Provided is a film forming method that can form a film having a thickness of 500 μm or more with a single coating of a substrate.

The present disclosure is a film forming method using a powder coating material containing a polyphenylene sulfide resin, the method including heating the powder coating material at a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of the polyphenylene sulfide resin and within a range of 250 to 400° C., in which a single coating of a substrate forms a film having a thickness of 500 μm or more; and the obtained film has a surface roughness, Ra, of 0.30 μm or less.

The present invention relates to optical power-limiting devices, and more particularly, to an optical power-limiting passive (self-adaptive) device and to a method for limiting solar power transmission in devices such as windows, using scattering level changes in a novel thermotropic composition that contains salt nano or microparticles embedded in a solid transparent host layer, where temperature change induces change in the refraction index of the matrix as well as of the embedded particles, creating a scattering layer, substantially reflecting the incident light thus limiting the amount of light passing through the window, green house covers, car sun roofs, solar panel windows and protection layers on housing roofs and walls, as a function of ambient temperature.

Dry mixtures and liquid formulations are provided that comprise metal oxide and/or metal hydroxide nanocrystalline particles. The dry mixtures are advantageously formulated with select surfactants to be readily solubilized and stable in liquid carriers. Additional select components are provided in preferred combinations that are capable of achieving improved biocidal and chemical agent efficacy. Notably, the inventive formulations provided herein allow for easier delivery of the formulations and increased shelf stability.

Modified plastic surfaces with perfluoropolymers are provided, whereby plastic surfaces that are intended for use under tribological conditions have substantially improved assembly properties and/or sliding friction properties and exhibit a very low degree of wear. Accordingly, modified plastic surfaces with perfluoropolymers are provided in which, after a reactive conversion under mechanical stress at room temperature, at least the reactive —NH groups and/or —OH groups present at the surface of plastics are present in a chemically covalently coupled manner with the perfluoropolymer carboxylic acid halide present at least in the surface-proximate region of modified perfluoropolymer (micro)powders and/or with the grafted (meth)acrylic acid halide present via perfluoropolymer (peroxy) radicals of the perfluoropolymer (micro)powders and/or (meth)acrylic acid that has been modified into (meth)acrylic acid halide before the reactive conversion.

A powder composition containing an aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) and a fluorine-containing copolymer (II). The powder composition has a ratio r2/r1 of 1.60 or lower, wherein r1 represents an average dispersed particle size of the fluorine-containing copolymer (II) and r2 represents an average dispersed particle size of the fluorine-containing copolymer (II) after melt flow rate measurement at 380° C. and a load of 5000 g with 5-minute pre-heating in conformity with ASTM D1238.

Modified plastic surfaces with perfluoropolymers are provided, whereby plastic surfaces that are intended for use under tribological conditions have substantially improved assembly properties and/or sliding friction properties and exhibit a very low degree of wear. Accordingly, modified plastic surfaces with perfluoropolymers are provided in which modified perfluoropolymer (micro)powders are present at the surface of plastics that comprise olefinically unsaturated double bonds at least at the surface such that the modified perfluoropolymer (micro)powders are chemically covalently bonded via a radical coupling of the olefinically unsaturated double bonds with perfluoropolymer (peroxy) radicals of the modified perfluoropolymer (micro)powders after a reactive conversion under mechanical stress at room temperature.

The invention relates to a powder coating composition comprising a curing system comprising a curable resin and one or more curing additives for curing the curable resin, wherein the powder coating composition comprises: —two or more powder coating components with different contents of curable resin and/or at least one of the one or more curing additives; —in the range of from 0.1 to 25 wt % of a dry-blended inorganic particulate additive C consisting of inorganic components i), ii), and iii), wherein component i) is non-coated aluminium oxide or non-coated silica, component ii) is aluminium hydroxide and/or aluminium oxyhydroxide, and component iii) is silica; and —optionally up to 35 wt % of a further dry-blended inorganic particulate additive D, wherein the total wt % of dry-blended inorganic particulate additives C and D is at most 40 wt %, wherein powder coating components A and B and any further powder coating component have a particle size distribution with a D.sub.v90 of at most 50 μm and a D.sub.v50 of at most 30 μm, and wherein for any combination of two powder coating components the ratio of the D.sub.v50 of one of the powder components to the D.sub.v50 of the other one of the powder coating components is in the range of from 0.8 to 1.2.

Ways of preparing a partially crystalline polycarbonate powder are provided that include dissolving an amorphous polycarbonate in a polar aprotic solvent to form a first solution of solubilized polycarbonate at a first temperature. The first solution is then cooled to a second temperature, the second temperature being lower than the first temperature, where a portion of the solubilized polycarbonate precipitates from the first solution to form a second solution including the partially crystalline polycarbonate powder. Certain partially crystalline polycarbonate powders resulting from such methods are particularly useful in additive manufacturing processes, including powder bed fusion processes.

Disclosed is a composition including at least one polymer, wherein the polymer is in the form of a powder, and wherein the polymer includes at least one thermoplastic polymer. The thermoplastic polymer is selected from at least one polyaryletherketone and/or a copolymer and/or a block-copolymer and/or a polymer blend thereof, wherein the composition has a melt volume rate (MVR) of at least 5 cm.sup.3/10 min and a process of manufacturing and a use thereof. Also disclosed are a process for the manufacture of a construction element and the construction element thereof.

The present invention relates to a process for producing polymers in powder form by using laser energy. It relates also to polymers in powder form obtainable according to that process, and the use of those polymers in powder form in additive manufacturing.