Abstract: The present invention relates to an ophthalmic lens whose front and rear faces are differentiated with respect to their hydrophobic properties. Said lens comprising a substrate having a hydrophobic front main face, and a rear main face whose external surface has a receding contact angle with water greater than or equal to 80°, the external surface of said front main face having a receding contact angle with water lower than that of the rear main face. The invention presents various means for preparing such lenses, which may notably be obtained after deposition and then removal of temporary layers with different thicknesses on the two faces of the lens.

Abstract: A polymeric material process includes increasing a mobility within a polymer to enables specific alignment of polymer chains.

Abstract: The invention relates to a curable dental composition comprising a cationically hardenable compound (A) comprising at least two aziridine moieties, a starter (B) being suitable to cure the hardenable compound (A), polymeric particles as filler component (C), the polymeric particles having a maximum particle size of 150 ?m or below and the component(s) the polymeric particles are made of being based on fluoropolymers comprising more than 99% monomer repeating units of tetra fluoro ethylene. The invention also relates to the use of such composition for producing a dental impression material or a dental retraction material.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive composition, devices including the adhesive composition and uses of the devices including the adhesive composition. The adhesive composition is for attachment to skin and includes an adhesive polymer component selected from a mixture of a polyethylene copolymer and polypropylene glycol (PPG), and styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS) block copolymer. The composition further includes polyolefin, polybutene, polyacrylic acid (PAA), and at least one further absorbent material.

Abstract: A medical device, such as a dilatation balloon, including plasticized nylon, and plasticized nylon.

Abstract: A cyanate ester resin composition contains: a cyanate ester resin; a curing agent or a curing accelerator; silica microparticles; and core-shell rubber particles; in which the resin composition includes from 1 to 5 parts by mass of the silica microparticles and from 2 to 10 parts by mass of the core-shell rubber particles based on 100 parts by mass of the cyanate ester resin, and a mass ratio of the silica microparticles to the core-shell rubber particles is from 1/1 to 1/5.

Abstract: A process to prepare polycarbamate comprising adding urea to a polyol in the presence of at least one catalyst selected from the group consisting of compounds having the following formula MmZn; wherein M is a divalent metal, and Z is an anionic functionality or a functionality capable of forming a covalent bond with M and wherein n times a valence number of Z equals X and m times two equals Y wherein the absolute value of X equals the absolute value of Y is provided. Also provided are a polycarbamate produced according to the process and a coating composition comprising the polycarbamate.

Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a sealant precursor, comprising a first part (A) comprising (a1) an epoxy curing agent having an amine equivalent weight of at least 150 grams per mole of amine equivalents; (b1) a first epoxy curative; a second part (B) comprising (a2) a blend of epoxy resins comprising at least one bisphenol A epoxy resins and at least one bisphenol F epoxy resin; (b2) at least one silicone-based resin comprising epoxy functionalities; (c2) optionally, a toughener.

Abstract: Provided are: a cured film-forming composition whereby a underlayer film for image formation formed from the composition exhibits high liquid repellency (lyophobicity) and lyophilic/liquid-repellent properties of the underlayer film can be easily changed even when exposed to a low amount of ultraviolet radiation; and a cured film obtained using the composition. The cured film-forming resin composition is characterized by containing: a polymer comprising a structural unit derived from a first monomer having the structure of formula (1) as component (A); a polymer other than component (A), which is a polymer in which the content of fluorine relative to the overall weight of the polymer is lower than in component (A), as component (B); a photoacid generator as component (C); and a solvent. (In the formula, R1 denotes hydrogen or a methyl group, and R2 denotes a fluorine-containing group able to be detached together with the oxygen atom bonded to R2.

Abstract: An ophthalmic device is described that includes a frame and an optically active component comprising a bistable dielectric electroactive polymer. The bistable dielectric electroactive polymer changes shape when exposed to a sufficiently strong electric field and does not completely revert to its former shape when the electric field is deactivated. The refractive properties of the ophthalmic devices described herein are adjusted by exposing the devices to electric fields.

Abstract: Provided are: a silicone gel composition providing a silicone gel cured product having excellent heat resistance at high temperatures; and a cured product (silicone gel) thereof. This silicone gel composition is an addition reaction-curable silicone gel composition containing, with respect to the total (mass) of the composition, 1-1,000 ppm of a niobium carboxylate and/or nickel carboxylate represented by the following formula (3). (R3COO)fM??(3) (In the formula, R3 is a homogeneous or heterogeneous monovalent hydrocarbon group, M is at least one metal selected from among nickel and niobium, and f is 2 when M is nickel and 4 or 5 when M is niobium).

