An electric machine includes a rotor assembly having a rotor core that extends in an axial direction and a stator assembly surrounding and coaxial with the rotor assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator core having slots extending in a radial direction into an inner surface of the stator core and extending axially from a first end surface to a second end surface of the stator core. The stator assembly includes stator coil windings disposed within the respective slots of the stator core and a first electrically insulating conformal coating disposed between the stator core and the stator coil windings. The conformal coating includes a polymer matrix impregnated with an effective amount of thermally conductive ceramic materials, above a percolation threshold, that form continuous thermal pathways across a thickness of the first coating.

A method of purifying a composition including metal nanostructures. The method includes combining the composition and a water-miscible polymer to form a combination that promotes an agglomeration of the metal nanostructures in the combination over an agglomeration of low-aspect-ratio nanostructures in the combination. The method includes subjecting the combination to a sedimentation process to form a sediment layer including a concentration of the metal nanostructures that is greater than a previous concentration of the metal nanostructures in the combination.

A spherical silica powder with a low dielectric tangent, wherein after formulating the spherical silica powder in a resin and molding it into a sheet, in a dielectric tangent of the spherical silica powder calculated by using he following Formula (I) based on a dielectric tangent (tan δc) of the sheet which is measured under the conditions a frequency is 35-40 GHz with a resonator method, B/A is 0.70 or lower, wherein “A” represents a dielectric tangent (tan δf.sub.A) of the spherical silica powder before a dielectric tangent reduction treatment and “B” represents a dielectric tangent (tan δf.sub.B) of the spherical silica powder after a dielectric tangent reduction treatment; and a specific surface area of said spherical silica powder after a dielectric tangent reduction treatment is 1-30 m.sup.2/g.

The invention relates to a non-crosslinked natural rubber latex composition for an inflatable stopper comprising a homogeneous mixture of: a) natural rubber latex; b) a surfactant; c) an amine based chemical antiozonant; d) possibly ammonia and preferably e) single or double wall electrically conductive nanotubes. The invention furthermore relates to an ozone resistant inflatable stopper comprising non-crosslinked natural rubber latex and fiber reinforcement, the rubber having an ozone resistance according to ISO 1431/1 at 50 pphm concentration ozone at 23±2° C., for the time frame of 48 hours, atmospheric humidity of 55% and strain static exposure of 20% and preferably a surface resistivity lower than 100 GΩ according to DIN EN 60079-32-2 and DVGW G 5621-3 (VP) measured at 1000 V and a maximum relative humidity of 30%.

The present disclosure provides a composition. The composition includes (A) an ethylene-based polymer and (B) from 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a metal hydroxide component, based on the total weight of the composition. The metal hydroxide component includes a metal hydroxide having an aspect ratio greater than, or equal to, 10. The composition has a thermal conductivity greater than 0.52 W m-.sup.1 K-.sup.1 and a density less than, or equal to 1.02 g/cc. The present disclosure also provides a coated conductor including a non-metal conductor and a coating on the conductor, the coating containing the composition.

The present disclosure relates to a filamentary structure manufactured during 3D printing by liquid deposition modelling, the filamentary structure comprising a continuous strand comprising a matrix material and filler particles, wherein the filler particles comprise hexagonal boron nitride particles comprising hexagonal boron nitride platelets. The present disclosure further relates to a 3D printable ink composition for manufacturing said filamentary structure, to a 3D printed component part formed from said filamentary structure, to a 3D printing method for making said 3D printed component part, and to the use of said component part.

Disclosed is an ink composition having excellent storage stability and capable of printing printed material having excellent metal tone. This active energy ray curable ink composition includes at least a scaly metal pigment, a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator. The scaly metal pigment has a 50% volume average diameter of at least 0.05 μm and less than 0.5 μm, an average thickness of at least 5.0 nm and less than 50.0 nm, and a non-reactive solvent content of 0.01%-5.00% by mass.

An aluminum nitride particle including: a plurality of planes randomly arranged in a surface of the particle, the plurality of planes forming an obtuse ridge part or an obtuse valley part in the surface of the particle, the plurality of planes being observable in a scanning electron micrograph with 500 times magnification; wherein the particle has a longer diameter L of 20 to 200 μm; a ratio L/D of the longer diameter L (unit: μm) to a shorter diameter D (unit: μm) of the particle is 1 to 1.25; and the plurality of planes comprise a first plane, wherein an area S (unit: μm.sup.2) of the first plane satisfies S/L≥1.0 μm.

A fluororubber composition comprising 5 to 30 parts by weight of carbon black having an iodine adsorption of 70 mg/g or more, 5 to 20 parts by weight of carbon fiber having an average fiber diameter of 5 to 20 μm and an aspect ratio of 2 to 10, and 3 to 20 parts by weight of PTFE, based on 100 parts by weight of fluororubber. The crosslinked molded article obtained from the fluororubber composition exhibits excellent effects of imparting oil film retention by using carbon fiber with specific properties, and improving abrasion resistance in unlubricated conditions by using the carbon fiber in combination with PTFE as a solid lubricant.

Graphenic carbon nanoparticles that are dispersed in solvents through the use of dispersant resins are disclosed. The graphenic carbon nanoparticles may be milled prior to dispersion. The dispersant resins may comprise a polymeric dispersant resin comprising an addition polymer comprising the residue of a vinyl heterocyclic amide, an addition polymer comprising a homopolymer, a block (co)polymer, a random (co)polymer, an alternating (co)polymer, a graft (co)polymer, a brush (co)polymer, a star (co)polymer, a telechelic (co)polymer, or a combination thereof. The solvents may be aqueous, non-aqueous, inorganic and/or organic solvents. The dispersions are highly stable and may contain relatively high loadings of the graphenic carbon nanoparticles.