A resin composition having favorable heat stability while capable of primary curing at 140° C or lower, and having excellent heat resistance after curing, and a pre-preg having excellent heat resistance while a molded product after molding maintains mechanical characteristics are provided. The resin composition of the present invention comprises a constituent element (A): a cyanate ester resin, a constituent element (B): an imidazole compound, and a constituent element (C): silica, in which an average particle size of the silica is 0.4 μm or less. The pre-preg of the present invention comprises carbon fibers, and the resin composition of the present invention.

An adhesive for a tennis ball includes base rubber. The base rubber contains, as a main component thereof, liquid rubber having a number average molecular weight of not less than 10,000. The adhesive has a shear viscosity of not greater than 2,000 Pa.Math.s. A tennis ball includes a hollow core made of a rubber material. The core includes two hemispherical half cores. The two half cores are adhered to each other by using the adhesive for a tennis ball.

A nucleating agent composition, a method of forming the nucleating agent and a device comprising the nucleating agent composition are provided. The nucleating agent comprises a nucleating agent comprises silver halide salt with an average particle size of at least 10 nanometer to no more than 100 microns in a polymeric matrix wherein the polymeric matrix has a viscosity of at least 500 cP to no more than 50,000 cP.

An example of a jettable antioxidant formulation is for three-dimensional (3D) printing. The jettable antioxidant formulation includes an antioxidant blend; a surfactant, a dispersant, or a combination thereof; a water soluble or water miscible organic co-solvent; and water. The antioxidant blend consists of a primary antioxidant and a secondary antioxidant.

One of the objects the present invention to provide a cured product of a thermally conductive silicone composition having high thermal conductivity and excellent compressibility. A silicone composition comprising an organo(poly)siloxane and a thermally conductive filler, wherein the organo(poly)siloxane comprises at least one curable organo(poly)siloxane, the thermally conductive filler comprises (B-i) unsintered aluminum nitride having an average particle size of 20 μm or more and 120 μm or less and (B-ii) alumina having an average particle size of 0.1 μm or more and 5 μm or less, the (B-ii) alumina comprises spherical alumina with 25 to 80 mass % of the spherical alumina, based on a total mass of the component (B-ii), a proportion of the component (B-ii) is 25 to 50 mass %, based on a total mass of the components (B-i) and (B-ii), and a proportion of a volume of the thermally conductive filler is 80 to 90 volume %, based on a total volume of the silicone composition.

A high-performance composite material is provided including a polymer and a hybrid nanoadditive dispersed throughout the polymer at a low concentration and without agglomeration. The hybrid nanoadditive includes a first, graphene oxide portion and a second, polyhedral oligomeric silesquioxane (POSS) portion. Associated extrusion systems and methods are also provided.

A coating system including at least one reactive resin system RH, at least one thixotropic assistant TH selected from the group consisting of urea preparations HZ and fibers FS and at least one inorganic aggregate AZ having a particle size in the range from 0.2 to 3.0 mm. The coating system has a viscosity as measured with a shear rate of 1 s.sup.−1 of 9000-100,000 Pas and a viscosity as measured with a shear rate of 100 s.sup.−1 of 400-15,000 Pas. The coating system is notable for high surface roughness and for reliable and long-term bonding of the aggregates to the coating with no need for sealing. There is also no need for the coating to be subsequently strewn with aggregates such as sand, for example.

A heat insulation pad and method of making the same, battery assembly and device are provided. In some embodiments, the heat insulation pad includes silicon rubber and aerogel dispersed in the silicon rubber, wherein the heat insulation pad satisfies that: a temperature difference between a surface on one side of the heat insulation pad and a surface on the other side opposite to the one side is ≥150° C., when the surface on one side of the heat insulation pad is contacted with hot surface having a temperature of 600° C. for 5 minutes under a pressure of 0.9 MPa followed by pressure relief and then is contacted with hot surface having a temperature of 600° C. for another 20 minutes. By using the heat insulation pad of the present disclosure, the safety performance of the battery assembly and of the device can be improved.

A polymer composition containing a polyamide resin, a metallic pigment, and a carrier is disclosed that exhibits a metallic appearance.

A method of forming a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) mixture with talc includes: providing a feed of PET (PET feed); providing a feed of talc (talc feed); mixing the feed of PET with the feed of talc in a mixer at a PET:talc ratio of about 3:1 to about 1:3 to form a PET/talc mixture; and providing the PET/talc mixture as output. A method of forming a Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) alloy having talc includes: providing a feed of the PET/talc mixture (PET/talc feed); providing a feed of PET (PET feed); mixing the feed of PET with the feed of PET/talc in a mixer to form a PET alloy having from about 1% (w/w) talc to about 50% talc (w/w); and providing the PET alloy as output.