The present disclosure provides a polymer blend that includes at least two polymers which are immiscible to one another and a carbon nanotube pulp comprising entangled carbon nanotubes as a compatibilizing agent and to a method of preparing the same.

The present invention relates to an actuator that has a specific structure, and is molded from a resin composition, in which the resin composition contains a liquid crystal polyester having a specific repeating unit and a filling material, an amount of the repeating unit including a 2,6-naphthylene group is 40 mol % or more with respect to a total number of moles of all repeating units configuring the liquid crystal polyester, and an amount of the filling material is less than 55 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the liquid crystal polyester and the filling material.

Fiber reinforced composite comprising a polypropylene with high melting temperature and very narrow molecular weight distribution.

Provided is a method for producing a modeled object easily producible and capable of effectively increasing mechanical properties in modeling using a three-dimensional printer. The method for producing a modeled object includes the steps of: preparing a resin composition containing inorganic fibers with an average fiber length of 1 μm to 300 μm and an average aspect ratio of 3 to 200 and a thermoplastic resin; and modeling an object using the resin composition on a fused deposition modeling-based three-dimensional printer to produce a modeled object, wherein in modeling the object on the fused deposition modeling-based three-dimensional printer, a deposition pitch is less than 0.20 mm and a road width is less than 0.20 mm.

A thermoplastic polymeric nanocomposite particle made by a method comprising: forming a polymer by polymerizing a reactive mixture comprising at least one of a monomer, an oligomer, or combinations thereof; said monomer and oligomer having two reactive functionalities, said polymerizing occurring in a medium also containing dispersed nanofiller particles possessing a length that is less than 0.5 microns in at least one principal axis direction, wherein said nanofiller particles comprise at least one of dispersed fine particulate material, fibrous material, discoidal material, or combinations of such materials, whereby said nanofiller particles become incorporated into the polymer.

A cellulose fiber dispersion polyethylene resin composite material formed by dispersing a cellulose fiber into a polyethylene resin, in which a proportion of the above-described cellulose fiber is 1 part by mass or more and 70 parts by mass or less in a total content of 100 parts by mass of the polyethylene resin and the cellulose fiber, and the polyethylene resin satisfies a relationship: 1.7>half-width (Log(MH/ML))>1.0 in a molecular weight pattern obtained by gel permeation chromatography measurement, and a formed body and a pellet using the same, a production method therefor, and a recycling method for the cellulose fiber adhesion polyethylene thin film piece.

A plateable polymer composition is provided. The polymer composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a polymer matrix that includes a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer, from about 10 parts to about 80 parts by weight of silicate fibers, and a noble metal catalyst.

There is provided a curable resin composition capable of obtaining a resin molded body that is excellent in wear resistance and has a high flexural modulus. The curable resin composition according to the present invention contains a polyol compound, an isocyanate compound, a long reinforcing fiber, and a filler, in which the specific gravity of the filler is less than 4 and the average circularity of the filler is 0.65 or more.

An electroconductive resin composition and a molded product thereof. The electroconductive resin includes 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic polymer resin; 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of a carbon nanotube aggregate formed of a plurality of carbon nanotubes having an average outer diameter of 8 to 50 nm and an average inner diameter that is 40% or more of the average outer diameter; and 5 to 15 parts by weight of carbon black.

A fiber-reinforced resin molding material is obtained by impregnating a chopped fiber bundle with a matrix resin, has a layered structure including three or more layers in a thickness direction thereof, and satisfies the relationships Lao>Lam and Wao>Wam, where Lao and Wao represent the number average fiber length and the number average fiber bundle width, respectively, of the chopped fiber bundle in the outermost layer thereof, and Lam and Wam represent the number average fiber length and the number average fiber bundle width, respectively, of the chopped fiber bundle in a middle layer thereof.