Abstract: There are provided a resin composition comprising a polylactic acid which (i) comprises a poly-L-lactic acid (component B-1) and a poly-D-lactic acid (component B-4), (ii) has a weight ratio of the component B-1 to the component B-4 (component B-1/component B-4) of 10/90 to 90/10, and (iii) shows a proportion of melt peaks at 195° C. or higher to all melt peaks in a temperature rising process in measurement by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) of at least 20%; a molded article of the resin composition; and methods for producing the resin composition and the molded article.

Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a resin composition that contains a polymer obtained from biomass resources and constitutes molded articles excellent in heat resistance, mechanical properties and durable stability, this invention including a resin composition comprising (i) a resin component containing 95 to 5% by weight of an aromatic polycarbonate (component A) and 5 to 95% by weight of polylactic acid (component B), (ii) 0.001 to 10 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the resin component, of a phosphoric ester metal salt (component C), and (iii) 0.01 to 5 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the polylactic acid (component B), of a terminal blocker (component F), the stereo-complex crystal content (X) of the following expression (I) being 80% or more, X (%)={?Hb/(?Ha+?Hb)}×100??(I) wherein ?Ha and ?Hb are a melting enthalpy (?Ha) of a crystal melting point that appears at lower than 190° C. and a melting enthalpy (?Hb) of a crystal melting point that appears at 190° C.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus of polylactic acid having at least an inlet and an outlet of a substance to be reacted and an exhaust port provided in a horizontal reaction vessel not having continuous rotating shafts in a direction of center line of a rotating shaft of a stirring blade provided in the reaction vessel and a manufacture method. By removing low molecular weight substance in the polylactic acid, high-quality polylactic acid can be stably manufactured.

Abstract: A polylactic acid composition (A) comprising a polylactic acid component (B) comprising at least 90 mol % of an L-lactic acid unit and less than 10% of copolymerizing component units other than L-lactic acid, and a polylactic acid component (C) comprising at least 90 mol % of a D-lactic acid unit and less than 10 mol % of copolymerizing component units other than D-lactic acid, which is a mixed composition with a (B)/(C) weight ratio of between 10/90 and 90/10.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a composition comprising polylactic acid and having improved injection moldability and an injection molded product thereof. The object of the present invention is attained by a specific polylactic acid composition which meets the following requirements (a) to (g) at the same time: (a) it must have a weight average molecular weight of 70,000 to 700,000; (b) the total content of Sn atom, Ti atom, Al atom and Ca atom must be 3 to 20 ppm; (c) it must contain a P atom in an amount of 3 to 3,000 ppm; (d) the (total number of gram-atoms of Sn, Ti, Al and Ca)/(number of gram-atoms of P) value must be 0.01 to 5; (e) the content of a compound having a molecular weight of 150 or less must be not more than 0.2 wt %; (f) the COOH terminal group concentration must be not more than 30 equivalents/ton; and (g) the melt viscosity (P) at a melting temperature of 230° C. must satisfy the following expression (1): 10 Pa·s<P<100 Pa·s??(1).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition containing polylactic acid and having improved blow moldability and a blow molded product thereof. The polylactic acid composition meets the following requirements (a) to (g) at the same time: (a) the weight average molecular weight must be 70,000 to 700,000; (b) the total content (metal content) of Sn atom, Ti atom, Al atom and Ca atom must be 3 to 20 ppm; (c) the content of P atom must be 3 to 3,000 ppm; (d) the (total number of gram-atoms of Sn, Ti, Al and Ca)/(number of gram-atoms of P) value must be 0.01 to 5; (e) the content of a compound having a molecular weight of 150 or less must be not more than 0.2 wt %; (f) the COOH terminal group concentration must be not more than 30 equivalents/ton; and (g) the following expressions (1) and (2) must be satisfied: 10 Pa·s<P<100 Pa·s??(1) 10 MPa<S??(2) (P is a melt viscosity at 230° C. and S is a stress at 150° C.).

