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Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method for depositing films or layers using a UV source during a photoexcitation process. The films are deposited on a substrate and usually contain a material, such as silicon (e.g., epitaxy, crystalline, microcrystalline, polysilicon, or amorphous), silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, or other silicon-containing materials. The photoexcitation process may expose the substrate and/or gases to an energy beam or flux prior to, during, or subsequent a deposition process. Therefore, the photoexcitation process may be used to pre-treat or post-treat the substrate or material, to deposit the silicon-containing material, and to enhance chamber cleaning processes. Attributes of the method that are enhanced by the UV photoexcitation process include removing native oxides prior to deposition, removing volatiles from deposited films, increasing surface energy of the deposited films, increasing the excitation energy of precursors, reducing deposition time, and reducing deposition temperature.

Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method for depositing films using photoexcitation. The photoexcitation may be utilized for at least one of treating the substrate prior to deposition, treating substrate and/or gases during deposition, treating a deposited film, or for enhancing chamber cleaning. In one embodiment, a method for depositing silicon and nitrogen-containing film on a substrate includes heating a substrate disposed in a processing chamber, generating a beam of energy of between about 1 to about 10 eV, transferring the energy to a surface of the substrate; flowing a nitrogen-containing chemical into the processing chamber, flowing a silicon-containing chemical with silicon-nitrogen bonds into the processing chamber, and depositing a silicon and nitrogen-containing film on the substrate.

Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method for depositing films or layers using a UV source during a photoexcitation process. The films are deposited on a substrate and usually contain a material, such as silicon (e.g., epitaxy, crystalline, microcrystalline, polysilicon, or amorphous), silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, or other silicon-containing materials. The photoexcitation process may expose the substrate and/or gases to an energy beam or flux prior to, during, or subsequent a deposition process. Therefore, the photoexcitation process may be used to pre-treat or post-treat the substrate or material, to deposit the silicon-containing material, and to enhance chamber cleaning processes. Attributes of the method that are enhanced by the UV photoexcitation process include removing native oxides prior to deposition, removing volatiles from deposited films, increasing surface energy of the deposited films, increasing the excitation energy of precursors, reducing deposition time, and reducing deposition temperature.

Compositions for directed self-assembly patterning techniques are provided which avoid the need for separate anti-reflective coatings and brush neutral layers in the process. Methods for directed self-assembly are also provided in which a self-assembling material, such as a directed self-assembly block copolymer, can be applied directly to the silicon hardmask neutral layer and then self-assembled to form the desired pattern. Directed self-assembly patterned structures are also disclosed herein.

A primary alkaline battery includes a cathode having a cathode active material and carbon fibers, an anode, a separator and an alkaline electrolyte. The carbon fibers have diameters less than about 250 nanometers.

Heat dissipation and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding for an electronic device having an enclosure. An interior surface of the enclosure is covered with a conformal metallic layer which, as disposed in thermal adjacency with one or more heat-generating electronic components or other sources contained within the enclosure, may provide both thermal dissipation and EMI shielding for the device. The layer may be sprayed onto the interior surface in a molten state and solidified to form a self-adherent coating.

A semi-crystalline film comprised of a lactide polymer. The lactide polymer comprises a plurality of poly(lactide) polymer chains, residual lactide in concentration of less than about 5 percent and water in concentration of less than about 2000 parts-per-million. A process for manufacturing a semi-crystalline film with the lactide polymer composition is also disclosed.

The invention discloses a doped modified lithium nickel cobalt manganese material, a preparation method thereof and a lithium ion battery. A secondary particle of the doped modified lithium nickel cobalt manganese material is composed of a primary particle and is spherical or spherical-like in shape, and the surface of the primary particle is non-uniformly doped with a nano metal oxide layer. In the preparation method, a precursor of the lithium nickel cobalt manganese material is doped with nano metal oxides during a synthesis stage and undergoes doping modification. Compared with the prior art, the doped modified lithium nickel cobalt manganese material is used as an anode activity material of the lithium ion battery, under a charge/discharge condition of 4.45 V, has good circulation and good thermal stability, and can meet requirements of high energy density, high power density, long service life and high safety of the lithium ion battery.

A method and apparatus for forming an image which can form a high-quality image on a great variety of print media regardless of the surface roughness or ink absorptivity of the print medium, without sacrificing the high degree of freedom of the ink jet printing system are provided. An ink jet printing section ejects ink to an intermediate transfer body to form an ink image on the intermediate transfer body. Before the ink image thus obtained is transferred to a print medium, an ink transfer adjuvant is applied to the print medium. Then, the ink image formed on the intermediate transfer body is transferred to the print medium to which the ink transfer adjuvant has been applied.

The invention relates to an auxiliary material for casting and moulding, in particular to a formula of alcohol group dry powder mold paint for sand mold casting. The dry powder mold paint comprises surface modifier, suspending agent, binder and refractory powder, wherein the surface modifier is 0.6-4.2wt% of refractory powder, the suspending agent is 4.0-8.0wt% of refractory powder and the binderis 4.0-6.2wt% of refractory powder. The alcohol group nanometer composite and surface modified dry powder mold paint of the invention adopts nanometer layered clay and nano-SiO2 to form composite suspending agent so that the controllability of operation technological parameters of the alcohol group dry powder mold paint is good and the process performance and operating performance of the obtainedpulp-type paint can both meet the demand of the casting factory.

A catheter having a distal tip with an inner layer formed of a polymeric material having a coefficient of friction and surface energy which are relatively low, such that the inner layer has a lubricious, non-polar inner surface repulsive to polar liquids. As a result, blood coagulation in the distal tip, and adherence of the distal tip on the guidewire are prevented or minimized.

