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 water dispersible sulfopolymer for use as a material in the layer-wise additive manufacture of a 3D part made of a non water dispersible polymer wherein the water dispersible polymer is a reaction product of a metal sulfo monomer, the water dispersible sulfo-polymer being dispersible in water resulting in separation of the water dispersible polymer from the 3D part made of the non water dispersible polymer.

A method of manufacturing an injection molded part includes formulating recycled polyamide material from a waste polyamide powder with at least one crystallization agent and at least one lubricant agent, forming recycled polyamide pellets from the recycled polyamide material, and injection molding a part from the recycled polyamide pellets. The crystallization agent is a metal salt of an organic acid with a content in the recycled polyamide material, in weight percent, between 0.1% and 1.0%, and the lubricant agent is a metal stearate with a content between 100 ppm to 5000 ppm. The waste polyamide powder is waste polyamide powder from a selective laser sintering process, for example waste polyamide 12 powder. Also, the waste polyamide 12 powder is not graded before forming the recycled polyamide material.

The disclosure discloses a preparation method and product of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites with a designable characteristic structure. The method includes: (a) choosing carbon fabrics as raw material, where a predetermined number of the fabrics are selected to deposit the reinforcement phase; (b) coating all carbon fabrics with resin matrix, placing the fabrics layer by layer, where the carbon fabrics with the reinforcement phases are placed in a predetermined layer, meanwhile a micro power supply is placed in a setting layer during the stacking process, then a prefabricated product is obtained; (c) placing the prefabricated product in a vacuum bag then evacuating and sealing, hot pressing the sealed prefabricated product, finally the carbon fiber reinforced polymer composite product in the vacuum bag after hot pressing is successfully manufactured.

A fiber-reinforced polyamide resin base material comprises continuous reinforcing fibers, or comprises a reinforcing fiber base material in which discontinuous reinforcing fibers are dispersed, impregnated with a polyamide resin. In the polyamide resin, at least part of the polymer constituting the polyamide resin is an end-modified polyamide resin having, at an end group of the polymer, a structure constituted by a structural unit different from a repeating structural unit constituting the backbone of the polymer. A fiber-reinforced polyamide resin base material having an excellent impregnation property and thermal stability, less void, and excellent surface quality is provided.

The invention relates to a non-cross-linked copolymer foam with polyamide blocks and polyether blocks, wherein: the polyamide blocks of the copolymer have an average molar mass of from 200 to 1,500 g/mol; the polyether blocks of the copolymer have an average molar mass of from 800 to 2,500 g/mol; and the weight ratio of the polyamide blocks to the polyether blocks of the copolymer is from 0.1 to 0.9. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing said foam and items manufactured from said foam.

A method of forming a composite material includes mixing granules of thermoplastic(s) and granules of reinforcing material(s) using a mixer with an interior friction coating. The friction generated by interaction between the granules and friction coating causes granules of at least one of the thermoplastic(s) to be heated to a liquid or semi-liquid state. The liquid/semi-liquid thermoplastic(s) act a binder for the mixed material. A system for forming such a composite material includes such a mixer with an interior friction coating. The system may also include a mould and/or a press for forming material produced by the mixer into a finished shape. The method and system may use post-consumer and post-industrial material as an input allowing such material to be recycled. In some cases, cross-contaminated or mixed post-consumer/post-industrial material may be recycled, potentially reducing environmental impacts.

Polyamide pre-expanded particles of this disclosure have a peak temperature of a maximum endothermic peak of 150-275° C. on a DSC curve obtained while being heated from 30° C. to 280° C. at a heating rate of 10° C./min using a DSC. The width of the peak is 30-80° C. when a straight line approximating the DSC curve on a high-temperature side relative to the peak after an end of melting is used as a baseline. The width corresponds to a difference between an extrapolated melting start temperature which is a temperature at an intersection point between a tangent line at an inflection point of the peak on a low-temperature side and the baseline, and an extrapolated melting end temperature which is a temperature at an intersection point between a tangent line at an inflection point of the peak on a high-temperature side and the baseline.

Provided are materials that include one or more cycloaliphatic polyamides integrated into or coated onto one or more structural fibers such as polyethylene fibers, aramid-fibers, glass fibers or carbon fibers. The resulting materials may be incorporated into composite articles suitable for use as protective equipment or structural layers.

A resin powder for solid freeform fabrication includes a particle having a pillar-like form, wherein the ratio of the height of the particle to the diameter or the long side of the bottom of the particle is 0.5 to 2.0, the particle has a 50 percent cumulative volume particle diameter of from 5 to 200 μm, and the ratio (Mv/Mn) of the volume average particle diameter (Mv) to the number average particle diameter (Mn) of the particle is 2.00 or less.