Abstract: The invention relates to novel dendritic polymers having monophosphonic terminations or dimethyl phosphonates, to a method for preparing them, and to their uses.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition capable of improving grip performance and abrasion resistance and a tire prepared by using the rubber composition. The rubber composition of the present invention comprises 0.5 to 150 parts by weight of thermoplastic polyurethane prepared from a conjugated diene polymer modified with hydroxyl groups at both ends thereof or an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene copolymer modified with hydroxyl groups at both ends thereof based on 100 parts by weight of a rubber component comprising a diene rubber. The tire of the present invention is prepared by using the rubber composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one fluorosilane and at least one aminosilane, a condensation product of said fluorosilane and said aminosilane, and a surface protective agent made thereof.

Abstract: [Problem] There is provided a curable composition having good curability and adhesion by use of a non-organotin catalyst. [Means to Solve] A curable composition comprising (A) an organic polymer having a silicon-containing group being capable of crosslinking by forming siloxane bonds, (B) one or more kinds selected from a titanium catalyst, an aluminum catalyst and a zirconium catalyst and (C) a low molecular weight compound containing a hydrolyzable silicon group and having a molecular weight of from 100 to 1,000, characterized in that a ratio (a/b) of the total mole (a) of titanium atoms, aluminum atoms and zirconium atoms of the component (B) in the composition to the total mole (b) of silicon atoms of the component (C) in the composition is more than 0.4.

Abstract: A powder coating composition obtainable by homogeneous mixing of at least two separately produced powder coating compositions as powder coating bases to yield coating compositions having good storage stability and coatings with controlled low gloss levels as well as high exterior durability and stable flexibility.

Abstract: A redispersible polymer powder including: a polymer to be redispersed; and an ortho-cresol based condensation product or salt thereof; wherein the ortho-cresol based condensation product or salt thereof includes N-containing units derived from a N-based component incorporated into the ortho-cresol based condensation product or salt thereof during polymerization.

Abstract: The invention describes amphiphilic polymer compounds which are prepared by a) reacting a di-, tri- or tetraglycidyl compound (A) with an optionally unsaturated reactive component (B) consisting of C8-C28-fatty acid, a C8-C28-alcohol or a secondary C8-C28-amine, and allowing b1) the reaction product from stage a) to react further first with b1?) an aliphatic or aromatic polyisocyanate compound (C) b1?) and optionally then with a polyalkylene oxide compound (D), and b1?) reacting the reaction product from stage b1?) or optionally b1?) with a component (E) which is reactive towards isocyanates and has at least one OH, NH2, NH or SH group, or b2) allowing the reaction product from stage a) to react to completion with the reaction product of component (C) with component (E) and optionally (D) and (C), or b3) allowing the reaction product from stage a) to react to completion with the reaction product from component (C) and component (D) and optionally (C) and optionally the reaction product of component (C) and

Abstract: There is provided a curable composition having good adhesion by using a non-organotin catalyst. The curable composition comprises (A) an organic polymer having a silicon-containing group being capable of crosslinking by forming siloxane bonds and (B) one or more kinds selected from a titanium catalyst, an aluminum catalyst and a zirconium catalyst, and is characterized in that a stress at 50% tension is within a range from 0.01 MPa to 0.20 MPa, when determined by adding and mixing 1.5 parts of tin octylate, 0.25 part by weight of laurylamine and 0.6 part by weight of pure water to 100 parts by weight of the component (A), subjecting the mixture to centrifugal defoaming, pouring the mixture carefully into a polyethylene frame not to mix air bubbles thereto, aging the mixture at 23° C. for one hour, and further at 70° C. for 20 hours, punching the obtained 3 mm thick cured sheet according to JIS K6251 to obtain No. 3 dumbbell, and carrying out a tension test (tensile speed: 200 mm/min) at 23° C. at 50% RH.

Abstract: A method for preparing a functionalized polymer, the method comprising the steps of preparing a reactive polymer and reacting the reactive polymer with an imide compound containing a protected amino group.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition is provided that includes a compound represented by Formula (I), a macromolecule having a monomer unit represented by Formula (II) and/or another addition-polymerization type macromolecule, and a macromolecular filler. In Formula (I) and (II), Q1 denotes a cyano group or a —COX2 group, X1 denotes a hydrogen atom, organic residue, or polymer chain bonded to carbon atom CA via a heteroatom, or a halogen atom, X2 denotes a hydrogen atom, organic residue, or polymer chain bonded to the carbonyl group via a heteroatom, or a halogen atom, Ra and Rb independently denote a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, or an organic residue, and X1 and X2, Ra and Rb, and X1 and Ra or Rb may be bonded to each other to form a cyclic structure. There are also provided a tacky material produced by forming on a support a 10 to 200 ?m layer that includes the polymerizable composition, and an adhesive that includes the polymerizable composition.

