Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition containing a polycarbonate resin (A) and a polymer (B), in which the polymer (B) is a copolymer containing a polymer chain (B1) and a polymer chain (B2); the polymer chain (B1) has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of higher than 80° C.; the polymer chain (B2) has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of lower than 0° C.; and a refractive index difference between the polycarbonate resin (A) and the polymer chain (B2) is less than 0.026.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for rapidly clearing a biological tissue. According to the present invention, provided is a method for clearing a biological tissue, including the steps of: infiltrating the biological tissue with water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomers before, during or after fixing the biological tissue with a fixative, wherein the water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomers include at least a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer having an ionically dissociable group; polymerizing the water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomers to form a hydrogel in the fixed biological tissue; and removing a lipid from the fixed biological tissue.

Abstract: The present invention provides a copolymer containing 80 mol % or more of a methyl (metl)acrylate unit (A), wherein the Vicat softening temperature thereof is 115° C. or higher, the saturated water absorption rate thereof at 60° C. is 4 % by weight or less, and the yellow index thereof is 1 or less. The process for producing the copolymer includes suspension polymerizing a monomer mixture containing 80 mol % or more of methyl (meth)acrylate (a) and 0.7 mol % to 7 mol % of (meth)acrylic acid (b), followed by melting and kneading the resulting precursor with an extruder to obtain a copolymer containing 80 mol % or more of a methyl (meth)acrylate unit (A), 0.45 mol % to 7 mol % of a (meth)acrylic acid unit (B), and 0.001 mol % to 0.25 mol % of a glutaric anhydride unit (C) wherein a conversion rate to the glutaric anhydride unit (C) is 0.1 % to 5 %.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for rapidly clearing a biological tissue. According to the present invention, provided is a method for clearing a biological tissue, including the steps of: infiltrating the biological tissue with water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomers before, during or after fixing the biological tissue with a fixative, wherein the water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomers include at least a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer having an ionically dissociable group; polymerizing the water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomers to form a hydrogel in the fixed biological tissue; and removing a lipid from the fixed biological tissue.

Abstract: This vehicle mechanical component includes a mechanical component body, a heat insulating layer formed on the mechanical component body, and a protective layer formed on the heat insulating layer and including an inorganic compound that includes an alkoxide and scale-like inorganic solid particles dispersed in the inorganic compound.

Abstract: A binder resin for a nonaqueous secondary battery electrode of the invention satisfies Is?30 (Is indicates a sum of scattering intensities observed in a particle size range of from 1 to 100 nm) when a solution is formed by dissolving the binder resin in water at a concentration of 5% by mass and particle size distribution is measured by a dynamic light scattering method at 25° C. The binder resin contains a polymer (B) having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (11) and a specific structural unit. The binder resin also contains a polymer (?) having a specific structural unit and a structural unit represented by the following Formula (22), and/or a mixture of a polymer (?1) having a specific structural unit and a polymer (?2) having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (22).

Abstract: An easily dismantlable adhesive composition containing: an acrylic block polymer having a poly(meth)acrylate chain (A) formed of a carboxyl precursor group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer (a) and a poly(meth)acrylate chain (B) that contains, as monomer components, a (meth)acrylate (b) having an alkyl group having 1 to 14 carbon atoms and a polar group-containing monomer (c); and either an acid catalyst or an acid generator, makes it possible to achieve favorable adhesiveness and dismantlability and suppress stick-slip at the time of dismantlement.

Abstract: The use of a binder resin for a secondary battery electrode which is a polymer characterized by containing, as polymer-constituent monomer units, a vinyl cyanide monomer unit at a ratio of 50 to 99.99% by mole and a phosphoric acid group-containing monomer unit at a ratio of 0.01 to 50% by mole, and preferably having a mass-average molecular weight of 200,000 to 3,000,000 makes it possible to obtain a battery in which the in-battery electrochemical stability of the vinyl cyanide monomer unit is exhibited, while the phosphoric acid group-containing monomer unit exhibits an excellent binding property to a current collector to improve the flexibility of the current collector.

Abstract: The present invention provides a copolymer demonstrating superior heat resistance, fluidity, mechanical properties, appearance, low water absorbency and moldability. In addition, the present invention provides a process for producing a copolymer that enables the resulting copolymer to demonstrate superior heat resistance, fluidity, mechanical properties, appearance, low water absorbency and moldability. The copolymer of the present invention is a copolymer containing 80 mol % or more of a methyl (meth)acrylate unit (A), wherein the Vicat softening temperature thereof is 115° C. or higher, the saturated water absorption rate thereof at 60° C. is 4% by weight or less, and the yellow index thereof is 1 or less. In addition, the process for producing a copolymer of the present invention comprises the obtaining of a precursor by suspension polymerizing a monomer mixture containing 80 mol % or more of methyl (meth)acrylate (a) and 0.

Abstract: This vehicle mechanical component includes a mechanical component body, a heat insulating layer formed on the mechanical component body, and a protective layer formed on the heat insulating layer and including an inorganic compound that includes an alkoxide and scale-like inorganic solid particles dispersed in the inorganic compound.

