Methods for manufacturing articles, including articles of footwear, apparel, and sporting equipment are provided. The methods comprise decorating a plurality of foam particles. The decorating can comprise applying a coating on the foam particles, or embossing or debossing the foam particles, or both. The decorating can comprise applying a coating on the foam particles by printing, painting, dyeing, applying a film, or any combination thereof. The plurality of foam particles are affixed utilizing aspects of additive manufacturing methods. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.

Embodiments herein described provide devices for identifying and collecting rare cells or cells which occur at low frequency in the body of a subject, such as, antigen-specific cells or disease-specific cells. More specifically, the devices are useful for trapping immune cells and the devices contain a physiologically-compatible porous polymer scaffold, a plurality of antigens, and an immune cell-recruiting agent, wherein the plurality of antigens and the immune cell recruiting agent attract and trap the immune cell in the device. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits, and packages containing such devices. Additional embodiments relate to methods for making the devices, compositions, and kits/packages. Further embodiments relate to methods for using the devices, compositions, and/or kits in the diagnosis or therapy of diseases such as autoimmune diseases or cancers.

Provided are a resin molding material, a method for producing same, and a method for producing resin member or the like, said resin molding material being a resin molding material which is capable of reducing a loss of ultraviolet absorber, resulting in less contamination in facilities, minimizing the impact of harmful lights by efficiently absorbing harmful lights in the wavelength region of 380 to 400 nm (to 420 nm), and suppressing the absorption of lights having a wavelength of not shorter than 400 nm (420 nm) which is a primary cause of early-stage yellowing to thereby produce a member having a superior appearance since the ultraviolet absorber is less prone to be sublimed during hot-melt compounding (first/second processing) that requires a high-temperature processing, or during other heat processing. The resin molding material is used in heat processing and comprises a resin and a 2-phenylbenzotriazole derivative that contains a thioether-containing group.

A heat energy storage system may have a shape-stabilized composite prepared using an easy impregnation method involving a porous Ca.sup.2+-doped MgCO.sub.3 matrix and PEG as the functional phase. The heat storage capability, microstructures, and interactions with the PEG/CaMgCO.sub.3 composite can be characterized by DSC, SEM imaging, FT-IR spectroscopy, and TGA. Likely because of the synergistic phase change effect of CaMgCO.sub.3 and PEG, the PEG/CaMgCO.sub.3 composites can have high thermal enthalpies, and their enthalpy efficiencies are substantially higher than those of traditional shape stabilized PCMs. The functional material PEG can permeate porous CaMgCO.sub.3 matrices under capillary action. Liquid PEG can be stabilized within the porous matrix, and/or the CaMgCO.sub.3 matrix can improve the thermal stability of the PEG. The high heat energy storage properties and good thermal stability of such organic-inorganic composites offers utility in a range of applications, including thermal energy storage.

A method includes attaching a clip array to opposing edges of a polymer thin film, the clip array having a plurality of first clips slidably disposed on a first track located proximate to a first edge of the polymer thin film and a plurality of second clips slidably disposed on a second track located proximate to a second edge of the polymer thin film, applying a positive in-plane strain to the polymer thin film along a transverse direction by increasing a distance between the first and second clips, and decreasing an inter-clip spacing amongst the first clips and amongst the second clips along a machine direction while applying the in-plane strain to form an optically anisotropic polymer thin film. During stretching, a strain rate of the thin film may be decreased and/or a temperature of the thin film may be increased.

The present invention relates to a latex composition for dip molding, and such latex composition includes: a carboxylic acid-modified nitrile-based copolymer latex; and a reactive compound having three or more branched chains and a reactive group at a terminal of each of the branched chains, wherein the reactive group is one or more selected from the group consisting of an amine group, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group, a glycidyl group, and an isocyanate group.

The invention relates to a foamed composition comprising a thermoplastic copolyester elastomer, wherein the foamed composition has a relative solution viscosity of at least 4.1 as measured according to ISO 1628-5:2015 and wherein the thermoplastic copolyester elastomer comprises hard segments built up from polyester repeating units derived from at least one aliphatic diol and at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid or an ester thereof and soft segments being polytetramethylene oxide. The invention also relates to a process for preparing the foamed composition.

The invention relates to a foam comprising thermoplastic copolyester elastomer in an amount of at least 60 wt % with respect to the total weight of the foam, wherein the thermoplastic copolyester elastomer has a number average molecular weight (Mn) of at least 34000 g/mol and a shore D hardness measured at 3 s of between 28 to 50. The invention further relates to a process for preparing the foam and articles comprising the foam.

The invention relates to a copolymer powder containing polyamide blocks and polyether blocks having: an enthalpy of fusion of the polyamide blocks of greater than or equal to 70 J/g if the weight ratio of the polyamide blocks relative to the polyether blocks of the copolymer is greater than or equal to 4; an enthalpy of fusion of the polyamide blocks of greater than or equal to 50 J/g if the weight ratio of the polyamide blocks relative to the polyether blocks of the copolymer is greater than or equal to 1 and less than 4; or an enthalpy of fusion of the polyamide blocks of greater than or equal to 20 J/g if the weight ratio of the polyamide blocks relative to the polyether blocks of the copolymer is less than 1.

A preparation method of calcium peroxide-mediated in situ crosslinkable hydrogel as a sustained oxygen-generating matrix, includes: a) reacting a natural or a synthetic polymer with Traut's reagent (TR) in a solvent, and synthesizing a polymer derivative having thiol group in backbone of the polymer derivative; and b) mixing and reacting a solution of the polymer derivative having thiol group with calcium peroxide (CaO.sub.2), and thereby forming a hydrogel, wherein in the step b), disulfide bonds (—S—S) are induced between backbones of the polymer derivative having thiol group attached by decomposition of calcium peroxide (CaO.sub.2), and thereby in situ crosslinking is formed.