Abstract: There is provided a curable composition having good curability and adhesion by using a non-organotin catalyst. The curable composition comprising (A) an organic polymer having a reactive silicon group as a silicon-containing group being capable of crosslinking by forming siloxane bonds, (B) one or more kinds selected from a titanium catalyst, an aluminum catalyst and a zirconium catalyst, and (C) a low molecular weight compound containing a hydrolyzable silicon group and having a molecular weight of 100 to 1,000, characterized in that a ratio (a/b) of the total mole (a) of titanium atoms, aluminum atoms and zirconium atoms of the component (B) to the total mole (b) of silicon atoms of the component (c) is larger than 0.08.

Abstract: Compositions, such as aerospace sealant, coating, and/or potting compositions are disclosed. The compositions include a polythioether and, in at least some cases, can be sprayable and fuel resistant even when substantially free of volatile organic compounds.

Abstract: A polyester composition comprising (a) a polyester derived from a diol and a diacid, (b) a fluoropolymer and (c) a carboxy reactive compound, where the polyester composition has a highly useful combination of (i) mechanical properties and (ii) melt strength is disclosed. Also disclosed is a process to prepare these compositions and articles therefrom.

Abstract: A curable silicone composition containing an organopolysiloxane that contains in one molecule at least one epoxy-containing organic group, has a polystyrene-referenced weight-average molecular weight at least 500, and is expressed by the following general unit formula: (RSiO3/2)x[R1aSiO(4-a)/2]y (where R represents a cycloalkyl group, and R1 represents hydrogen atom or a univalent organic group, except for an aromatic group and a cycloalkyl group, at least one R1 in one molecule being an epoxy-containing univalent organic group, and where the following condition is observed: 0<a?3; x>0; y>0; and x+y=1).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing chromophore and/or effect giving multilayer lacquers according to the wet-on-wet method. A water base lacquer is applied which contains at least one graft copolymer containing (A) at least one (meth)acrylate copolymer and (B) at least one polyurethane. The graft copolymer can be produced by (1) dispersing at least one hydrophilic or hydrophobic self cross-linking polyurethane (B) with a statistical average of at least one terminal and/or at least one lateral olefinically unsaturated group and at least one blocked isocyanate group per molecule in an aqueous medium. (2) A mixture of a at least one monomer (a1) with at least one isocyanate reactive functional group at last one monomer (a2) that can be copolymerised therewith is subsequently radically copolymerised in an emulsion in the presence of the polyurethane (B) or the polyurethanes (B). A powder slurry transparent lacquer layer is added to the resulting base lacquer layer.

Abstract: The invention provides a silicone gel composition comprising: (A) an organopolysiloxane represented by an average composition formula (1) shown below: RaR1bSiO(4-a-b)/2??(1) (wherein, R represents an alkenyl group, R1 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group that contains no aliphatic unsaturated bonds, and a, b and a+b are numbers that satisfy specific numerical ranges), and containing at least one alkenyl group bonded to a silicon atom within each molecule, (B) a component composed of: (B-1) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by an average composition formula (2) shown below: (HR22SiO1/2)c(R32SiO)d(R4SiO3/2)e??(2) (wherein, R2, R3 and R4 represent monovalent hydrocarbon groups that contain no aliphatic unsaturated bonds, and c, d and e are numbers that satisfy specific numerical ranges, provided that c+d+e=1), containing at least three hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon atoms within each molecule, and containing at least two (R4SiO3/2) units within each molecule, and (B-2) an organohydrogenpol

Abstract: This invention relates to personal lubricant compositions that are capable of being sprayed to a targeted area while maintaining lubricity.

Abstract: An emulsifier for use in forming a film for a suspended particle device (SPD) wherein the film is comprised of a cross-linked matrix polymer having a plurality of droplets of a liquid light valve suspension distributed therein. The emulsifier is formed of a copolymer material comprising at least first and second segments, the segments differing from one another in at least one of their chemical affinities, their compositions and their polarities. A first one of the segments is soluble in an uncured liquid matrix polymer used in forming the film, but insoluble in a liquid suspension medium of which the droplets are dispersed. A second segment is soluble in the liquid suspending medium in the droplets and insoluble in the uncured liquid matrix polymer. The first and second segments have substantially the same index of refraction and the index of refraction of the segments is within 0.010 of that of each phase of an emulsion formed with the emulsifier.

Abstract: A process for producing and a powdery water-absorbing polymers comprising: about 0.01 to 20 wt. % of a fine particle with a particle size of less than about 200 ?m; about 0.001 to 10 wt. % of a thermoplastic adhesive; and about 60 to 99.998 wt. % of a water-absorbing polymer particle with a particle size of about 200 ?m and above, wherein the powdery water-absorbing polymers have: a flow value (FFC) within the range from about 1 to 13, and/or a dust portion of at most about 6 are disclosed. Also disclosed are a transport process, a composite, chemical products, and a use of a thermoplastic adhesive.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel dendritic polymers having biphosphonic terminations, to derivatives thereof, to a method for preparing them and to their uses.