Abstract: The flame-retardant high impact vinyl aromatic resin composition of the present invention comprises (A) about 100 parts by weight of a rubber modified vinyl aromatic resin; (B) about 1 to about 30 parts by weight of a brominated diphenyl ethane mixture; and (C) about 1 to about 10 parts by weight of antimony oxide. The resin composition can have excellent fluidity as well as high impact strength and can provide a flame-retardant high impact vinyl aromatic resin composition having excellent workability and mechanical properties.

Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) is disclosed which has excellent compression set and adhesion to both polyamide 6 and polyamide 6,6 for use in two-part component polymer structures.

Abstract: An ink composition comprising (a) water, (b) pigment particles, (c) at least one humectant, (d) at least one polyurethane having an average molecular weight of at least about 10,000 and a sufficient number of acid groups to provide an acid number from 60 to about 130, and being present at a weight concentration of greater than 0.7%, and (e) at least one water soluble acrylic polymer comprising carboxylic acid groups, present at a weight concentration of greater than 0.6%, wherein the acid groups on the polyurethane and acrylic polymers are at least partially neutralized only with a monovalent inorganic base.

Abstract: A composition includes an elastomeric composition. The elastomeric composition can include an epichlorohydrin composition, and the elastomeric composition can be substantially free of a fluoroelastomer composition. The composition can further include a filler material which includes a reinforcement-grade carbon black. The composition can further include a peroxide curative.

Abstract: Coating compositions are provided which may be applied from aqueous systems and contain binders which are autoxidisable to produce rapid drying hard coatings, preferred binders are based on polymers derived from monomers obtained by the reaction of drying oil fatty acids and unsaturated monomers. The polymers contain microgels, have low Tg and contain residual unsaturation; preferred copolymers also contain amide groups. The drying of the coating compositions can be accelerated by the use of metal dryers and have been found to enable the use of particularly low levels of vanadium dryers.

Abstract: A tire composition with a Shore A hardness, according to DIN 53 505 and ASTM D2240, of not less than 40 and not greater than 95 and a glass-transition temperature Tg (E?max), according to DIN 53 513 with a specified temperature sweep of ?80° C. to +80° C. and a specified compression of 10+0.2% at 10 Hz, not less than ?80° C. and not greater than 0° C., with improved abrasion performance, in particular for pneumatic tires, has the following composition: at least one vulcanizable diene rubber selected from natural rubbers, synthetic polyisoprene rubbers, polyisobutylene rubbers, polybutadiene rubbers (BR), and random styrene-butadiene rubbers; from 35 to 300 phr of at least one active filler selected from carbon blacks, silicas, silicon based fillers, and metal oxides, of which at least 10 phr must be carbon blacks, silicas, or some combination thereof; from 0 to 250 phr of other or further additives; from 0.

Abstract: Nanocomposites comprising a sulfonated telechelic polycarbonate and an organically modified clay are disclosed. The polycarbonate nanocomposites have improved physical and mechanical properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to rubber mixtures with functionalized diene rubbers and with microgels, to a production process, and to the use of the mixtures for the production of low-abrasion motor-vehicle tires which have wet-slip resistance and which have low rolling resistance.

Abstract: The invention provides a resin additive master batch which can contain a resin additive having a melting point of not higher than 80° C. higher to a high concentration, with which breakage of a strand does not occur and continuous production can be attained, and with which the surface tackiness of pellets is improved. The resin additive master batch comprises 80 to 150 parts by weight of (B) resin additive having a melting point of not higher than 80° C., and 0.3 to 5 parts by weight of (C) organic acid metal salt, with respect to 100 parts by weight of (A) polyolefin resin. As the (B) resin additive having a melting point of not higher than 80° C., a UV absorber, a hindered amine compound or a mixture thereof is preferred.

Abstract: Neutral calcium-aluminum double salts of the formula (A): Ca2m(Zn2n)Al2(OH)6+2(2m+2n?1)An*oH2O??(A), where the following apply for m and n:m=0.5 to 3 and 0.5m?n>0; An=CO3, where this may be replaced completely or partially by at least one of the following groups selected from OH, ClO4 and H3CS(?O)2O (triflate) and o=0 to 3. The present invention further relates to their preparation, use in compositions and stabilizer systems and uses thereof.

Abstract: The present invention can provide cellulose ester pellets, a cellulose ester film, a manufacturing method thereof, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display which minimize a manufacturing load, a facility load and an environmental load, each being given by evaporation or recovery (collection) of solvents and which have excellent optical properties, less coloring and high processing stability, and its manufacturing method. The cellulose ester pellets contains cellulose ester and at least one combination selected from combination A, combination B and combination C, the cellulose ester pellets containing the at least one combination in an amount of from 0.001 to 1.

