Self-crosslinking hydrophilic coatings and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The lubricious hydrophilic coatings may be formed on the surfaces of medical devices. The self-crosslinking hydrophilic coating formulations form a hydrophilic coating when the solvent of the hydrophilic coating formulation is dried off, or otherwise removed, from the formulation.

A styrene resin having a syndiotactic structure, with an endothermic amount in a range of 175 to 260° C. of less than 30% based on the total endothermic amount, and a styrene resin composition containing 50 to 95% by mass of a thermoplastic resin composition and 5 to 50% by mass of a glass filler, the thermoplastic resin composition containing 100 parts by mass containing 80 to 100% by mass of a styrene resin having a syndiotactic structure and 0 to 20% by mass of a rubbery elastic material, 0.2 to 2.0 parts by mass of at least one kind of an antioxidant selected from a phenol-based antioxidant and a sulfur antioxidant, 1.5 to 5.0 parts by mass of at least one kind of a compound selected from a polyphenylene ether or a modified polyphenylene ether, and at least one kind selected from a nucleating agent or a release agent.

The present invention provides a bio-electrode composition including a silicone bonded to a sulfonimide salt, wherein the sulfonimide salt is shown by the following general formula (1): ##STR00001##
wherein R.sup.1 represents a linear, branched, or cyclic alkylene group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms optionally having an aromatic group, an ether group, or an ester group, or an arylene group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms; Rf represents a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and containing at least one fluorine atom; M.sup.+ is an ion selected from a lithium ion, a sodium ion, a potassium ion, and a silver ion. This can form a living body contact layer for a bio-electrode that is excellent in electric conductivity and biocompatibility, light-weight, manufacturable at low cost, and free from large lowering of the electric conductivity even though it is wetted with water or dried.

Adhesion-promoting compositions containing organic titanates and/or organic zirconates and the use of the adhesion-promoting compositions to provide adhesion-promoting layers to enhance adhesion between metal substrates and an overlying free radical-polymerized sealant are disclosed.

The present invention provides a curing catalyst for an organic polymer or an organopolysiloxane, which has a high safety and a practical curing speed, and improves the adhesion of a cured product to a substrate, and can be produced at low cost. An aspect of the present invention provides a curing catalyst [B] for an organic polymer or an organopolysiloxane, which is used for curing an organic polymer [A1] or an organopolysiloxane [A2] having a reactive hydrolyzable silicon-containing group, wherein the catalyst [B] contains a titanium compound [B1] represented by the following formula and a secondary amine compound or a tertiary amine compound [B2].
(R.sup.1—O).sub.nTi-A.sub.4-n
(In the formula, R.sup.1 is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and A is a carboxylic acid residue, and n is 1 or 2.)

A resin composition which has excellent decomposability at low temperature, can provide a molded article having high strength, and enables an increase in the number of layers and thinning so as to enable production of an all-solid-state battery and a ceramic laminate having excellent properties. An inorganic fine particle-dispersed slurry composition containing the resin composition, an inorganic fine particle-dispersed sheet, a method for producing an all-solid-state battery, and a method for producing a multilayer ceramic capacitor. A resin composition containing a (meth)acrylic resin, the (meth)acrylic resin containing 20 to 70% by weight in total of a segment derived from methyl methacrylate and a segment derived from isobutyl methacrylate, 1 to 10% by weight of a segment derived from a glycidyl group-containing (meth)acrylate, and 5 to 40% by weight of a segment derived from a (meth)acrylate containing an ester substituent having a carbon number of 8 or more.

A flame-retardant single-, or multi-layered, fibre-matrix semi-finished product has a polyamide-based fibre-matrix that includes at least one organic phosphinic acid salt and/or a diphosphinic acid salt. A process for the production thereof includes impregnating a fibre ply, or plies, and consolidating the ply or plies into a composite.

Provided is a cladding composition which contains metal powder, a binder, and an organic solvent in a case of bonding a metal base material and a resin member to each other. Further, provided is a method for producing a metal/resin bonded member, including a step of coating at least a portion of a metal base material with the cladding composition; a step of irradiating the coated portion of the metal base material which has been coated with the cladding composition, with a laser; a step of disposing the resin member on the laser irradiation portion of the metal base material; and a step of heating an interface between the laser irradiation portion and the resin member so that the metal base material and the resin member are bonded to each other.

A coating material for producing a barrier layer on a plastic substrate includes an isocyanate-containing hardener component and a hydroxy-functional binder component. The hydroxy-functional binder component includes an aqueous polymer dispersion which includes a polyphenylene ether or a copolymer of fluorinated ethylene and a vinyl ether, glass hollow bodies, and at least one of an inorganic filler and an inorganic pigment.

Described herein are devices for applying an alternating electric field to a living subject or an in vitro medium at a frequency between 100 kHz and 500 kHz. Also described herein are methods of using the described devices for applying an AC electric field to a target region comprising rapidly dividing cells, e.g., cells associated with a variety of disorders or conditions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.