Abstract: To provide a transparent plastic substrate having a high cut rate of blue light, a plastic lens and a transparent plastic member. A transparent plastic substrate containing a benzotriazole compound represented by the formula (1), a plastic lens containing the transparent plastic substrate, and a transparent plastic member containing a benzotriazole compound represented by the formula (1).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polycarbonate composition and an article including the same. The polycarbonate composition according to the present invention includes a copolycarbonate having a specific siloxane structure and a branched or non-branched polycarbonate, and simultaneously uses a flame retardant and an organophosphorus compound, thereby being able to exhibit excellent flame retardancy and impact strength and also to maintain the impact strength even under high temperature and high humidity conditions for a long period of time.

Abstract: A polyamide composition for use in sealants, adhesives and high solids coatings.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) copolymer comprising recurring units derived from at least one per(halo)fluoroolefin different from TFE [monomer (F)] [monomer (F)], in an amount of 0.005 to 0.250% moles, with respect to the total moles of the copolymer, wherein a particular relation between monomer content and amorphous index is satisfied, and to a process for its manufacture by emulsion polymerization in the presence of certain cyclic surfactants.

Abstract: The invention relates to an efficient process for the preparation and isolation of rubber particles formed in aqueous media and highly pure rubbers obtained thereby. The invention further relates to copolymer products comprising the same or derived therefrom.

Abstract: Cement slurries, cured cements, and methods of making cured cement and methods of using cement slurries are provided. The cement slurries have, among other attributes, improved elasticity and self-healing properties and may be used, for instance, in the oil and gas drilling industry. The cement slurry comprises water, a cement precursor material, and a block copolymer composition. The block copolymer composition has at least one copolymer backbone, with each copolymer backbone comprising at least two hard segments. Furthermore, a soft segment is disposed between the at least two hard segments. The copolymer backbone has at least one anhydride group grafted onto the soft segment, and the anhydride group is crosslinked by an aminosilane crosslinker.

Abstract: To provide a fluorinated polymer which can be heat-cured at low temperature (from room temperature to 150° C.). A fluorinated polymer containing units represented by the following formula (1): wherein X1 and X2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, Q1 is a single bond or an etheric oxygen atom, Rf1 is a fluoroalkylene group or a fluoroalkylene group having at least 2 carbon atoms and having an etheric oxygen atom between carbon atoms, Z1 is NR1—Y1, O—Y2 or S—Y3, R1 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, and Y1, Y2 and Y3 are each independently a group having at least one hydrolyzable silyl group.

Abstract: A latex emulsion that includes an aqueous carrier liquid and a latex copolymer formed from reactants comprising butyl methacrylate, wherein the reactants comprise at least 20 wt. % a vinyl monomer, based on the total weight of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the latex copolymer. A homopolymer formed from the vinyl monomer preferably exhibits a glass transition temperature of between about ?10° C. and about 30° C. A coating formed from the latex emulsion preferably exhibits a dry adhesion of greater than about 4 pounds per linear inch when applied between a thermoplastic polyolefin roofing membrane and a plywood roofing substrate at an average coat weight of about 6 lbs/100 ft2 and subjected to 180° peel testing according to ASTM D903 with a 2-inch per minute pull rate. The latex emulsion may include a second latex copolymer or stage, and may be used as part of an aqueous adhesive composition.

Abstract: A surfactant stabilized vinyl acetate ter-polymer based emulsion is provided comprising surfactant combination based freeze thaw stabilized vinyl acetate ter-polymer emulsion wherein said surfactant combination comprises non-ionic surfactant in combination with at least two polymerizable anionic reactive surfactants. A process of manufacturing the said emulsion is also provided, which process in comprising of selective sequence based steps and upon employing selective amounts of ingredients provides for said freeze thaw stable emulsion that is freeze thaw stable upto at least 5 cycles of freezing and thawing and yet maintains a particle size of 130-150 nm.

Abstract: To provide a production method for an aqueous emulsion of modified polytetrafluoroethylene which is environmentally friendly and which is suitable for producing a stretched porous body having excellent breaking strength. A production method for an aqueous emulsion of modified polytetrafluoroethylene, which is a method to obtain an aqueous emulsion of modified polytetrafluoroethylene particles having an average primary particle diameter of from 0.10 to 0.30 ?m, by subjecting tetrafluoroethylene and a perfluoroalkyl ethylene to emulsion polymerization in an aqueous medium, using a polymerization initiator, in the presence of a fluorinated anionic surfactant having a LogPOW of from 2.4 to 3.

