Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a copolymer by free radical mass polymerization of a maleic acid monoester derivative with vinyl ester in the presence of an acid having a pKa of less than 1.8. The copolymer is suitable as a dispersant for hydraulic binders.

Abstract: A (meth)acrylic acid/alkyl (meth)acrylate ester copolymer containing: 95.42 to 97.48% by mass of (meth)acrylic acid; 2.43 to 4.30% by mass of an alkyl (meth)acrylate ester, and 0.08 to 0.30% by mass of a compound having two or more ethylenically unsaturated groups. Use in cosmetics.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermosetting adhesive tape or sheet having a thermosetting adhesive layer, which can be stored stably at room temperature, and, when thermally cured, can exert excellent adhesiveness and high thermal stability after exposure to heat and moist, because the resin in the adhesive rapidly reacts upon curing. The thermosetting adhesive tape or sheet according to the present invention includes a thermosetting adhesive layer which has a gel fraction of less than 70%, a difference in gel fraction between before and after storage at 40° C. for 7 days [(gel fraction after storage at 40° C. for 7 days)?(gel fraction before storage at 40° C. for 7 days)] of 15% or less, and a gel fraction after curing at 150° C. for 1 hour of 90% or more.

Abstract: In manufacturing of a carboxyl group-containing water-soluble polymer by a precipitation polymerization method, a method which can improve production efficiency with increasing practicality continuously adds a monomer solution wherein a monomer component containing an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid is dissolved in an inert solvent in a concentration of 20 to 50% by volume to an inert solvent charged in a reaction vessel. In this case, the amount of the inert solvent charged in the reaction vessel is set so that the concentration of the monomer component in the total amount summed up with the monomer solution is 10 to 24% by volume, and the time period until completion of continuous addition of the total amount of the monomer solution is set so that the conversion of the monomer component at the time of completion of addition of the total amount of the monomer solution is 60% or more. The monomer component may contain a polymerizable compound having two or more ethylenically unsaturated groups.

Abstract: A description is given of a process for preparing solutions of radiation-sensitive, free-radically polymerizable organic compounds, where a first starting compound, which has an acid halide group, and a second starting compound, which has an alcoholic hydroxyl group, are esterified with one another in a solvent or in a solvent mixture. The solvent comprises one or more ketones having a boiling point of below 150° C. under atmospheric pressure (1 bar), or the solvent mixture is composed to an extent of at least 50% by weight of said ketones. One of the two starting compounds has at least one radiation-sensitive group and the other of the two starting compounds has at least one ethylenically unsaturated, free-radically polymerizable group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition comprising at least one photo-initiator and at least one (meth)acryl-polymer having units that are derived from (meth)acryl-monomers that have at least one double bond and 8 to 40 carbon atoms in the alkyl residue. The present invention furthermore relates to a monomer mixture comprising at least one (meth)acryl-monomer having at least one double bond and 8 to 40 carbon atoms in the alkyl residue and at least one photo-initiator monomer and a (meth)acryl-polymer that can be obtained by polymerization of said monomer mixture. The present invention furthermore relates to a method for producing a coating. The present invention furthermore relates to a coated object comprising a coating obtained by said method.

Abstract: A water-soluble copolymer having alkyl-modified carboxyl groups which is able to produce a neutralized viscous liquid in which although its viscosity is very low when no electrolyte exists, the viscosity greatly increases when electrolytes are added, which has a sufficiently high viscosity and a very high transmittance and which has moist textures without stickiness even in the presence of a relatively high concentration of electrolytes, and a thickening agent comprising the same.