Abstract: An acrylic composition, which has excellent flexibility at low temperature and can form a formed body whose adhesion at room temperature is suppressed, the formed body of the acrylic composition, a key sheet of a mobile telephone, and a light guide obtained from the formed body are provided. The acrylic composition contains specific long chain di(meth)acrylate (A) and mono(meth)acrylate (B), and the glass-transformation temperature (TgDMS) of the polymer of the acrylic composition is 40° C. or less. The formed body is obtained by polymerization of the acrylic composition, and the key sheet of the mobile telephone and the light guide are obtained from the formed body.

Abstract: A binder resin for a nonaqueous secondary battery electrode of the invention satisfies Is?30 (Is indicates a sum of scattering intensities observed in a particle size range of from 1 to 100 nm) when a solution is formed by dissolving the binder resin in water at a concentration of 5% by mass and particle size distribution is measured by a dynamic light scattering method at 25° C. The binder resin contains a polymer (B) having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (11) and a specific structural unit. The binder resin also contains a polymer (?) having a specific structural unit and a structural unit represented by the following Formula (22), and/or a mixture of a polymer (?1) having a specific structural unit and a polymer (?2) having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (22).

Abstract: A binder resin for a nonaqueous secondary battery electrode of the invention satisfies Is?30 (Is indicates a sum of scattering intensities observed in a particle size range of from 1 to 100 nm) when a solution is formed by dissolving the binder resin in water at a concentration of 5% by mass and particle size distribution is measured by a dynamic light scattering method at 25° C. The binder resin contains a polymer (B) having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (11) and a specific structural unit. The binder resin also contains a polymer (?) having a specific structural unit and a structural unit represented by the following Formula (22), and/or a mixture of a polymer (?1) having a specific structural unit and a polymer (?2) having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (22).

Abstract: This resin composition for secondary battery electrodes contains (A) a polymer that contains a vinyl cyanide unit but does not contain an acidic group, (B) a polymer that contains an acidic group and (C) a compound that contains a hydroxyl group.

Abstract: Suitable adhesive properties and dismantling properties can be obtained, and an interface between an adherent/an adhesive layer or an adhesive layer/a substrate can be suitably dismantlable by the easily dismantlable adhesive composition including an acrylate polymer including a (meth)acrylate monomer having a carboxyl precursor group, 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate, and a monomer having a polar group as a monomer, and an acid catalyst or an acid generator.

Abstract: Suitable adhesive properties and dismantling properties can be obtained, and an interface between an adherent/an adhesive layer or an adhesive layer/a substrate can be suitably dismantlable by the easily dismantlable adhesive composition including an acrylate polymer including a (meth)acrylate monomer having a carboxyl precursor group, 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate, and a monomer having a polar group as a monomer, and an acid catalyst or an acid generator.

Abstract: An easily dismantlable adhesive composition is provided containing: an acrylic polymer; and either an acid catalyst or an acid generator, the acrylic polymer containing: as monomer components, a carboxyl-precursor-group-containing-(meth)acrylate monomer; an n-butyl acrylate; and a polar-group-containing monomer, the content of the polar-group-containing monomer being 5 to 30% by mass, relative to the total mass of the monomer components composing the acrylic polymer, makes it possible to realize favorable adhesion- and dismantling properties and favorable delamination at an interface between an adherend and a substrate or an interface between an adhesive agent layer and an adherend when dismantled.

Abstract: A binder resin for a nonaqueous secondary battery electrode of the invention satisfies Is?30 (Is indicates a sum of scattering intensities observed in a particle size range of from 1 to 100 nm) when a solution is formed by dissolving the binder resin in water at a concentration of 5% by mass and particle size distribution is measured by a dynamic light scattering method at 25° C. The binder resin contains a polymer (B) having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (11) and a specific structural unit. The binder resin also contains a polymer (?) having a specific structural unit and a structural unit represented by the following Formula (22), and/or a mixture of a polymer (?1) having a specific structural unit and a polymer (?2) having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (22).

Abstract: An easily dismantlable adhesive composition containing: an acrylic block polymer having a poly(meth)acrylate chain (A) formed of a carboxyl precursor group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer (a) and a poly(meth)acrylate chain (B) that contains, as monomer components, a (meth)acrylate (b) having an alkyl group having 1 to 14 carbon atoms and a polar group-containing monomer (c); and either an acid catalyst or an acid generator, makes it possible to achieve favorable adhesiveness and dismantlability and suppress stick-slip at the time of dismantlement.

Abstract: The present invention provides an easily dismantlable adhesive composition as an adhesive composition containing an acrylic polymer (X) that contains a (meth)acrylate monomer as a main monomer component, and an acid catalyst or an acid generator, in which the acrylic polymer (X) contains a poly(meth)acrylate chain (A) that is formed of repeating units derived from a carboxyl precursor group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer (a), and a number of the repeating units is 10 or greater.