Abstract: The present invention provides silicone polymer particles having excellent tensile properties and excellent transparency and also provides a silicone composition. The present invention relates to silicone polymer particles having a silicone core-alkoxysilane condensate shell structure in which silicone particles with a volume-average particle diameter of 0.001 ?m to 1.0 ?m are coated with an alkoxysilane condensate, and also relates to a silicone composition containing (A) the silicone polymer particles, (B) a polyorganosiloxane having at least one alkenyl group in its molecule, and (C) a curing agent. The present invention further relates to respective manufacturing methods of the silicone polymer particles and the silicone composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyolefin graft copolymer which is produced by graft copolymerization of an olefin monomer and a macromonomer, which has good handleability and excellent dispersibility in a thermoplastic resin. In a composition including the polyolefin graft copolymer, excellent surface wettability is exhibited and the increase in elastic modulus is suppressed. The invention also provides a method for producing the polyolefin graft copolymer. Furthermore, the invention provides a composition containing the copolymer and a production method therefor. The polyolefin graft copolymer can be produced, in the presence of a coordination polymerization catalyst, by graft-copolymerizing an olefin monomer and a macromonomer having a multilayer structure in an aqueous system.

Abstract: The present invention provides an olefin polymerization catalyst composed of a late transition metal complex exhibiting high olefin polymerization activity and also provides a method for producing the same. Furthermore, the present invention provides an olefin polymer prepared using the catalyst and a method for producing the olefin polymer. The olefin polymerization catalyst is composed of a fluorine-containing late transition metal complex having a structure represented by a specified general formula. The polymerization catalyst can be prepared in the reaction system.

Abstract: A novel polyolefin graft copolymer prepared by graft-copolymerizing an olefin monomer with a (meth)acryl macromonomer or an isobutylene macromonomer in the presence of a coordination polymerization catalyst based on a late transition metal complex and a method for making the novel polyolefin graft copolymer are provided.

Abstract: A polyolefin graft copolymer formed by graft copolymerization of an olefinic monomer and a macromonomer and the production process therefor are provided. The polyolefin graft copolymer is produced from a macromonomer obtained by radical emulsion polymerization of a vinyl monomer, by using a redox initiator containing a polymerization initiator, an activator, a reductant, and an oxygen coordination type-chelating age.

Abstract: The present invention provides silicone polymer particles having excellent tensile properties and excellent transparency and also provides a silicone composition. The present invention relates to silicone polymer particles having a silicone core-alkoxysilane condensate shell structure in which silicone particles with a volume-average particle diameter of 0.001 ?m to 1.0 ?m are coated with an alkoxysilane condensate, and also relates to a silicone composition containing (A) the silicone polymer particles, (B) a polyorganosiloxane having at least one alkenyl group in its molecule, and (C) a curing agent. The present invention further relates to respective manufacturing methods of the silicone polymer particles and the silicone composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyolefin graft copolymer produced by copolymerizing a macromonomer latex which is obtained by radical emulsion polymerization of a vinyl monomer, with an olefin monomer, and also provides a method for producing the same, and a composition. A polyolefin graft copolymer can be produced by copolymerizing a macromonomer latex which is obtained by radical emulsion polymerization of a vinyl monomer, with an olefin monomer in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst composed of a certain ligand and nickel as the central metal.

Abstract: The present invention provides an olefin polymerization catalyst composed of a late transition metal complex exhibiting high olefin polymerization activity and also provides a method for producing the same. Furthermore, the present invention provides an olefin polymer prepared using the catalyst and a method for producing the olefin polymer. The olefin polymerization catalyst is composed of a fluorine-containing late transition metal complex having a structure represented by a specified general formula. The polymerization catalyst can be prepared in the reaction system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyolefin copolymer in which an olefin monomer is graft-copolymerized to modified particles of a metallic compound. The polyolefin graft copolymer can be obtained by graft-copolymerizing the olefin monomer to modified particles of a metallic compound in the presence of a coordination polymerization catalyst in the presence of, particularly, a coordination polymerization catalyst of a late transition metal complex. Further, the property of a polyolefin resin can be improved by blending the polyolefin graft copolymer to a polyolefin resin.

