Abstract: Thiocarbamides comprising at least one carbodiimide group and at least one thiocarbamic ester group of the formula

Abstract: Method of enhancing the performance properties of aqueous polymer dispersions comprising water-soluble ionic compounds, which comprises removing at least 50 mol % of the water-soluble ionic compounds from the polymer dispersion and then adding at least one salt of a monoalkyl or dialkyl ester of a sulfonated dicarboxylic acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to water soluble radiation activatable polymer resin formulations which are suitable to modify the absorption properties of fibrous materials and the polymer obtained by such radiation activatable polymer resins and the method of preparing such polymer. Fibrous materials made with radiation activatable resin formulations according to this invention are especially suitable for use in disposable absorbent articles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of acetophenone or benzophenone derivatives of the formula I where R is unsubstituted or substituted C1 to C3 alkyl, C6 to C10 aryl or aralkyl having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms in the aryl moiety and from 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety as copolymerizable photoinitiators. The invention further relates to copolymers containing acetophenone or benzophenone derivatives of the formula I in copolymerized form, to processes for preparing said copolymers, and to the use of said copolymers in UV crosslinkable compositions.

Abstract: A composition containing a melt-processing water-free, solvent-free polyacrylate and an anti-oxidizing agent which contains at least one aromatically bonded hydroxyl group and which is exclusively comprised of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of at least one radiation crosslinkable, preferably UV crosslinkable, polymer composition as a data recording medium, especially in the form of what are known as smart coatings based on such polymer compositions, which in a further embodiment comprises at least one fluorescence chromophore, and also to a composite at least comprising one support and one layer comprising a radiation crosslinkable polymer composition comprising at least one fluorescence chromophore, and also, preferably, an additional UV absorbing layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of acetophenone or benzophenone derivatives of the formula I where R is unsubstituted or substituted C1 to C3 alkyl, C6 to C10 aryl or aralkyl having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms in the aryl moiety and from 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety as copolymerizable photoinitiators. The invention further relates to copolymers containing acetophenone or benzophenone derivatives of the formula I in copolymerized form, to processes for preparing said copolymers, and to the use of said copolymers in UV crosslinkable compositions.

Abstract: An adhesive comprising A) a polymer obtainable by free-radical addition polymerization and synthesized from at least 60% by weight of principal monomers selected from C1 to C20 alkyl (meth)acrylates, vinyl esters of carboxylic acids containing up to 20 carbon atoms, vinylaromatics having up to 20 carbon atoms, ethylenically unsaturated nitriles, vinyl halides, vinyl ethers of alcohols containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, aliphatic hydrocarbons having 2 to 8 carbon atoms and one or two double bonds, and mixtures of these monomers, and B) an aminotriazine resin.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive comprising a mixture of: a radiation-crosslinkable polymer A) composed of at least 40% by weight of C1 to C18 alkyl (meth)acrylates, and a polymer B) composed of at least 20% by weight of vinylpyrrolidone and of less than 40% by weight of C1 to C18 alkyl (meth)acrylates, wherein the fraction of the polymer B) in the mixture is less than 15% by weight, based on the sum of A)+B).

Abstract: Adhesive-coated, peelable protective films and peelable labels, wherein the adhesive contains a copolymer that is capable of undergoing free-radical polymerization and which comprises, to an extent of from 0.1 to 10 wt %, based on the copolymer, a compound A compound of at least one copolymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated group and a group of the formula in which R1 and R2 independently stand for hydrogen or a C1-C5 alkyl group or R1 and R2 together form a bridging C2-C4 alkylene group which can be mono- or di-substituted by a C1-C4 alkoxy group or hydroxyl group and X stands for O or S.

Abstract: The use of free-radically polymerized, UV-crosslinkable polymers which consist to the extent of at least 50% by weight of C2 to C18alkyl(meth)acrylates as adhesives for the bonding of carriers coated with the polymer on substrates, wherein from 0.1 to 30% by weight of the monomers of which said polymer is composed are monomers A without carboxylic acid or carboxylic anhydride groups and with a water solubility of more than 5 g of monomers per liter of water and said substrates are moist substrates, especially refrigerated substrates.

Abstract: The invention relates to radically copolymerizable acetophenone or benzophenone derivatives, which may be obtained by reacting a) acrylic or methacrylic compounds, which contain at least one isocyanate-reactive group [compounds a)], with b) compounds, which contain at least two isocyanate groups [compounds b)] and c) acetophenone or benzophenone derivatives, which contain at least one isocyanate-reactive group [compounds c)]. Said invention also relates to copolymers, which contain said copolymerizable photoinitiators, as well as to the use of said copolymers in V-crosslinkable substances, in particular hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesives.

Abstract: A composition containing a melt-processing water-free, solvent-free polyacrylate and an anti-oxidizing agent which contains at least one aromatically bonded hydroxyl group and which is exclusively comprised of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to water soluble radiation activatable polymer resin formulations which are suitable to modify the absorption properties of fibrous materials and the polymer obtained by such radiation activatable polymer resins and the method of preparing such polymer. Fibrous materials made with radiation activatable resin formulations according to this invention are especially suitable for use in disposable absorbent articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer synthesized

Abstract: The invention relates to a mixture, containing A) a polymer, which consists to an extent of at least 40 wt % of C1-C18 alkyl (meth)acrylates (referred to herein as polyacrylates) and B) a homopolymer or copolymer of vinyl alkyl ether (referred to herein as polyvinyl alkyl ether), which consists, to an extent of at least 70 wt %, of structural units of the following formula, in which X stands for a single bond or a C1-C3 alkyl group and R for a C1-C6 alkyl group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous polymer dispersion and an adhesive for self-adherent peelable films, tapes, and labels.

Abstract: The present invention provides aqueous polymer dispersions comprising at least one particulate polymer P having a glass transition temperature Tg of less than 0° C. which is composed of ethylenically unsaturated monomers M including: i. from 60 to 94.9% by weight, preferably from 75 to 89.5% by weight, of n-butyl acrylate as monomer M1, ii. from 5 to 39.9% by weight, preferably from 10 to 24.5% by weight, of at least one monomer M2 selected from esters of methacrylic acid with C1 to C4 alkanols, tert-butyl acrylate, and vinylaromatic monomers, and iii. from 0.1 to 5% by weight, preferably from 0.5 to 2% by weight, of at least one monomer M3 selected from ethylenically unsaturated compounds having at least one acid group; the proportions of said monomers M1 to M3 being based on 100% by weight of monomers M, obtainable by free-radical aqueous emulsion polymerization of monomers M in the presence of at least 0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of at least one radiation crosslinkable, preferably UV crosslinkable, polymer composition as a data recording medium, especially in the form of what are known as smart coatings based on such polymer compositions, which in a further embodiment comprises at least one fluorescence chromophore, and also to a composite at least comprising one support and one layer comprising a radiation crosslinkable polymer composition comprising at least one fluorescence chromophore, and also, preferably, an additional UV absorbing layer.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive comprising a mixture of