A gas barrier film comprising a resin base material, an oxygen barrier coating provided on at least one surface of the resin base material, and a base layer and/or an inorganic oxide layer provided between the resin base material and the oxygen barrier coating, wherein the black area ratio of one surface measured by the following measuring method is 0.15% or less: <Measuring method> An arbitrary region of 1281 μm square on one surface of a resin base material is photographed with an optical microscope to acquire a photographed image of 1024×1024 pixels, the photographed image is converted into a monochrome image of 256 gradations using an image analysis software, and the value obtained by subtracting 30 from the most frequent value of the luminance in the monochrome image is set as the threshold, the value less than the threshold is set to black, and the value not less than the threshold is set to white, thus binarizing the luminance, and the ratio of the total area of the black regions having a size of 100 μm.sup.2 or more in the 1281 μm square region is defined as the black area ratio.

A gas barrier film comprising a resin base material, an oxygen barrier coating provided on at least one surface of the resin base material, and a base layer and/or an inorganic oxide layer provided between the resin base material and the oxygen barrier coating, wherein the black area ratio of one surface measured by the following measuring method is 0.15% or less: <Measuring method> An arbitrary region of 1281 μm square on one surface of a resin base material is photographed with an optical microscope to acquire a photographed image of 1024×1024 pixels, the photographed image is converted into a monochrome image of 256 gradations using an image analysis software, and the value obtained by subtracting 30 from the most frequent value of the luminance in the monochrome image is set as the threshold, the value less than the threshold is set to black, and the value not less than the threshold is set to white, thus binarizing the luminance, and the ratio of the total area of the black regions having a size of 100 μm.sup.2 or more in the 1281 μm square region is defined as the black area ratio.

A gas barrier film that includes at least a film base material including a polyester resin having a butylene terephthalate unit as a main constituent unit, and one or more metal oxide layers wherein the gas barrier film has a heat shrinkage rate in the machine direction (MD direction) after heating for 30 minutes at 150° C. of 0.6% or more but less than 3.0%, the heat shrinkage rate being represented by the following formula: Heat shrinkage rate={(Length before heating−Length after heating)/Length before heating}×100(%).

A gas barrier film that includes at least a film base material including a polyester resin having a butylene terephthalate unit as a main constituent unit, and one or more metal oxide layers wherein the gas barrier film has a heat shrinkage rate in the machine direction (MD direction) after heating for 30 minutes at 150° C. of 0.6% or more but less than 3.0%, the heat shrinkage rate being represented by the following formula: Heat shrinkage rate={(Length before heating−Length after heating)/Length before heating}×100(%).

The present invention generally relates to an eco-friendly wearable article comprising a nutrient complex capable of efficiently able to reduce or eliminate methane gas emission during biodegradation of the article, and a method of making the eco-friendly wearable article containing the nutrient complex. Preferably, the nutrient complex typically comprises anionic sulphate ions and cationic salts of iron(II) and copper(II), thereby facilitating methane oxidation in an anaerobic environment such as a landfill.

A method of applying a gas-impermeable coating includes forming a polyelectrolyte complex suspension. The polyelectrolyte complex suspension is applied to a substrate. The substrate having the polyelectrolyte complex applied thereon is treated. The treating reduces salt content of the polyelectrolyte complex. The treating results in a gas-impermeable coating being formed on the substrate.

A method of applying a gas-impermeable coating includes forming a polyelectrolyte complex suspension. The polyelectrolyte complex suspension is applied to a substrate. The substrate having the polyelectrolyte complex applied thereon is treated. The treating reduces salt content of the polyelectrolyte complex. The treating results in a gas-impermeable coating being formed on the substrate.

The present invention relates to ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer particles, comprising an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer having an ethylene unit content of 1 mol % or more and less than 20 mol %, a viscosity-average polymerization degree of 200 to 5000, and a saponification degree of 80 to 99.99 mol %, wherein a crystallinity in water Cw (30° C.) at 30° C. and a crystallinity in water Cw (70° C.) at 70° C. as determined by pulse NMR satisfy formula (I). There is thus provided ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer particles having excellent solubility in water and excellent gas barrier performance.

The present invention relates to ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer particles, comprising an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer having an ethylene unit content of 1 mol % or more and less than 20 mol %, a viscosity-average polymerization degree of 200 to 5000, and a saponification degree of 80 to 99.99 mol %, wherein a crystallinity in water Cw (30° C.) at 30° C. and a crystallinity in water Cw (70° C.) at 70° C. as determined by pulse NMR satisfy formula (I). There is thus provided ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer particles having excellent solubility in water and excellent gas barrier performance.

A structure (piping part (121)) has a cured product of a thermosetting resin composition (resin molded body (101)) and a plating layer (103) formed on a surface of the cured product, in which the plating layer (103) has a Cu layer (second plating layer (107)) and a thickness of the Cu layer (second plating layer (107)) is 2 μm or more and 50 μm or less.