Disclosed here are systems and methods for collecting and/or screening of a pancreatic secretion, using a capsule endoscope comprising an imaging system and a trypsin sensor, and a tether coupled to the capsule endoscope.

Heat-expandable microspheres having a thermoplastic resin shell and a thermally-vaporizable blowing agent encapsulated therein. The thermoplastic resin is a copolymer produced from a polymerizable component containing 15 to 90 wt % of acrylonitrile, 3 to 50 wt % of an acrylate ester monomer (A) represented by formula (1) shown below, and 3 to 70 wt % of a methacrylate ester monomer (B) represented by formula (2) shown below. The weight ratio of the acrylate ester monomer (A) represented by formula (1) to the methacrylate ester monomer (B) represented by formula (2) in the polymerizable component (A:B) ranges from 10:90 to 90:10:
H.sub.2C═CH—COOR.sup.1  (1)
H.sub.2C═C(CH.sub.3)—COOR.sup.2  (2).
Also disclosed are hollow particles manufactured by expanding the heat-expandable microspheres; a composition containing a base compound and the heat-expandable microspheres or the hollow particles; and a formed product manufactured by molding or applying the composition.

The disclosed latex system comprises a one-component, closed-cell, semi-foam, mastic sealant using gas-filled, flexible, organic microspheres to create a product that is elastic and compressible under pressure without protruding in an outward direction when compressed, thereby allowing the applied sealant to compress in an enclosed, maximum-filled channel unlike typical mastic sealants (while retaining the ability to rebound). This allows the sealant to function as a gasket, and, once fully cured, to have properties including vibration damping, insulating, and condensation resistance. The sealant can be formulated as an air barrier or a vapor barrier and at various degrees of moisture resistance. It may be applied by different packaging variations including aerosol can (bag in can or bag on valve), airless sprayer, cartridge tubes, foil tubes, squeeze tubes, and buckets to be applied using a brush, trowel, spatula, etc. The disclosed mastic sealant can also be formulated to be smoke-resistant and flame-resistant.

The present application discloses a conductive membrane and a preparation method thereof, which belong to the field of membrane separation technology. The conductive membrane provided by the present application includes a porous base layer film, a porous intermediate layer film, and a porous conductive layer film which are disposed layer by layer in sequence; wherein at least some holes of the base layer film are communicated with holes of the conductive layer film through holes of the intermediate layer film, and material of the intermediate layer film is the same as material of the base layer film and of the conductive layer film. Regarding the conductive membrane provided by the present application, it can be coupled with electrochemical technology, so that the membrane exhibits new excellent properties at the same time of playing separating characteristic.

The present invention provides a composite resin composition capable of forming a film in which a cellulose nanofiber is dispersed uniformly in the resin. The present invention provides a composite resin composition containing an aqueous dispersion medium, a resin particle emulsified in the aqueous dispersion medium, and a cellulose nanofiber dispersed in the aqueous dispersion medium, wherein the resin particle contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a (meth)acrylic resin particle, a styrene-based resin particle, and a (meth)acrylonitrile-based resin particle, and when a sample obtained in such a way that a liquid obtained by diluting the composite resin composition with water in an amount that allows a non-volatile content of the composite resin composition to fall within a range of 0.01 to 0.1% by mass is dropped onto a base material for measurement and is dried is observed with an atomic force microscope, a structure such that the cellulose nanofiber is dispersed, and the resin particles cling in the form of particles to the cellulose nanofiber is observed.

The present invention relates to a method for producing an acrylonitrile-based fiber, the method including: providing a polymer solution including an acrylonitrile-based copolymer containing a carboxylic acid group; mixing 100 parts by weight of the polymer solution with 1 to 6 parts by weight of a hydrophilization solution containing an organic solvent and ammonia water in a weight ratio of 95:5 to 60:40 to prepare a spinning stock solution; and spinning the spinning stock solution. The method controls the viscosity of the spinning stock solution to improve the stretchability and strength of the acrylonitrile-based fiber, and suppresses the occurrence of gelation.

A membrane filter is provided. The membrane filter including an ordered functional nanoporous material (OFNM) defining a layer and a membrane support. The layer having a two-dimensional structure and defining a plurality of pores and imparting to the membrane filter a permeance of at least 900 Lm.sup.−2h.sup.−1bar.sup.−1 and a rejection of at least 60% as to a solvent containing a filterable species.

The disclosed latex system comprises a one-component, closed-cell, semi-foam, mastic sealant using gas-filled, flexible, organic microspheres to create a product that is elastic and compressible under pressure without protruding in an outward direction when compressed, thereby allowing the applied sealant to compress in an enclosed, maximum-filled channel unlike typical mastic sealants (while retaining the ability to rebound). This allows the sealant to function as a gasket, and, once fully cured, to have properties including vibration damping, insulating, and condensation resistance. The sealant can be formulated as an air barrier or a vapor barrier and at various degrees of moisture resistance. It may be applied by different packaging variations including aerosol can (bag in can or bag on valve), airless sprayer, cartridge tubes, foil tubes, squeeze tubes, and buckets to be applied using a brush, trowel, spatula, etc. The disclosed mastic sealant can also be formulated to be smoke-resistant and flame-resistant.

Heat-expandable microspheres having a thermoplastic resin shell and a thermally-vaporizable blowing agent encapsulated therein. The thermoplastic resin is a copolymer produced from a polymerizable component containing 15 to 90 wt % of acrylonitrile, 3 to 50 wt % of an acrylate ester monomer (A) represented by formula (1) shown below, and 3 to 70 wt % of a methacrylate ester monomer (B) represented by formula (2) shown below. The weight ratio of the acrylate ester monomer (A) represented by formula (1) to the methacrylate ester monomer (B) represented by formula (2) in the polymerizable component (A:B) ranges from 10:90 to 90:10:

H.sub.2C═CH—COOR.sup.1  (1)

H.sub.2C═C(CH.sub.3)—COOR.sup.2  (2).

Also disclosed are hollow particles manufactured by expanding the heat-expandable microspheres; a composition containing a base compound and the heat-expandable microspheres or the hollow particles; and a formed product manufactured by molding or applying the composition.

There is provided a foamed sheet having the excellent impact absorbability and the excellent resistance to repetitive impacts. The foamed sheet of the present invention has an average cell diameter of 10 to 200 μm, a resiliency of 6.0 N/cm.sup.2 or less when compressed to 50% of an original thickness thereof, and a thickness recovery rate defined by the following equation of 90% or more:

thickness recovery rate (%)=(thickness 0.5 seconds after compressed state is released)/(original thickness)×100 original thickness: a thickness of the foamed sheet before a load is applied, thickness 0.5 seconds after compressed state is released: a thickness of the foamed sheet after a compressed state in which a load of 100 g/cm.sup.2 is applied to the foamed sheet is kept for 120 seconds followed by release of the foamed sheet from the compression and an elapse of 0.5 seconds from the release.