A film, a manufacturing method of the film, a cover film, and a multi-layered electronic device include an elastic layer having a storage modulus index K.sub.SM of 20 to 350 Mpa represented by Equation 1 below and a haze of 3% or less, thereby providing the film having substantially low storage modulus variations over a wide temperature range, with good mechanical properties such as excellent elastic recovery force and good optical properties such as low haze, and provide the cover film or the multi-layered electronic device including the same.

[00001]$\begin{array}{cc}{K}_{\mathrm{SM}}=\left(\frac{{\mathrm{SM}}_{-40}\times {\mathrm{SM}}_{80}}{{\mathrm{SM}}_{20}}\right)-{\mathrm{SM}}_{80}& \left[\mathrm{Equation}1\right]\end{array}$ Where SM.sub.n is a storage modulus (Mpa) measured at a temperature of n° C.

A recording paper includes: a laminated resin film including a substrate composed of a thermoplastic resin film and an underlayer disposed on at least one side of the substrate and composed of a thermoplastic resin composition; and a resin coating disposed facing the underlayer of the laminated resin film, wherein the underlayer has an indentation modulus of 50 to 1200 MPa, the resin coating contains a resin that is a reaction product of a cationic water-soluble polymer and a silane coupling agent, a content of a silane coupling agent component is 15 to 60 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the cationic water-soluble polymer component in the resin coating, the resin coating is free from thermoplastic resin particles, and a content of an inorganic filler is 9 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the cationic water-soluble polymer component in the resin coating.

Provided is a laminate having high sterilization resistance and suitable as a medical device constituent component and a medical device including the laminate. The laminate has a substrate, an interlayer on the substrate, and a polymer coating layer on the interlayer. The interlayer has a porous layer including a siloxane compound, and the siloxane compound has at least one of a constituent component derived from a compound bearing a reactive functional group and a hydrolyzable group or a constituent component derived from a compound bearing a hydrolyzable group having a reactive functional group.

The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for composites, including short-fiber films and other composites. In certain aspects, composites comprising a plurality of aligned fibers are provided. The fibers may be substantially aligned, and may be present at relatively high densities within the composite. For example, the composite may include substantially aligned carbon fibers embedded within a thermoplastic substrate. The composites may be prepared, in some aspects, by dispersing fibers by neutralizing the electrostatic interactions between the fibers, for example using aqueous liquids containing the fibers that are able to neutralize the electrostatic interactions that typically occur between the fibers. The liquids may be applied to a substrate, and the fibers may be aligned using techniques such as shear flow and/or magnetism. Other aspects are generally directed to methods of using such composites, kits including such composites, or the like.

A prepreg which is suitable for producing a fiber-reinforced composite material in a short period of time without using an autoclave, can produce a fiber-reinforced composite material in which the occurrence of voids is suppressed and excellent impact resistance is achieved, and has excellent handling properties; and a fiber-reinforced composite material using the prepreg. This prepreg is a prepreg in which a reinforcing fiber [A] arranged in layers is partially impregnated with an epoxy resin composition containing an epoxy resin [B] and a curing agent [C], wherein the impregnation rate φ is 30-95%, and a thermoplastic resin [D] insoluble in the epoxy resin [B] is unevenly distributed on both surfaces of the prepreg. In addition, in the layers of the reinforcing fiber [A], epoxy resin composition-unimpregnated portions are localized on one surface of the prepreg, and the localization parameter a, which defines the degree of localization, is in the range of 0.10<σ<0.45.

A water dispersible sulfopolymer for use as a material in the layer-wise additive manufacture of a 3D part made of a non water dispersible polymer wherein the water dispersible polymer is a reaction product of a metal sulfo monomer, the water dispersible sulfo-polymer being dispersible in water resulting in separation of the water dispersible polymer from the 3D part made of the non water dispersible polymer.

An improved process for fabricating expanded thermoplastic polymers (eTP) starting from non-expanded TP is disclosed whereby said process has improved thermal control, uses preferably environmentally friendly foaming gasses, avoids anisotropy and sticking of the eTP during the processing and minimises the duration of the charging step.

Methods of making a foamed article include: (a) milling a block or sheet of thermoplastic polymer to form a precursor; (b) crosslinking the thermoplastic polymer; (c) heating the precursor to a first temperature to soften the thermoplastic polymer; (d) infusing the thermoplastic polymer with at least one inert gas at a first pressure that is sufficient to cause the at least one inert gas to permeate into the softened thermoplastic polymer; and (e) while the thermoplastic polymer is softened, reducing the pressure to a second pressure below the first pressure to at least partially foam the precursor into a foamed article, wherein the foamed article is substantially the same shape as the precursor.

Disclosed is a scheme whereby a continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin composite material applicable to production of a reinforcing material of various thermoplastic injection products and manufacture of a fiber reinforced thermoplastic plastic part using 3D printing can be produced by a simple method to have an excellent mechanical property. The present invention provides a continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite material in which a plurality of yarns or tape intermediate materials are combined together to form a rod shape, and a method for producing the same.

A method for forming a graphene-reinforced polymer matrix composite is disclosed. The method includes distributing graphite microparticles into a molten thermoplastic polymer phase; and applying a succession of shear strain events to the molten polymer phase so that the molten polymer phase exfoliates the graphite successively with each event until at least 50% of the graphite is exfoliated to form a distribution in the molten polymer phase of single- and multi-layer graphene nanoparticles less than 50 nanometers thick along the c-axis direction.