Rheology modifiers comprising cross-linked poly(amino acid) and methods of their use in aqueous compositions. The modifiers comprise cross-linked poly(amino acid) microparticles having a mean equivalent diameter when fully swollen in deionized water of up to 1000 μm, as measured by laser diffraction. In particular, the poly(amino acid) is D-, L- or D,L-Y-poly(glutamic acid). A method of preparing the modifier comprises cross-linking a poly(amino acid), drying the cross-linked poly(amino acid) and grinding the cross-linked poly(amino acid) to have the required diameter.

Provided is a joined body comprising a first joined member, a second joined member, and a joining layer that joins the first joined member and the second joined member, wherein the first joined member and the second joined member are each independently one selected from the group consisting of a metal member, a polyamide resin member, and a polyolefin resin member, and the joining layer is a layer formed of a resin composition having a co-continuous phase including a continuous phase A farmed of the polyamide resin and a continuous phase B formed of the polyolefin resin and has a dispersed domain a distributed in the continuous phase A, a finely dispersed subdomain a′ distributed in the dispersed domain a, a dispersed domain b distributed in the continuous phase B, and a finely dispersed subdomain b′ distributed in the dispersed domain b.

A fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin molded article includes a thermoplastic resin [A] and carbon fibers [B], a content of the thermoplastic resin [A] being 50 to 95 parts by weight and a content of the carbon fibers [B] being 5 to 50 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of a total of the thermoplastic resin [A] and the carbon fibers [B], the molded article having a bending elastic modulus of 30 GPa or more, an interfacial shear strength between the thermoplastic resin [A] and the carbon fibers [B] being 15 MPa or more, and a logarithmic decrement of the molded article calculated by Formula (1) of less than 3, wherein the carbon fibers [B] have a weight-average fiber length (L.sub.w) of 0.5 to 10.0 mm:

Logarithmic decrement δ=(1/n)×ln(α.sub.(1)/α.sub.(1+n))  (1).

Disclosed is a preparation method of an all-weather self-healing stretchable conductive material, which uses acrylic acid and modified polyglutamic acid as a substrate, adds Fe.sup.3+ to form coordination, adjusts the volume ratio of water and glycerin, and heats to generate radical polymerization, so as to obtain a uniform double-layer three-dimensional network structure. The obtained polyacrylic acid and polyglutamic acid composite hydrogel has good mechanical properties and characteristics of rapid self-healing. A composite carbon film is prepared by depositing a metal layer of 20 nm to 80 nm thick on a single-layer aligned carbon film by magnetron sputtering, and then the composite hydrogel is adhered to each of the upper and lower sides of the composite carbon film respectively to form an all-weather self-healing stretchable conductive material of a sandwich structure. The preparation method of the invention is simple, the source of raw materials is plenty, and the obtained materials have good electrical and mechanical properties and have broad application prospects in the fields of flexible stretchable devices, wearable devices, and soft-bodied robots and the like.

The present invention relates to processes and systems for preparing nanoparticles, cellular or viral membranes and/or cellular or viral membrane coated nanoparticles using or comprising, inter alia, a multi-inlet vortexing reactor, tangential flow filtration (TFF) and/or a high shear fluid processor such as a microfluidizer (or a microfluidizer processor). The present invention also relates to the nanoparticles, cellular or viral membranes and/or cellular or viral membrane coated nanoparticles prepared by the present processes and systems, and the uses and/or applications of the nanoparticles, cellular or viral membranes and/or cellular or viral membrane coated nanoparticles.

The present invention provides a temperature sensitive hydrogel composition including a nucleic acid and chitosan. Since the hydrogel has excellent biocompatibility and biostability, and simultaneously has sol-gel phase transition properties depending on temperature changes, the hydrogel is present in a sol state at room temperature and becomes a gel when the hydrogel is injected into the human body or applied on the surface of epithelial skin and the temperature increases. Thus, the temperature-sensitive hydrogel of the present invention can be directly injected into and applied on certain parts requiring treatment and the retention and attaching time of a drug is increased through gelation depending on the temperature so that drug efficacy is sufficiently exhibited. Therefore, it is expected that the temperature-sensitive hydrogel of the present invention can be utilized for various treatments.

This disclosure provides a nano-graphitic sponge (NGS) and methods for preparing the nano-graphitic sponge. The disclosed nano-graphitic sponge possesses many excellent properties, including large surface areas and pore volumes, low-mass densities, good electrical conductivities and mechanical properties. These excellent properties make the nano-graphitic sponge an ideal material for many applications, such as electrodes for batteries and supercapacitors, fuel cells and solar cells, catalysts and catalyst supports, and sensors.

A fiber-reinforced resin composition includes a polyamide resin and a polyolefin resin, and when one resin between the polyamide resin and the polyolefin resin is set as a first resin, and the other resin is set as a second resin, the composition has a sea-island structure including a continuous phase C consisting of the first resin and a dispersed phase c consisting of the second resin dispersed in the continuous phase C, and in a resin phase separation cross-sectional structure, a total of cross-sectional areas of dispersed phases having a cross-sectional area equal to or smaller than an average cross-sectional area of the reinforcing fiber is 20% or less with respect to a total of cross-sectional areas of all dispersed phases.

The present invention relates to processes and systems for preparing nanoparticles, cellular or viral membranes and/or cellular or viral membrane coated nanoparticles using or comprising, inter alia, a multi-inlet vortexing reactor, tangential flow filtration (TFF) and/or a high shear fluid processor such as a microfluidizer (or a microfluidizer processor). The present invention also relates to the nanoparticles, cellular or viral membranes and/or cellular or viral membrane coated nanoparticles prepared by the present processes and systems, and the uses and/or applications of the nanoparticles, cellular or viral membranes and/or cellular or viral membrane coated nanoparticles.

A copolyamide including at least two distinct units A and X.sub.1Y of formula A/X.sub.1Y, wherein: A is a repeating unit obtained by polycondensation of: at least one C.sub.9 to C.sub.18 amino acid, or at least one C.sub.9 to C.sub.18 lactam, or at least one C.sub.4-C.sub.36 dicarboxylic acid Cb; X.sub.1Y is a repeating unit obtained from the polycondensation of at least one C.sub.9 to C.sub.18 linear aliphatic diamine (X.sub.1), and at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid (Y), to prepare a composition comprising between 35 and 65% of reinforcing fibers, relative to the total weight of the composition, and for which the flexural modulus or tensile modulus, measured after an identical conditioning, does not vary by more than 20% in the temperature range from 20° C. to 40° C.