Abstract: A chromium-free surface-treated metal sheet includes a metal sheet, a surface-treatment coating that contains a polycarboxylic acid type polymer and a zirconium compound and that is formed on at least one surface of the metal sheet, and a coating that contains a polyester resin, a phenol resin and an acid catalyst and that is formed on the surface-treatment coating. The surface-treated metal sheet can be used for producing cans and can lids maintaining excellent dent resistance even for acidic beverages, without permitting the organic resin film formed on the coating to be peeled even under high-temperature and wet environments during a sterilization treatment or the like, and maintaining excellent hot water-resistant adhering property.

Abstract: A process for producing a liquid composition, which includes holding a fluorinated polymer having —SO2F groups at from 140 to 160° C. for at least 45 minutes, cooling it to less than 110° C. at a rate of at least 50° C./min, converting the —SO2F groups in the fluorinated polymer to ion exchange groups to obtain a fluorinated polymer having ion exchange groups, and mixing the fluorinated polymer having ion exchange groups and a liquid medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid composition comprising a polymer bearing —SO3H groups and a perfluoroelastomer, a method for manufacturing said liquid composition and an article manufactured by using said composition. Preferably, said article is a proton exchange membrane, which shows at the same time good mechanical resistance and electrochemical properties and is useful for example as separator in fuel cells.

Abstract: A method of treating a biobased feedstock derived from agricultural resources and specifically from the non-distillate products of fermentation-derived renewable fuel and distilled spirit processes. The separation of thermally labile components from biobased feedstocks result in materials that are thermally stable and better suited for subsequent melt processing in a polymer matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for the production of polyacrylic acid and superabsorbent polymers from ethylene oxidation to form ethylene oxide. Reacting the ethylene oxide with carbon monoxide to form to beta propiolactone (BPL) or polypropiolactone (PPL), or a combination thereof. An outlet configured to provide a carbonylation stream comprising the BPL or PPL, or a combination thereof and using one or more reactors to convert BPL to acrylic acid or to convert at least some of the BPL to PPL, and then to convert PPL to acrylic acid. An outlet configured to provide a PPL stream to a second reactor tm to convert at least some of the PPL to AA or a third reactor to convert at least some of the PPL to AA. The outlet configured to provide an AA stream to a fourth reactor to convert the AA to polyacrylic acid.

Abstract: An organic resin-covered surface-treated metal sheet having formed on at least one surface of a metal sheet a surface-treatment coating and an organic resin film on the surface-treatment coating. The surface-treatment coating contains a poly-carboxylic acid type polymer and a polyvalent metal compound. The surface-treatment coating measured for its infrared-ray absorption spectra has a peak height ratio (?/?) of a maximum absorption peak height (?) in a wave number range of 1660 to 1760 cm?1 and a maximum absorption peak height (?) in a wave number range of 1490 to 1659 cm?1 of from 0.05 to 2.35.

Abstract: The composite anion exchange membrane includes: a surface layer on a single surface or both surfaces of an anion exchange membrane substrate, in which the above-described surface layer contains a copolymer of a monomer A which is a water-soluble polyfunctional monomer and a monomer B which is a cationic monomer, an anion exchange capacity of the above-described surface layer is 0.05 meq/cm3 to 0.50 meq/cm3, and an anion exchange capacity of the above-described anion exchange membrane substrate is 1.0 meq/cm3 to 5.0 meq/cm3.

Abstract: An method of making a porous asymmetric membrane involves dissolving a poly(phenylene ether), poly(phenylene ether) copolymer, polyethersulfone, polysulfone, polyphenylsulfone, polyimide, polyetherimide, polyvinylidene fluoride, or a combination thereof in a water-miscible polar aprotic solvent to provide a membrane-forming composition; and phase-inverting the membrane-forming composition in a first non-solvent composition composed of water, a water-miscible polar aprotic solvent, or a mixture thereof, and a polymer additive dissolved in the first non-solvent composition. The method can be a method of making a hollow fiber by coextrusion through a spinneret having an annulus and a bore, including coextruding the membrane-forming composition through the annulus, and the first non-solvent composition through the bore, into a second non-solvent composition composed of water, a water-miscible polar aprotic solvent, or a mixture thereof to form the hollow fiber.

Abstract: The ion exchange membrane according to the present invention comprises a layer A comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having a sulfonic acid group and a layer B comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having a carboxylic acid group, wherein an ion exchange capacity of the layer B is 0.81 mEq/g or more, and a value of (an ion cluster diameter of the layer B)/(an ion cluster diameter of the layer A) is 0.67 to 0.89.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a fluoropolymer hybrid organic/inorganic composite, to a process for manufacturing said fluoropolymer hybrid organic/inorganic composite and films and membranes thereof and to uses of said fluoropolymer hybrid organic/inorganic composite and films and membranes thereof in various applications.

Abstract: The present invention provides a coating composition that can provide a coating film excellent in adhesion to a substrate and also excellent in non-adhesiveness, hardness at high temperature, and abrasion resistance. The present invention relates to a coating composition including: non-melt-fabricable polytetrafluoroethylene; a fluorine-containing polymer other than the non-melt-fabricable polytetrafluoroethylene; and a heat-resistant resin other than the non-melt-fabricable polytetrafluoroethylene or the fluorine-containing polymer, the non-melt-fabricable polytetrafluoroethylene being contained in an amount of 10 to 60% by mass relative to the amount of the fluorine-containing polymer.

