A fiber reinforced polyester polymer composition is disclosed that contains at least one tribological modifier. The tribological modifier may comprise an ultra-high molecular weight silicone alone or in combination with polyytetrafluoroethylene particles. The composition not only has excellent tensile properties but also can produce a low friction surface.

Disclosed is a preparation method for a polysiloxane powder filler. The method comprises: providing polysiloxane which contains at least 60 wt % of T unit, wherein T unit is equal to R.sub.1SiO.sub.3-, R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or an independently selected organic group comprising 1-18 carbon atoms; and performing heat treatment on the polysiloxane under inert gas atmosphere or vacuum conditions, wherein the heat treatment temperature is 250 to 750 degrees, such that silicon hydroxyl groups in the polysiloxane are condensed to obtain a polysiloxane powder filler having a true density greater than or equal to 1.33 g/cm.sup.3 and more preferably greater than or equal to 1.34 g/cm.sup.3. The polysiloxane powder filler obtained by the described preparation method has low inductivity, low inductivity loss and low radioactivity; and can be used for semiconductor packaging materials, circuit boards and intermediate semi-finished products thereof, and semi-cured sheets or copper clad laminates of high-frequency high-speed circuit boards.

Disclosed herein is a silicone gel having a surface treated with an additive. The additive comprises a synthetic, micronized hydrocarbon wax selected from a polyethylene, a polytetrafluoroethylene, a polypropylene, an amide wax, and any combination thereof. Alternatively, the additive comprises a micronized metallic stearate. The additive has a melting point of at least 90° C., or from about 90° C. to about 160° C.

An organopolysiloxane cured film which can be made thin, has an extremely low number of defects on a surface and inside of the film, and exhibits high dielectric breakdown strength with regard to a load voltage is provided. Also provided are applications thereof and a method of manufacturing. The organopolysiloxane cured film has an average thickness within a range of 1 to 200 μm. In general, the number of surface defects is 0 to 1, and the number of internal defects is 0 to 20, when measuring the number of surface defects using optical means in an arbitrary position on the organopolysiloxane cured film with a unit area of 15 mm×15 mm. The organopolysiloxane cured film may be obtained by a rolling step in a clean room or the like, or may be obtained by curing between separators provided with a release layer.

Described herein is a method for producing photochromic contact lenses, in particular, photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lenses. The method comprises a step of cast molding of a lens-forming composition including an iniferter to form an unprocessed contact lens having iniferter moieties covalently incorporated into its polymer matrix and a step of iniferter-induced graft-polymerization of a photochromic vinylic monomer to the polymer matrix only in its central region which is circular and concentric with the central axis of the unprocessed contact lens. The obtained photochromic contact lens has a central pupillary region that only can undergo a reversible color change upon exposure to UV/HEVL-radiation.

The present invention encompasses materials and methods for catalyzing the cross-linking and curing of siloxane polymers. In particular, the present disclosure provides materials, methods, and conditions for vapor phase catalysis for curing organosiloxane polymers and resins, including resin linear organosiloxane block copolymers, as well as the incorporation of those methods into processes for making light emitting devices, including light emitting diodes.

A method of making a stretchable film structure is provided. An elastic substrate is pre-stretched in a first direction and a second direction to obtain a pre-stretched elastic substrate. A carbon nanotube film structure is laid on a surface of the pre-stretched elastic substrate. The carbon nanotube film structure comprises a plurality of super-aligned carbon nanotube films stacked with each other. The pre-stretching the elastic substrate is removed and a plurality of wrinkles is formed on a surface of the carbon nanotube film structure to form the stretchable film structure. The present disclosure also relates to the stretchable film structure obtained by the above method.

A method for modifying optical properties of a synthetic resin increases a transmittance by modifying, removing, or reducing factors which absorb wavelengths in an ultraviolet range, such that it is possible to maintain stable and excellent reliability even after a long-term use. In a method for modifying optical properties of a synthetic resin, a modification treatment which is an energy irradiation treatment is performed on a cured product made of a synthetic resin to increase a transmittance in an ultraviolet range. For example, the modification treatment which is at least one of a photo-oxidation treatment and a thermal oxidation treatment is performed on the cured product made of the synthetic resin to increase the transmittance.

A non-linear surfactant, and particularly a non-linear surfactant comprising bi-functionalized molecules or particles having both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups. The non-linear surfactant includes a nanoparticle template of a rigid molecular structure, wherein the nanoparticle comprises a molecule or a particle that is bi-functionalized with both hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups to obtain an amphiphilic nanoparticle. The template nanoparticle can be used as a surfactant, wetting agent, emulsifier, detergent or other surface active agents or for the preparation of nanoemulsions or dispersions. The non-linear surfactant can provide smaller particle sizes for emulsion suspensions and foams.

An aerogel and drying method, the aerogel having a larger size, good productivity, and high transparency. The aerogel has a silsesquioxane structure and exhibits two exothermic peaks observed in a temperature range of 300 to 600° C. as measured by TG-DTA (thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis) under an inert gas atmosphere containing 80% by volume of an inert gas and 20% by volume of oxygen. A method for producing aerogel includes a drying step including a first step in which an aerogel which has undergone condensation of a hydrolysate is placed in a liquid phase system having a first liquid phase and a second liquid phase; a second step in which a first solvent constituting the first liquid phase is evaporated from the first liquid phase at a temperature greater than room temperature; and a third step in which heating is still continued after the first liquid phase is evaporated off.