A graphene electrode, an energy storage device employing the same, and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The graphene electrode includes a metal foil, a non-doped graphene layer, and a hetero-atom doped graphene layer. Particularly, the hetero-atom doped graphene layer is separated from the metal foil by the non-doped graphene layer.

A substrate surface may be modified with a polymer coating to render the surface suitable for plasma functionalization. The polymer coating is deposited onto the surface at ambient temperature to a thickness of less than 0.1 m. The polymer coating includes poly(p-xylylene) or a derivative thereof, and is capable of penetrating into pores of a porous substrate while no substantially altering the porosity of the substrate. The coated substrate is selected from a material lacking a primary or secondary aliphatic hydrogen atom.

An ink-based digital printing system suitable for use with hydrophilic and/or aqueous dampening fluids includes an imaging member having an imaging member material that is hydrophilic at the imaging surface.

The present invention is a long gas barrier laminate including a base, a functional layer, a smoothing layer, and a gas barrier layer, the functional layer being stacked on one side of the base, the smoothing layer and the gas barrier layer being sequentially stacked on the other side of the base, and a coefficient of static friction between a surface of the functional layer that is situated opposite to the base and a surface of the gas barrier layer that is situated opposite to the base being 0.35 to 0.80; and a method for producing the long gas barrier laminate.

Disclosed is a formed article comprising a layer obtained by implanting ions of a hydrocarbon compound into a polyorganosiloxane compound-containing layer. Also disclosed are: a method of producing the formed article, the method comprising implanting ions of a hydrocarbon compound into a surface of a polyorganosiloxane compound-containing layer of a formed body that includes the polyorganosiloxane compound-containing layer in its surface; an electronic device member that includes the formed article; and an electronic device that includes the electronic device member. The present invention provides; a formed article which exhibits an excellent gas barrier capability, transparency, bendability, antistatic performance, and surface flatness; a method of producing the formed article, an electronic device member, and an electronic device.

Coatings, devices and methods are provided, wherein the contacting surface of a medical device with at least one contacting surface for contacting a bodily fluid or tissue, wherein long-lasting and durable bioactive agents or functional groups are deposited on the contacting surface through a unique two-step plasma coating process with deposition of a thin layer of plasma coating using a silicon-containing monomer in the first step and plasma surface modification using a mixture of nitrogen-containing molecules and oxygen-containing molecules in the second step. The two-step plasma coating process enables the implantable medical device to prevent both restenosis and thrombosis under clinical conditions. The invention also relates to surface treatment of metallic and polymeric biomaterials used for making of medical devices with significantly improved clinical performance and durability.

A laminate body includes a base material, a film-like or a membrane-like undercoat layer that is formed in at least a portion of the outer surface of the base material, and an atomic layer deposition film that is formed on a surface opposite to a surface coming into contact with the base material among both surfaces of the undercoat layer in the thickness direction thereof. At least a portion of precursors of the atomic layer deposition film bind to the undercoat layer, and the atomic layer deposition film is formed into a membrane shape covering the undercoat layer.

A drug delivery device and a method for manufacturing the same, and more specifically, a drug delivery device that can deliver a drug to a biological tissue while minimizing damage thereto and can come into close contact with the biological tissue to be able to measure an electrical signal of or apply electrical stimulation to the biological tissue and a method for manufacturing the drug delivery device are proposed. The drug delivery device includes a substrate unit that is inserted into a human body and has a porous insertion portion having one or more discharge voids. The insertion portion is provided to be deformable to match a shape of a biological tissue while expanding and contracting as a drug is injected into and discharged from an inside of the injection portion.

Methods of modifying medical devices and medical devices are disclosed. One embodiment of a method of modifying a medical device includes functionalizing a surface of the medical device using cold plasma. One embodiment of a medical device is obtained by a method of modifying a device that includes functionalizing a surface of the medical device using cold plasma.

In a method of producing an anti-reflective surface, instead of etching subwavelength structures directly onto the substrate, a thin film layer of topcoat is deposited onto the surface of the substrate, and the anti-reflective surface is created by etching the structures into the topcoat. Because the thin film can be applied to substrates made of a large number of different materials, only common etching recipes need to be developed for a few thin film materials. The present method overcomes the shortcoming that existing methods of etching structures directly on a substrate would require a different etching recipe for each substrate made of a different material.