Abstract: Composition, comprising a first component (I) comprising a polyacrylate (A1) and a wax (B), and a second component (II) comprising a polyacrylate (A2), wherein polyacrylate (A1) comprises moieties derived from (meth)acrylic acid ester monomers (M1) and (M2), and optionally (M3), CH2?CR3COO—R1??(M1) CH2?CR3COO—R2??(M2) CH2?CR3—X—R4;??(M3) wherein R1 is the alcohol moiety in monomer (M1) containing from 1 to 8 carbon atoms; R2 is the alcohol moiety in monomer (M2) containing from 9 to 40 carbon atoms; R3 is H, CH3, or C2H5; X is COO or CONH; R4 is glycidyl or CH2(CH2)n—OR5, wherein n is an integer in the range of from 1-10 and R5 is H or a residue containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and polyacrylate (A2) is a fluorine-containing polyacrylate; wherein the composition is based on water and/or an organic solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a thermoplastic resin. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of preparing a thermoplastic resin, the method including a coagulation step of adding a water-soluble silicate compound and a metal salt coagulant to an ?-methylstyrene-vinyl cyan compound copolymer latex, followed by coagulation. In accordance with the present invention, a method of preparing a thermoplastic resin having superior heat resistance by adding an additive during coagulation and aging of ?-methylstyrene-vinyl cyan compound copolymer latex while controlling an addition time point of the additive is provided.

Abstract: A masterbatch for a solar battery sealing sheet containing: at least one ethylene resin selected from the group consisting of an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer, an ethylene homopolymer and an ethylene-unsaturated ester copolymer; and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of silicon dioxide and zeolite, wherein a degree of aggregation of silicon is 0 or more and 0.350 or less and the ignition loss of the compound is more than 1.7% to 15% or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ion exchange membrane, a method for manufacturing the same, and an energy storage device including the same, and the ion exchange membrane includes a porous support including a plurality of pores and an ion conductor filling the pores of the porous support, in which the porous support includes micropores having a size of 31 to 1000 ?m. The ion exchange membrane may achieve high energy efficiency in the case of being applied to an energy storage device such as a vanadium redox inflow battery due to high charge/discharge cycle durability, high ion-conductivity, and excellent chemical and thermal stability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a proton conductive nanocomposite membrane and a method for manufacturing same, the proton conductive nanocomposite membrane having polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) having a proton donor and POSS having a proton acceptor introduced into an aromatic hydrocarbon polymer membrane having a sulfonyl group. The nano-composite membrane of the present invention has both the POSS having a proton donor and the POSS having a proton acceptor added thereto, and thus protons (cations) that are generated are easily hopped in an ion channel by means of hydrogen bonding, and thus ionic conductivity is increased. In addition, the POSS used in the present invention has a very small size, and thus hardly obstructs proton migration in the ion channel in the polymer membrane, and thus excellent proton conductivity may be enabled.

Abstract: Micro-nano materials, products obtained by covalently modifying the surfaces of micro/nano materials with hydrophilic materials, and methods for making the same. The micro/nano materials on the surfaces have carboxyl groups or/and pro-carboxyl groups which are converted into their active esters. The products are covalently modified by forming amide bonds between the active esters on the surfaces and the modification agents; where the modification agents are hydrophilic compounds and/or hydrophilic polymers bearing primary and/or secondary aliphatic amines. Monomers bearing carboxyl groups and/or pro-carboxyl groups are used to produce an adequate number of carboxyl groups and/or pro-carboxyl groups on the surface of a polymer material to be modified. The carboxyl groups and/or pro-carboxyl groups are converted into active esters.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a proton conductive nanocomposite membrane comprising a fluorinated proton conductive polymer substance introduced with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) having a proton donor and polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) having a proton acceptor, and a method for preparing the same, in which the addition of the very small size POSS having proton donors and POSS having proton acceptors to the nanocomposite membrane increases ion conductivity due to easy hopping of generated protons (cations) within ion channels, thereby realizing excellent proton conductivity while the nanocomposite membrane shows excellent mechanical strength even though the degree of sulfonation of the membrane is increased.

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to reactive electrochemical membranes (REMs); and in particular, to asymmetric reactive electrochemical membranes to be used for aqueous separations and membrane fouling regeneration.

Abstract: Described are aqueous polymer dispersions for composite film lamination and a multistage process for preparing them from ethylenically unsaturated, radically polymerizable monomers. In a first stage, a first polymer is prepared by radical emulsion polymerization. In a further stage, an aqueous polymer dispersion is prepared in the presence of the first polymer. The monomers of the first stage comprise monomers with acid groups. The monomers of the further stage comprise monomers having oxazoline groups. The polymerization of the first stage takes place at a low pH of less than 5. The acid groups of the first polymer are neutralized before the polymerization of the further stage. The aqueous polymer dispersions can be used as adhesives for producing composite films.