Abstract: Disclosed herein are an optical resin composition whose orientation birefringence and photoelastic birefringence are both very low and which has high transparency and which provides a film having few surface defects, high heat stability, high solvent resistance, and excellent surface appearance, and a film comprising the optical resin composition. The optical resin composition comprises: a resin (A) having a maleimide unit represented by the formula (5) and a (meth)acrylic ester unit; and a glutarimide acrylic resin (B). The resin composition may further comprise multi-layered particles.

Abstract: An optical resin composition from which a film with improved adhesion to a polyvinyl alcohol-based film and improved flex resistance can be obtained while keeping high film transparency. The optical resin composition includes: 99 to 50% by weight of an acrylic resin having a glass transition temperature of not lower than 110° C.; and 1 to 50% by weight of a particulate (meth)acrylic multilayer structure graft copolymer containing: an innermost layer made of a polymer containing a methacrylic acid ester as a first monomer; a middle layer made of a polymer containing, as a second monomer, an acrylic acid alkyl ester having an alkyl group with 4 to 12 carbon atoms; and an outermost layer made of a polymer containing a methacrylic acid ester as a third monomer. A graft ratio of the (meth)acrylic multilayer structure graft copolymer is not less than 110%.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an optical resin composition whose orientation birefringence and photoelastic birefringence are both very low and which has high transparency and which provides a film having few surface defects and excellent mechanical strength, and a film comprising the optical resin composition. Also disclosed herein is a film that has optical isotropy and excellent transparency even after stretching. The optical resin composition contains a thermoplastic resin and a multistep-polymerized graft copolymer obtained by polymerizing, in the presence of crosslinked polymer-containing particles formed by polymerizing a monomer mixture containing a monomer represented by the following formula (4) and a polyfunctional monomer, a monomer mixture containing a monomer represented by the following formula (4) and another monofunctional monomer copolymerizable therewith.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an optical resin composition whose orientation birefringence and photoelastic birefringence are both very low and which has high transparency and which provides a film having few surface defects, high heat stability, high solvent resistance, and excellent surface appearance, and a film comprising the optical resin composition. The optical resin composition comprises: a resin (A) having a maleimide unit represented by the formula (5) and a (meth)acrylic ester unit; and a glutarimide acrylic resin (B). The resin composition may further comprise multi-layered particles.

Abstract: An optical thermoplastic resin has a rate of reduction in melt viscosity of less than 20%, an orientation birefringence of ?1.7×10?4 to 1.7×10?4, a photoelastic constant of ?3.7×10?12 to 3.7×10?12 Pa?1, and, when formed into a 2 mm-thick formed body, has a haze of 1% or less.

Abstract: An optical resin composition includes a thermoplastic resin and a cross-linked structure-containing polymer. A photoelastic constant of the cross-linked structure-containing polymer and a photoelastic constant of the thermoplastic resin are opposite in sign, and a molded article with a thickness of 2 mm formed from the optical resin composition has a haze of 6% or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resin material and a film made of the resin material, the resin material being able to form a molded body having high transparency, excellent mechanical strength, few foreign matter defects, excellent heat stability, excellent solvent resistance, and extremely good appearance. The resin material contains a thermoplastic resin (A) and a polymer (B) satisfying the following conditions. That is, the polymer (B) is a graft copolymer obtained by multistep polymerization, and at least one step of the multistep polymerization is polymerization of a monomer mixture containing: a (meth)acrylic monomer having a ring structure; and (meth)acrylic acid and/or its salt.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a resin material capable of producing a molded body having few defects due to foreign substances, having high mechanical strength, very small in both orientation birefringence and photoelastic birefringence, and having high transparency, and having high transparency even when such a resin material is stretched. Provided is a resin composition containing a resin (A) and a multilayer structure polymer (B), wherein the multilayer structure polymer (B) has a crosslinked polymer layer and a hard polymer layer, and the hard polymer layer has at least two different hard polymer layers, at least one of which is a hard polymer layer (C) opposite in sign of a photoelastic constant to that of the resin (A).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical resin material and an optical film, which are very small in both orientation birefringence and photoelastic birefringence, excellent in transparency, have few defects due to foreign substances, and are excellent in heat resistance and mechanical strength. Provided is an optical resin material containing a graft copolymer (C) obtained by polymerizing a vinyl-based monomer mixture (B) in the presence of a vinyl-based polymer (A) having at least one crosslinked structure layer, wherein the graft copolymer (C) has an orientation birefringence of ?15×10?4 to 15×10?4 and a photoelastic constant of ?10×10?12 to 10×10?12 Pa?1.

