Processing aid for aiding in orienting an extruded film layer including a preponderance, by weight, of a high crystal-line polypropylene is a crystalline polypropylene wax. An oriented film layer including a blend of crystalline polypropylene wax and high crystallinity polypropylene homopolymer is part of the invention. The invention includes a method of forming an oriented film layer including a preponderance by weight of a high crystallinity polypropylene and includes the steps of blending a high crystallinity polypropylene with a crystalline polypropylene wax, directing the blend through an extruder to form a film layer and then orienting the film layer. The invention includes a biaxially oriented, multi-layer film including a base layer and at least one skin layer. The base layer includes a blend of crystalline metallocene catalyzed polypropylene wax and a high crystallinity polypropylene.

The present invention relates to a novel polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymer composition with a significantly increased crystallization rate, and preferably, to a polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) polymer composition. According to the present invention, there is provided a polymer composition including a liquid crystal polymer (LCP), an inorganic nucleating agent, a reinforcing agent, and a filler in polyaryletherketone (PAEK). Therefore, the present invention provides an effect of improving a crystallization rate of the polymer composition and improving molding processability, thereby improving productivity, shape, dimensional stability, or the like of products.

A foamable composition including a polypropylene-based copolymer and a polyolefin is disclosed. The composition can be used to make a stiff foam with a high closed-cell content. Methods for producing the composition and the foam are provided.

A thermoplastic resin composition having good formability and low dielectric characteristics that have not been achieved by conventional liquid crystal polymer resin compositions, while maintaining excellent heat resistance and flame retardancy of liquid crystal polymers, and usable for information and communication devices used in a high frequency range is provided. A thermoplastic resin composition contains liquid crystal polymers (A) and a modified polyolefin (B) having a polar group. The liquid crystal polymer (A) contains a first liquid crystal polymer (a-1) that has a melting point of less than 300° C. and a second liquid crystal polymer (a-2) that has a melting point of 300° C. or more. It is preferable for the thermoplastic resin composition that the phase structure is a sea-island structure or a bicontinuous structure, and the second liquid crystal polymer (a-2) is contained at least in a sea phase or a continuous phase.

A liquid crystal polyester resin composition containing 100 parts by mass of a liquid crystal polyester resin; and at least 10 parts by mass and at most 100 parts by mass of glass components; wherein the glass components contain glass fibers having a length of more than 30 μm and glass fine powders having a length of at least 4 μm and at most 30 μm; the number-average fiber length of the glass fibers is at least 50 μm and at most 200 μm; and the content of the fine powders is at least 50% and at most 95% relative to a total number of the glass components.

A liquid crystal polyester resin composition containing 100 parts by mass of a liquid crystal polyester resin; and at least 5 parts by mass and at most 100 parts by mass of glass components; wherein the glass components contain glass fibers having a length of more than 50 μm and glass fine powders having a length of at least 4 μm and at most 50 μm; the number-average fiber length of the glass fibers is at least 200 μm and at most 400 μm; and the content of the fine powders is at least 20% and at most 95% relative to a total number of the glass components.

The use of a composition including a mixture of at least one non-reactive thermoplastic polymer of Tg >40° C., especially >100° C., in particular >120° C., and at least one reactive thermoplastic prepolymer, with a fibrous material, for the preparation of a fibrous material impregnated with the composition, the composition having an initial melt viscosity during the impregnation, as measured in plate-plate rheology under 1 Hz and 2% strain, at a temperature of 300° C., of less than the viscosity of the same composition devoid of reactive prepolymer, measured under the same conditions, and/or a ductility, after in situ polymerization of the reactive thermoplastic prepolymer in the composition during the impregnation and after the impregnation, that is at least equivalent to the ductility of the same composition devoid of non-reactive thermoplastic polymer, and of which said reactive thermoplastic prepolymer is polymerized to the same number-average molecular mass (Mn).

A kind of plastic is provided. With a total of 100 parts by weight, the plastic includes the following components in parts by weight: 25 to 90 parts of matrix resin; 1 to 60 parts of laser reflecting agent; and 0 to 70 parts of inorganic filler, where the inorganic filler is capable of being chemically corroded. When the matrix resin includes a resin component capable of being chemically corroded, parts by weight of the inorganic filler are greater than or equal to 0 parts; or when the matrix resin is fully a resin component incapable of being chemically corroded, parts by weight of the inorganic filler are greater than 0 parts. For the plastic, a low roughness surface can be obtained through chemical roughening, to form a desirable coating binding surface, and help implement metallization.

A liquid crystal polyester resin composition includes a liquid crystal polyester resin (A); a solvent (B) in which the liquid crystal polyester resin (A) is dissolved; a fluorine resin (C); and an inorganic filler (D), wherein 100 to 5,000 parts by weight of the solvent (B), 5 to 300 parts by weight of the fluorine resin (C) and 1 to 300 parts by weight of the inorganic filler (D) are included relative to 100 parts by weight of the liquid crystal polyester resin (A).

A polymer (B) essentially contains units represented by the following formulas (1), (2) and (3), wherein the number of moles of unit (1) is 0 to 95, the number of moles of unit (2) is 0 to 50, and the number of moles of unit (3) is 2 to 80 when the total number of moles of units (1), (2) and (3) is 100:

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In units (1) to (3), “X” is a recurring unit having a benzene ring, in unit (2), —CH.sub.3 is substituted on the benzene ring, “m” is an integer of 1-6, unit (3) is obtained by substituting a hydrogen of —CH.sub.3 in unit (2) by a substituent “Z” derived from a carboxylic acid or anhydride thereof, “n” is an integer of 1-6 indicative of the number of substitutions, l+n=m, and unit (3) is a unit in which “n” is an integer of 1-6 or a combination thereof.