Pre-impregnated composite material (prepreg) that can be cured/molded to form aerospace composite parts. The prepreg includes carbon reinforcing fibers and an uncured resin matrix. The resin matrix includes an epoxy resin component, polyethersulfone as a toughening agent, a thermoplastic particle component, a nanoparticle component and a curing agent.

A powder coating composition grindable at non-cryogenic temperatures includes: (a) a first polymer having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of more than 1,000 and a Tg of at least 40 C.; (b) a second polymer having a Tm of at least 100 C.; and optionally (c) a cross-linker. The first polymer and the second polymer are different from one another, and each of the first and second polymers have less than 25 wt % fluorine-containing monomeric units, with wt % based on the total weight of the monomeric units in each polymer. Upon grinding at a temperature above 4 C. the coating composition has an average particle size from 15 to 150 microns. Further coating compositions, methods of preparing coating compositions, coating systems, and substrates coated with a powder coating composition are also disclosed.

A prepreg including: a component (A); a component (B); and a component (C), in which the component (A) is a reinforced fiber substrate, the component (B) is an epoxy resin composition, the component (C) is a component (c1) or a component (c2), the component (c1) includes polyamide particles and thermosetting polyimide particles, and the component (c2) includes spherical polyamide particles having a melting point of 140 C. to 175 C.

A fiber-reinforced resin composite material includes first and second members. The first member includes a first fiber and a first matrix resin. The first fiber includes a reinforcing fiber and is impregnated with the first matrix resin. The reinforcing fiber has a melting point and a tensile strength higher than those of an aliphatic polyamide fiber. The second member includes a stack and a second matrix resin. The stack includes a second fiber and a third fiber filled with the second matrix resin. The second fiber includes the reinforcing fiber. The second matrix resin includes a component common to that of the first matrix resin, and includes a first polyamide resin that includes an aliphatic polyamide resin. The third fiber includes a second polyamide resin that includes an aliphatic polyamide resin and has a melting point higher than that of the first polyamide resin by 7 to 50 degrees centigrade.

Disclosed herein are a polyamide composition and a molded article made of the same with improved mechanical strength and reduced weight. The molded article may include the polyamide composition that includes high flowable polyamide and polyphthalamide and a small-diameter fiber, thereby resulting in an improvement in mechanical strength while achieving excellent surface properties and high weight reduction.

Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition exhibiting excellent heat resistance and superior impregnability into a reinforcing-fiber substrate, and being used in fiber-reinforced-plastic molding materials. The thermoplastic resin composition, which is used as a matrix resin of a fiber-reinforced-plastic molding material, contains a phenoxy resin (A) and a polyamide resin (B). The mass ratio (A)/(B) of the phenoxy resin (A) and the polyamide resin (B) is 10/90 to 90/10. The melt viscosity of the resin composition in any temperature range from 160 C. to 280 C. is from 300 Pa.Math.s to 3,000 Pa.Math.s. A fiber-reinforced-plastic molding material has a reinforcing-fiber substrate, the surface of which is at least partially coated with the above thermoplastic resin composition and an interfacial shear strength of 30 MPa or higher at an interface with reinforcing fibers, as measured by a micro-droplet method.

A method for producing molded foam articles that molds molded foam articles continuously, the method comprising continuously repeating the following step 1, step 2, step 3 and step 4 in this order; wherein step 1 comprises melting a resin composition that includes a liquid crystal polyester; step 2 comprises introducing, with an introduction device, a supercritical fluid that is unreactive, in a supercritical state, with the liquid crystal polyester, and is a gas at normal temperature and normal pressure, into the resin composition in an amount of at least 0.1 parts by mass but not more than 0.3 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the liquid crystal polyester, and then melt-kneading the resultant mixture; step 3 comprises injecting the melt-kneaded resin composition containing the supercritical fluid into a mold; and step 4 comprises conducting foaming by lowering at least one of the pressure and the temperature of the supercritical fluid contained in the resin composition to a value below the critical point of the supercritical fluid, thereby producing a molded foam article. This liquid crystal polyester has a melt tension at a temperature 20 C. higher than the flow start temperature of at least 5 mN but not more than 100 mN.

Disclosed is a polyamide moulding compound formed from a mixture of partially crystalline, aliphatic polyamides and partially crystalline, partially aromatic polyamides and also fibrous reinforcing materials. The partially crystalline, partially aromatic polyamides are thereby formed from a diamine component, a dicarboxylic acid component and possibly a lactam- and/or -amino acid component. The mixture and/or the moulding compound can include further components. Moulded articles produced from these moulding compounds are used, for example, in the automobile sphere, in the household sphere, in measuring, regulating and control technology or in mechanical engineering.

The present invention refers to a composite material that comprises carbon fiber or sheet made from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) or lignin being indicated for the manufacture of several articles such as high resistance pressure cylinder. Said material presents several advantages such as, for example, to provide improved screening to the articles that comprise it.

The referred composite comprises: a first inner layer of polytetrafluorethylene, covered by a second layer of high-density polyethylene, adhered to a third layer of composite containing carbon fiber or sheet made from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) or lignin immersed in cured epoxy resin from a polymeric matrix and a hardener; and a fourth outer layer of composite, comprising aramid fiber impregnated with a dilating fluid and cured epoxy resin from a polymeric matrix and a hardener.

The present disclosure relates to a polyamide molding composition including a semi-aromatic, semi-crystalline copolyamide and flat glass fibers that shows a low tendency to absorb moisture and thus maintains its excellent mechanical and optical properties also during storage and/or use.