Abstract: Hybrid copolymers for use as anti-sealant and dispersant. The polymers are useful in compositions used in aqueous systems. The polymers include at least one synthetic monomeric constituent that is chain terminated by a naturally occurring hydroxyl containing moiety. A process for preparing these hybrid copolymers is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a modified styrene-maleic acid copolymer obtained by reacting a carboxylic acid group in a styrene-maleic acid copolymer with a halogen and/or epoxy compound. The modified styrene-maleic acid copolymer is useful as a low profile additive for a thermosetting resin, a water-absorbing material, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to copolymers which comprise ethyl methacrylate, at least one ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated amide group-containing compound and at least one monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid in copolymerized form, to cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions which comprise at least one such copolymer, and to the use of these copolymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to amphoteric copolymers which comprise ethyl methacrylate, if appropriate a N-vinyllactam compound, at least one monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and at least one compound with ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated double bond and at least one cationogenic and/or cationic group in copolymerized form, to cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions which comprise such copolymers, to preparation methods, and to the use of these copolymers.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel polymer-tethered ligands, metal complexes comprising these ligands, and the use of these complexes as chain transfer catalysts to control the molecular weight of oligomeric and polymeric materials produced in a radical polymerization process. The materials made by the processes disclosed herein have significantly reduced color, making them suitable for a wide range of color-critical end-uses, including automotive coatings.

Abstract: There is provided a device comprising a body structure having one or more surfaces wherein at least one of the surfaces comprises a pH sensitive layer comprising a linear polymer, wherein the water solubility of the linear polymer increases from a first water solubility to a second water solubility at a pH trigger. A method of forming a device, and a method of preventing or mitigating infection is also described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel iron complex having a cyclic amine compound as a ligand and a method for producing polymers by polymerizing a radical polymerizable monomer in the presence of the iron complex and a radical generator. The problem for the present invention is providing a method capable of producing a polymer or block copolymer having a chemically convertible functional group at the end from a radical polymerizable monomer and providing a method for recovering the iron complex in a solvent with a high recovery rate after the polymerization reaction. This problem is solved by providing a novel iron complex, a method for producing a polymer in the presence of a radical polymerization initiator that uses the iron complex as a polymerization catalyst and a method for simply and easily recovering the iron complex.

Abstract: A description is given of an adhesive composition which comprises a polymer preferably in the form of an emulsion polymer in dispersion in water. The emulsion polymer has a glass transition temperature of less than ?61° C. and is preparable by emulsion polymerization at temperatures less than 80° C. from 80-95% by weight of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate and 5-20% by weight of further, ethylenically unsaturated, free-radically copolymerizable monomers, of which 0.2% to 2% by weight, based on the total amount of monomers, are acid-containing comonomers. The adhesive composition can be used in particular as a pressure-sensitive adhesive for producing plasticizer-free, self-adhesive, redetachable paper labels.

Abstract: Aqueous treatment composition for use as anti-scalant and dispersant. The composition includes a polymer containing low amounts of sulfonate that prove as effective in carbonate and phosphate inhibition as polymers containing much higher amounts of sulfonate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a microanalysis chip adhesive sheet with an adhesive surface, which can be inexpensively but easily bonded to a substrate at a relatively low temperature, with which fabrication of analysis chips is simplified, and which has the capability of fixing a selective bonding substance to the sheet surface. The microanalysis chip is characterized in that a microanalysis chip adhesive sheet, which comprises a plastic sheet provided with an adhesive layer formed from an adhesive that contains a polymer in which monomer structural units that contain carboxyl radicals or acid anhydride radicals constitute 5-25% by weight of the [total] monomer structural units in the polymer, and a substrate, which has protrusions and recesses on the surface thereof, are bonded together so that the surface of the substrate having the projections and concavities and the adhesive layer of the aforementioned microanalysis chip adhesive sheet are on the inside.

Abstract: A polymer for filling gaps in a semiconductor substrate and a composition using the polymer are provided. According to the composition, holes having a diameter of 100 nm or less and an aspect ratio (i.e. a ratio between the diameter and height of the holes) of 1 or higher in semiconductor substrates can be substantially completely filled by common spin coating without formation of defects, e.g., air voids, the film can be dissolved by an aqueous alkaline solution (i.e. a developing solution) until a desired thickness is reached, the film is highly resistant to isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and plasma etching after curing by baking, and residue can be rapidly removed from the inside of the holes by ashing.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of an aqueous polymer dispersion using RAFT compounds.

Abstract: This invention provides acrylate polymers having at least two different ester groups. The ester groups are selected from the following: a) an aralkyl group; b) a linear alkylether group; c) a polyethoxylated alkylaryl group; and d) a polyethoxylated alkyl group, with the proviso that at least one of said ester groups is selected from b) or d). Processes for preparing such polymers and processes for breaking emulsions with these acrylate polymers are also provided.

