Provided is a method of suppressing burrs that occur during injection-molding of a polyarylene sulfide resin composition, including: adding at least 0.01 to 5 parts by mass of a carbon nanostructure to 100 parts by mass of a polyarylene sulfide resin and melt-kneading at least the carbon nanostructure and the polyarylene sulfide resin.

A laminated body (1) includes a base material (10) and an antistatic coating layer (11). The antistatic coating layer (11) is provided on the base material (10) and contains carbon nanotubes and a resin. The specific surface area per unit weight of the carbon nanotubes is 350 m.sup.2/g or more.

The present invention relates to a reinforced thermoplastic powder composition, comprising: at least one polyamide powder with a d50 of less than 100 μm, from 5% to 70% by weight of at least one glass fiber: with a l50 within the range from 50 to 200 μm, with an lmax of less than 450 μm, with a d50 within the range from 4 to 40 μm, with a form factor F: l50/d50 of between 5 and 15, and from 0.05% to 5% of a pulverulent flow agent with a d50 of less than 20 μm; with regard to the total weight of the composition. The present invention relates in particular to the use of said composition in 3D printing processes for manufacturing reinforced three-dimensional objects.

A sliding member for a thrust bearing is provided. A sliding layer includes fibrous particles dispersed in a synthetic resin, and has a sliding surface side region and an interface side region. The particles have an average particle size D.sub.sur, first and D.sub.sur, second respectively in first and second cross-sections in the sliding surface side region, and D.sub.int, first and D.sub.int, second respectively in first and second cross-sections in the interface side region. D.sub.sur, first and D.sub.int, second are 5-30 μm, and D.sub.sur, second and D.sub.int, first are 5 to 20% of respectively D.sub.sur, first and D.sub.int, second. A dispersion index of the particles having the major axis length of 20 μm or longer is 5 or more, both in the sliding surface side region in view of the first cross-section and in the interface side region in view of the second cross-section.

A casting in the form of a sink, including a basin having a base, a rear wall, a front wall and two interconnecting side walls, and also a circumferential rim that extends to the side of the basin and consists of flat rim sections that extend in a straight line from the lateral edges of the rear wall, the side walls and the front wall. The sink is composed of a composite material including a cured polymeric binder and filler particles intercalated therein. A skirt that surpasses the height of the front wall at least in sections adjoins at least the rim section of the front wall, and its outer face extends at right angles from the outer face of the rim section and in a straight line up to the end thereof.

A fixed abrasive article having a body including abrasive particles contained within a bond material, the abrasive particles including shaped abrasive particles or elongated abrasive particles having an aspect ratio of length:width of at least 1.1:1, each of the shaped abrasive particles or elongated abrasive particles having a predetermined position or a predetermined three-axis orientation, including a placement angle ranging from +90 degrees to −90 degrees and a rake angle ranging from +90 degrees to −90 degrees.

Described herein are polymeric composites that can include a kaolin filler dispersed within a thermoplastic polymer matrix. The kaolin filler can exhibit an aspect ratio of from 20 to 50, as measured by laser scattering, a mean particle size of from 0.75 microns to 2 microns e.s.d., as measured by Sedigraph, or a combination thereof. In some embodiments, the kaolin filler exhibits a ratio of aspect ratio to mean particle size ranges from 4 to 5, as measured by laser scattering. In some embodiments, less than 30% by weight of the kaolin filler exhibits a particle size of less than 0.5 microns e.s.d., as measured by Sedigraph. The composites can exhibit improved mechanical properties such as flexural strength, tensile strength, and heat deflection temperature. The composites can be used to form articles, for example, by thermoforming.

Provided is a stretched body having a high barrier property under high humidity, a PET bottle, and a method for producing a container. The stretched body of a composition containing a semi-aromatic polyamide resin and plate-shaped talc having an aspect ratio of more than 18, a content of the plate-shaped talc having an aspect ratio of more than 18 in the composition is from 3.0 to 55.0 mass % when a total content of the semi-aromatic polyamide resin and the plate-shaped talc having an aspect ratio of more than 18 is 100 mass %.

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.

Provided is a curable composition having superior weather resistance which is obtained from a cured product containing a polyoxyalkylene polymer comprising a reactive silicon group. The curable composition contains (A) a reactive-silicon-group-containing polyoxyalkylene polymer having a number-average molecular weight of 2,000 to 50,000 and containing 1.1 to 5 reactive silicon groups within a single molecule, and (B) from 0.01 to 100 parts by weight of a powdered-glass-based filler based on 100 parts of the component (A).