The invention relates to a nanocomposite coating system that exhibits superior barrier properties for reducing the ingress of unwanted guest species such as moisture (e.g., water vapor) and a facile method for preparing the same nanocoating system on an industrial scale. The current coating materials are able to reduce the overall ingress of unwanted guest species in a substantial improvement over the prior art.

A flame-retardant polymer composition comprising a polymer, a flame retardant, a high aspect ratio particulate mineral and optionally a reinforcing material, articles made from and comprising said flame-retardant polymer composition and methods of making said flame-retardant polymer composition.

A reinforcing material is disclosed that includes coated glass flakes and coated glass strands. When the total amount of a glycidyl group-including resin and aminosilane contained in the coatings of the coated glass flakes corresponds to 100% by mass, the amount of the resin is 30% to 95% by mass. When the total amount of a glycidyl group-including resin, aminosilane, and a urethane resin contained in the coatings of the coated glass strands corresponds to 100% by mass, the amount of the glycidyl group-including resin is 10% to 90% by mass, the amount of the aminosilane is 0.1% to 40% by mass, and the amount of the urethane resin is 1% to 50% by mass. Both the coated glass flakes and the coated glass strands have an ignition loss of 0.1% to 2.0% by mass measured pursuant to JIS R3420 (2013).

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.

An electrically conductive paste includes: an elastic binder; and a conductive filler. The conductive filler includes: at least one spherical conductive filler, at least one plate-like conductive filler, and at least one rod-like conductive filler. In an embodiment, the spherical filler has a mean particle diameter, measured in accordance with ISO 21501-2:2019-11 of at most 200 μm.

A moisture-curable adhesive composition comprises a polymer component selected from a silane-terminated polyalkylene oxide and/or a polyurethane; a plurality of amino-silane modified wollastonite fibers having an average aspect ratio of from about 1.5:1 to about 12:1 and an average fiber length of from about 6 μm to about 825 μm; at least two fillers, wherein one of said fillers is untreated and a second of said fillers is treated with a modifier selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid derivative, a silane, a titanate, and mixtures thereof wherein at least one of said fillers is irregularly shaped; and a rheology modifier. The composition preferably further comprises a plurality of irregularly-shaped crumb rubber particles having an average particle size of between about 0.5 to 1.5 mm. The composition is useful for adhering tiles to surfaces, especially large format tiles to substantially vertically-extending wall surfaces.

An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of reducing the hydrolysis of a biodegradable resin at the time of molding with respect to a biodegradable resin-containing resin composition having a high water content. Provided is a resin composition comprising: a biodegradable resin and heavy calcium carbonate particles in a mass ratio of 50:50 to 10:90, in which 0.5% by mass or more and 3.5% by mass or less of calcium oxide is comprised relative to the resin composition, and 0.2% by mass or more of water is comprised relative to the resin composition.

A conductive paste for an electrolytic capacitor used for connecting a cathode part and a cathode lead terminal of the electrolytic capacitor. The conductive paste includes a thermosetting resin, and conductive particles, and the conductive particles include flaky metal particles and acicular conductive particles. The content of the conductive particles in the conductive paste is, for example, 50 mass % or more and 70 mass % or less, and the mass ratio of the flaky metal particles to the total of the flaky metal particles and the acicular conductive particles is, for example, 60% or more and 80% or less.

The introduction of graphene as an additive in rubber compounds is disclosed. The product shows increased barrier protection for tire innerliners, with no tradeoffs in other characteristics. A rubber compound is disclosed herein including butyl rubber and graphene plate, wherein the graphene plate has a thickness of less than about 3.2 nm, a particle size of between about 50 nm and about 10 μm, and contains greater than about 95% carbon.

Disclosed herein is a polyamide composition, comprising including from 30 wt % to 70 wt % of polyamide mixture and from 30 wt % to 70 wt % of filler mixture, and from 0 to 10 wt % of additives (E), based on the total weight of the polyamide composition. The polyamide composition provides advantage of good flatness and less dust particles, meanwhile the mechanical properties are maintained. Such advantage makes the polyamide composition especially suitable for the optical element application.