Abstract: A surface shape and physical properties required for a structure having an antireflection performance of light and an improved performance of light permeability have been found, particularly the structure having surface scratch resistance is provided, a composition capable of forming the structure having such a particular structure and physical properties is provided, and further a composition which can easily form the structure which is excellent in antireflection performance of light and an improved performance of light permeability and has a large aspect ratio is provided.

Abstract: Copolymers which contain tert-butyl (meth)acrylate, at least one ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated amido-containing compound and acrylic acid incorporated in the form of polymerized units, cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions which contain at least one such copolymer and the use of these copolymers are described.

Abstract: Hybrid copolymers for use as anti-sealant and dispersant. The polymers are useful in compositions used in aqueous systems. The polymers include at least one synthetic monomeric constituent that is chain terminated by a naturally occurring hydroxyl containing moiety. A process for preparing these hybrid copolymers is also provided.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use, in a foamy aqueous suspension of calcium sulfate hemihydrate, as an agent having the dual function of being a dispersing agent and an anti-defoaming agent, of a comb polymer made up of (meth)acrylic acid, a monomer which is an alcoxy- or hydroxy-polyalkylene glycol, and an ester of (meth)acrylic acid. It also relates to the aqueous suspensions thereby formed, and the plasterboard manufactured from 2 sheets of paper containing a body resulting from the drying of said suspensions.

Abstract: A copolymer which includes at least one biologically compatible structural moiety and at least one biologically active moiety is disclosed. The copolymer can be used for fabricating a coating for an implantable medical device such as a stent.

Abstract: Ampholytic copolymers which contain a molar excess of anionogenic and/or anionic groups, polyelectrolyte complexes which contain such an ampholytic copolymer, cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions which contain at least one such copolymer or polyelectrolyte complex and the use of these copolymers and polyelectrolyte complexes are described.

Abstract: A (meth)acrylic acid/alkyl (meth)acrylate ester copolymer containing constituents of 95.42 to 97.48% by mass of (meth)acrylic acid, 2.43 to 4.30% by mass of an alkyl (meth)acrylate ester of which alkyl group has 18 to 24 carbon atoms, and 0.08 to 0.30% by mass of a compound having two or more ethylenically unsaturated groups; and cosmetics blended with the copolymer. According to the copolymer of the present invention, a neutral viscous aqueous solution having a high viscosity can be formed even in the presence of an electrolyte in a relatively high concentration, without being affected by its temperature and electrolytic concentration; therefore, the copolymer of the present invention can be suitably used in cosmetics and the like.

Abstract: The use of an addition polymer A composed in copolymerized form of 0.1% to 40% by weight of at least one C3 to C30 alkene, 40% to 99.9% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated C3 to C6 monocarboxylic acid, 0% to 50% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated C4 to C12 dicarboxylic acid and/or of the ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic monoalkyl esters or dicarboxylic anhydrides obtainable from said acid, and 0% to 30% by weight of at least one other ethylenically unsaturated compound which is copolymerizable with the aforementioned monomers, as a dispersing assistant in free-radically initiated aqueous emulsion or suspension polymerization.

Abstract: A water-based coated-type vibration damping material uses a styrene-butadiene copolymer emulsion as a resin emulsion and a calcium carbonate as an inorganic filler. The water-based coated-type vibration damping material limits a blending amount of a glycol to 2% by weight or less. In case of making a coated layer by such water-based coated-type vibration damping material, there is no blister generation observed after a hot water immersion of 168 hours (7 days), after a hot water immersion of 336 hours (14 days) and after a hot water immersion of 1000 hours, either.

Abstract: The present invention provides (i) a process for producing a metal film with which process a metal film and a metal pattern can be formed, at low cost, on an arbitrary substrate, (ii) a primer composition, (iii) a metal film, and (iv) use of the metal film. The process includes the steps of: forming an organic film with use of a primer composition which contains (i) an addition polymerizable compound including three or more reactive groups, (ii) an addition polymerizable compound including an acid group, (iii) an addition polymerizable compound including a basic group, and (iv) an addition polymerizable compound including a hydrophilic functional group; form a metal (M1) salt from the acid group; substituting the metal (M1) salt of the acid group with a metal (M2) salt by processing with a metal (M2) ion aqueous solution containing a metal (M2) ion which has a less ionization tendency than the metal (M1) ion; and reducing the metal (M2) ion so that a metal film is formed on a surface of the organic film.

