Abstract: Disclosed are polymeric compositions comprising polyhydroxyalkanoates. These compostions can comprise a blend comprising a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polymer, and a rubber polymer. The blend can comprise a biphasic mixture comprising a first phase comprising the PHA polymer, and a second phase comprising the rubber polymer dispersed with the first phase. The rubber polymer can be crosslinked, for example, through reaction with a free radical initiator. By incorporating the dynamically crosslinked rubber polymer, the polymer composition can exhibit one or more improved characteristics relative to PHA alone, including improved thermal stability, improved melt strength, improved flexibility, improved toughness, or a combination thereof. Also provided are articles formed at least in part from these polymeric compositions, as well as methods of making these polymeric compositions.

Abstract: An oil-resistant agent including a graft polymer obtained by graft modification of a bio-based material with a long-chain hydrocarbon group-containing non-fluorine polymer having a long-chain hydrocarbon group having 7 to 40 carbon atoms. Also disclosed is a fiber product including the graft polymer in the oil-resistant agent and a method for producing the oil-resistant agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing hydroxy-functionalized polydiene, preferably polybutadiene or polyisoprene, by reacting monomer diene with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a hydrophilic organic solvent, wherein the total amount of monomer diene used is added to the reaction in at least two parts, wherein the second part of the monomer diene is added to the reaction at a temperature of the reaction mixture that is at least +5 K different from the temperature of the reaction mixture at the addition of the first part of the monomer diene, to hydroxy-functionalized polybutadiene, having a dispersity index D below 2.7, a viscosity at 30° C. below 3200 mPa*s, an OH-number of from 50 to 90, a number average molecular weight Mn of from 1.6 to 2.5 kDa, and a weight number average molecular weight Mw of from 4.0 to 5.6 kDa.

Abstract: A vinyl alcohol polymer including, in the same molecule or in different molecules, a carbonyl group, a formyl group, and an alkenyl group. A method for producing a vinyl alcohol polymer, including polymerizing a vinyl ester in a presence of an unsaturated aliphatic aldehyde to obtain a vinyl ester polymer, and saponifying the vinyl ester polymer.

Abstract: A method for producing customized object is provided. A resin (e.g. plastic or cellulose) is heated and a quaternary salt is added. The resulting admixture is used in forming a material that embodies customized characteristics. In another embodiment, a halogen-containing polymer has a quaternary molecule covalently bonded to it that results in customized properties.

Abstract: The present application relates to microcarrier particles for cell culture, a method for preparing the particles, and a cell culture medium composition including the particles. According to the present application, a microcarrier having a high degree of uniformity in shape or form, having porosity, and advantageous for cell attachment and isolation of cultured cells is provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides plasticizers, compositions, and tires which can vary tire performance in response to temperature changes. The present invention relates to a plasticizer for resins and/or elastomers, containing a group that changes hydrophilicity with changes in temperature.

Abstract: A method for preparing ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer capable of obtaining ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer of high saponification degree, while minimizing the amount of alkali catalysts used is disclosed herein. The method comprises adding a first alkali catalyst solution dropwise to ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer dispersed in an alcohol solvent, and adding a second alkali catalyst solution dropwise to the first saponification reaction mixture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyethylene composition comprising a base resin which comprises (A) a first ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, and (B) a second ethylene-hexene-1 copolymer fraction, wherein fraction (A) has a lower molecular weight than fraction (B) and wherein fraction (B) is present in an amount of from 51.0 to 58.5 wt. %, preferably 52.0 to 57.5 wt. %, more preferably 53.0 to 57.0 wt. % based on the total weight of the base resin, wherein fraction (B) of the base resin has a content of units derived from hexene-1 from 0.80 to 1.45 mol %, preferably of from 0.82 to 1.35 mol % and more preferably of from 0.85 to 1.30 mol %, wherein the base resin has a number average molecular weight Mn of 8,500 g/mol or higher, and wherein the polyethylene composition has a melt flow rate MFRs from 0.10 to 0.30 g/10 min, preferably from 0.15 to 0.28, and still more preferably from 0.16 to 0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film, preferably an unoriented film, comprising a polypropylene composition comprising a random copolymer of propylene monomer units and ethylene comonomer units, wherein the random copolymer has a content of ethylene comonomer units of from 0.5 to 4.0 wt %, based on the total weight amount of monomer units in the random copolymer, the polypropylene composition has a melt flow rate MFR2 of from 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min, determined according to ISO 1133 at a temperature of 230° C. and a load of 2.16 kg, and the film has a tensile modulus in machine direction TM-MD in the range of from 450 to 850 MPa, when measured according to ISO 527-3 on a 50 ?m monolayer cast film, a process for producing such a film and the use of such a polypropylene composition for the production of a film with an improved balance of properties of tensile modulus and protrusion impact.

