The present invention provides a silicone skeleton-containing polymer including a silicone skeleton shown by the following formula (1) and having a weight average molecular weight of 3,000 to 500,000.

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This can provide a silicone skeleton-containing polymer that can easily form a fine pattern with a large film thickness, and can form a cured material layer (cured film) that is excellent in various film properties such as crack resistance and adhesion properties to a substrate, electronic parts, and a semiconductor device, particularly a base material used for a circuit board, and has high reliability as a film to protect electric and electronic parts and a film for bonding substrates; and a photo-curable resin composition that contains the polymer, a photo-curable dry film thereof, a laminate using these materials, and a patterning process.

Multi-layer electrochromic structures, and processes for assembling such structures, incorporating a cross-linked ion conducting polymer layer that maintains high adhesive and cohesive strength in combination with high ionic conductivity for an extended period of time, the ion conducting polymer layer characterized by electrochemical stability at voltages between about 1.3 V and about 4.4 V relative to lithium, lithium ion conductivity of at least about 10.sup.−5 s/cm, and lap shear strength of at least 100 kPa, as measured at 1.27 mm/min in accordance with ASTM International standard D1002 or D3163.

An apparatus and methods for using coatings for metal applications are disclosed. According to one embodiment, an article comprises a cured polymeric film having a first reaction product of a cationic photoinitiator and a compound suitable for cationic polymerization. The article has a second reaction product of a free-radical photoinitiator and a compound suitable for free-radical polymerization; The article has a metal substrate, wherein the cured polymeric film coats the metal substrate.

The specific embodiment of the present disclosure provides a protective coating. An anticorrosive coating having a compact rigid molecular structure is formed by plasma polymerization coating of monomers including alicyclic epoxy structural units, and a hydrophobic coating is simultaneously formed by plasma polymerization coating on the anticorrosive coating, thus, coatings with excellent protective performance to the substrate are formed.

The present disclosure provides a curable resin composition including a thermoset resin, an aliphatic polyketone as a toughener and a hardener. The curable resin composition may be combined with reinforcing fibers and then cured to form a fiber-reinforced composite article having a high glass transition temperature, excellent mechanical properties and low moisture absorption. The fiber-reinforced composite article may be used in various applications, such as in transport applications including aerospace, aeronautical, nautical and land vehicles.

The present disclosure provides a curable resin composition including a thermoset resin, an aliphatic polyketone as a toughener and a hardener. The curable resin composition may be combined with reinforcing fibers and then cured to form a fiber-reinforced composite article having a high glass transition temperature, excellent mechanical properties and low moisture absorption. The fiber-reinforced composite article may be used in various applications, such as in transport applications including aerospace, aeronautical, nautical and land vehicles.

The invention relates to diols derived from 5-hydroxymethyl furfural, diformyl furan, or derivatives thereof. The invention further relates to diglycidyl ethers derived from the diols of the invention, curable coating compositions containing the diglycidyl ethers, and objects coated with the curable coating compositions. The invention also relates to composites, composites, adhesives, and films containing the diglycidyl ethers of the invention. The invention also relates to methods of making the diols, diglycidyl ethers, and curable coating compositions.

Disclosed herein are thermal interface material comprising liquid epoxy resin that is free of aromatic groups and high loading of aluminum trihydroxide and the use thereof in battery powered vehicles.

The invention relates to a hydrogel based on water, on hydrosoluble monomeric or polymeric isosorbide epoxide and on hydrosoluble amine, to the method for preparing same and to the use thereof.

Polyamide and amidoamine curing agents comprising a selectively modified amine. The selectively modified amine is formed by a substitution reaction between a polyamine and an epoxide, resulting in a multifunctional amine having a hydroxyl substituent. The curing agents are used to form epoxy resins having improved properties when cured.