The following disclosure relates to a microporous polyolefin composite film having excellent heat resistance and thermal stability, and a method for manufacturing the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a microporous polyolefin composite film capable of improving stability and reliability of a battery by heat sealing an edge of a microporous film provided with a coating layer that includes a polymer binder and inorganic particles, and a method for manufacturing the same.

Polymer compositions may include a polymer matrix containing a polyolefin, one or more polymer particles dispersed in the polymer matrix, wherein the one or more polymer particles include a polar polymer selectively crosslinked with a crosslinking agent, and wherein the one or more polymer particles has an average particle size of up to 200 μm. Processes of preparing a polymer composition may include mixing a polyolefin, a polar polymer, and a crosslinking agent; and selectively crosslinking the polar polymer with the crosslinking agent in the presence of the polyolefin. Methods may include increasing stress cracking resistance of a polyolefin by mixing a polar polymer with the polyolefin; and selectively crosslinking the polar polymer in the presence of the polyolefin with a crosslinking agent to form crosslinked polar polymer particles dispersed in the polyolefin.

The invention relates to an aqueous coagulatable polymer dispersion comprising at least one polymer which is dispersed in an aqueous phase, thermoplastic micro-spheres which contain a propellant, and at least one additional component which is selected from the group consisting of polyols, polyamines, and thermoplastic polymers. The invention further relates to a coagulate which can be obtained by the thermal and/or mechanical and/or ultrasonically-initiated coagulation of the aqueous polymer dispersion according to the invention, to an adhesive comprising or consisting of the coagulate, to a substrate which is completely or partly coated with said coagulate, to a method for producing such a coated substrate, and to coated substrates which can be obtained using said method. The coagulate can be used as an adhesive or as a binder in 3D-printing methods.

A functionalized ethylene-based polymer dissolved in an appropriate solvent and applied to a nonpolar surface can change the surface polarity/characteristics of the nonpolar surface. This change to the surface polarity/characteristics of the nonpolar surface allows adhesion of materials, such as paint, to surfaces such as polypropylene, polyethylene and polyolefin elastomers.

Composite resin particles comprising 50 to 800 parts by mass of a polystyrene-based resin with respect to 100 parts by mass of a polyolefin-based resin, wherein: when transmission electron microscope (TEM) images obtained by photographing cross-sections of the composite resin particles using a TEM at a magnification of 1,000 are subjected to a binarization processing and areas in the obtained binarized images which correspond to a cross-sectional area of 437.584 μm.sup.2 of the composite resin particles are subjected to image analysis, the polystyrene-based resin satisfies the following requirements: (1) the number of dispersed particles is 180 or more; (2) the maximum of the areas of dispersed particles is 200 μm.sup.2 or less; and (3) the coefficient of variation in dispersion is 100% or more, and the composite resin particles exhibit an inner morphology that includes a mixture of sea-island structure regions and co-continuous structure regions.

A method of removing and detecting the presence of substances from at least one of a body of water and the air. The method includes placing into the body of water or into the air an open-cell foam material, removing separate portions of the open-cell foam material from the water or air at different exposure times after the open-cell foam material was placed into the water or air, and determining the presence in the removed separate portions of one or more substances that were removed from the water or air by the open-cell foam material.

The present invention relates to diamide-polyolefin wax mixture comprising one or more diamides (A) and one or more polyolefin waxes (B), where the diamide or diamides (A) possess a structure of the formula X.sup.1—CO—NH—Y—NH—CO—X.sup.2, in which X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 are identical or different and are linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated, optionally substituted hydrocarbon radicals having 3 to 29 carbon atoms, and Y is a divalent organic radical which is selected from the group consisting of aliphatic radicals having 2 to 26 carbon atoms, aromatic radicals having 6 to 24 carbon atoms or araliphatic radicals having 7 to 24 carbon atoms, and Y optionally comprises secondary or tertiary amino groups, and the polyolefin wax or waxes (B) carry one or more carboxyl groups and have an acid number of 3 to 50, and are homopolymers or copolymers of at least one ethylenically unsaturated olefin monomer, where the diamide or diamides (A), based on the total weight of the diamide-polyolefin wax mixture, are present in an amount of 20 wt % to less than 40 wt %, the polyolefin wax or waxes (B), based on the total weight of the diamide-polyolefin wax mixture, are present in an amount of above 60 wt % up to 80 wt %, characterized in that the diamide-polyolefin wax mixture at 25° C. is a particulate solid of defined particle size distribution, and the particles comprise both the diamide (A) and the polyolefin wax (B). The invention further relates to the preparation of the aforesaid diamide-polyolefin wax mixture, to the use thereof in liquid compositions, especially as a rheology control agent, to compositions additized accordingly, and to rheology control agents which comprise the diamide-polyolefin wax mixtures.

A sole assembly for an article of footwear has a first portion having a lower ground engaging surface, an upper surface, and a recess formed in the upper surface. A second portion is seated in the recess in the first portion and has an upper surface. The second portion is formed from a first foam material prepared by a reaction product of a composition having about 10 to about 100 phr of a hydrogenated copolymer and about 10 to about 90 phr of a copolymer of ethlylene and an alpha olefin, the alpha olefin having up to 20 carbon atoms. The first foam material has a hardness of 25 to 45 Asker C and a density of less than 0.18 g/cm3.

Use of olefin-based plastic films for obtaining labels in rolls for high speed roll-fed applications from about 8,000 to about 75,000 containers/hour, the films having a thickness comprised between 10 and 22 μm, flexural rigidity (N.Math.mm) in the range 0.5×10.sup.−2-4.5×10.sup.−2 save for a constant 1/[12×(1−ν.sup.2)] wherein ν is the Poisson modulus, the elongation at break in MD determined according to ASTM D 882 lower than 130%, dimensional stability measured according to the OPMA TC 4 standard at 130° C. for 5 minutes in the air in MD comprised between 0 and −10% and in TD between −4 and +4%.

The invention relates to a continuous method for removing a solvent from a suspension or solution comprising a target polymer, wherein the method comprises the steps of delivering said suspension or solution to an extruder, wherein said extruder comprises a size classification unit that is designed to be permeable for the solvent and impermeable for the target polymer; and filtration and extrusion of said suspension or solution in said extruder. The invention also relates to a plastic waste recycling system for recycling a target polymer. Furthermore, the invention also relates to a polymer material obtained by this recycling method.