Abstract: An adhesive resin composition comprising, based on the total weight of the composition, a first resin component having one or more glass transition temperatures of about ?15 to about 50° C.; optionally, up to about 49 weight percent of a second resin component having one or more glass transition temperatures greater than about 100° C.; and up to about 50 weight percent of a particulate inorganic filler; wherein a tan ? value of the adhesive resin composition is greater than about 0.2 over a temperature range of about ?15 to about 50° C. when measured at a frequency of 1 Hz. The adhesive resin compostions are of particular utility in suspension assemblies.

Abstract: A curative blend for a thermosetting polyurethane material that allows for a polyurethane material with greater durability is disclosed herein. The curative blend is composed of a diethyl-2,4-toluene-diamine and a second curing agent. A preferred polyurethane prepolymer is a polytetramethylene ether glycol terminated 4,4?-dicyclohexyl methane diisocyanate polyurethane prepolymer. The thermosetting polyurethane is preferably utilized as a cover for a golf ball. The cover is preferably formed over a core and boundary layer.

Abstract: The invention is an composition comprising a) one or more isocyanate functional polyether based prepolymers; b) one or more isocyanate functional polyester prepolymers wherein the one or more polyesters used to prepare the prepolymers having melting points of from about 45 to about 59° C.; c) one or more polyisocyanates having a nominal functionality of about 3 or greater; d) one or more nonconductive carbon blacks; e) one or more catalysts for the reaction of isocyanates moieties with hydroxyl groups. In a preferred embodiment the composition of the invention further comprises one or more isocyanate functional polyester prepolymers wherein the one or more polyesters used to prepare the prepolymers having melting points of about 60 to about 90° C.

Abstract: A process for producing plastic lenses, having higher refractive index and Abbe's number without remarkably deteriorating basic physical properties such as mechanical strength, impact resistance and transparency, and plastic lenses. The process comprises mixing 1) a prepolymer with 2) a mixture comprising sulfur in an epithio group-containing compound and 3) a catalyst.

Abstract: Compounds that include diorgano groups having quaternary carbons and optionally urethane groups, urea groups, or combinations thereof (i.e., polyurethanes, polyureas, or polyurethane-ureas), as well as materials and methods for making such compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition and use of polymeric urethane esters quats as an active ingredient for skin and hair contacting personal care compositions and products related thereto. These compositions are generally produced by the reaction of a trialkanolamine with a hydroxy fatty acid to produce a trialkanolamine fatty acid ester, which is then polymerized with a diisocyanate and in preferred embodiments, further reacted with a quaternizing agent to produce preferred quaternized compositions according to the present invention.

Abstract: A polyesteramide copolymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of less than or equal to 0° C., contains at least one hard segment containing at least one amide bond, and at least one soft segment containing at least one ester bond. The soft segment is formed from at least one dimer fatty acid and/or dimer fatty diol and/or equivalent thereof. The copolymer is particularly suitable for use as a hot melt adhesive on low energy surfaces.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds containing uretdione groups, to a process for preparing them by dimerizing aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic isocyanates containing exclusively secondary and/or tertiary isocyanate groups and also to the use of uretdione polyisocyanates obtainable by this process from diisocyanates containing exclusively secondary and/or tertiary isocyanate groups as a starting component for polyurethane polymers, in particular as an isocyanate component in the preparation of uretdione powder coating crosslinkers.

Abstract: A moisture-reactive hot-melt adhesive composition is provided. Particularly, a composition that includes a polyisocyanate and at least two polyols, one of which is a fatty polyol. Also provided is a method for bonding substrates using the adhesive.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polythiophenes, particularly regioregular head-to-tail poly(3-alkylthiophenes) (HT-PATs), block copolymers made therefrom, and their methods of formation. The present invention provides HT-PATs with well-defined, specific end-groups, functionalization of the defined HT-PATs, and incorporation of end group functionalized HT-PATs into block copolymers with structural polymers. The intrinsically conductive diblock and triblock copolymers, formed from the HT-PATs, have excellent conductivity and low polydispersities that are useful in a number of applications. The block copolymers of the present invention have been found to exhibit conductivities that range from a low of 10?8 S/cm for certain applications to as high as several hundred S/cm or more.

Abstract: Polyurethane-based pressure-sensitive adhesive which attaches strongly to polar plastic surfaces, smooth metal surfaces and glass, but which has weak, if any, adhesion to paper, paperboard or skin and is easily detachable without damaging surfaces during its removal, and is reusable. The adhesive comprises a polyurethane formed by reacting an aliphatic or alicyclic polyisocyanate having a functionality of equal to or less than three with a combination of diol and triol.

