A composite panel having a plurality of carbon plies, a perforated metallic foil comprising several apertures and being directly secured to the plurality of carbon plies, and a protective layer made from resin reinforced with fibers which is secured to the metallic foil. The perforated metallic foil is embedded in the protective layer through its apertures. A free surface of the protective layer forms a top side of the composite panel. The thickness of the protective layer between the top side of the composite panel and the perforated metallic foil is at least 15 micrometers and the perforated metallic foil has a thickness of not more than 30 micrometers. The plurality of apertures in the aggregate defines an open area of not more than 40% of the surface area and a maximum distance between two opposed points in a perimeter of an aperture is equal to or less than 3 mm.

The present invention relates to an electrolytic copper foil having excellent handling characteristics in the manufacture of copper foil and in post-processing for manufacturing a secondary battery. The present invention provides an electrolytic copper foil having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the texture coefficient of the (220) plane of the electrolytic copper foil is 0.4-1.32, the difference (|Δ(Rz/Ra)|) between Rz/Ra on the first surface and Rz/Ra on the second surface, of the electrolytic copper foil, is less than 2.42, and the difference (|ΔPD|) in peak density (PD) between the first surface and the second surface, of the electrolytic copper foil, is 96 ea or less.

Disclosed is a copper foil including a copper layer having a matte surface and a shiny surface, and an anticorrosive layer disposed on the copper layer, wherein the copper foil has a residual stress of 0.5 to 25 Mpa, based on absolute value, and the copper layer has a plurality of crystal planes, wherein a ratio [TCR (220)] of a texture coefficient (TC) of (220) crystal plane of the copper layer to a total of texture coefficients (TC) of (111), (200), (220) and (311) crystal planes of the copper layer is 5 to 30%.

An electrodeposited copper foil includes a bulk copper foil. When a weight of the electrodeposited copper foil is increased to 105.0 wt % during a thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) performed on the electrodeposited copper foil at a heating rate of 5° C./min and an air flow rate of 95 mL/min, a heating temperature of the TGA is defined as T.sub.105.0 wt % and in a range of 550° C. to 750° C.

A rolled copper foil for producing a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice compound, including P: 0.01 to 0.21 wt %, Fe: 0.006 wt % or less, and the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, and having the following relationship: 2.0<=(I/I.sub.0) where I is a (111) diffraction intensity determined by an X ray diffraction of a rolled surface after heating at 1000° C. for 30 minutes and I.sub.0 is a (111) diffraction intensity determined by an X ray diffraction of fine powder copper.

Roll-to-roll fabrication of predetermined or ordered three-dimensional nanostructure arrays is described. Provided methods can comprise imprinting a substrate with a two-dimensional (2-D) pattern by rolling a cylindrical pattern comprising a 2-D array of structures against a substrate. In addition, control or determination of nanostructure parameters via control of process parameters is provided.

The invention relates to an aluminum alloy strip with improved surface optics, which is fabricated via hot and/or cold rolling, and consists of a type AA 3xxx, AA 5xxx, AA 6xxx or AA 8xxx aluminum alloy. The object of proposing an aluminum alloy strip that is suitable for attractive and precious surface optics despite the elevated percentage of alloy constituents is achieved in that, after degreasing, the finish-rolled aluminum alloy strip exhibits an increase in the luminance value L*(ΔL) in relation to the rolled-greasy state of more than 5 while measuring the color of the surface in the CIE L*a*b* color space using a standard illuminant D65 and a normal observation angle of 10°, excluding direct reflection in 45°/0° geometry.

A metal material having thermodynamic anisotropy has an X-axis hardness of 160-180 HV, an X-axis hardness thermal expansion coefficient of 5×10-6-100×10-6 K.sup.−1; a Y-axis hardness of 160-180 HV, a Y-axis hardness thermal expansion coefficient of 5×10-6-100×10-6 K.sup.−1; and a Z-axis hardness of 180-250 HV, a Z-axis hardness thermal expansion coefficient of 50×10-6-1000×10-6 K.sup.−1. A method for preparing a metal material having thermodynamic anisotropy is also disclosed.

At least one foil surface of an aluminum foil is roughened; and in arithmetic mean roughnesses Ra, stipulated in JIS B 0601:2001, of the roughened surface(s), A, which is the arithmetic mean roughness Ra measured in a direction at a right angle to a rolling direction during foil rolling, and B, which is the arithmetic mean roughness Ra measured in a direction parallel to the rolling direction during foil rolling, satisfy the following relationships: 0.15 μm≦A≦2.0 μm; 0.15 μm≦B≦2.0 μm; and 0.5≦B/A≦1.5. Preferably 50-1000 μg/m.sup.2 of oil is adhered to the roughened foil surface. The oil is preferably rolling oil.

Described are Zn.sub.xCd.sub.1-xS.sub.ySe.sub.1-y/ZnS.sub.zSe.sub.1-z core/shell nanocrystals, CdTe/CdS/ZnS core/shell/shell nanocrystals, optionally doped Zn(S,Se,Te) nano- and quantum wires, and SnS quantum sheets or ribbons, methods for making the same, and their use in biomedical and photonic applications, such as sensors for analytes in cells and preparation of field effect transistors.