Abstract: Disclosed are Bisphenol A (BPA), Bisphenol F, Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE), and Bisphenol F diglycidyl ether (BFDGE)-free coating compositions for metal substrates including an under-coat composition containing a polyester (co)polymer, and an under-coat cross-linker; and an over-coat composition containing a poly(vinyl chloride) (co)polymer dispersed in a substantially nonaqueous carrier liquid, an over-coat cross-linker, and a functional (meth)acrylic (co)polymer. Also provided is a method of coating a metal substrate using the BPA, BPF, BADGE and BFDGE-free coating system to produce a hardened protective coating useful in fabricating metal storage containers. The coated substrate is particularly useful in fabricating multi-part foodstuffs storage containers with “easy-open” end closures.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coating agent including a synthetic resin emulsion (A) wherein an acrylic resin of which the main monomer component is an alkyl ester of (meth)acrylic acid, and a silicone resin of which the main monomer component is a cyclic siloxane compound are mixed in emulsion particles to set the ratio by weight of the former to the latter into the range of 99/1 to 30/70, and a particulate matter (B) having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 500 ?m and an oil absorption of 60 mL/100 g or less, wherein the particulate matter (B) has a pigment volume concentration of 10 to 90%. When this coating agent is stored or after a paint film is made therefrom, a fall in the water repellent effect thereof is restrained, so that an excellent water repellent performance can stably be exhibited.

Abstract: By a rubber composition for a side wall, including a rubber component containing a natural rubber component consisting of a natural rubber and a modified natural rubber, 20 to 60 parts by mass of silica, and 0.5 to 15 parts by mass of at least any one of a terpene-based resin and a rosin-based resin based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, and a pneumatic tire provided with a side wall rubber using the same, a rubber composition for a side wall in which both of maintenance of properties desired in a rubber composition for a side wall such as durability and improvement in processibility can be realized while a use amount of a raw material derived from a petroleum source is reduced, and a pneumatic tire in which running safety is improved by providing with a side wall rubber using the same, are provided.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a thermally disappearing resin particle and a thermally disappearing hollow resin particle which can be decomposed at a low temperature in a short time and do not cause deformation or cracking of a sintered body to be obtained in the case of using as a binder for a ceramic or a lightening material; a method of producing the thermally disappearing hollow resin particle; a ceramic composition which can be degreased and fired at a low temperature in a short time and gives a molded body with a high porosity without deformation or cracking even in the case a large quantity of a pore-forming material is used; and a method of producing a porous ceramic filter. The present invention is directed to a thermally disappearing resin particle, which contains a polyoxyalkylene resin, and 10% by weight or more of the whole particle disappearing within an hour by heating at a prescribed temperature in a range from 100 to 300° C.

Abstract: A modified polyacrylonitrile fiber and its preparation process and use are disclosed. An animal hair micro powder is used as a modifier for polyacrylonitrile polymer. The weight percent of a monomer composition is as follows: acrylonitrile monomer 50.0-98.8%, initiator 0.1-0.4%, animal hair micro powder 1.0-50.0%. The preparation process of the modified polyacrylonitrile fiber comprises the following steps: 1. preparing the animal hair micro powder suspension, 2. preparing spinning dope of the modified polyacrylonitrile fiber, 3. preparing the modified polyacrylonitrile fiber. The fiber is suitable for making artificial synthetic hair product such as hairpieces, and resembles well natural human hair.

Abstract: A defoaming agent which can effectively eliminate foams generated in the occasions of preparation, coating, drying and baking of water-based paint, by addition thereof by itself, without combined use of other kind(s) of defoaming agent(s), and furthermore without impairing appearance of baked coated film of the paint or recoatability of the paint is provided. Such a defoaming agent for water-based paint has the composition comprising (1) polyoxyethylene hydrogenated castor oil triisostearates and (2) polyalkyl vinyl ether, polybutadiene, polybutene or polyisoprene, which are dissolved in (3) liquid normal paraffin, liquid isoparaffin or liquid cycloparaffin, at such a ratio that the blended amount of (1) occupies 2-90% by weight of the total composition.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a polymeric material, particularly a thermoplastic material, the includes thermoplastic polyolefin and an elastomer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a curing accelerating compound-silica composite material capable of giving excellent storage stability to a curable resin composition, which is obtained by subjecting one or more compounds selected from compounds represented by the general formula (I-1) below and partial condensates thereof to a sol-gel reaction in the presence of a curing accelerating compound and water; a curable resin composition comprising the same; and an electronic component device comprising a device sealed with the curable resin composition.

Abstract: A polycarbonate resin composition of the present invention comprises (A) about 30 to about 95 parts by weight of thermoplastic polycarbonate resin; (B) about 1 to about 50 parts by weight of rubber-modified-vinyl graft copolymer; (C) about 0 to about 50 parts by weight of vinyl copolymer; and (D) about 1 to about 50 parts by weight of amorphous thermoplastic polyester copolymer. The resin composition of the present invention can have excellent physical properties such as weld line strength, fluidity, impact resistance, and heat resistance.