659 results about "Inorganic polymer" patented technology

A method for producing a solid optical system with embedded elements is provided. The embedded elements may include inorganic, polymer, or hybrid lenses, mirrors, beam splitters and polarizers, or other elements. The embedding material is a transparent high quality optical polymer.

A binder material, inorganic polymer, is used to formulate carbon nanotube pastes. This material can be cured at 200° C. and has a thermal-stability up to 500° C. Low-out gassing of this binder material makes it a good candidate for long life field emission devices. Due to better adhesion with this binder material, a strong adhesive peelable polymer from liquid form can be applied on the CNT cathode to achieve a uniform activation with even contact and pressure on the surface. The peelable polymer films may be used both as an activation layer and a mask layer to fabricate high-resolution patterned carbon nanotube cathodes for field emission devices using lithographic processes.

Porous films with straight pores oriented normal to the plane of the films are produced through solution processing techniques. The production takes advantage of inorganic-surfactant or inorganic-polymer co-assembly and a patterned substrate. The patterned substrate, which is also produced via solution phase self-assembly, forces vertical orientation in a hexagonal cylinder system with no practical limits in substrate size or type. This provides a route to vertically oriented inorganic pores with a pitch ranging from 3 nm to over 15 nm and pore sizes ranging from 2 nm to over 12 nm. The size is tuned by choice the choice of organic templating agents and the deposition conditions. The pores can be produced with or without a capping layer which can be used to seal the nanopores.

A super hydrophobic self cleaning coating composition that can be applied by conventional methods such as by spraying the composition onto a surface creating a wet and dry dirt repellent coating on the surface. The super hydrophobic self cleaning coatings are used on exterior automotive and boat surfaces, and in many other applications, to produce a self cleaning surface, reduce adherence of dirt and contaminants to a treated surface, and reduce drag in some applications providing an energy savings. The coating utilizes a blend of organic and/or inorganic polymers with hydrophobic nanoparticles of fumed silica and/or titania in a volatile solvent which evaporates at ambient temperature. The coating solves the problem of poor resistance to UV light, opaque appearance, and/or some abrasion resistance not found in previous coatings of similar nature. A preferred coating has good resistance to UV light and some resistance to abrasion. Clear, nearly transparent and translucent coatings are produced as compared to conventional coatings of comparable hydrophobicity which are typically white or opaque. The coating can be applied by a single and easy spraying method and the super hydrophobic property can be achieved by drying the film by evaporation of the solvent at ambient temperature for 5 to 10 minutes. Embodiments of the super hydrophobic self-cleaning coating composition result in a clear coating or in some cases a translucent dirt repellant film for coating on painted material, plastic, metal, glass, ceramic, fiberglass or a polymer substrate. The coating utilizes a blend of organic and/or inorganic polymers with hydrophobic nanoparticles of fumed silica and/or titania in a volatile solvent. At least one preferred coating composition comprising an effective amount of a treated fumed silica in a solvent resulting in a coated surface providing a contact angle of at least 165 degrees as compared to water having a contact angle of from 10 to 15 degrees on a noncoated surface. The composition imparts a degree of hydrophobicity to a surface so that the surface will have a tilt angle of sliding of less than 2 degrees as compared to water on a noncoated surface having a tilt angle of sliding of 90 degrees or higher. The coating composition is removed by washing with a detergent or applying pressure to the coating wiping same from the treated surface. Exposure to water in the form of rain or snow does not remove the coating composition.

The invention relates to microcapsules having a core material encapsulated within a microcapsular shell, the core material comprises at least one active ingredient, wherein the microcapsular shell comprises at least one inorganic polymer comprising polymerized precursors obtained by in-situ polymerization of the precursors; wherein the concentration of the core material based total weight of the microcapsules is above 95% w/w. The invention further relates to a composition and to a suspension comprising the microcapsules. The invention additionally relates to a process for preparing the microcapsules.

The present invention relates to articles comprising an antiglare layer, coating compositions suitable for making antiglare layers, methods of making an antiglare article, and methods of making antiglare coating compositions. In some embodiments the article is a (e.g. illuminated) display article such as a touch screen. The antiglare layer comprises aggregate inorganic oxide particles in a cured inorganic polymer matrix.

A photo-patternable composition for forming an organic insulating film which includes (i) a functional group-containing monomer, (ii) an initiator generating an acid or a radical upon light irradiation, and (iii) an organic or inorganic polymer. Further disclosed is a method for forming a pattern of an organic insulating film using the composition. Since an organic insulating film can be simply patterned without involving any photoresist process, the overall procedure is simplified and eventually an organic thin film transistor with high charge carrier mobility can be fabricated by all wet processes.

