University of Massachusetts

Saint-gobain Adfors Canada, Ltd.

Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Corporation

Saint-gobain Adfors

Sahas Rathi

Nancy E Brown

Jackson A Ivey

Michael John Tzivanis

Edward Bryan Coughlin

Charles S Golub

Shaw Ling Hsu

Xingwei Vivian Wang

Pradeep Kurup

Tzuyang Yu

Michael A Zimmerman

Thomas J McCarthy

Nicholas David Orf

Gerald H Ling

Jia-Mei Soon

Jonas Bouchard

Choung Lai

Pascal Nael

Xiaolang Chen

Jagadis Sankaranarayanan

A sensing textile includes at least one assembly of optical fiber filaments, wherein the sensing textile has a main direction and a cross direction, and wherein the at least one assembly of optical fiber filaments is oriented at any angle measured relative to the cross direction.

Sensing textile

A screen includes a mesh substrate having an openness of greater than 30% when viewed at 0&#xb0; incidence, the mesh substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface, the first major surface including a first coating, the first major surface having a first reflectance value, wherein the first reflectance value has an average value of greater than about 10% as measured by an EN410 standard and a diffuse reflection profile at all viewing angles from &#x2212;89&#xb0; to 89&#xb0;, excluding an angle of direct illumination as measured by a scattering distribution function technique using a Goniometer, wherein the diffuse reflection profile provides a reduction in view through the mesh substrate when viewed from &#x2212;89&#xb0; to 89&#xb0;.

Open mesh screen

A polyester or polyester copolymer based composition, such as a polylactic acid based composition, is provided herein. The polyester or polyester copolymer based composition may include a plasticizer, such as an ether based, an ester based, and/or an ether-ester based plasticizer.

Stabilized polyester based compositions

A composition includes a blend of (a) a multi-block copolymer including at least one block of an elastomeric polymer and at least one block of a first polymer including a chiral polymer having a stereo isomeric configuration; and (b) a second polymer including an anti-chiral polymer corresponding to the chiral polymer in (a), wherein the second polymer includes an opposite handed stereo isomeric configuration to the chiral polymer in (a); wherein the blend of the chiral polymer and the anti-chiral polymer form stereo complex sites. A flexible tubing material further includes the blend. In an embodiment, a method of making the blend material is also provided.

Blend composition, flexible tubing material and method of making the blend

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Westborough, MA, United States of America

Sahas Rathi