Abstract: The invention is to provide a method for producing an aqueous resin dispersion capable of forming a coating film superior in adhesion to a polypropylene base material, and water resistance. Specifically, the invention provides a method for producing an aqueous resin dispersion, including a step of mixing and polymerizing a polyolefin dispersion (A), a radically polymerizable monomer (B), and a surfactant for emulsion polymerization (C), wherein the amount of the radically polymerizable monomer (B) mixed is 0.5 to 2 times the solid component of the polyolefin dispersion (A) in terms of parts by mass, and the amount of the solid component of the surfactant for emulsion polymerization (C) mixed is 0 to 3 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the radically polymerizable monomer (B).

Abstract: The present invention provides a nitrile group-containing highly saturated copolymer rubber comprising an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer unit (a1) in a content of 10 to 40 wt %, an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acid ester monomer unit (a2) in a content of 10 to 60 wt %, and a conjugated diene monomer unit (a3) in a content of 20 to 70 wt %, and having an iodine value of 35 to 85.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer preparation method for preparing water-soluble cationic polymers P1 wherein the halides content is reduced, as well as to the use of these polymers as additives in compositions that are based on inorganic mineral binders or in the treatment of aqueous open, semi-closed, or closed circuits.

Abstract: Thermoplastic moulding composition for 3D printing containing a polymer mixture A made of components a and b: a being from 30 to 95% by weight of at least one vinylaromatic copolymer a with average molar mass Mw from 150 000 to 360 000 g/mol, b being from 5 to 70% by weight of at least one impact modifier b, where the viscosity of the moulding composition (measured in accordance with ISO 11443) at shear rates of from 1 to 10 l/sec and at a temperature of 250° C. is not higher than 1×105 Pa*s and the Melt Volume Rate (MVR, measured in accordance with ISO 1133 for 220° C. and 10 kg load) is more than 6 ml/10 min.

Abstract: The invention relates to a UV-cross-linked, polyacrylate-based adhesive mass that has high adhesive force and high cohesion and that can be produced by means of a hot-melt process with subsequent cross-linking. This is achieved by providing an adhesive mass that can be obtained by cross-linking a composition, which comprises at least one poly(meth)acrylate having a weight-average molar mass Mw of at least 100,000 g/mol and at least one polyfunctional ?-cleaver and is characterized in that the composition contains at least one adhesive-force-increasing resin having a weight average molar mass Mw of at most 30,000 g/mol, which resin can be obtained by polymerizing a monomer composition M1, comprising at least one compound according to formula (I) H2C?C(R1)(COOR2), wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a functionalized or non-functionalized C1-C20 alkyl group.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous composition for coating substrates comprising: one or more emulsion copolymer, the emulsion copolymer being a copolymerization product of a monomer mixture comprising a monomer of formula I, wherein R1 is hydrogen or methyl, X is a divalent organic alkylene oxide group, n is an integer ranging from 1 to 50 and R2 is hydrogen or an aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and a phosphate surfactant. When incorporated into a coating composition, the coating composition show both improved stain-resistance properties and anti-clogging properties.

Abstract: A process for reducing the amount of residual monomer in aqueous polymerization emulsion by using a sequential polymerization steps, The first step consists in adding an emulsion, of vinyl ester of alkyl of C1 to C18 carboxylic acids, to water containing a radical initiator, the second step consists in adding further an emulsion of alkyl acrylate and/or methacrylate, and the third step consists in c) adding to polymeric emulsion, resulting of the steps a) and b), pure liquid acrylate or methacrylate with alkyl chain of C1 to C12.

Abstract: A mixture of isomeric dipentyl terephthalates, pentyl radicals of which are n-pentyl radicals to an extent of less than 60 mol %, characterized by a low viscosity which does not increase significantly even at temperatures below 40° C. Plastisols comprising these mixtures have a low plastisol viscosity which moreover increases only to a minor degree with time.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel one-pot process for polyolefin modification to form long-chain branched polymers containing polar functional groups, and the long-chain branched polymer resulting from the process. The process comprises reacting the following components (a) through (d) in a one pot process to form a long-chain branched polyolefin. Component (a) is a polyolefin; component (b) includes one or more silane compounds having the formula R?SiRnR?(3-n), component (c) is an ethylenically unsaturated polycarboxylic acid; and component (d) is a free radical initiator. In the formula R?SiRnR?(3-n) for component (b), R? is an ethylenically or acetylenically unsaturated radical; R is a hydrolyzable group selected from the group consisting of an alkoxy, acyloxy, alkylamino, and arylamino; R? is a hydrocarbyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and n is 1, 2, or 3.

Abstract: A corrosion inhibiting composition which is a liquid carrier in which is dissolved or dispersed a corrosion inhibitor compound comprising at least one moiety (A) which is an aliphatic, aromatic or mixed aliphatic/aromatic structure containing one or more hetero atoms which are nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus or sulphur, and also at least one moiety (B) which contains one or more polymerisable groups containing double or triple bonded carbon, with the moieties (A) and (B) directly or indirectly covalently connected together.