Abstract: The invention provides a dispenser form for substainedly releasing vapor of a sex pheromone compound of pest insects with an object to control the population of the insects. The invention dispenser is characterized by the features that: the capacity thereof is sufficiently large to contain at least 100 mg of the pheromone; the barrier wall thereof through which the pheromone permeates to be released from the outer surface is made of a polymeric material swellable with the pheromone in an equilibrium swelling of 2-6% by weight at 20.degree. C.; and the outer surface area S thereof given in mm.sup.2 is sufficient to give a ratio S/W, W being the amount of the pheromone contained therein given in mg, in the range from 4 to 11. The rate of pheromone emission from the dispenser is relatively constant at 0.6 mg/day or larger over a long period of time of, for example, 3 months or longer.

Abstract: A contact lens comprising a lens substrate in shape of a lens which comprises a triorganovinylsilane based polymer, said lens substrate having a hydrophilic polymeric chain grafted onto the surface thereof. This contact lens is not only excellent in oxygen permeability, mechanical strength, dimensional stability, vision correcting ability, staining resistance and handleability, but also good in affinity with eyes due to good hydrophilic property possessed by the surface, which can be worn continuously for a long time.

Abstract: An efficient cost- and labor-saving method is proposed for controlling the population of two kinds or more of different species of insectan pests in a field by means of distributing dispensers of sex pheromone compounds for the respective species of the insects when one of the sex pheromone compounds is an unsaturated C.sub.10 to C.sub.12 alcohol and the other is an unsaturated C.sub.14 to C.sub.20 acetate or aldehyde. When these two classes of the compounds are mixed in such a proportion that the overall solubility paramater .delta. of the mixture is 9.1 to 9.7 and the mixture is contained in a dispenser body made of polyethylene or a copolymer mainly composed of ethylene moiety, the two compounds can be concurrently emitted from the dispenser in the form of vapor each at a controlled rate over a desired length of time.

Abstract: The efficiency of the pervaporation method for the separation or enrichment of liquids in mixture, e.g. water and ethyl alcohol, can be greatly improved when the partitioning membrane is made of a polymeric composition comprising a specific organosilyl-substituted polyenic polymer composed of the monomeric moieties represented by the general formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and the groups denoted by R are each independently a hydrogen atom, a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or a silicon-containing organic group such as those represented by the general formula --CH.sub.2 --SiMe.sub.2 R.sup.2, Me being a methyl group and R.sup.2 being a lower alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms. The performance and durability of the membrane can be further improved when the polymeric composition is a polymer blend of the above described polyenic polymer and a poly(trimethyl vinyl silane).

Abstract: This invention provides a composite hollow fiber comprising a porous hollow fiber substrate and a coating layer formed on at least one of the outer surface and the inner surface of said substrate. The coating layer comprises a polymer having at least one of the structural units represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be identical or different, represent a hydrogen atom, a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or a monovalent silicon-containing organic group.This composite hollow fiber is excellent in gas permeability and gas separation performance and has high heat resistance, humidity resistance and mechanical strength.

Abstract: The contact lens of the invention is shaped of a poly(trimethylvinylsilane) resin having an average molecular weight of at least 200,000 or a copolymer based thereon. The contact lens has a very high oxygen permeability comparable to conventional transparent silicone rubbers so as to ensure a long time of continued wearing of the lens on the cornea with no adverse physiological influences and the material still has much better mechanical workability for precision shaping into a lens form than the transparent silicone rubbers.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel substituted polyacetylene copolymer having an outstandingly large oxygen permeation coefficient of 6.times.10.sup.-8 cm.sup.3 (STP).multidot.cm/cm.sup.2 .multidot.sec.multidot.cmHg or larger and a separation factor between oxygen and nitrogen of 2.0 or larger along with a high tensile strength of 200 kg/cm.sup.2 or larger in the form of a film and useful as a gas permeation element in the separation or enrichment of oxygen from or in air. The copolymer is obtained by the copolymerization of 1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne and 1-(1',1',3',3'-tetramethyl-1',3'-disilabutyl)-1-propyne in a molar ratio of 30:70 to 95:5 and the copolymer should preferably have a number-average molecular weight of at least 1.times.10.sup.4.