Abstract: The invention relates to a non-pigmented composition comprising a) a block co-polymer comprising at least one first block and at least one second block which is different from the first block, wherein the first block comprises repeating units 1, repeating unit 1 and the second block comprises repeating units 2, repeating unit 2 wherein Z represents O or NH, R1 represents H or CH3, R2 represents a group selected from hydrocarbyl groups and ether group-containing groups, R3 represents an organic group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, R4 and R5 independently represent an organic group, wherein R4 and R5 are optionally linked to each other to form a cyclic structure, and b) a polymer comprising at least one acidic group, and having a number average molecular weight of 300 g/mol or higher.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising a) a polymer a) comprising polymerized units of a N-vinyl lactam, b) a comb copolymer b) having a polymer backbone based on a vinyl aromatic compound and an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable carboxylic anhydride, and having at least two polyalkylene oxide side chains, and c) a carbon-based material.

Abstract: The invention relates to block co-polymer comprising at least one first block and at least one second block which is different from the first block, wherein the first block comprises repeating units 1, and the second block comprises repeating units 2, wherein Z represents O or NH, R1 represents H or CH3, R2 represents a group selected from hydrocarbyl groups and ether group-containing groups, R3 represents an organic group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, R4 and R5 independently represent an organic group, wherein R4 and R5 are optionally linked to each other to form a cyclic structure, and wherein the first block comprises at least six different types of repeating units 1.

Abstract: The invention relates to a block-co-polymer comprising at least one first block and at least one second block which is different from the first block, wherein the first block comprises repeating units 1, and the second block comprises repeating units 2, wherein Z represents O or NH, R1 represents H or CH3, R2 represents a group selected from hydrocarbyl groups and ether group-containing groups, R3 represents an organic group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, R4 and R5 independently represent an organic group, wherein R4 and R5 are optionally linked to each other to form a cyclic structure, and wherein the first block comprises wherein the first block comprises at least two different types of repeating units comprising ether groups.

Abstract: Provided are a composite of nanoparticles of a metal such as gold, silver, a platinum metal, or copper, and a polymer, the composite allowing formation of a metal film having a sufficiently low resistivity in terms of practicality simply by drying at room temperature without requiring any special heating-baking step or any step of removing a protective agent with a solvent; a dispersion liquid of the composite; methods for producing the foregoing; and a plastic substrate formed from the dispersion liquid. The composite comprises a (meth)acrylic-based copolymer having, as side chains, a polyethylene glycol chain and a phosphate residue represented by —OP(O)(OH)2 and having, at at least one end of the molecular chain, —SR (where R represents an alkyl group or the like).

Abstract: Provided are a composite of nanoparticles of a metal such as gold, silver, a platinum metal, or copper, and a polymer, the composite allowing formation of a metal film having a sufficiently low resistivity in terms of practicality simply by drying at room temperature without requiring any special heating-baking step or any step of removing a protective agent with a solvent; a dispersion liquid of the composite; methods for producing the foregoing; and a plastic substrate formed from the dispersion liquid. When a dispersion liquid of a metal-nanoparticle-containing composite that is prepared by reducing metal ions in an aqueous medium in the presence of a (meth)acrylic-based copolymer having, as side chains, a polyethylene glycol chain and a phosphate residue represented by —OP(O)(OH)2 and having, at at least one end of the molecular chain, —SR (where R represents an alkyl group or the like), is applied to a base material and is then just dried at room temperature, a film having conductivity is formed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for decreasing the ammonia concentration in the interior of the body of domestic animals and fowls, thereby maintaining said animals and fowls in physiologically good condition and decreasing the ammonia concentration in the excrement thereof to decrease the offensive odor generated from the excrement. This is carried out by giving them the antibiotic multhiomycin in the feed or the drinking water containing multhiomycin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a veterinary medicine containing multhiomycin as an effective ingredient and provides a medicine for promoting growth of animals including birds, fishes and shellfishes and preventing various kinds of diseases of animals or fishes and shellfishes which contains multhiomycin as an essential component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of cultivation and extraction of multhiomycin, an antibiotic, and relates also to a veterinary medicine containing multhiomycin as an effective ingredient and more particularly, the present invention provides a method for obtaining multhiomycin by cultivating a multhiomycin-producing fungus such as Streptomyces sp. 8446-CC1 belonging to genus Streptomyces in a culture medium containing a sulfur-containing amino acid and treating the culture medium with a mixed solvent of alcohols and halogenated hydrocarbons or ketones and provides a medicine for promoting growth of animals and preventing various kinds of diseases of animals which contains multhiomycin as an essential component.

Abstract: An unbalanced switching circuit is connected with a bi-directional control rectifier in such a manner that variance of counter electro motive forces produced by rotation of an AC motor affects the lower switching voltage in the unbalanced switching circuit through diodes and a capacitor to increase or decrease the conduction angle of the bi-directional control rectifier.