There is provided a method of manufacturing an openly and highly porous thermoset foam, the method comprising the steps of mixing a thermosetting resin and crystals to form a mixture; applying pressure to the mixture to expel excess thermosetting resin, thereby producing a network of crystals touching each other with the thermosetting resin filling the interstices between the crystals of said network; curing the thermosetting resin in the mixture under pressure to produce a cured material; and contacting the cured material with a solvent for the crystals, thereby leaching the crystals out of the cured material, thereby obtaining said openly and highly porous thermoset foam. There is also provided a thermoset foam made of a thermoset and having a porosity of at least about 70%, wherein more than about 75% of the pores in the foam are connected to a neighboring pore.

The present disclosure provides a window protective film and a display device. The display device includes the window protective film. The window protective film includes a base layer, a soft coating layer disposed on the base layer, and an anti-fingerprint coating layer disposed on the soft coating layer. The soft coating layer includes a conductive polymer layer disposed on and in contact with a first surface of the base layer, a silica coating layer disposed on at least one side of the conductive polymer layer and that includes a plurality of silica nano particles, and a cover layer disposed on at least one side of the silica coating layer.

A thermally conductive resin composition capable of maintaining high thermal conductivity and a thermally conductive sheet using the same, a thermally conductive resin composition contains an addition reaction type silicone resin, a thermally conductive filler, an alkoxysilane compound, and a carbodiimide compound in which a subcomponent is in an inactive state with respect to an alkoxysilane compound, and contains 55 to 85% by volume of the thermally conductive filler. A thermally conductive resin composition contains an addition reaction type silicone resin, an alkoxysilane compound, a thermally conductive filler, and a carbodiimide compound in which a subcomponent is in an inactive state with respect to the alkoxysilane compound, and exhibits thermal conductivity of 5 W/m*K or more after curing.

Disclosed herein are compositions to use in biofouling-resistant coatings, biofouling-resistant coatings, methods of making biofouling-resistant coatings, biofouling-resistant devices, and methods of making biofouling-resistant devices.

An object is to provide a heat conductive sheet having good handleability when mounting between the heating element and the heat dissipator, and softness that enables the distortion of the heating element, the heat dissipator, and the like to be suppressed in use. The heat conductive sheet contains: a matrix comprising a cured product of organopolysiloxane; and heat conductive fillers comprising anisotropic fillers with their major axes oriented in the thickness direction, and has a load property P represented b formula (1) below of 0.1 to 0.7: Load property P=(F.sub.30−F.sub.20)/F.sub.10 (1) wherein F.sub.10 is a load of the heat conductive sheet at 10% compression, F.sub.20 is a load of the heat conductive sheet at 20% compression, and F.sub.30 is a load of the heat conductive sheet at 30% compression.

The present disclosure provides a composite material. The composite material comprises nanoparticles and a flexible substrate, the nanoparticles comprise one or more of carbon nanotubes, graphene, gold nanoparticles, and polydopamine nanoparticles, the flexible substrate comprises one or more of thermosetting plastics such as polydimethylsiloxane and a hydrogel, and the mass percentage of the nanoparticles in the composite material is 0 to 60‰. The composite material of the present disclosure is easy to prepare, has extremely strong photothermal conversion performance, and does not change the smooth surface of an original topological structure. Meanwhile, the composite material has universality and versatility for different cells, the delivery efficiency is close to 100%, and modified cells may be efficiently and non-destructively released and harvested by means of traditional trysinization, and the harvesting efficiency is 90% or more.

Perovskite-polymer composites including perovskite nanocrystals dispersed in a polymer matrix, wherein the perovskite nanocrystals have an average size of from about nm to about 20 nm. Methods for producing a perovskite-polymer composites that may include contacting a solid material comprising a polymer matrix with a solution comprising a perovskite precursor; allowing the solution to penetrate the solid material to yield a swollen solid material comprising the perovskite precursor dispersed within the polymer matrix; optionally contacting the swollen solid material with an antisolvent; and annealing the swollen solid material to crystallize the perovskite precursor and to yield the perovskite-polymer composite comprising perovskite nanocrystals dispersed in the polymer matrix.

Forming a two-dimensional polymeric sheet includes translating a portion of a flexible substrate through a first liquid precursor to coat the portion of the flexible substrate with the first liquid precursor, thereby yielding a precursor-coated portion of the flexible substrate. The precursor-coated portion of the flexible substrate is translated through an interface between the first liquid precursor and a second liquid precursor, thereby reacting the first liquid precursor on the precursor-coated portion of the flexible substrate with the second liquid precursor to yield a polymer-coated portion of the flexible substrate.

A polymer composition for coating expanded polystyrene (EPS) is provided, the polymer composition includes a mixture of at least one of polyurea, polyurethane, silicon elastomer, and combination thereof in a predefined ratio. The polymer composition imparts desired properties such as high impact and abrasion resistance, elongation strength, and anti-static property along with flexural strength to the EPS. The present invention also provides the process for coating the polymer composition onto the EPS. The matrix coating process provides much stronger bonding due to overlap of coating of the polymer composition on the sides of the EPS and reduces the wastage of the polymer composition during the coating of the EPS. The present invention also provides the EPS coated with the polymer composition. The EPS coated with the polymer composition possesses the properties such as high impact resistance, abrasion resistance, elongation strength, flexural strength, and anti-static property.

Provided is a flame retardant and heat insulating sheet having high flame retardancy and a high heat insulating property. Also provided is a flame retardant heat insulator including such flame retardant and heat insulating sheet. A flame retardant and heat insulating sheet according to one embodiment includes: a flame retardant and heat insulating layer formed from a resin composition (A); and a heat insulating layer, wherein the resin composition (A) contains: a binder resin; a low-melting point inorganic substance; a high-melting point inorganic substance; and voids. A flame retardant and heat insulating sheet according to one embodiment includes: a flame retardant and heat insulating layer formed from a resin composition (B); and a heat insulating layer, wherein the resin composition (B) contains: a binder resin that produces a high-melting point inorganic substance when heated; a low-melting point inorganic substance; and voids and/or a void-forming agent.