Abstract: The present application relates to microcarrier particles for cell culture, a method for preparing the particles, and a cell culture medium composition including the particles. According to the present application, a microcarrier having a high degree of uniformity in shape or form, having porosity, and advantageous for cell attachment and isolation of cultured cells is provided.

Abstract: There is provided the use of a nitro-substituted aromatic compound of formula (I), (II), (III), or (IV) and a copolymers comprising repeat units of formula (III) and/or (IV) as an electrode material as well as the use of such compound in the manufacture of an electrode. An electrode composite material and an electrode comprising this compound are also provided. When used in metal-ion batteries, preferably Li-ion batteries, the electrode of the invention has a combination of high operating voltage (e.g. >2.0 V) and high specific capacities (e.g. >300 mAh g?1). To the best of the inventors' knowledge, some of them have the highest specific capacity, along N with high voltage, among organic electrode materials reported to date for application in alkali-ion batteries. (I), (II), (III), (IV).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer composition including a linear polymer including a stress visualization molecule positioned at a center portion of a chain and including a furan group; and a cross-linking agent that is an amine having two or more maleimide functional groups, and a cross-linkable polymer formed therefrom.

Abstract: Amphiphilic copolymers and compositions including amphiphilic copolymers. The amphiphilic copolymers include modified maleimide subunits, for example, as illustrated by the structures of Formula IA and Formula IB. The compositions form water-soluble complexes upon association with biological material wherein such biological material can include lipids or membrane proteins. Methods for producing, purifying, analyzing, and using the compositions and complexes are provided.

Abstract: Biaxially orientated film containing a) 1 to 25 percent by weight of at least 2 cyclic olefin polymers with a glass transition temperature in the range of 120 to 180° C. and b) 75 to 99 percent by weight of at least one semi-crystalline alpha-olefin polymer with a crystallite melting temperature in the range of 150 to 170° C., wherein the film contains at least a first cyclic olefin polymer and a second cyclic olefin polymer, wherein the second cyclic olefin polymer has a higher glass transition temperature than the first cyclic olefin polymer and wherein the weighted arithmetic mean of the glass transition temperatures of all the cyclic olefin polymers contained in the film is smaller than or equal to the weighted arithmetic mean of the crystallite melting temperature of all the semi-crystalline alpha-olefin polymers contained in the film.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to ethylene interpolymer products comprising a Melt Flow-Intrinsic Viscosity Index value, MFIVI, of from ?0.05 to ?0.80; a first derivative of a melt flow distribution function, formula (I) of form ??1.85 to ??1.51; an unsaturation ratio, UR, of from >0.06 to ?0.60; and a residual catalytic metal of from ?0.03 to ?5 ppm of hafnium. Ethylene interpolymer products comprise at least two ethylene interpolymers. Ethylene interpolymer products are characterized by a melt index (I2) from 0.3 to 500 dg/minute, a density from 0.855 to 0.975 g/cc and from 0 to 25 mole percent of one or more a-olefins. Ethylene interpolymer products have polydispersity, Mw/Mn, from 1.7 to 25; and CDBI50 values from 1% to 98%. These ethylene interpolymer products have utility in flexible and rigid applications.

Abstract: Methods for forming polyolefin nanocomposite precursor compositions are provided. In embodiments, such a method comprises mixing a polyolefin, unmodified graphite, and a peroxide crosslinker via solid-state shear pulverization under conditions to form a polyolefin nanocomposite precursor composition comprising the polyolefin; exfoliated, unmodified graphite dispersed throughout the polyolefin; and unreacted peroxide crosslinker dispersed throughout the polyolefin, wherein the polyolefin is polyethylene, a copolymer of polyethylene, or combinations thereof. Methods of forming crosslinked polyolefin nanocomposites, the polyolefin nanocomposite precursor compositions, and crosslinked polyolefin nanocomposites are also provided.

Abstract: Provided is a sulfur-containing unsaturated hydrocarbon polymer which can improve wet grip performance and fuel efficiency of a tire in a well-balanced manner by being blended into a rubber composition for a tire. A sulfur-containing unsaturated hydrocarbon polymer of the present invention is a reaction product obtained by reacting sulfur with an unsaturated bond in a polymer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid hydrocarbon production method for obtaining a liquid hydrocarbon-containing rubber composition, including heating a crosslinked rubber at 300° C. or lower in a reaction solvent that contains an aldehyde having a hydrocarbon group with 2 or more carbon atoms and having a boiling point of 230° C. or lower; as well as a re-crosslinked rubber obtained from the rubber composition produced in the production method, and a tire and a rubber industrial product. According to the liquid hydrocarbon production method, a liquid hydrocarbon having a higher molecular weight can be produced at a high decomposition proportion even under mild conditions.

Abstract: Articles comprising pressure-sensitive adhesives and methods of their use for removing micro- and nanoplastic particles from various media, including wastewater effluent, laundry effluent, and indoor air, are disclosed.