Described herein are articles and methods of making articles, including a transparent composite film having a fiber filler embedded in a polymer network and further including a hard coating. The polymer network of the film is a cured, cross-linked matrix. The hard coating is a cross-linked aromatic urethane acrylate oligomer and a photoinitiator and provides a flexible protective layer that maintains good hardness, puncture-resistance and scratch-resistance.

A fiber-reinforced molding material includes: as essential raw materials, a vinyl ester (A) which is a reaction product of an epoxy resin (a1) having an epoxy equivalent in the range of 180 to 500 and a (meth)acrylic acid (a2); an unsaturated monomer (B) having a flash point of 100° C. or higher; a thermoplastic resin (C); a polyisocyanate (D); a polymerization initiator (E); and carbon fibers (F) having a fiber length of 2.5 to 50 mm. The mass ratio ((A)/(B)) of the vinyl ester (A) to the unsaturated monomer (B) is in the range of 40/60 to 85/15. The molar ratio (NCO/OH) of the isocyanate group (NCO) of the polyisocyanate (D) to the hydroxy group (OH) of the vinyl ester (A) is in the range of 0.25 to 0.85.

Provided are a method for producing a carbon fiber-reinforced molding material including a step of detecting the presence of metal in a molding material by a magnetic sensor-type metal detection method, and a method for producing a molded article including subjecting the carbon fiber-reinforced molding material produced by the production method to hot press molding. The method for producing a carbon fiber-reinforced molding material involves accurately detecting foreign metal in the carbon fiber-reinforced molding material and efficiently produces a carbon fiber-reinforced molding material without damaging a mold or causing other problems. The production method is thus suitably used to produce various molded articles, such as automobile parts.

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a fiber reinforced resin material, the method including an opening step of opening an elongated fiber bundle to be widened in a width direction thereof to be put into a flat state; and a heat setting step of heat-setting the opened fiber bundle in the flat state by heating. In addition, the present invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing a fiber reinforced resin material containing a plurality of fiber bundles and a resin, the apparatus including an opening section that opens an elongated fiber bundle to be widened in a width direction thereof to be put into a flat state; and a heat setting section that heat-sets the opened fiber bundle in the flat state by heating.

The prepreg includes a first resin layer and a second resin layer disposed on both surfaces of the first resin layer. The first resin layer is a half-cured product of a first resin composition that includes a glass cloth impregnated with the first resin composition and contains no hexagonal boron nitride. The second resin layer is a half-cured product of a second resin composition containing hexagonal boron nitride. The glass cloth has a warp and weft weave density of 54 pieces/25 mm or more. The hexagonal boron nitride has an average particle size ranging from 10 μm to 30 μm. The hexagonal boron nitride is contained in an amount ranging from 20 parts by mass to 40 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of a residual component other than the hexagonal boron nitride in the second resin composition.

The beneficial effects of the present application are as follows: the modified epoxy resin is doped with the modified epoxy resin in the buffer layer, the modified epoxy resin is reacted with the first barrier layer under UV irradiation, so that the modified epoxy resin is adhered to the first barrier layer to adhere the buffer layer and the first barrier layer and solve the technical problem that the organic layer and the inorganic layer are easily peeled off in the prior art. The present application also provides a packaging method and an electronic device.

The present invention provides a SMC of which excessive thickening with time is suppressed while of which sufficient initial thickening by an isocyanate-based thickener is maintained, particularly of which a decrease in flowability at the time of molding to be easily actualized in the case of containing an aromatic vinyl compound such as styrene is suppressed, and which exhibits excellent storage stability and moldability, a molding material for obtaining the SMC, and a fiber-reinforced composite material using the SMC. The invention provides a molding material including: a matrix resin composition containing the following Component (A), the following Component (B), the following Component (D) and the following Component (E); and the following Component (C), in which a proportion of the Component (E) with respect to 100 parts by mass of a sum of the Component (A) and the Component (B) is 0.002 part by mass or more and 0.08 part by mass or less: Component (A): a compound having either or both of a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group and a polymerizable unsaturated group, Component (B): an aromatic vinyl compound, Component (C): a reinforcing fiber bundle having a fiber length of 5 mm or more and 120 mm or less, Component (D): an isocyanate compound, and Component (E): a metal chelate compound.

The invention provides a powder pre-preg comprising as sole resin a vinyl ester resin having a Tg in the range of 5 to +30 C. and a melt viscosity @100 C. in the range of 2 to 75 dPa.Math.s, which can be used in making a composite at a temperature as low as 80 C.

A structure for protecting a substrate. The structure comprises an inner tie coat layer which can bond to the substrate, a geopolymer foam layer, and an outer protective layer. The geopolymer foam layer is the reaction product of a mixture comprising an aluminosilicate source, an alkali activator, reinforcing fibres, and a plurality of microparticles.

Provided is a resin composition for forming a hard coating layer, which is capable of forming a cured product having not only high hardness but also excellent scratch resistance, bending resistance, and crack resistance. The resin composition according to an embodiment of the present invention contains components (A) to (D) below: the component (A): a tri- or higher-functional alicyclic epoxy compound and/or a tri- or higher-functional oxetane compound; the component (B): a polyfunctional (meth)acrylic compound; the component (C): a photocationic polymerization initiator; and the component (D): a photoradical polymerization initiator.