also disclosed herein.

Composite film structures for packaging use. The composite film structures have easy open, clean peel and hermetic seal characteristics stemming from good caulkability characteristics when a region of the composite film structures are folded over and sealed to form a seal on a bag, pouch or package. The composite film structure includes a base film which includes a biaxially-oriented film and a vacuum-deposited metal layer and a heat-sealant structure comprising a low density polyethylene and a linear low density polyethylene. The metal layer is between the biaxially-oriented film and the heat-sealant structure. The heat-sealant structure thickness is from about 50 to about 100 gauge, the adhesion strength between the biaxially-oriented film and the metal layer is less than about 800 g/in, and the seal strength when a region of the composite film structure is folded onto a composite film structure region is from about 500 to about 1500 g/in.

There is provided a barrier film having a substrate, a low thermal conductivity organic layer and an inorganic stack. The inorganic stack will include a low thermal conductivity non-metallic inorganic material layer and a high thermal conductivity metallic material layer.

The present invention is directed to a method of making a cord-reinforced rubber article, comprising the steps of A) mixing a carrier gas, a sulfur-containing compound and an alkyne, to form a gas mixture; B) generating an atmospheric pressure plasma from the gas mixture; C) exposing a reinforcement cord to the atmospheric pressure plasma to produce a treated reinforcement cord; and D) contacting the treated reinforcement cord with a rubber composition comprising a diene based elastomer.

Discontinuous coatings and methods of forming such coatings including transiting a substrate through a vaporization area, providing a reactant vapor comprising at least one vaporized monomer or oligomer to the vaporization area, and chemically reacting the at least one vaporized monomer or oligomer to form a discontinuous layer on the substrate, optionally wherein chemically reacting further includes polymerization. The discontinuous layer may be a patterned, semi-patterned, or random discontinuous layer.