The invention refers to a method for producing expanded polymer pellets, which comprises the following steps: melting a polymer comprising a polyamide; adding at least one blowing agent; expanding the melt through at least one die for producing an expanded polymer; and pelletizing the expanded polymer. The invention further concerns polymer pellets produced with the method as well as their use, e.g. for the production of cushioning elements for sports apparel, such as for producing soles or parts of soles of sports shoes. A further aspect of the invention concerns a method for the manufacture of molded components, comprising loading pellets of an expanded to polymer material into a mold, and connecting the pellets by providing heat energy, wherein the expanded polymer material of the pellets or beads comprises a chain extender. The molded components may be used in broad ranges of application.

A polyamide powder for selective absorbing sintering, SAS, or selective inhibition sintering, SIS. The polyamide powder has a solution viscosity to ISO 307 of 1.8 to 2 and a rise in the solution viscosity of 0% to 25% when it is subjected to a temperature 20° C. below its melting temperature under air for 20 hours.

A mixture contains at least one amino-regulated polyether block amide (PEBA) and at least one poly(meth)acrylate selected from poly(meth)acrylimides, polyalkyl(meth)acrylates, and mixtures thereof. The mass ratio of PEBA to poly(meth)acrylate is 95:5 to 60:40. The polyalkyl(meth)acrylate contains 80% by weight to 99% by weight of methyl methacrylate (MMA) units and 1% by weight to 20% by weight of C1-C10-alkyl acrylate units, based on the total weight of polyalkyl(meth)acrylate. The mixture can be processed to give foamed mouldings. The mouldings can be used in footwear soles, stud material, insulation or insulating material, damping components, lightweight components, or in a sandwich structure.

Described herein is a polyamide composition (P) including specific flat glass fibres (B) with elongated shape having a non-circular cross-sectional area. The polyamide composition (P) is advantageously used for the production of molded parts. Also described herein is a method of using molded parts obtainable by molding of the polyamide composition (P) to produce mechanical parts. The molded parts are characterized by having improved fatigue resistance properties. Also described herein is a polyamide composition (P) including PA 6.6 as polyamide (A) and flat glass fibres (B).

A method for forming a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composite by distributing carbon fibers or nanotubes into a molten polymer phase comprising one or more molten polymers; and applying a succession of shear strain events to the molten polymer phase so that the molten polymer phase breaks the carbon fibers successively with each event, producing reactive edges on the broken carbon fibers that react with and cross-link the one or more polymers. The composite shows improvements in mechanical properties, such as stiffness, strength and impact energy absorption.

A resin impregnating device (1) is used in a method for producing a reinforcing bar and has a chamber for holding a liquid thermoplastic resin. A plurality of guide plates (4A-4C) is arranged in the chamber along a traveling direction of a plurality of strands of reinforcing fiber material (Fb). Through holes (41) in two of the guide plates (4A, 4C) guide or spread the strands of the reinforcing fiber material Fb away from each other, and a single through hole (42) in an intermediate one of the guide plates (4B) guides or converges all the strands of the reinforcing fiber material (Fb) towards each other.

The present invention relates to a polyamide (PA) comprising recurring units X, Y, and Z and is represented by the following formula (1): wherein—n.sub.x, n.sub.y and n.sub.z are respectively the mole percent (mol. %) of each recurring units X, Y and Z; —10 mol %≤n.sub.x≤90 mol %; —0 mol %≤n.sub.y≤90 mol %; —0 mol %≤n.sub.z≤90 mol %; —n.sub.x+n.sub.y+n.sub.z≤100 mol. %; and —at least one of n.sub.y and n.sub.z is greater than 0 mol. %, and wherein—R.sub.1 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen, an alkyl, or an aryl—R′i, at each location, is independently selected from the group consisting of an alkyl, an aryl, an alkali or alkaline earth metal sulfonate, an alkyl sulfonate, and a quaternary ammonium; —i is an integer from 0 to 10; —R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of a bond, a C.sub.1-C.sub.15 alkyl and a C.sub.6-C.sub.30 aryl, optionally comprising one or more heteroatoms (e.g. O, N or S) and optionally substituted with one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen, hydroxy (—OH), sulfo (—SO.sub.3M), C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkoxy, C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkylthio, C.sub.1-C.sub.6 acyl, formyl, cyano, C.sub.6-C.sub.15 aryloxy and C.sub.6-C.sub.15 aryl; —R.sub.3 is selected from the group consisting of a C.sub.1-C.sub.20 alkyl, a phenyl, an indanyl, and a napthyl, optionally comprising one or more heteroatoms (e.g. O, N or S) and optionally substituted with one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen, hydroxy (—OH), sulfo (—SO.sub.3M), C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkoxy, C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkylthio, C.sub.1-C.sub.6 acyl, formyl, cyano, C.sub.6-C.sub.15 aryloxy and C.sub.6-C.sub.15 aryl; and —R.sub.4 is selected from the group consisting of a linear or branched C.sub.6-C.sub.14 alkyl, optionally comprising one or more heteroatoms (e.g. O, N or S) and optionally substituted with one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of a halogen, hydroxy (—OH), sulfo (—SO.sub.3M), C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkoxy, C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkylthio, C.sub.1-C.sub.6 acyl, formyl, cyano, and C.sub.6-C.sub.15 aryloxy and C.sub.6-C.sub.15 aryl; and —M in each of R.sub.2 to R.sub.4 is independently selected from the group consisting of H, Na, K, Li, Ag, Zn, Mg and Ca; with the provisios that —if recurring unit Y is formed from the condensation of p-xylylene diamine and a C12 dicarboxylic acid then: —30 mol %≤n.sub.x≤90 mol %; —0 mol %≤n.sub.y≤70 mol %; and —0 mol %≤n.sub.z≤70 mol %; —n.sub.x+n.sub.y+n.sub.z≤100 mol. %; and —If recurring unit Y is formed from the condensation of terephthalic acid with a diamine, R.sub.2 is selected from the group cons

A polyamide resin composition including a semi-aromatic polyamide (A) having a melting point of 290 to 330° C. and a fibrous reinforcing material (B), wherein the polyamide resin composition has an amount of creep strain of 2.0% or less in the flow direction after a lapse of 100 hours under the measurement conditions of a temperature of 100° C. and a tensile load of 75 MPa.

A fiber-reinforced resin composition includes a polyamide resin and a polyolefin resin, and when one resin between the polyamide resin and the polyolefin resin is set as a first resin, and the other resin is set as a second resin, the composition has a sea-island structure including a continuous phase C consisting of the first resin and a dispersed phase c consisting of the second resin dispersed in the continuous phase C, and in a resin phase separation cross-sectional structure, a total of cross-sectional areas of dispersed phases having a cross-sectional area equal to or smaller than an average cross-sectional area of the reinforcing fiber is 20% or less with respect to a total of cross-sectional areas of all dispersed phases.

The present disclosure is directed to methods of forming polyamic acid and polyimide gels in water. The resulting polyamic acid and polyimide gels may be converted to aerogels, which may further be converted to carbon aerogels. Such carbon aerogels have the same physical properties as carbon aerogels prepared from polyimide aerogels obtained according to conventional methods, i.e., organic solvent-based. The disclosed methods are advantageous in reducing or avoiding costs associated with use and disposal of potentially toxic solvents and byproducts. Gel materials prepared according to the disclosed methods are suitable for use in environments involving electrochemical reactions, for example as an electrode material within a lithium-ion battery.