A skin material includes a skin layer, an intermediate layer, a design layer, and at least one recess. The skin layer has a light transmittance. The intermediate layer is disposed on a back side of the skin layer and has a light transmittance lower than the light transmittance of the skin layer. The design layer is disposed on the back side of the intermediate layer and has a light transmittance lower than the light transmittance of the intermediate layer. The at least one recess is opened on a back surface of the design layer. A bottom of the recess has an intermediate layer reaching part defined at the intermediate layer.

To provide a water-absorbing resin composition having both a high centrifuge retention capacity (CRC) and a sufficient urine resistance and a method for producing such a water-absorbing resin composition, an aspect of the present invention is a water-absorbing resin composition having the following properties: (1) A centrifuge retention capacity (CRC) being not less than 35 g/g; (2) A post-degradation-test one-hour eluted soluble component being not more than 19% by mass; (3) An absorbency against pressure 0.7 psi (AAP0.7) being not less than 10 g/g; and (4) A content of a water-absorbing resin in dust being not more than 300 ppm with respect to a total mass of the water-absorbing resin composition.

At least one surface of a FRP component is coated by impregnating a structure formed with textile fibres with a flowable polymeric matrix material so the fibres are completely covered to form the coating, a thickness of the flowable polymeric matrix material above the fibres of at least 100 m and at least one ply of pull-off fabric, mesh or gauze is laid on and wetted or impregnated completely with the flowable polymeric matrix material. The polymeric matrix material is cured then the at least one ply of pull-off fabric, mesh or gauze is removed by peeling and in this region a surface of increased roughness is obtained so between the surface of increased roughness and fibres there is a layer formed with the cured polymeric matrix material, having a thickness of at least 100 m. Coating the increased roughness surface with a thermal spraying process.

A thermal process for carbonizing hemp and reducing particle size, mechanically, by grinding or milling said carbonized hemp materials to generate a precise particle size hemp char and combining the hemp char particles with a polymer into a master batch.

A thermal process for carbonizing hemp and reducing particle size, mechanically, by grinding or milling said carbonized hemp materials to generate a precise particle size hemp char and combining the hemp char particles with a polymer into a master batch.

An organic solvent-free phase-inversion emulsification process for a low molecular weight amorphous polyester resin includes forming a mixture by adding to the amorphous polyester resin: i. a surfactant; ii. an aqueous solution of a neutralizing agent; and iii. a portion of water that is about 40% or less of a total amount of water used to form a phase-inversion emulsion, heating the mixture to dissolve the amorphous polyester resin to provide a dissolved amorphous polyester and adding water up to the total amount of water to the dissolved amorphous polyester to form a latex of the amorphous polyester resin. The resultant latex is used in processes of making a toner composition. A latex of an amorphous polyester resins is made by such processes have latex particles that are unimodal.

A composite core material and methods for making same are disclosed herein. The composite core material comprises mineral filler discontinuous portions disposed in a continuous encapsulating resin. Further, the method for forming a composite core material comprises the steps of forming a mixture comprising mineral filler, an encapsulating prepolymer, and a polymerization catalyst; disposing the mixture onto a moving belt; and polymerizing said encapsulating prepolymer to form a composite core material comprising mineral filler discontinuous portions disposed in a continuous encapsulating resin.

The conductive film of the present invention includes a conductive polymer (A) and has a film thickness of 35 nm or less, wherein: a surface resistance of the conductive film is 110.sup.11 /sq. or less, and a standard deviation of current that flows through the conductive film upon application of voltage to the conductive film is 5 or less. The conductor of the present invention has a substrate, and the conductive film provided on at least a part of the surface of the substrate. The resist pattern forming method of the present invention includes a lamination step of forming the conductive film on a surface of a resist layer including a chemically amplified resist, said resist layer formed on one surface of a substrate, and an exposure step of irradiating the substrate with an electron beam according to a pattern on its side on which the conductive film is formed. The laminate of the present invention has a resist layer and an antistatic film formed on the surface of the resist layer, wherein the antistatic film is the above-mentioned conductive film.

Fiber-reinforced organic polymer aerogels, articles of manufacture and uses thereof are described. The reinforced aerogels include a fiber-reinforced organic polymer matrix having an at least bimodal pore size distribution with a first mode of pores having an average pore size of less than or equal to 50 nanometers (nm) and a second mode of pores having an average pore size of greater than 50 nm and a thermal conductivity of less than or equal to 30 mW/m.Math.K at a temperature of 20 C.

A solid, ionically conductive, non-electrically conducting polymer material with a plurality of monomers and a plurality of charge transfer complexes, wherein each charge transfer complex is positioned on a monomer.