De novo synthesized large libraries of nucleic acids are provided herein with low error rates. Further, devices for the manufacturing of high-quality building blocks, such as oligonucleotides, are described herein. Longer nucleic acids can be synthesized in parallel using microfluidic assemblies. Further, methods herein allow for the fast construction of large libraries of long, high-quality genes. Devices for the manufacturing of large libraries of long and high-quality nucleic acids are further described herein.

A method of forming a three dimensional object comprising: depositing a layer of thermoplastic polymeric material in a preset pattern on a platform (14) to form a deposited layer (50); directing an energy source (54), via an energy beam at an energy source target area (56) on the deposited layer (50) to increase the surface energy of the deposited layer at the energy source target area; contacting the energy source target area (56) with a subsequent layer (52) wherein the subsequent layer (52) is deposited along a path of the preset pattern; wherein directing an energy source (54) at the energy source target area (56) comprises applying energy to the layer at an area preceding the depositing of the subsequent layer to that area; and repeating the preceding steps to form the three dimensional object.

Disclosed herein is an image forming process comprising the steps of applying a first material for improving the wettability of the surface of an intermediate transfer medium to the intermediate transfer medium, applying a second material for lowering the flowability of an ink to the intermediate transfer medium to which the first material has been applied, applying the ink to the intermediate transfer medium, to which the first material and second material have been applied, from an ink-jet recording head to form an image of the ink on the intermediate transfer medium, and transferring the ink image formed to a recording medium.

This invention relates to the printing of a substrate having a pre-printed “print pattern” with a “design layer” of ink where there is differential adhesion within and without the print pattern. The print pattern is receptive to an ink, and the design layer ink forms a durable image material with good bond to the print pattern, but the ink does not form a durable image material on the portions of the substrate outside the print pattern. The design layer ink is a UV-curable ink, and the print pattern may have a higher surface energy than the portions of the substrate outside the print pattern.

A method of making a battery electrode includes the steps of dispersing an active electrode material and a conductive additive in water with at least one dispersant to create a mixed dispersion; treating a surface of a current collector to raise the surface energy of the surface to at least the surface tension of the mixed dispersion; depositing the dispersed active electrode material and conductive additive on a current collector; and heating the coated surface to remove water from the coating.

A method of printing with water-based inkjet inks on a water-impermeable, low-surface-energy substrate, includes:

• • a) modifying surface properties of the substrate to increase the surface energy;
  • b) coating the modified surface of the substrate with a first layer comprising a colorless water-based tie-layer composition;
  • c) coating over the first layer with a second layer including a colorless and transparent water-based ink-receptive composition including:
    • i) a water-soluble multivalent metal salt; and
    • ii) a hydrophilic binder polymer;
  • d) depositing directly on the surface of the second layer one or more water-based ink compositions containing an anionically stabilized pigment colorant, wherein the one or more water-based ink compositions are deposited in a predetermined pattern with an inkjet deposition system in response to electrical signals; and
  • e) drying the first and second coated layers and the deposited inks to substantially remove the water.

The invention discloses a highly-flame-retardant modified acrylate coating. The raw materials for preparing the coating comprise the following ingredients: 65-80 parts of phosphate ester modified acrylic emulsion, 5-10 parts of polysiloxane, 3-10 parts of waterborne polyurethane emulsion, 2-6 parts of resorcinol bis(diphenyl) phosphate, 0.5-1.8 parts of tri-isopropylphenyl phosphate, 10-30 parts of nanometer aluminum hydroxide, 15-32 parts of titanium dioxide, 5-20 parts of nano-silica, 19-35 parts of ammonium polyphosphate, 5-10 parts of dipentaerythritol, 3-10 parts of beta-cyclodextrin, 3-8 parts of an organic solvent, 3-5 parts of a film-forming additive, 2-5 parts of an auxiliary, and 30-60 parts of water. The highly-flame-retardant modified acrylate coating disclosed by the invention is good in flame retardancy, high in heat resistance, high in strength, and long in service life.

A method for depositing a coating comprising a polymer and impermeable dispersed solid on a substrate, comprising the following steps: discharging at least one impermeable dispersed solid in dry powder form through a first orifice; discharging at least one polymer in dry powder form through a second orifice; depositing the polymer and/or impermeable dispersed solid particles onto said substrate, wherein an electrical potential is maintained between the substrate and the impermeable dispersed solid and/or polymer particles, thereby forming said coating; and sintering said coating under conditions that do not disrupt the activity and/or function of the substrate. A similar method is provided for depositing a coating comprising a hydrophobic polymer and a water-vapor-trapping material on a substrate.

A preparation method of a carbon fiber reinforcement grafted by graphene oxide relates to a preparation method of a carbon fiber reinforcement grafted by graphene oxide. The invention solves the problems of harsh process conditions, long process period, toxic process, and difficult industrial production for current carbon fiber surface modification methods. The invention adopts a 'grafting' method, and grafts graphene oxide on acidified carbon fiber surfaces through an acylation reaction by using polyamide-amine with a lot of amido active groups; the invention has low cost, is simple, practical, environment-friendly, and nontoxic, and can be completed within a short period. The method particularly comprises the following steps: mixing acidified carbon fibers and a polyamide-amine methanolsolution, reacting to prepare carbon fibers modified by polyamide-amine, adding the prepared carbon fibers in a graphene oxide acetone suspension, mixing, reacting, filtering, drying the precipitatestill the weight is constant. The obtained carbon fiber reinforcement has interfacial shear strength with epoxy resin of up to 79.77-105.50 MPa which is improved.