Compositions and articles comprising omniphobic materials for bio-related and other applications are generally provided. In some embodiments, the compositions and articles described herein may be introduced internally of a subject (e.g., in the esophagus, in the gastrointestinal tract, in the rectum). In some aspects, the compositions and articles comprise a releasable therapeutic agent In some embodiments, the compositions and articles described herein may be configured to have a relatively short retention time at the location internal of the subject (e.g., less than 2 seconds) such as a capsule comprising an omniphobic coating. In alternative embodiments, the compositions and articles described herein may be configured to have relative long retention times at the location internal of the subject (e.g., greater than 10 minutes) and include a mucoadhesive portion as well as an omniphobic portion. Such articles may have an omniphobic portion which resists adhesion and/or fouling (e.g., by foodstuffs and/or other materials present internal of the subject) of the article, such that the mucoadhesive portion maintains adhesion to the location internal of the subject for relatively long retention times. In some such embodiments, the article may be a Janus-type device.

A three-dimensional substrate has a first surface, a second surface, land areas and comprises three-dimensional protrusions extending outward from the second surface of the three-dimensional substrate. The three-dimensional protrusions are surrounded by the land areas. The three-dimensional substrate is a laminate comprising at least two layers in a face to face relationship. The second layer comprise a tissue layer facing outward from the second surface of the three-dimensional substrate. The tissue layer comprises at least 80% pulp fibers by weight of the tissue layer.

An object is to provide a base paper for paper tubes that has lower environmental impact and is used for manufacturing of paper tubes offering excellent water resistance. As a solution, a base paper for paper tubes is provided, wherein: it has two or more but no more than five paper layers; the paper layers are bonded by a water-soluble or water-dispersible adhesive; and its elution rate is 2.0 percent or lower.

A composite article (30), comprising at least one fibrous layer (12), and at least one thermoplastic epoxy web layer (14) located in direct planar contact with the at least one fibrous layer (12), the at least one thermoplastic epoxy web layer (14) being adapted to substantially phase separate during a molding and/or curing process.

The present invention is directed to a novel co-extruded multilayer structure that possess a draw down ratio superior than the critical draw-down ratio of each one of the polymeric layers, extruded individually. The present invention is also directed to a method for obtaining the co-extruded multilayer structure.

The co-extruded multilayer structure obtainable by the method described herein allows preparing films, filaments or spun-melt non-wovens of low weight at high speed using conventional extrusion equipments. The co-extruded multilayer structure is especially suitable as diaper back-sheets or flexible packaging coatings.

The present invention relates to multi-layer fiber products and a method of manufacturing these kinds of products. The present product comprises a first layer consists mainly of natural fibers and a second, heat-sealing layer located on top of the first layer. The heat-sealing layer consists mainly of synthetic thermoplastic fibers or particles. According to the present method, the heat-sealing layer is brought onto the first layer already during the web forming process, the first and the second layers being formed and joined together in a foam forming process. With the present invention, it is possible to decrease the amount of plastic materials in packaging materials having heat-sealing properties.

The disclosure provides a cross-linkable polymer composition, a core layer for an information carrying card comprising such cross-linked composition, resulting information carrying card, and methods of making the same. A crosslinkable polymer composition comprises a curable base polymer resin in a liquid or paste form, and a particulate thermoplastic filler. The base polymer resin is selected from the group consisting of urethane acrylate, silicone acrylate, epoxy acrylate, urethane, acrylate, silicone and epoxy. The particulate thermoplastic filler may be polyolefin, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a copolymer of vinyl chloride and at least another monomer, or a polyester such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a compound or blend thereof.

A flexible layered fabric sheet comprising a porous front layer and a pre-seeded substrate layer, where the seeds are in-between the two layers (rather than at the back of the substrate layer), for supporting root growth, the two layers together having an upper and lower edge and being attached together with one or more non-continuous seams between the upper and lower edges, which seams have a component of direction parallel to the upper and/or lower edge, and wherein the non-continuous seams enable water to exit the layered fabric sheet at its lower edge, and the non-continuous seams further serve to slow water flow through the water sheet. The seams also serve to keep the two layers from separating which would hamper the penetration of the sapling through the front porous layer, and thus stunt growth.

A fiber-dispersed resin composite material, containing fiber dispersed in a resin, wherein the content of the fiber in the fiber-dispersed resin composite material is 1 mass % or more and less than 70 mass %, and wherein when a length-weighted average fiber length and a number-averaged fiber length of the fiber as determined under conditions below are set to LL and LN, respectively, LL and LN satisfy [Expression 1-1] below:

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LL and LN are determined for a dissolution residue obtained by immersing the fiber-dispersed resin composite material in a solvent miscible with the resin in the composite material, in accordance with Pulps-Determination of fiber length by automated optical analysis as specified by ISO 16065 2001, and

[00001]$\begin{array}{cc}1.01<\left(LL/LN\right)<1.30.& \left[\mathrm{Expression}1\text{-}1\right]\end{array}$

It is provided that the laminated stretched polyamide film having excellent water-resistant adhesiveness (water-resistant lamination strength), shock resistance, and pinhole resistance. A laminated stretched polyamide film that is a biaxially stretched polyamide film comprising three layers including layer B: an easily adhesive layer, layer A: a base layer, and layer C: a slippery layer in this order, wherein the layer A contains not lower than 65% by mass of polyamide 6, the layer B contains 0 to 40% by mass of polyamide 6 and 60 to 100% by mass of a polyamide 6 copolymer in which a ratio of a copolymerization component in the copolymer is 3 to 35% by mass, and the layer C contains not lower than 70% by mass of polyamide 6 and 0.05 to 1% by mass of fine particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 10 μm.