Organic-inorganic composite material comprising:

• • colloidal particles of at least one inorganic compound chosen from metal or metalloid oxides and oxyhydroxides, prepared by means of a process of hydrolysis-condensation in a protic or polar solvent, said particles having been surface-functionalised by reaction with an organic compound;
  • and an organic or inorganic polymer.

Process for preparing this composite material and optical material comprising a layer of this composite material.

A fire resistant laminate for application to a core structure (12) to form a sandwich panel (10) having fire resistant face sheets (14&16). The laminate includes a fire protection (18) in which at least one layer of fibers (22) is embedded within a cured inorganic polymer matrix (24). The laminate further includes an adhesive layer (20) for bonding to the core structure.

A neutron detector, and method for fabricating same, having an active layer comprised of organic and inorganic materials such as polymers and/or small molecules. These materials function as a semiconductor host matrix that transports carriers excited by neutron absorption. The active layer is comprised of host semiconductor materials, composites of the host semiconductor materials with other polymers molecules, and particles, or multi-layer structures of the host semiconductor materials with other materials. The host semiconductor materials include in their molecular structure neutron capturing atoms such as ¹⁰B, ⁶Li, ¹⁵⁷Gd, ²³⁵U, ²³⁹Pu, ⁵¹V, and ¹⁰³Rh, or alternatively are blended with molecules or particles that contain the above atoms in addition to electron accepting molecules or particles. Using these materials allows for the simplified fabrication of inexpensive, large area, relatively lightweight, and flexible neutron detectors via film casting from solution, thermal evaporation, inkjet printing, and film laminate, or film extrusion.

An electrical circuit material having a conductive layer disposed a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises an organic or inorganic polymer comprising a covalently bound polyhedral silsesquioxane (POSS). The substrate may further comprise an additional dispersed POSS, any other fillers including fibrous webs. Use of covalently bound POSS allows for flame retardancy in compositions having acceptable dielectric constants and dissipation factors.

A method comprising incorporation of an inorganic polymer precursor of a grain growth inhibitor into nanostructured materials or intermediates useful for the production of nanostructured materials. The precursor/nanostructured material composite is optionally heat treated at a temperature below the grain growth temperature of the nanostructured material in order to more effectively disperse the precursor. The composites are then heat treated at a temperature effective to decompose the precursor and to form nanostructured materials having grain growth inhibitors uniformly distributed at the grain boundaries. Synthesis of the inorganic polymer solution comprises forming an inorganic polymer from a solution of metal salts, filtering the polymer, and drying. Alloying additives as well as grain growth inhibitors may be incorporated into the nanostructured materials.

The present invention relates to articles comprising an antiglare layer, coating compositions suitable for making antiglare layers, methods of making an antiglare article, and methods of making antiglare coating compositions. In some embodiments the article is a (e.g. illuminated) display article such as a touch screen. The antiglare layer comprises aggregate silica particle in a cured inorganic polymer matrix.

The present invention provides a photochromic nanoparticle having a core-shell structure comprising (a) a polymer nano particle having a mean diameter controlled in a range of 10˜150 nm and containing a photochromic dye; and (b) a silicate inorganic polymer layer enveloping the polymer nanoparticle, and a method for preparing the same. The photochromic nanoparticle according to the present invention has structural and physical stability continuously in a long term and has transparency because of low light scattering, so that it can be applied to optical products.

An inkjet head having an ink flow path communicated with an ink chamber to an inkjet nozzle and having an orifice plate to which the nozzle is formed. An ink-philic layer is formed on the surface of the ink flow path, and an ink repellent layer is formed on the surface of the orifice plate where the nozzle is formed. The ink-philic layer is made of amorphous silica or inorganic polymer of colloidal silica bonded with a polymer of (SiOR), and the ink repellent layer contains a compound having perfluoropolyether chain and alkoxysilane residue as a terminal.

The invention provides an inorganic polymeric material used to fixedly seal heavy metal wastes, which is an inorganic silicon-aluminum polymeric material used in the environmental protection field. The material comprises the following compositions in weight percentage: 9.9 to 35.1 percent of metakaolin, 3.94 to 27.6 percent of ore slag, 0.1 to 9.9 percent of active low calcium silicon-aluminum material, 9.6 to 10.6 percent of alkali excitant and 50.0 to 54.7 percent of sand. The material has the advantages of high doped quantity of the heavy metal wastes, high fixing seal efficiency, wide source of raw materials, convenient preparation and processing, high mechanical strength, excellent durability and low cost.