Abstract: A tire sealant composition is provided for sealing punctures in pneumatic tires, particularly in the extreme outer shoulder edge and sidewall, comprising a liquid carrier, latex in an amount between about 0.5 to about 6.0% by weight of the composition, a polysaccharide suspending agent and a particulate material with a particle size of less than 300 ?m. The composition allows for passage through the tire valve without the need for removal of the valve core.

Abstract: Aspects described herein generally relate to a material that is the reaction product of: a binder; a curing agent; and a zinc pyrithione represented by the formula: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 is independently hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxyl, hydroxyl, aryl, or heterocyclyl, uses thereof as a heatshield material, and heatshields.

Abstract: The invention provides a laminating acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition which is favorably laminated together with a layer including a plasticizer-containing polymer composition while ensuring that the migration of the plasticizer into the acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition layer is small and the resultant laminate attains excellent durability, and also provides a laminate obtained by laminating a layer including the laminating acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition onto one or both sides of a layer including the plasticizer-containing polymer composition. Further, the invention provides a polymer composition which, when the plasticizer-containing polymer described above is a vinyl chloride-based polymer, can keep sufficient adhesive force after being adhered to a layer including such a vinyl chloride-based polymer, and also provides an adhesive product using the composition.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for producing an unhydrated ophthalmic lens in which the lens surface has been made hydrophilic by imparting, using a simple technique, desired water wettability and stability against the surrounding environment to the lens surface of an unhydrated ophthalmic lens comprising a silicone compound as its constituent. This purpose can be achieved by a method for producing an unhydrated ophthalmic lens having on its lens surface a hydrophilic polymer having an alkyl halide at terminal, comprising the step of bringing an unhydrated ophthalmic lens having an alkyl halide into contact with a first aqueous solution containing a first hydrophilic monomer and a metal complex to obtain the unhydrated ophthalmic lens having on its lens surface a hydrophilic polymer having an alkyl halide at terminal.

Abstract: A composition for sealing defects in structural materials such as roads or paved surfaces, the composition preferably comprising one or more shape memory polymer (SMP) components capable of responding to increased temperature by decreasing in volume. Smart SMP-based sealants of the invention serve to avoid adhesion failure between a sealant and the repaired structure when the repaired structure is subjected to varied temperatures that cause thermal expansion and contraction.

Abstract: A polyolefin-based thermoplastic elastomer and a crosslinked body of the same which can undergo a silane-crosslinking process excellent in productivity and have a rubber property required as a substitute material for EPDM is disclosed herein and can use a silane-crosslinkable ethylene-propylene copolymer characterized in that an organic peroxide (B) and a silane coupling agent (C) are compounded with an ethylene-propylene copolymer resin (A) which comprises 5 to 25% by mass of an ethylene component and 75 to 95% by mass of a propylene component, and whose MFR measured at 230° C. and with a load of 2.16 kg applied is 20.0 g/10 min or less. and further a compounded amount of the organic peroxide is 0.1 to 0.6 pts. mass based on 100 pts. mass of the ethylene-propylene copolymer resin (A) and a one-minute half-life temperature of the organic peroxide is 175.2° C. or less.

Abstract: Provided is resin molded articles having large elastic modulus, and good appearance. A thermoplastic resin composition contains 80 to 120 parts by weight of a carbon fiber and 0.1 to 3.0 parts by weight of a black colorant, per 100 parts by weight of a (A) crystallizable thermoplastic resin which shows a semicrystallization time (ST (P)) of 20 to 500 seconds, wherein the semicrystallization time is measured by depolarization photometry, under conditions that a sample melting temperature is 20 to 40° C. higher than a melting point of the crystallizable thermoplastic resin, a sample melting time is 3 minutes, and an oil bath temperature for crystallization is 140° C.

Abstract: Provided are a near infrared absorbing fine particle dispersion liquid having an absorption ability in a near infrared region, a clear contrast, and applicable to offset printing, and a method for producing the same, an anti-counterfeit ink composition using the near infrared absorbing fine particle dispersion liquid and an anti-counterfeit printed matter using near infrared absorbing fine particles. Also provided are a near infrared absorbing fine particle dispersion liquid containing a solvent of one or more kinds selected from vegetable oils or vegetable oil-derived compounds; near infrared absorbing fine particles in an amount of 2 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less, selected from one or more kinds of hexaboride fine particles expressed by a general formula XBa (wherein element X is at least one or more kinds selected from a group consisting of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Y, Sm, Eu, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Sr, and Ca, satisfying 4.0?a?6.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a peroxide-modified polyethylene and related compositions as well as films, sheets, and multilayer structures made therefrom. A film composition is made from or containing a peroxide-modified polyethylene composition made from or containing a peroxide-modified polyethylene made from or containing the reaction products of a polyethylene composition made from or containing a first Ziegler-Natta-catalyzed polyethylene and a first amount of an organic peroxide to the second reactor.