In a method for producing a high-molecular-weight polymer sheet, when a monomer composition including silver nanowires is polymerized, the monomer composition is allowed to stand in a state in which a thickness direction of the obtained high-molecular-weight polymer sheet before the polymerization is a vertical direction, and the silver nanowires in the monomer composition are oriented in the vertical direction and polymerized.

The invention concerns a method for producing a carbon fibre, that comprises a step of preparing a continuous fibre made of cellulose from cotton fabrics, by extracting, from these fabrics, cotton in the form of short, discontinuous fibres, and implementing a solvent spinning process; this step being followed by a step of carbonising said obtained continuous fibre made from cellulose, in order to form a carbon fibre. This carbon fibre can be used, in particular, for producing articles made from composite material made from carbon fibres and polymer organic resin.

A semicrystalline polyketone powder useful for additive manufacturing may be made by dissolving a polyketone having differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) monomodal melt peak, at a temperature above 50° C. to below the melt temperature of the polyketone, precipitating the dissolved polyketone by cooling, addition of a nonsolvent or combination thereof. The method may be used to form polyketones having a DSC melt peak with an enthalpy greater than the starting polyketone.

The present disclosure provides device having a reaction vessel with one or more permeable membranes disposed therein that separate the reaction vessel into at least a first portion and a second portion. The one or more membranes permit first reactants from a first solution in the first portion or reactants from a second solution in the second portion to seep or percolate to a reaction zone proximate a surface of the one or more membranes. A reaction of the first and second reactants forms a two-dimensional polymer film material. A roller located inside of the reaction vessel draws the two-dimensional polymer film material reaction out of the reaction zone.

The following is provided as a member for a composite material that has excellent durability, impact resistance, and productivity. A member for a composite material containing a resin component that contains polyaryletherketone as a main component. The resin component has a molecular weight distribution of 2 or more and less than 4 and a mass average molecular weight of 63000 or more. The composite material contains a resin and reinforcing fibers having a number average fiber length of 5 mm or more.

A method of activating a surface of a plastics substrate formed from: (a) polyaryletherketone such as polyether ether ketone (PEEK) polyether ketone ketone (PEKK), polyether ketone (PEK); polyether ether ketone ketone (PEEKK); or polyether ketone ether ketone ketone (PEKEKK); (b) a polymer containing a phenyl group directly attached to a carbonyl group, optionally wherein the carbonyl group is part of an amide group, such as polyarylamide (PARA); (c) polyphenylene sulfide (PPS); or (d) polyetherimide (PEI); for subsequent bonding,
the method comprising the step of exposing the surface to actinic radiation wherein the actinic radiation: includes radiation with wavelength in the range from about 10 nm to about 1000 nm; the energy of the actinic radiation to which the surface is exposed is in the range from about 0.5 J/cm.sup.2 to about 300 J/cm.sup.2. Hard to bond substrates are then more easily subsequently bonded for example using acrylic, epoxy or anaerobic adhesive.

A conveyor module, small fragments of which are detectable by X-ray and/or magnetic sensors, is formed from a compounded mixture of a polyketone resin, a ferrous metal powder, and, optionally, a barium sulfate powder. The ferrous metal powder is preferably 400 series stainless steel powder, or alternatively, a 300 series stainless steel powder, iron powder, or other iron alloy powder.

The present disclosure provides device having a reaction vessel with one or more permeable membranes disposed therein that separate the reaction vessel into at least a first portion and a second portion. The one or more membranes permit first reactants from a first solution in the first portion or reactants from a second solution in the second portion to seep or percolate to a reaction zone proximate a surface of the one or more membranes. A reaction of the first and second reactants forms a two-dimensional polymer film material. A roller located inside of the reaction vessel draws the two-dimensional polymer film material reaction out of the reaction zone.

Fiber reinforced composite material comprising a thermoplastic matrix comprising blends of poly(ether ketone ketone) (PEKK) polymers, their method of manufacture and articles obtained therefrom.

A cleaning implement for cleaning a target surface is provided that includes an erodible foam adapted to contact a surface to be cleaned and a rheological solid composition comprising a crystallizing agent and an aqueous phase.