Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a resin composition which gives a molding excellent in flexibility, impact resilience and mechanical properties and a golf ball having the better shot feel, a long carry, and the excellent cutting resistance when used in a golf ball cover. The resin composition of the present invention is characterized in comprising an ionomer resin, an alkoxysilyl group-containing hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer and/or an amino group-containing hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer. Alkoxysilyl group content and amino group content in the above-mentioned polymers are preferably 0.0001 to 5 mmol/g, respectively. The golf ball of the invention is characterized in that core is covered with a cover material using the above-mentioned resin composition.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a hydrogenated modified polymer which can afford a molded body excellent in improvement in the balance among the impact resistance, the strength, the adherability and as the appearance, and a process for producing the same as well as a composition containing the same. Another objective is to provide a composition which can afford a molded body excellent in the balance among the flame retardancy, the tensile strength, the tensile extension, the heat resistance, the characteristic at low temperature, the insulation property, the pliability and the like. The hydrogenated modified polymer of the invention is a hydrogenated polymer of a modified conjugated diene-based polymer obtained by reacting an alkoxysilane compound to a polymer which is polymerized a conjugated diene or a conjugated diene and another monomer using an organic alkali metal compound as a polymerization initiator in an inert organic solvent such as cyclohexane and the like.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a resin composition which gives a molding excellent in flexibility, impact resilience and mechanical properties and a golf ball having the better shot feel, a long carry, and the excellent cutting resistance when used in a golf ball cover. The resin composition of the present invention is characterized in comprising an ionomer resin, an alkoxysilyl group-containing hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer and/or an amino group-containing hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer. Alkoxysilyl group content and amino group content in the above-mentioned polymers are preferably 0.0001 to 5 mmol/g, respectively. The golf ball of the invention is characterized in that core is covered with a cover material using the above-mentioned resin composition.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a hydrogenated modified polymer which can afford a molded body excellent in improvement in the balance among the impact resistance, the strength, the adherability and as the appearance, and a process for producing the same as well as a composition containing the same. Another objective is to provide a composition which can afford a molded body excellent in the balance among the flame retardancy, the tensile strength, the tensile extension, the heat resistance, the characteristic at low temperature, the insulation property, the pliability and the like. The hydrogenated modified polymer of the invention is a hydrogenated polymer of a modified conjugated diene-based polymer obtained by reacting an alkoxysilane compound to a polymer which is polymerized a conjugated diene or a conjugated diene and another monomer using an organic alkali metal compound as a polymerization initiator in an inert organic solvent such as cyclohexane and the like.

Abstract: The invention provides a resin composition comprising a polyphenylene ether-based resin and a polyolefin resin, having no interlayer peeling and exhibiting excellent heat resistance and dynamic properties such as impact resistance, rigidity and tensile breaking elongation.

Abstract: The invention provides a resin composition comprising a polyphenylene ether-based resin and a polyolefin resin, having no interlayer peeling and exhibiting excellent heat resistance and dynamic properties such as impact resistance, rigidity and tensile breaking elongation.

Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst comprising (A) a transition metal compound in which a group having a heterocyclic skeleton is bonded to Ti, Zr or Hf through an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom, a representative of which compound is bis(cyclopentadienyl)titanium bis(tetrahydrofurfuryloxy) and (B) an organic compound, halide or hydride of a metal of Groups I to III of the Periodic Table or comprising the constituent (A), the constituent (B) and (C) a polar, organic compound such as an alcohol, a carboxylic acid or the like. An olefinically unsaturated compound can be hydrogenated with a high efficiency by contacting the compound with hydrogen in the presence of the above catalyst in an inert, organic solvent. The above catalyst has a very high catalytic activity, is excellent in hydrogenation selectivity and thermal resistance, also excellent in storage stability and maintainability of catalytic activity and is hardly affected by the co-existing impurities.

Abstract: A hydrogenated block copolymer or hydrogenated block copolymer mixture consisting essentially of (a) hydrogenation product of a star-branched block copolymer represented by the structural formula (A-B).sub.n X wherein A is a polybutadiene block having a 1,2-vinyl content of less than 25% by weight and B is a copolymer block containing 50% by weight or more of a conjugated diene compound whose vinyl content is 25% by weight or more, X is a coupling agent residue and n is an integer of 3 or more, and (b) a hydrogenation product of a straight chain block copolymer represented by the structural formula A-B wherein A and B are as defined above, the weight ratio of the component (a) to the component (b) being 100/0 to 5/95, and a hydrogenated block copolymer composition comprising (I) 1 to 99 parts by weight of said hydrogenated block copolymer or hydrogenated block copolymer mixture and (II) 99 to 1 part by weight of a thermoplastic resin and/or a rubbery polymer.

Abstract: A crosslinked thermoplastic elastomer composition obtained by mixing 100 weight parts of at least one type of thermoplastic elastomer, 0-200 weight parts of a rubber-like polymer, and 1-50 weight parts of ultra fine carbon fibrils whose diameter is 3.5-70 nm and whose aspect ratio is greater than 5 against 100 weight parts of the combined mixture of the aforementioned elastomer and rubber like polymer.

Abstract: A medical device produced by molding a composition comprising (I) 10 to 50% by weight of a polyolefin resin (II) 1 to 89% by weight of a hydrogenated diene polymer obtained by hydrogenating not less than 90 mol % of a butadiene moiety of a linear or branched copolymer consisting of a polybutadiene block segment (C) having a 1,2-vinyl bond content of not more than 20 mol % and a block segment (D) of either polybutadiene or a vinyl aromatic compound-butadiene copolymer whose butadiene moiety has a 1,2-vinyl bond content in the range of from 25 to 95 mol % and having a block structure represented by C-(D-C).sub.n or (C-D).sub.