The present invention relates to polymer compositions (C) for the preparation of porous article, notably microporous membranes or hollow fibers. More particularly, the present invention relates to a process of preparing a porous article from at least one polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) polymer with an additive and at least one reinforcing filler followed by a step of shaping the article and contacting the article with water to dissolve the additive and create an interconnected pore network within the shaped article.

Various embodiments disclosed related to sealant tape. The sealant tape can include a cured product of a sealant composition including a curable liquid that includes a polysulfide, a polythioether, a copolymer thereof, or a combination thereof. The sealant composition also includes a curing agent for curing the curable liquid. Various embodiments provide cured products of the sealant composition, sealant tapes including the cured product, and sealant tapes including any suitable material with an adhesive pattern thereon.

The present invention is directed to a battery including a solid ionically conductive polymer electrolyte having a first surface and a second surface; a first electrode disposed on the first surface of the solid ionically conductive polymer electrolyte; a second electrode disposed on the second surface of the solid ionically conductive polymer electrolyte; and at least a first conductive terminal and a second conductive terminal, each terminal being in electrical contact with respectively the first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode. The invention is also directed to a material including a polymer; a dopant; and at least one compound including an ion source; wherein a liberation of a plurality of ions from the ion source provides a conduction mechanism to form an ionically conductive polymer material. The present invention is further directed to methods for making such batteries and materials.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a film for a film capacitor that has high heat resistance, self-healing properties, and excellent productivity, wherein the film has a resin layer A having a melting point of 180° C. or higher and/or a glass transition temperature of 130° C. or higher and a layer B thinner than the resin layer A in at least the outermost layer of the film, the oxygen content of the layer B is 1.0% by mass or more, when a dynamic friction coefficient is measured on the same surface of two outermost layer surfaces, the surface having a higher dynamic friction coefficient is defined as an a-plane and the surface having a smaller dynamic friction coefficient is defined as a b-plane, and when a dynamic friction coefficient between the a-planes is defined as μdaa, and a dynamic friction coefficient between the a-plane and the b-plane is defined as μdab, μdaa>μdab and μdab≤1.2 are satisfied.

A fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin substrate has good mechanical properties. The fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin substrate includes a plurality of continuous reinforcing fibers and a polyphenylene sulfide resin with which the plurality of continuous reinforcing fibers are impregnated, wherein the polyphenylene sulfide resin has a weight average molecular weight of 75,000 or more and 150,000 or less, and the polyphenylene sulfide resin has an ash content of 0.001 wt % or more and 0.30 wt % or less.

An object of the present invention is to provide a prepreg and a laminate for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, which have excellent compressive strength and interlaminar fractural toughness values, and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention provides a prepreg including the following structural components [A] reinforcing fibers, [B] a thermosetting resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin, in which [B] has a rubbery state elastic modulus of 10 MPa or more at a temperature obtained by adding 50° C. to a glass transition temperature in a state in which a degree of cure is 90% or more, [C] is present in a surface of the prepreg, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present, which are included in a resin area including {B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas.

A method of activating a surface of a plastics substrate formed from: (a) polyaryletherketone such as polyether ether ketone (PEEK) polyether ketone ketone (PEKK), polyether ketone (PEK); polyether ether ketone ketone (PEEKK); or polyether ketone ether ketone ketone (PEKEKK); (b) a polymer containing a phenyl group directly attached to a carbonyl group, optionally wherein the carbonyl group is part of an amide group, such as polyarylamide (PARA); (c) polyphenylene sulfide (PPS); or (d) polyetherimide (PEI); for subsequent bonding,
the method comprising the step of exposing the surface to actinic radiation wherein the actinic radiation: includes radiation with wavelength in the range from about 10 nm to about 1000 nm; the energy of the actinic radiation to which the surface is exposed is in the range from about 0.5 J/cm.sup.2 to about 300 J/cm.sup.2. Hard to bond substrates are then more easily subsequently bonded for example using acrylic, epoxy or anaerobic adhesive.

A reinforcing material is disclosed that includes coated glass flakes and coated glass strands. When the total amount of a glycidyl group-including resin and aminosilane contained in the coatings of the coated glass flakes corresponds to 100% by mass, the amount of the resin is 30% to 95% by mass. When the total amount of a glycidyl group-including resin, aminosilane, and a urethane resin contained in the coatings of the coated glass strands corresponds to 100% by mass, the amount of the glycidyl group-including resin is 10% to 90% by mass, the amount of the aminosilane is 0.1% to 40% by mass, and the amount of the urethane resin is 1% to 50% by mass. Both the coated glass flakes and the coated glass strands have an ignition loss of 0.1% to 2.0% by mass measured pursuant to JIS R3420 (2013).

The invention disclosed herein is an automotive acoustic panel including a porous sound-absorption material made from a polymer and an expanded perlite. One or more silane compounds may be coupled or coated onto the expanded perlite while a coupling agent and a chemical foaming agent may additionally be added to the automotive acoustic panel.

The present invention is to provide an antibacterial molded article that can increase options for the material and shape of the molded article, and a method for manufacturing the same. The object is achieved by an antibacterial molded article containing a plastic molded article, the plastic molded article having a rough region having an arithmetic average roughness Ra of a roughness curve in accordance with JIS B 0601 (2013) of 0.14 μm or greater and 0.72 μm or less provided on a surface with which bacteria can come into contact.