Abstract: Provided herein is a (meth)acrylic resin that has less impurities and is less likely to deteriorate in transparency or turn yellow during molding processing, which is not obtainable by conventional suspension polymerization. The invention is a method for producing a methyl methacrylate polymer, comprising suspension polymerization of 30 to 100 wt % of methyl methacrylate and 70 to 0 wt % of a monomer copolymerizable therewith to produce a methyl methacrylate polymer, wherein the polymerization is initiated in the presence of 350 ppm or less of a suspension stabilizer relative to the monomer(s) and then a suspension stabilizer is added when a polymerization conversion ratio reaches 20 to 90%.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a film that exhibits well-balanced physical properties such as high surface hardness, excellent transparency, excellent cracking resistance, and excellent anti-whitening on bending when laminated on a plastic molded body, and is therefore suitable for decorative molding applications. The film is an acrylic resin film obtained by forming, into a film, an acrylic resin composition containing an acrylic resin and a rubber-containing graft copolymer, the rubber-containing graft copolymer being obtained by polymerizing monomer components (B-1) to (B-4) in order so that rubber particles obtained by polymerizing (B-1) to (B-3) have an average particle size of 0.2 to 0.4 ?m. The monomer component (B-1) comprises 40 to 100 wt % of an acrylate, 60 to 0 wt % of a monofunctional monomer copolymerizable therewith, and 0.05 to 10 parts by weight of a polyfunctional monomer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a non-birefringent resin material that is very small in both orientation birefringence and photoelastic birefringence, has high transparency, and is capable of providing a molded article having few foreign matter defects and a film made of such a material. The non-birefringent resin material contains a resin (A) and a polymer (B) and has an orientation birefringence of ?1.7×10?4 to 1.7×10?4 and a photoelastic constant of ?4×10?12 to 4×10?12 Pa?1.

Abstract: Provided herein is a (meth)acrylic resin that has less impurities and is less likely to deteriorate in transparency or turn yellow during molding processing, which is not obtainable by conventional suspension polymerization. The invention is a method for producing a methyl methacrylate polymer, comprising suspension polymerization of 30 to 100 wt % of methyl methacrylate and 70 to 0 wt % of a monomer copolymerizable therewith to produce a methyl methacrylate polymer, wherein the polymerization is initiated in the presence of 350 ppm or less of a suspension stabilizer relative to the monomer(s) and then a suspension stabilizer is added when a polymerization conversion ratio reaches 20 to 90%.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a thermoplastic resin composition capable of improving impact resistance and surface gloss of a molded article, and a molded article thereof. A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention is comprising 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (a) and 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of a core-shell polymer composition (b), wherein the core-shell polymer composition (b) is obtained by polymerizing the shell-constituting components in the presence of a core obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture (100% by weight in total) of 70% to 99.95% by weight of an alkyl acrylate having an alkyl group of 2 to 18 carbon atoms, 0.05% to 10% by weight of a polyfunctional monomer, and 0% to 20% by weight of a monomer copolymerizable with the alkyl acrylate and the polyfunctional monomer, and the polyfunctional monomers contains at least a compound having a plurality of same radically polymerizable functional groups in the molecule thereof.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a thermoplastic resin composition capable of improving impact resistance and surface gloss of a molded article, and a molded article thereof. A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention is comprising 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (a) and 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of a core-shell polymer composition (b), wherein the core-shell polymer composition (b) is obtained by polymerizing the shell-constituting components in the presence of a core obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture (100% by weight in total) of 70% to 99.95% by weight of an alkyl acrylate having an alkyl group of 2 to 18 carbon atoms, 0.05% to 10% by weight of a polyfunctional monomer, and 0% to 20% by weight of a monomer copolymerizable with the alkyl acrylate and the polyfunctional monomer, and the polyfunctional monomers contains at least a compound having a plurality of same radically polymerizable functional groups in the molecule thereof.

Abstract: To provide a method of producing polymer particles having favorable powder characteristics accompanied by less structural restriction of high-molecular weight fine particles; a matte resin composition and a light diffusible resin composition which include polymer particles having favorable powder characteristics, and which have favorable physical properties and are also excellent in handleability; and a molded product thereof is objected to.

Abstract: There is provided a modifier composition for a methacrylate resin, which can stably give a molded article excellent in strength without deteriorating transparency, color tone and appearance thereof under a wide range of injection molding conditions. A modifier composition for a methacrylate resin of the present invention comprises an impact modifier, a polymer processing aid and a reducing compound, wherein an amount of the impact modifier to the polymer processing aid is 95/5 to 80/20 in weight, and an amount of the reducing compound is 0.25 to 1.25 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the impact modifier and the polymer processing aid.