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to produce a polylactic acid having a high molecular weight such as a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of more than 100,000 from which only a stereocomplex crystal is grown even by repeating melting and crystallization. The present invention is a process of producing a polylactic acid, including the steps of: (i) obtaining a solid by kneading together poly(L-lactic acid) and poly(D-lactic acid) at a temperature of 160 to 225° C. and crystallizing the kneaded product; and (ii) melt kneading the obtained solid.

Abstract: A composition which comprises polylactide and has excellent heat stability, color and hydrolytic resistance. The composition comprises (i) polylactide, (ii) a metal catalyst and (iii) a hypophosphorous acid-based deactivator or a metaphosphoric acid-based deactivator.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a composition which contains polylactic acid and has excellent heat stability, mechanical strength and color. The composition contains 0.001 to 0.1 part by weight of a metal catalyst and 0.001 to 0.5 part by weight of a phosphono-fatty acid ester based on 100 parts by weight of polylactic acid.

Abstract: A polycarbonate containing an ether diol residue producible from a polysaccharide and expressed by the following formula (1), and a diol residue expressed by the following formula (2) —O—(CmH2m)—O— ??(2) (here, m is an integer of 2 to 12), wherein said ether diol residue amounts to 65-98 wt. % of all the diol residues, and having a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or higher.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide polylactic acid containing a stereocomplex crystal and having excellent moldability, a high molecular weight, high crystallinity and a high melting point and a process for manufacturing the same. It is another object of the present invention to provide a composition comprising the polylactic acid and a molded product of the polylactic acid. The present invention is characterized from polylactic acid having a weight average molecular weight of 80,000 to 500,000 and a melting peak at 195° C. or higher which accounts for 80% or more of the total of melting peaks in the temperature elevation step when measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and a process for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A microorganism which belongs to the genus Rhizobium and has the ability of degrading an aromatic polyester, and a method of degrading an aromatic polyester by using the microorganism. According to this method, the aromatic polyester can be degraded safely and relatively swiftly at a low cost.

Abstract: A fiber structure is obtained by spinning of a solution of an L-lactic acid condensate and a D-lactic acid condensate by electrospinning. It is possible to provide a fiber structure comprising fibers with extremely small fiber diameters, as well as excellent heat resistance and biodegradability.

Abstract: A microorganism which belongs to the genus Rhizobium and has the ability of degrading an aromatic polyester, and a method of degrading an aromatic polyester by using the microorganism. According to this method, the aromatic polyester can be degraded safely and relatively swiftly at a low cost.

Abstract: A polycarbonate containing an ether diol residue producible from a polysaccharide and expressed by the following formula (1), and a diol residue expressed by the following formula (2) —O—(CmH2m)—O—??(2) (here, m is an integer of 2 to 12), wherein said ether diol residue amounts to 65-98 wt. % of all the diol residues, and having a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or higher.

Abstract: A resin composition containing a mixture produced by blending a crystalline polyamide expressed e.g. by formula (1) (in the formula, R1 is a bivalent organic aromatic group or aliphatic group having a carbon number of 2 to 30, optionally having substituent and optionally containing non-reactive groups such as ether group and aromatic group in the main chain, and Ar1 is an aromatic residue having a carbon number of 6 to 45 and optionally having substituent) with a thermoplastic polyester. The resin composition has excellent mechanical characteristics such as high elastic modulus, flow properties and heat-resistance and is suitable as a material for an electronic part for surface mounting.

Abstract: A meta-type wholly aromatic polyamide containing, as principal repeating units, meta-phenylenediamineisophthalamide units is dissolved in an amide compound solvent; the resultant polymer solution is subjected to a wet-spinning procedure wherein the polymer solution is extruded in the form of filamentary streams into a coagulation bath containing an amide compound-containing solvent and water but substantially not containing salts, through spinning orifices of a spinneret, to coagulate the extruded filamentary polymer solution streams in the coagulation bath; the coagulated porous undrawn filaments are subjected to a drawing procedure wherein the porous undrawn filaments are drawn in a plasticizing drawing bath containing an aqueous solution of an amide compound solvent; the resultant drawn filaments are washed with water, and then heat-treated (for example, further drawn at a draw ratio of 0.7 to 4.0 while being heated at a temperature of 250 to 400° C.