A composite material according to the present invention includes a solid portion including inorganic particles and a resin. The composite material has a porous structure including a plurality of voids facing a wall surface of the solid portion. At least a portion of the inorganic particles is present on a wall surface. The plurality of voids are in contact with each other directly or via the inorganic particle. A heat transmission path stretching through the plurality of voids is formed of the inorganic particles in contact with each other.

A process for modifying an expandable curing bladder for a tire, which bladder has a surface intended to come into contact with a tire casing is provided. The process comprises a step of applying to the surface a layer of a silicone rubber composition comprising a first liquid organopolysiloxane bearing chain-end alkenyl groups, a second liquid organohydropolysiloxane and a photoactivatable hydrosilylation catalyst, and a step of exposing the silicone rubber composition covering the surface to irradiation with ultraviolet-visible light.

A composite article can comprise a composite body including an organic polymer and ceramic particles comprising hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) particles distributed throughout the organic polymer, wherein an amount of the hBN particles ranges from 40 vol % to 90 vol % based on a total volume of the body; and the body comprises an in plane thermal conductivity of at least 15 W/mK. The hBN particles within the composite body can have a March-Dollase Orientation parameter η of at least 50%.

Disclosed are a protective coating composition for an electronic board and a method for preparing the same. The protective coating composition includes urethane-modified alkyd resins that can prevent poor grounding caused by low molecular weight siloxanes generated in a conventional silicone-type coating compositions and preventing performance degradation caused by tin whisker growth while lowering emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

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.

The invention relates to a method for producing embedded hydrogel contact lenses involving a set of 3-mold halves consisting essentially of: one female lens mold half having a molding surface defining the anterior surface of a contact lens; one male lens mold half having a molding surface defining the posterior surface of the contact lens; and an insert mold half having a molding surface defining one of the front and back surfaces of an insert. One of the lens mold halves is used twice: first with the insert mold half for molding an insert during first curing process and then with the other lens mold half for molding an embedded hydrogel contact lens with the molded insert embedded partially or fully therein during second curing process. The invention also relates to embedded hydrogel contact lenses produced from a method of the invention.

The invention is related to a cost-effective method for making a silicone hydrogel contact lens having a crosslinked hydrophilic coating thereon. A method of the invention involves heating a silicone hydrogel contact lens in an aqueous solution in the presence of a watersoluble, highly branched, thermally-crosslinkable hydrophilic polymeric material having positively-charged azetidinium groups, to and at a temperature from about 40° C. to about 140° C. for a period of time sufficient to covalently attach the thermally-crosslinkable hydrophilic polymeric material onto the surface of the silicone hydrogel contact lens through covalent linkages each formed between one azetidinium group and one of the reactive functional groups on and/or near the surface of the silicone hydrogel contact lens, thereby forming a crosslinked hydrophilic coating on the silicone hydrogel contact lens. Such method can be advantageously implemented directly in a sealed lens package during autoclave.

A composite material according to the present invention includes a solid portion including inorganic particles and a resin. The composite material has a porous structure including a plurality of voids surrounded by the solid portion. The composite material compressed by 10% has a reaction force of 0.1 kPa to 1000 kPa, and the composite material has a heat conductivity of 0.5 W/(m.Math.K) or more. The heat conductivity is a value measured for one test specimen in a symmetric configuration according to an American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard (ASTM) D5470-01.

The present disclosure is generally directed to solvent mixtures for swelling and bonding polymeric substances for use in facilitating the connection of polymeric substances to other parts. A swelling solvent solution according to the present disclosure may comprise between 5% and 95% by volume n-Octane and between 5% and 95% by volume of either a heptane isomer (such as n-Heptane) or a nonane isomer (such as n-Nonane). The swelling solvent solution may be used to swell polymeric parts to enable the parts to be attached to other parts. A bonding solvent solution according to the present disclosure may comprise between 2% and 98% by volume of at least one of: acetone, MEK, heptane, octane, nonane, isohexane, and THF, and between 2% and 98% by volume cyclohexanone. The bonding solvent solution may be used to bond polymeric parts to other parts.

Described is a silicone hydrogel contact lens having non-uniform morphology. The contact lens may be made from a reactive mixture comprising: a silicone-containing component; a hydrophilic component; a non-reactive polymeric internal wetting agent; and a polymerization initiator, the contact lens having an oxygen permeability of at least about 60 barrers, and wherein the molar ratio in the lens of the polymeric non-reactive internal wetting agent to silicone, without a surface treatment, is greater in the lens's surface than in its bulk.