Abstract: A subject-matter of the invention is alkoxyamines resulting from ?-phosphorated nitroxides corresponding to the formula: in which R represents an alkyl radical having a number of carbon atoms ranging from 1 to 3, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a residue: in which R3 represents an alkyl radical having a number of carbon atoms ranging from 1 to 20, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical having a number of carbon atoms ranging from 1 to 8, a phenyl radical, an alkali metal, such as Li, Na or K, H4N+, Bu4N+ or Bu3HN+, exhibiting a kinetic dissociation constant kd, measured at 120° C. by EPR, of greater than 0.05 s?1. These compounds can be used as initiators for the (co)polymerizations of at least one monomer which can be polymerized by the radical route.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a methacrylic copolymer which is a polymer of a monomer mixture comprising about 20 to about 99.9% by weight of a C6-20 aromatic methacrylate, an aliphatic methacrylate, or a combination thereof, and about 0.1 to about 80% by weight of a mono-functional unsaturated monomer. The methacrylic copolymer can have a high refractive index of about 1.495 to about 1.59, and thus when it is blended with polycarbonate resin, it is possible to obtain a methacrylic resin composition having improved compatibility without any other compatibilizer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsifying polymers, in particular to the use of these polymers for the stable emulsification of hydrophobic additives in aqueous concrete plasticizers.

Abstract: The present invention is a film that is soluble in cold water, and useful in such applications as detergent sachets. Films of the present invention are PVOH copolymers that comprise itaconic acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for optical filter used in Plasma Display Panel (PDP), a pressure-sensitive adhesive film, an optical filter and a PDP panel display device, using the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition having a dynamic storage elastic modulus of 5×103˜5×104 Pa and a dynamic loss elastic modulus of 5×102˜5×103 Pa, at a temperature of 30° C. and a frequency of 0.01 Hz, and a dynamic storage elastic modulus of 8×103˜1×105 Pa and a dynamic loss elastic modulus of 1×103˜5×104 Pa, at a temperature of 30° C. and a frequency of 500 Hz. The pressure-sensitive adhesive according to the present invention and the optical filter applied by the adhesive comply with endurance reliability under high temperature/high humidity conditions, do not cause fine bubbles on bonding the optical filter directly to PDP and have excellent re-workability in adhering processes.

Abstract: The invention concerns to the use, as an agent improving the thermal stability of (meth)acrylic comb polymers of a macromonomer whose formula (I) is: R-(A-O)m—(B—O)n—R???(I) wherein both m and n are non-zero and A and B designate alkyl groups having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, but different from one another. The invention further pertains to the implementation of the polymers obtained, as agents improving the thermal stability of the plastic compositions that contain them.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprising a 2-octyl(meth)acrylate, (meth)acrylic acid copolymer and optional crosslinking agents is described. The adhesive composition may be derived from renewable resources and provides good peel, shear and high temperature stability.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a controlled structure copolymer comprising at least two different parts, a first part A, amphoteric or zwitterionic, including anionic or potentially anionic units, and cationic or potentially cationic units, or zwitterionic units, and another part B, non amphoteric or zwitterionic. Said copolymer further exhibits a high potential for adaptation, through variation in its composition, in order to improve or modify the properties of compositions in which it is introduced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for production of methacrylic acid, to a process for production of methyl methacrylate comprising the process steps a) providing a feed composition comprising at least one C4 feed compound selected from isobutylene and tertiary butanol; b) providing methanol; c) subjecting the at least one C4 feed compound and the methanol to a first catalytic reaction zone to obtain a reaction phase comprising methyl tertiary butyl ether; d) separating at least a first part of methanol from the reaction phase to obtain a first methanol phase and a reaction phase depleted in methanol; e) subjecting at least one of the reaction phase and the reaction phase depleted in methanol to a second catalytic reaction zone to obtain a splitting phase comprising isobutylene and methanol; f) optionally separating at least a first part of isobutylene from the second reaction phase to obtain a first isobutylene phase and a splitting phase depleted in isobutylene; g) optionally subjecting the first isobutyle

Abstract: The present invention relates to cosmetic preparations which comprise at least one polymer A which comprises, in copolymerized form, methyl methacrylate, methacrylic acid, acrylic acid, if appropriate at least one compound with at least two free-radically polymerizable, olefinically unsaturated double bonds, and if appropriate further olefinically unsaturated compounds, with the proviso that the amount by weight of the methacrylic acid is at least equal to the amount by weight of the acrylic acid.