Abstract: With respect to graft copolymerization of an olefin monomer with a silicone macromonomer produced by emulsion polymerization, a novel polyolefin graft copolymer and a process for producing the copolymer are provided. A composition containing the copolymer and a process for producing the composition are also provided. In the presence of a late transition metal complex coordination polymerization catalyst, an olefin monomer and a silicone macromonomer prepared by emulsion polymerization are graft copolymerized.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyolefin graft copolymer which is produced by graft copolymerization of an olefin monomer and a (meth)acrylic macromonomer and which has good powder characteristics, a polyolefin graft copolymer composition, and a method for producing such a polyolefin graft copolymer. The invention also provides a composition containing the copolymer and a method for producing such a composition. In the presence of a late transition metal complex coordination polymerization catalyst, an olefin monomer and a (meth)acrylic macromonomer having a glass transition temperature of 30° C. or higher are graft-copolymerized.

Abstract: A syndiotactic styrenic polymer having a narrow molecular weight distribution which is a (co)polymer comprising at least one structural unit represented by the following Formula (1): wherein C1 of a phenyl group thereof has a tacticity of 30% or more in terms of a racemic pentad determined by 13C-NMR, and Ra and m are as defined in the specification. The disclosure is also directed to a block copolymer comprising the above polymer as one segment, to a block graft polymer prepared by modifying one block of the above polymer with a nitrogen-containing aromatic polymer, and to a process for preparing a syndiotactic styrenic polymer in which a styrenic monomer is polymerized in the presence of a catalyst comprising a reaction product of a transition metal compound and at least one co-catalyst selected from organic aluminunoxy compounds.

Abstract: A novel polyolefin graft copolymer prepared by graft-copolymerizing an olefin monomer with a (meth)acryl macromonomer or an isobutylene macromonomer in the presence of a coordination polymerization catalyst based on a late transition metal complex and a method for making the novel polyolefin graft copolymer are provided.

Abstract: A process for preparing olefinic living polymers having a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1 to 1.3, comprising polymerizing an olefinic monomer having 2 to 20 carbon atoms at low temperatures in the presence of a catalyst comprising (A) a hafnium or zirconium-containing compound having one or two cyclopentadienyl backbones, (B) a triphenyl boron compound or a tetraphenyl borate compound and optionally (C) a specific mono-, di- or trialkylaluminum compound. When the catalyst comprising the zirconium-containing compound is prepared by further using a titanium-containing compound (D), the polymerization temperature can be raised.

Abstract: A butadiene polymer (i) having a cis bond unit content of at least 50% based on the total butadiene units, a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1,000 to 10,000,000, and at least 80%, based on the total molecular chains, of living chains containing a transition metal of group IV of the Periodic table at a terminal thereof; a polymer (ii) obtained by modifying terminals of the polymer (i); and a polymer (iii) obtained by coupling the polymers (i). These polymers (i), (ii) and (iii) are obtained by polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer alone or with a copolymerizable monomer at a specific temperature in the presence of a catalyst comprising a compound (A) of a transition metal of group IV of the periodic table having a cyclopentadienyl structure and a co-catalyst (B) selected from organoaluminum-oxy compound (a) and others and optionally further by contacting the resultant polymer with a terminal modifier or a coupling agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a foamed article comprising a modified polypropylene resin which is a graft copolymer of a polypropylene resin and an aromatic vinyl monomer and has an average number of the grafted aromatic vinyl chains of not less than 1 in one molecule of the graft copolymer and a weight average molecular weight of the grafted aromatic vinyl chains of not less than 200, and relates to a process for preparation thereof. According to the present invention, the foamed article comprising the polypropylene resin and having a high closed cell content, a high expansion ratio and good external appearance can be provided.