A medium voltage electric cable having a conductor, an inner semi-conductive layer, an insulating layer, an outer semi-conductive layer, a wire metal screen, a filler layer made from an extruded elastomeric low smoke zero halogen (LSOH) composition containing a polyethylene homopolymer and/or copolymer having a density lower than 0.93 g/cm.sup.3 and a metal hydroxide, and an outer sheath made from a low smoke zero halogen (LSOH) composition containing a polymer mixture of an EVA polymer and polyethylene homopolymer and/or copolymer having a density lower than 0.93 g/cm.sup.3, the polymer mixture being charged with a metal hydroxide and a phyllosilicate clay.

A conductor assembly including an electrically conductive material defining a longitudinal axis, a microporous membrane surrounding the electrically conductive material defining a series of pores, and a ceramic material within at least a first portion of the series of pores.

A compositional kit for forming a composition includes a first composition and a second composition which are separate. The first composition includes a filler, a cross-linking agent and an emissivity agent; and the second composition includes a silicate binder. Methods for making a compositional kit and for making a coated overhead conductor are also provided.

The present invention relates to a fire resistant and/or retardant composition comprising a starch, at least one starch plasticiser, at least one first alkali silicate and at least one phyllosilicate; a method for preparing the fire resistant and/or retardant composition; a device chosen from among a power and/or telecommunications cable, and an accessory for a power and/or telecommunications cable, the cable comprising at least one fire resistant and/or retardant layer of the fire resistant and/or retardant composition, and the cable accessory comprising at least one fire resistant and/or retardant layer of the fire resistant and/or retardant composition; as well as a method for manufacturing such a device.

The invention relates to a silicone rubber composition having specific dielectric properties which can be used as insulator material in high voltage direct current applications and a method for the manufacture of cable accessories like cable joints. The invention comprises as well a method for the determination of the optimum dielectric properties and the related amount of dielectric active additives.

An electronic device element is described which is flexible, bendable or twistable without substantial degradation in optical or electrical properties. The electronic device element includes an optically transparent film constructed of a recombinant re-silin-CBD protein bound to cellulose nanocrystals (CNC). The recombinant resilin-CBD protein includes a Clostridium-derived cellulose-binding domain fused to resilin. The electronic device element may be a flexible display or flexible electronics element.

The direct-current cable includes a conductive portion; and an insulating layer covering an outer periphery of the conductive portion, the insulating layer containing cross-linked base resin and inorganic filler, the base resin containing polyethylene, a BET specific surface area of the inorganic filler being greater than or equal to 5 m.sup.2/g and less than or equal to 150 m.sup.2/g, and a mean volume diameter of the inorganic filler being less than or equal to 1.0 μm, the mass ratio of the inorganic filler with respect to the base resin being greater than or equal to 0.001 and less than or equal to 0.05, and the cross-linked base resin being cross-linked by a cross-linking agent containing organic peroxide.

The present disclosure relates to insulation systems. Embodiments thereof may include a formulation for an insulation system used as casting resin and/or pressing resin as conductor and/or wall insulation for current-carrying conductors in generators, motors, and/or rotating machines. Some embodiments may include a material for use in an insulation system including: a base resin having one or more isotropic spherical filler fractions; wherein one of the one or more filler fractions comprises nanofiller particles comprising inorganic-organic particles; wherein both an inorganic fraction and an organic fraction are always simultaneously present; and the nanofiller particles comprise up to 25% by weight in the material.

A conductor assembly including an electrically conductive material defining a longitudinal axis, a microporous membrane surrounding the electrically conductive material defining a series of pores, and a ceramic material within at least a first portion of the series of pores.

An insulating thermally conductive resin composition (1) includes a phase-separated structure including: a first resin phase (2) in which a first resin continues three-dimensionally; and a second resin phase (3) different from the first resin phase and formed of a second resin. Moreover, the insulating thermally conductive resin composition includes: small-diameter inorganic filler (4) unevenly distributed in the first resin phase; and large-diameter inorganic filler (5) that spans the first resin phase and the second resin phase and thermally connects pieces of the small-diameter inorganic filler, which is unevenly distributed in the first resin phase, to one another. Then, an average particle diameter of the small-diameter inorganic filler is 0.1 to 15 μm. Moreover, an average particle diameter of the large-diameter inorganic filler is larger than the average particle diameter of the small-diameter inorganic filler, and is 1 to 100 μm.