The present invention is to provide a resin film having both water impermeability and moisture permeability. The polyolefin stretched porous film according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a polyolefin-based resin and a fine filler having an average primary particle size of 0.05 to 0.8 m, and has a communicating void. Furthermore, the polyolefin stretched porous film according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a hydrophobizing agent, a water permeability measured in accordance with JIS Z 0221 is from 10000 to 85000 seconds, and a moisture permeability measured in accordance with JIS Z 0208 is from 300 to 2500 g/m2.Math.24 h.

Storage-stable two-component polyurethane or polyisocyanurate spray foam compositions are disclosed, said compositions comprising: (a) an A-side component comprising one or more polyisocyanate and one or more blowing agent; and (b) a B-side component comprising one or more polyol and one or more blowing agent comprising pressurized gaseous carbon dioxide and one or more liquid blowing agent; wherein both the A-side component and the B-side component, separately, generate less than 300 ppm of fluoride ion after one week of aging at 50? C.

A constituent for producing a shock-absorbing composite material comprises 50-80 wt % primary matrix including vinyl acetate; ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer; 10-40 wt % secondary matrix including polyethylene; styrene-butadiene rubber; a thermoplastic elastomer; and 1-20 wt % additive. A shock-absorbing composite material which contains the constituent and a production method thereof are further introduced. The shock-absorbing composite material is applicable to sports equipment (say, shoe pads, clubs and rackets), medical care (say, care-oriented clothes for the elderly, the sick, the injured, and the handicapped), and applications related to impact protection (say, helmets and bumpers.) The shock-absorbing composite material is applied to defense industry.

A method for producing carbon or graphite foam parts with high purity level for high-temperature insulation under vacuum or protective gas, as insulating material or as filter material, includes the following steps: introducing dry, foamable starch (1) into an open-top container (2) having a round or angular cross section, until the base (3) of the container (2) is covered amply and uniformly with starch (1); introducing the container (2) partly filled with starch (1) into an oven (4), and heating the container (2) to a foaming temperature of >180? C. over a prolonged period of several hours to foam the starch (1), until the container (2) has filled completely with carbon foam (6); withdrawing the container (2) from the oven (4) and extracting the carbon foam (6) after sufficient cooling, and optionally portioning the carbon foam (6) into carbon foam parts (6.1).

Storage-stable two-component polyurethane or polyisocyanurate spray foam compositions are disclosed, said compositions comprising: (a) an A-side component comprising one or more polyisocyanate and one or more blowing agent; and (b) a B-side component comprising one or more polyol and one or more blowing agent comprising pressurized gaseous carbon dioxide and one or more liquid blowing agent; wherein both the A-side component and the B-side component, separately, generate less than 300 ppm of fluoride ion after one week of aging at 50? C.

A polyurethane foam having an initial UL 94 vertical flame classification of V-0 and maintaining a UL 94 vertical flame classification of V-0 after one week of heat aging at 150 C. is formed as the reaction product of an isocyanate component and an isocyanate-reactive component in the presence of a blowing agent. The isocyanate component includes an isocyanate-containing compound and a non-reactive phosphorous compound that is present in an amount ranging from 1 to 20 weight percent based on the total weight of the polyurethane foam. The isocyanate-reactive component includes a polyether polyol and expandable graphite that is present in an amount ranging from 3 to 30 weight percent based on the total weight of the polyurethane foam.

Provided is a method for manufacturing a concrete pump cleaning foam. The method comprises: providing a mixture of a polymer containing an olefin block copolymer (OBC) having a DSC melting point of 100 C. or higher and a natural or synthetic rubber, a liquid softening agent, and one or more additives selected from the group consisting of a crosslinking agent, a foaming agent, a metal oxide, stearic acid, an antioxidant, zinc stearate, titanium dioxide, a crosslinking coagent, and a pigment; placing the mixture in a mold and pressurizing the mixture at elevated temperature to form a polymer foam; and after the foaming, polishing the surface of the polymer foam to separate closed cells into a surface.

Provided is a phenol resin foam that has low initial thermal conductivity and that retains low thermal conductivity for a long period of time. The present phenol resin foam may contain a cyclopentane and a high-boiling hydrocarbon with a boiling point of from 120 C. to 550 C. and may have a density of from 10 kg/m.sup.3 to 150 kg/m.sup.3. The content of the cyclopentane in the phenol resin foam per 22.410.sup.3 m.sup.3 space volume in the phenol resin foam is from 0.25 mol to 0.85 mol.

A process for the coating a substrate with a microporous layer includes at least incorporation by mixing of at least one physical and/or chemical blowing agent into an elastomer mixture, shaping of the elastomer mixture including the physical and/or chemical blowing agent by means of a calender or of a roller-head system, and application of the calendered elastomer mixture including the physical and/or chemical blowing agent to a substrate to be coated. Further, heating and blowing of the coating including the physical and/or chemical blowing agent is then provided by means of at least one heat source. In some cases, the blowing agent is composed of microspheres, which in some embodiments, may be present in non-expanded form. In some aspects, the heating and blowing of the coating directly follows the application procedure. The heat source may be an infrared source, such as a ceramic source.

Polymer foam and a method for preparing the same are disclosed. In the present disclosure, the method sequentially comprises the following steps: providing a polymer body; performing a pressure-induced flow (PIF) process on the polymer body at a first predetermined temperature and a first predetermined pressure for a pressure holding time, to obtain a polymer sheet; and performing a foaming process on the polymer sheet by using a foaming agent at a second predetermined temperature and a second predetermined pressure for a saturation time, to obtain polymer foam.