Disclosed herein is a primerless paint composition comprising a carboxylated chlorinated polyolefin elastomer; one or more of a polyacrylic binder, a polyvinylchloride binder and a vinyl aromatic block copolymer binder; a pigment; and a liquid carrier. Disclosed herein too is a method comprising blending a primerless paint composition comprising a carboxylated chlorinated polyolefin elastomer; one or more of a polyacrylic binder, polyvinylchloride binder and a vinyl aromatic block copolymer binder; a pigment; and a liquid carrier; and disposing the primerless paint composition on a polyolefin elastomer substrate that does not have a primer disposed on it prior to the disposing of the primerless paint composition.

An elastomeric material is disclosed, which is suitable, in particular, as a sealing material between the fuel cells of a fuel cell stack and the stacks as such, wherein the hybrid elastomeric material includes a hybrid elastomer with a proportion of a siloxane polymeric material and a proportion of a polyolefin elastomeric material, wherein the two materials are crosslinked with one another by addition. Further aspects relate to polyelectrolyte fuel cells, which include sealing elements made of the hybrid elastomeric material, as well as the use of the hybrid elastomeric material in a screen printing process.

A method for preparing hydrogen-rich synthesis gas by degrading waste polyolefin plastics at a low temperature includes the following steps: weighing 1 part by weight of polyolefin waste plastics and 3 parts-80 parts by weight of hydrogen peroxide containing 0.25%-6% of H.sub.2O.sub.2; feeding the polyolefin waste plastics and the hydrogen peroxide into a hydrothermal reactor, and carrying out the oxidation pretreatment reaction at a reaction temperature of 150° C.-230° C. under a reaction pressure of 0.5 MPa-2 MPa for 30 minutes-90 minutes, and obtaining an aqueous-phase product and a gas-phase product after the reaction is finished; filling another hydrothermal reactor with a mesoporous carbon supported metal-based catalyst, and then introducing the aqueous-phase product into the hydrothermal reactor for a reforming reaction to obtain a hydrogen-rich synthesis gas product. In the whole process, the H.sub.2 yield is close to 11 mol/kg plastics, and the H.sub.2 concentration in the hydrogen-rich synthesis gas is close to 55%.

The present disclosure provides a laminate having low air permeability and excellent moisture permeability, a partition member for total heat exchange element composed of the laminate, a total heat exchange element provided with a plurality of the partition members for total heat exchange element, and a ventilation device provided with the total heat exchange element. The laminate of the present disclosure is provided with a porous substrate and a moisture-permeable membrane disposed on one side of the porous substrate, the moisture-permeable membrane being provided with a porous substrate and a moisture-permeable membrane disposed on at least one side of the porous substrate, and the moisture-permeable membrane being formed of a thermoplastic copolymer having a side chain containing a hydrophilic group which is a functional group.

The present disclosure relates to a molded article provided with a resin part formed with a thermoplastic resin composition. The thermoplastic resin composition containing thermoplastic resins and cellulose, wherein at least one of the thermoplastic resins is a resin having in a polymer molecule at least one group selected from a group containing a partial structure of an acid anhydride and a group containing an acylated cellulose structure.

Methods of forming a lightweight reinforced thermoplastic core layer and articles including the core layer are described. In some examples, the methods use a combination of thermoplastic material, reinforcing fibers and bicomponent fibers to enhance retention of lofting agents in the core layer. The processes permit the use of less material while still providing sufficient lofting capacity in the final formed core layer.

A process for producing recycle polyesters made from organic compounds, e.g., acids and alcohols, derived from recycled, reused or other environmentally favored raw materials by obtaining a recycle monomer composition derived directly or indirectly from cracking a recycle content pyrolysis oil composition and reacting the recycle monomer with recycle DMT obtained directly or indirectly from the depolymerization of terephthalate polyesters to prepare a recycle polyester.

A coating composition, a coating layer, and a coating system, and a method for making a and using the same are provided. The coating system comprises a flop index of 2 or greater and comprises a coating layer formed by a coating composition. The coating composition comprises a film-forming resin and a pigment composition. The pigment composition comprises 50% or greater by weight radar transmissive pigment based on the total weight of the pigment composition and no greater than 50% by weight electrically conductive pigment based on the total weight of the pigment composition. The coating system has a radar signal transmission of 70% or greater. The coating system has a CIELAB color difference, ΔE, compared to a color-matched coating system of no greater than 4, as measured at 110°, using a multi-angle spectrophotometer with D65 Illumination and 10° observer.

A method of depolymerizing polymeric material including the steps of: (a) feeding a polymeric material to a depolymerization reactor maintained at a temperature in the range of from 400° C. to 600° C. and operated under a pressure in the range of from 4 to 15 barg; and (b) depolymerizing at least a portion of the polymeric material thereby forming a first gaseous product and a first liquid product.

There is provided a decorative sheet having excellent design properties, i.e., low gloss, and having fingerprint resistance, high durability (particularly scratch resistance or contamination resistance), and processability. A decorative sheet (1) according to this embodiment includes: a base material layer (2); and a surface protective layer (5) provided on one surface of the base material layer (2), in which the surface protective layer (5) has ridge-like parts provided to project in a ridge-like shape and form an irregular shape on the surface, RSm/Ra of the irregular shape of the surface protective layer (5) is within the range of 10 or more and 300 or less, the surface protective layer (5) contains an ionizing radiation curable resin as a main material, the ionizing radiation curable resin contains, as a main component, a tetrafunctional acrylic resin containing a repeating structure, the repeating structure is any one of the structures of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and ε-caprolactone, and the number of repetitions of the repeating structure is 12 or more.