Abstract: Plastic lenses for spectacles having a high refractive index and a high Abbe's number, and having good transparency, heat resistance, mechanical strength and impact resistance are produced. Plastic lenses for spectacles are produced through polymerization of an epithio group-having compound (a), a polythiol compound (b) and a polyisocyanate compound (c) whereby the ratio (by mol) of the polythiol compound (b) to the polyisocyanate compound (c) is at least 1.2 calculated on the basis of —SH and —NCO groups. The invention also provides a process for preparing such lenses and a catalyst for use in said process.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions comprising polymeric tertiary amines of urethane esters and salts thereof. The compositions are generally derived from linear or branched chain compounds of synthetic or natural origin, preferably from trialkalnolamines that have been esterified with organic acids including long chain fatty acids and reacted with diisocyanate compounds to form urethane adducts. These adducts are in turn polymerized with organic acids to form polymeric urethane ester tertiary amine salts. The compositions of the present invention may be incorporated into personal care formulations such as cosmetics, toiletries and shampoos and into detergents to improve or modify at least two of the characteristics of such formulations.

Abstract: A resin composition comprising 3 to 80 parts by weight of a resol type phenolic resin or 3 to 150 parts by weight of a polyhydric phenol, based on 100 parts by weight of a copolymer (A) of an epoxy group-containing monomer and an ?-olefin, a powder of the resin composition, a laminate having a layer containing the resin composition, and producing method of the laminate.

Abstract: The present invention generally includes material comprising the reaction product of an A-side comprising an isocyanate and a B-side comprising a crosslinker, a catalyst, and a modified vegetable oil. The present invention also generally includes a material comprising the reaction product of an A-side comprising an isocyanate and a B-side comprising an oxylation compound, a modified vegetable oil, and a catalyst.

Abstract: Thermally curable coating composition with a resin solids content which contains (a) at least one binder with isocyanate-reactive groups and at least one polyisocyanate crosslinking agent blocked by means of at least one dihydrocarbyl phosphite and/or (b) at least one self-crosslinkable binder with isocyanate-reactive groups and with isocyanate groups blocked by means of at least one dihydrocarbyl phosphite.

Abstract: Disclosed are derivatives of isophorone diamine exhibiting a synergistic relationship with other commonly employed chain extenders offering enhanced efficacy with regard to slowing of the polyurea elastomer cure profile, and processes employing their use. According to the invention, extensions of the gel-free and tack-free times are more readily achieved at lower loading levels for these chain extender blends than are afforded through the sole use of the individual molecules.

Abstract: A process for the production of polyurethane di(meth)acrylates in which a diisocyanate component, a diol component and hydroxy-C2–C4-alkyl (meth)acrylate in the molar ratio x:(x?1):2 are reacted without solvent and without subsequent purification operations, wherein x means any desired value from 2 to 5, wherein 50 to 80 mol % of the diisocyanate component is formed by 1,6-hexane diisocyanate, and 20 to 50 mol % by one or two diisocyanates, each forming at least 10 mol % of the diisocyanate component and being selected from the group consisting of toluylene diisocyanate, diphenylmethane diisocyanate, dicyclohexylmethane diisocyanate, isophorone diisocyanate, trimethylhexane diisocyanate, cyclohexane diisocyanate, cyclohexanedimethylene diisocyanate and tetramethylenexylylene diisocyanate, wherein the mol % of the respective diisocyanates add up to 100 mol %, wherein the diol component comprises no more than four different diols, and 20 to 100 mol % of the diol component is formed by at least one linear alipha

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive and a packaging laminate produced by using the same. The adhesive contains a polyisocyanate and a partially acid-modified polyol which is a product of reacting a polyol with anhydrotrimellitic acid and an anhydrotrimellitate ester at a ratio such that the anhydrotrimellitic acid is 10 to 70% by mass and the anhydrotrimellitate ester is 90 to 30% by mass, as the sum of the anhydrotrimellitic acid and the anhydrotrimellitate ester is 100% by mass. The packaging laminate has a first and second sheet-shaped substrates and the above adhesive through which the first and second sheet-shaped substrates are laminated.

Abstract: A polyurethane resin which is the reaction product of at least one diisocyanate and a group of components having isocyanate reactive functional groups. The group of components includes a first group of one or more polyether polyols each having an average molecular weight in the range of 1000 to 10000 g/mol, a second group of one or more polyether polyols each having an average molecular weight in the range of 400 to 10000 g/mol and being hydrophilic and water-soluble, a third group of one or more polyols each having an average molecular weight equal to or less than 800 g/mol, at least one amine, and a reaction terminating agent. The ratio of the equivalent weights of the diisocyanate to the components having isocyanate reactive functional groups is selected such that essentially all of the isocyanate groups of the diisocyanate are present only as the reaction product with one of said isocyanate reactive functional groups.