Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet that may be used for the grinding of a hard and brittle substrate in a backgrinding step for the hard and brittle substrate, the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet being excellent in all of grinding accuracy, low contamination property, productivity, and fixing property. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet of the present invention includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains: a pressure-sensitive adhesive containing a base polymer; and a foaming agent having a foaming temperature of 90° C. or more, and wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has, when a pressure-sensitive adhesive surface thereof is bonded to a silicon chip, a shear adhesive strength of 1.0 MPa or more under an ambient temperature of 25° C., and a shear adhesive strength of 0.2 MPa or more under an ambient temperature of 80° C.

A gummed paper includes: a first adhesive layer, configured to adhere to an object; a first substrate, adhered to a surface of the first adhesive layer opposite to the object; a second adhesive layer, adhered to a surface of the first substrate opposite to the first adhesive layer; a second substrate, adhered to a surface of the second adhesive layer opposite to the first substrate; and a plurality of foaming agent particles, distributed in the first adhesive layer.

Provided are curable precursor compositions for pressure-sensitive adhesives and related articles, assemblies and methods. The provided compositions contain an alkyl (meth)acrylate, a hollow non-porous particulate filler, and a surface-modifying agent comprising a hydrophobic alkoxy silane or hydrophobic organofunctional polysiloxane. These compositions and methods enable in situ functionalization of the filler particles during or after the time they are combined with the curable resin components, thereby allowing pressure-sensitive adhesive materials to be made faster and more efficiently than when using conventional manufacturing methods.

An adhesive film used when sealing an electronic component to temporarily fix the electronic component, the adhesive film including a base material layer, an adhesive resin layer which is provided on a first surface side of the base material layer and which is for temporarily fixing the electronic component, and an adhesive resin layer which is provided on a second surface side of the base material layer and of which the adhesive strength decreases according to an external stimulus, in which the adhesive resin layer includes a polyvalent carboxylic acid ester-based plasticizer and an adhesive resin, and a content of the polyvalent carboxylic acid ester-based plasticizer in the adhesive resin layer is more than or equal to 0.7 parts by mass and less than or equal to 50 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the adhesive resin included in the adhesive resin layer.

A packaging unit for hygiene articles and a method for producing the same. The packaging unit is formed from a sheet of material having an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface has an edge zone. The sheet has at least one folding axis and the folding axis divides the sheet into a first region and a second region. The sheet may be folded along the folding axes with the first and second regions in an overlapping configuration, and at least a part of the edge zone is provided with microencapsulated adhesive.

A thermoset adhesive for bonding two materials having different linear expansion coefficients with reduced warping and without spaces being formed therebetween. The thermoset adhesive of the present invention comprises an epoxy resin, a core-shell rubber, thermally expansive microparticles, and a curing agent. The thermally expansive microparticles can have at least one or any combination of an average particle size of from 9 to 19 μm, an expansion initiation temperature of from 70 to 100° C., and a maximum expansion temperature of from 110 to 135° C.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a layer of self-adhesive composition at least partially foamed with microballoons, wherein a foamable layer of self-adhesive composition comprising expandable microballoons and disposed between (i) two liners, (ii) a liner and a carrier, or (iii) a liner and a further layer of self-adhesive composition which (a) is not foamable or (b) is foamable and typically comprises expandable microballoons,
is heat-treated at a temperature suitable for foaming for a period such that after the subsequent cooling of the layer the desired degree of foaming is attained, characterized in that
the two liners or the liner during the foaming remain or remains adhering substantially completely on the respective surface of the foamable layer of self-adhesive composition on which they or it are or is disposed.

An adhesive film includes a base material layer; an adhesive resin layer (A) provided on a first surface side of the base material layer; and an adhesive resin layer (B) provided on a second surface side of the base material layer and in which an adhesive force is decreased by an external stimulus, in which, as measured by method 1, an integrated tacking force value (F.sub.2.5) of the adhesive resin layer (B) is 1.0 gf/sec or more at a test speed of 2.5 mm/min and a test temperature of 130° C., and an integrated tacking force value (F.sub.30) of the adhesive resin layer (B) is 7.0 gf/sec or more at a test speed of 30 mm/min and a test temperature of 130° C.

A display device includes a protective film that includes an adhesive layer. The adhesive layer has a first adhesive strength at a room temperature and has a second adhesive strength equal to or smaller than about 25% of the first adhesive strength in a second state in which a heat or ultraviolet ray is provided.

An article comprises a substrate having a first portion comprising at least one of a metal or a ceramic metal oxide. A composite foam is bonded to the metal or ceramic metal oxide. The composite foam comprises: at least one polymer preparable by ring-opening metathesis polymerization; at least one catalyst for the ring-opening metathesis polymerization; at least one difunctional coupling agent represented by ZXZ. Each Z independently represents a group that is chemically reactive with at least one of the chemically bound surface hydroxyl groups thereby forming at least one covalent bond. Each X independently represents a divalent organic linking group having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 10000 grams per mole; and at least one of hollow glass microspheres or expanded polymeric microspheres. A method of making the article is also disclosed.