A manufacturing method for a coating liquid, including: a preparing step of preparing aerogel particles, a water-soluble polymer having a hydrophobic group, and a liquid medium; and a mixing step of mixing the aerogel particles, the water-soluble polymer, and the liquid medium prepared in the preparing step and aggregating the aerogel particles to obtain a coating liquid containing aggregates of the aerogel particles, the water-soluble polymer, and the liquid medium.

A polymer substrate having deposited on its surface a reaction product of a precursor material obtained or obtainable by a method for preparation of polymer, and to the use of the polymer having improved antibacterial properties and/or antiviral properties or of the polymer having improved antibacterial properties and/or antiviral properties obtained or obtainable by the method for medical applications, antibiofouling applications, hygiene applications, food industry applications, industrial or computer related applications, consumer goods applications and appliances, public and public transport applications, underwater, water sanitation or seawater applications.

A method for modifying the properties of balsa wood comprises infiltrating a protein ionic liquid comprising polymerized dopamine into delignified balsa wood. A method of making an optically active protective coating comprises mixing protein ionic liquid comprising polymerized dopamine with ethyl acetate-based or water-based nail polish. A method of making a thermoplastic having biological activity comprises melting a thermoplastic; and blending a protein ionic liquid with the thermoplastic; and cooling the thermoplastic protein ionic liquid blend to a solid state. The thermoplastic is a hot glue stick. The protein ionic liquid comprises antibodies, enzymes, or fluorescent proteins. A method of making a chymotrypsin protein ionic liquid/thermoplastic material comprises mixing cationized chymotrypsin and anions of poly(ethylene glycol) 4-nonylphenyl 3-sulfopropyl ether to form a chymotrypsin and anion complex; lyophilizing and melting the cationized chymotrypsin and anion complex to form a water-free ionic liquid; blending the chymotrypsin ionic liquid with molten hot glue/thermoplastic.

Provided is a hot-melt curable silicone composition that forms a cured product that can be cured at a temperature of 100° C. or lower, has excellent storage stability, is relatively hard from curing, and has low surface tack, and a sheet or film formed from the same. The curable silicone composition comprises: (A) a solid organopolysiloxane resin that contains at a mass ratio of 0:100 to 90:10 (Al) an organopolysiloxane resin having a curing reactive functional group and containing 20 mol % or more of a Q unit (i.e., a SiO.sub.4/2 unit), and (A2) an organopolysiloxane resin not having a curing reactive functional group and containing 20 mol % or more of a Q unit; (B) 10 to 100 parts by mass of a straight-chain or branched branched chain organopolysiloxane having a curing reactive functional group and is liquid or has plasticity; (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane; and (D) a photoactivated hydrosilylation reaction catalyst.

A quantum dot film, a method of preparing the same, and a display device are disclosed. The quantum dot film includes a quantum dot layer and a plurality of protection layers. The quantum dot layer includes a plurality of red quantum dots, green quantum dots and scattering particles, which are uniformly dispersed in a high molecular polymer substrate. Material of the plurality of scattering particles is high refractive index material with a particle size ranging from 200 nm to 1 μm. By the plurality of scattering particles with a high refractive index disposed in the quantum dot layer, the self-absorption phenomenon between a plurality of quantum dots is reduced, and a light extraction rate is improved.

A curable hot-melt silicone composition that is less susceptible to curing inhibition and with excellent storage stability, and a sheet or film containing the same, is provided. The composition comprises: (A) a solid organopolysiloxane resin containing a specific ratio of (A1) an organopolysiloxane resin having a curing reactive functional group that contains a carbon-carbon double bond and containing 20 mol % or more of a Q unit, and (A2) an organopolysiloxane resin not having a curing reactive functional group that contains a carbon-carbon double bond and containing 20 mol % or more of a Q unit; (B) a chain organopolysiloxane having a curing reactive functional group that contains at least two carbon-carbon double bonds; (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane resin having a mass loss ratio relative to pre-exposure of 10% or less after exposure to 100° C. for 1 hour under atmospheric pressure; and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst. The composition generally has hot-melt properties.

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. In the composite material, a ratio of a smallest heat conductivity of heat conductivities λ.sub.x, λ.sub.y, and λ.sub.z respectively in x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis directions perpendicular to each other to a largest heat conductivity of the heat conductivities λ.sub.x, λ.sub.y, and λ.sub.z is 0.8 or more.

This invention provides a method for creating a large-scale of amphiphilic particles. The method includes: adding nanoparticles into a polycarbonate-based solution, adding a surfactant into the solution while performing ultra-sonication to generate polymer precipitation, creating at least one microsphere with the nanoparticles embedded onto it, subjecting the exposed hemisphere of the embedded nanoparticles to a further amphiphilic particles related modification, and dissolving the at least one microsphere in a polycarbonate-based solution in order to free said embedded nanoparticles from the at least one microsphere.

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. In the composite material, a value P.sub.1 determined by the following equation (1) is 6 or more. In the equation (1), a 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 D5470-01. P.sub.1=(the heat conductivity [W/(m.Math.K)] of the composite material/an amount[volume %] of the inorganic particles)×100 Equation (1).

A method for preparing a curable silicone pressure sensitive adhesive emulsion includes preparing a dispersion of benzoyl peroxide and a phenoxy-functional alcohol and thereafter combining the dispersion with the other starting materials of the emulsion.