Abstract:
A substrate (for example an implantable medical device) is provided with a lubricious surface by grafting onto the surface monomers containing acryl amide groups and then hydrolysing said groups under alkaline conditions, the grafting step being carried out in an aqueous environment.
Abstract:
A method for creating a functional coating on a substrate in vacuum from a deposited monomer material in absence of oxygen and/or radiation from a radiation source. The substrate may be preliminarily activated with inert gas to form an activated layer thereon. The method may include depositing a fluorine containing monomer having a first CF3:CF2 ratio, and forming, on the substrate, the self-assembled polymer coating that has a second CF3:CF2 ratio, where the first and second CF3:CF2 ratios are equal.
Abstract:
A method of making a multilayer sheet includes: forming a substrate including a substrate first surface and a substrate second surface; applying a conductive layer including a base and a conductive coating to the substrate first surface; and applying an ultraviolet cured coating layer to a surface of the conductive layer opposite that in contact with the substrate second surface, wherein the ultraviolet cured coating layer comprises a multifunctional acrylate oligomer and an acrylate monomer; pressing the substrate, conductive layer, and ultraviolet cured coating layer together to form a stack; heating the stack; activating the ultraviolet cured coating layer with an ultraviolet radiation source; and removing the base from the stack leaving a conductive multilayer sheet; wherein the ultraviolet cured coating layer remains adhered to the conductive layer.
Abstract:
A novel material is provided herein which is suitable for use in a precursor of a polymer coating material that coats a polymer on a surface of a base material to provide the base material with surface modification and/or functionality assignment. A composite material characterized in that a compound having a polymerization initiation site containing a halogen group is incorporated in a crosslinked structure comprising a catechol derivative or a phenol derivative represented by the following formula (I). In the formula (I), R may be interrupted by an oxygen molecule and represents a hydrocarbon group with 2 to 20 carbons that has at least one double bond site, and A represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, or an alkoxy group with 1 to 20 carbons.
Abstract:
A waterproof sound-permeable membrane (10) includes a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane (20). The PTFE membrane (20) is obtained by stretching a PTFE sheet so as to obtain a porous PTFE membrane having a porous structure including a plurality of fibrils and pores between the plurality of fibrils and then applying a pressure to only a region of one principal surface of the porous PTFE membrane in a thickness direction of the porous PTFE membrane or by applying a greater pressure to a region of one principal surface of the porous PTFE membrane than to a remaining region of the one principal surface other than the region to which the greater pressure is applied, in the thickness direction of the porous PTFE membrane. The PTFE membrane (20) has a low-density portion (21) having the porous structure and a high-density portion (22) having a lower porosity than the low-density portion (21).
Abstract:
The present invention aims to provide a surface modification method for a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer, which can impart excellent sliding properties and excellent durability against repeated sliding motion and can allow the surface to maintain the sealing properties, without using expensive self-lubricating plastics. The present invention relates to a surface modification method for modifying a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer as an object to be modified, the method including: step 1 of forming polymerization initiation points on the object to be modified; step 2 of radically polymerizing a monomer, starting from the polymerization initiation points, by irradiation with LED light at 300 nm to 400 nm to grow polymer chains on a surface of the object to be modified; and step 3 of esterifying, transesterifying or amidating side chains of the polymer chains.