Abstract: Alkyldiketene-containing aqueous polymer dispersions which are obtainable by miniemulsion polymerization of hydrophobic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of alkyldiketenes, processes for the preparation of such polymer dispersions and the use of the thus obtainable dispersions as sizes for paper or as water repellents for leather, natural and/or manmade fibers and textiles.

Abstract: New polymeric additive including one or more ethylenically unsaturated surfactant monomers are described having a number average molecular weight less than 40,000 and having an improved balance of tack, adhesion, plasticity and peel strength and water whitening resistance as compared to other polymer additives.

Abstract: The present invention provides method for recovering fossil-based materials from oil sources using multifunctional, multipolymeric continuous composition spectrum surfactant mixtures. The invention also provides methods for reducing the loss of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from oil storage containers using multifunctional, multipolymer surfactants. The multifunctional, multipolymer surfactants are characterized by a hydrophobic part and a hydrophilic part. The hydrophobic part of the polymer surfactants includes functionalities that impart a polarity of greater than 0 Debye to the hydrophobic part. The polymer surfactants are further characterized by molecular weights that are above their entanglement weights. The result is polymer surfactants and their continuous composition surfactant-thickener mixtures with demulsifying characteristics.

Abstract: A process for producing polymer microparticles by suspension polymerization of a vinyl-based monomer in which, when polymer microparticles are produced by suspension polymerization of a vinyl-based monomer, a macromonomer having a radically polymerizable unsaturated group at a terminus of a vinyl-based monomer-derived polymer is used as a dispersion stabilizer.

Abstract: Hybrid copolymers for use as anti-scalant and dispersant. The polymers are useful in compositions used in aqueous systems. The polymers include at least one synthetic monomeric constituent that is chain terminated by a naturally occurring hydroxyl containing moiety. A process for preparing these hybrid copolymers is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are multi-purpose alkali-swellable and alkali soluble associative polymers, which are the polymerization product of a monomer mixture comprising: (a) at least one acidic vinyl monomer; (b) at least one nonionic vinyl monomer; (c) a first associative monomer having a first hydrophobic end group; (d) a monomer selected from the group consisting of a second associative monomer having a second hydrophobic end, a semihydrophobic monomer and a combination thereof; and, optionally, (e) one or more crosslinking monomers or chain transfer agents. When monomer (d) is an associative monomer, the first and second hydrophobic end groups of monomers (c) and (d) have significantly different hydrophobic and/or steric character from one another. The multi-purpose associative polymers surprisingly provide desirable rheological and aesthetic properties in aqueous media.

Abstract: The present invention is a composition useful for coating the surface of paper wherein the coating composition is an aqueous solution comprising less than 40 wt % water and consisting essentially of a polyvinyl alcohol copolymer that is at least about 95% hydrolyzed, and a process for preparing the same.

Abstract: The present invention is a composition useful for coating the surface of paper wherein the coating composition is an aqueous solution comprising less than 40 wt % water and consisting essentially of a polyvinyl alcohol copolymer that is at least about 95 % hydrolyzed, and a process for preparing the same.

Abstract: The present invention is a composition useful for coating the surface of paper wherein the coating composition is an aqueous solution comprising less than 40 wt % water and consisting essentially of a polyvinyl alcohol copolymer that is at least about 95% hydrolyzed, and a process for preparing the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylates by preparing a poly(meth)acrylate containing hydroxy-functional side chains and transesterifying or esterifying the poly(meth)acrylate containing hydroxy-functional side chains with a (meth)acrylate or (meth)acrylic acid. The present invention further relates to the actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylates themselves and to the use of the actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylates in the preparation of dispersions or as a component in coating formulations and topcoats comprising at least one actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylate.