Abstract: The present invention is directed to a composition comprising: (a) a polyethylene terephthalate; (b) a copolycarbonate of 2-phenyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)phthalimidine (PPPBP) and another bisphenol; (c) a polycarbonate-polysiloxane copolymer; and (d) a non-halogenated flame retardant. The invention is also directed to processes for making such compositions as well as articles derived therefrom.

Abstract: Disclosed are oligomeric phosphonates including oligophosphonates, random or block co-oligo(phosphonate ester)s and co-oligo(phosphonate carbonate)s produced using a condensation process terminated with hydroxyl, epoxy, vinyl, vinyl ester, isopropenyl, isocyanate groups, and the like. These materials can be used as a reactive additive to other polymers, oligomers or monomer mixtures to impart flame resistance without diminishing melt processability which is important in the fabrication of polymers for many applications.

Abstract: A polylactic acid based resin composition includes a polylactic acid based resin (A), a flame retardant (B) and a carbodiimide compound (C), the flame retardant (B) including at least a phosphorus compound (b1) having a phosphaphenanthrene skeleton and a hydroxy group, and the carbodiimide compound (C) including at least an aliphatic carbodiimide.

Abstract: A silicone resin composition contains a first organopolysiloxane having, in one molecule, both at least two ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon groups and at least two silanol groups; a second organopolysiloxane having, in one molecule, at least two hydrosilyl groups without having an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon group; a hydrosilylation catalyst; and a hydrosilylation retarder.

Abstract: Polyamide-filled acrylate copolymer compositions comprising a continuous acrylate copolymer phase and a discontinuous polyamide phase are produced by a melt mixing process. When crosslinked with diamine curatives the polyamide-filled acrylate copolymer compositions exhibit enhanced resistance to heat aging compared to carbon black-reinforced acrylate copolymer compositions.

Abstract: A thermoplastic polymer composition comprises a thermoplastic polymer and a nucleating agent.

Abstract: A polymer composition is disclosed wherein inorganic particles are uniformly dispersed at the nano level in a polymer without having the inorganic particles being surface-treated. Further disclosed is a method for manufacturing a polymer composition wherein a co-aggregate which is obtained by uniformly mixing polymer dispersion with an inorganic particle colloidal solution and co-aggregating the polymer primary particles and inorganic particles which are heterogeneous particles, is separated from the solvent and dried so that the inorganic particles are uniformly dispersed at the nano level in the polymer.

Abstract: There is provided a coating composition comprising (A) a thermoplastic non-fluorine-containing polymer, (B) inorganic ferroelectric particles, (C) an affinity-improving agent comprising at least one of a coupling agent, a surfactant and an epoxy group-containing compound, and (D) a solvent, and there is provided a film formed using the coating composition which has highly dielectric property and low dielectric loss, can be made thin, is excellent in winding property (flexibility) and is suitable as a highly dielectric film for a film capacitor.

Abstract: The invention first relates to a feedstock for PIM, including a metal or ceramic powder; a polymeric binder; metallic or ceramic fibers or nanofibers, the fibers or nanofibers being metallic when the powder is metallic, and the fibers or nanofibers being ceramic when the powder is ceramic. It also relates to the method for producing such a feedstock, as well as the method for producing parts by means of powder injection molding (PIM) using said feedstock.

Abstract: An outer casing for an electric device which is a molded article of a environmental resin wherein poly(lactic acid) and/or a lactic acid copolymer is used, is constituted by molding a flame-retarded resin composition including a resin component containing poly(lactic acid) and/or the lactic acid copolymer as a main ingredient, and silica-magnesia catalyst particles as a flame retardance-imparting component which imparts flame retardance, wherein the content of the silica-magnesia catalyst particles is 0.5% by weight or more and 9.0% by weight or less of the total weight of the flame-retarded resin composition. The silica-magnesia catalyst particles preferably have an average particle diameter of 10 ?m or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to non-aging, impact-modified polycarbonate compositions and molding compositions comprising: A) from 60 to 86 parts by weight (based on the sum of components A+B+C) of aromatic polycarbonate and/or aromatic polyester carbonate, B) from 4 to 12 parts by weight (based on the sum of components A+B+C) of graft polymer comprising: B.1 from 10 to 50 wt. % (based on the graft polymer B) of a shell of at least one vinyl monomer, and B.2 from 90 to 50 wt. % (based on the graft polymer B) of a graft base of silicone-acrylate composite rubber, C) from 10 to 30 parts by weight (based on the sum of components A+B+C) of a polymer or copolymer based on vinyl monomer, and D) from 0 to 20 parts by weight of polymer additives.

Abstract: The instant invention provides a thermoplastic composition, method of producing the same, and articles made therefrom. The thermoplastic composition according to present invention comprises the melt blending product of: (a) from 10 to 75 percent by weight of a continuous phase, based on the total weight of the thermoplastic composition, wherein said continuous phase comprises one or more thermoplastic polymers; and (b) from 25 to 90 percent by weight of a dispersed phase comprising one or more core/shell polymer particles, based on the total weight of the thermoplastic composition, wherein said one or more core/shell polymer particles comprise a crosslinked elastomer core and a thermoplastic shell and wherein said core/shell polymer has an average particle size diameter in the range of from 70 to 10,000 nm.

Abstract: This invention provides an effect pigment-containing, water-borne base coating composition comprising water-dispersible acrylic polymer particles (A) and effect pigment (B), the water-dispersible acrylic polymer particles (A) being obtained by emulsion polymerization of a radical-polymerizable unsaturated monomeric mixture including an amido-containing, radical-polymerizable unsaturated monomer having at least two radical-polymerizable unsaturated groups per molecule, and the effect pigment (B) being contained at a pigment weight concentration (PWC) within a range of 15-50%.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards coating compositions comprising from 20 to 85 percent of an aqueous dispersion based on a total weight of the coating composition, a basic water composition, and a crosslinker, wherein the aqueous dispersion comprises a melt blending product of (a) a base polymer comprising a polyolefin, (b) a polymeric performance improving agent (c) a polymeric stabilizing agent, and (d) a polymeric coupling agent.

Abstract: Aqueous emulsions curable to elastomeric solids are preparable without the use of an organic emulsifier, and may be prepared to the exclusion of organic solvents.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a hydrophobically modified alkylene oxide urethane polymer with pendant or end-capping tertiary amine groups, the conjugate acids of which have a pKa in the range of about 4.5 to about 6.5. The composition of the present invention is useful as a rheology modifier for paint formulations formulated over a wide pH range and is more stable to heat aging than higher pKa amine-modified HEURs.

Abstract: Provided is an aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion having a good film-forming property, and excellent mechanical properties and water resistance. The present invention is an aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion comprising water and a polyurethane resin (U) and satisfying all of the following conditions (1) to (6): (1) a urethane group content in the polyurethane resin (U) is 0.5 to 5.0 mmol/g, based on weight of the polyurethane resin (U); (2) a terminal amino group content in the polyurethane resin (U) is not more than 0.35 mmol/g, based on the weight of the polyurethane resin (U); (3) a number average molecular weight (Mn) of the polyurethane resin (U) is 10,000 to 1,000,000; (4) a ratio (Mw/Mn) of a weight average molecular weight (Mw) to the number average molecular weight (Mn) of the polyurethane resin (U) is 1.5 to 3.5; (5) a melting temperature of the polyurethane resin (U) is 70 to 280° C.; and (6) a volume average particle diameter (Dv) of the polyurethane resin (U) is 0.01 to 1 ?m.

Abstract: The instant invention provides dye-encapsulated dispersions suitable for printing applications, method of producing the same, ink compositions made therefrom, delivery systems for such ink compositions, and articles having a coating layer derived from such ink compositions.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a polymerization process for the production of a high melt flow propylene impact copolymer. The process includes contacting an active propylene-based polymer having a melt flow rate greater than about 100 g/10 min with one or more olefins in a polymerization reactor to form the propylene impact copolymer with a melt flow rate greater than about 60 g/10 min. The production of the high melt flow propylene impact copolymer may occur in one or more polymerization reactors, utilizing standard hydrogen concentration, and no visbreaking.

Abstract: An optical semiconductor sealing resin composition includes a rubber-particle-dispersed epoxy resin (A) containing an alicyclic epoxy resin and, dispersed therein, rubber particles, in which the rubber particles comprise a polymer including one or more (meth)acrylic esters as essential monomeric components and have a hydroxyl group and/or a carboxyl group in a surface layer thereof as a functional group capable of reacting with the alicyclic epoxy resin, the rubber particles have an average particle diameter of 10 nm to 500 nm and a maximum particle diameter of 50 nm to 1000 nm, and the difference in refractive index between the rubber particles and a cured article obtained from the optical semiconductor sealing resin composition is within ±0.02. The optical semiconductor sealing resin composition can give a cured article which exhibits excellent cracking resistance while maintaining satisfactory thermal stability and high transparency.

Abstract: The mixture of the invention contains, for 100 parts in weight of (A)+(B): (A) 10 to 90 parts in weight of at least one non-nanostructured olefinic thermoplastic polymer; (B) 90 to 10 parts in weight of a formulation of at least one elastomer having unsaturated double bonds and capable of reacting with a cross-linking or vulcanization agent, said formulation containing a crosslinking or vulcanization system of said elastomer(s), at least one plasticizer, and the standard additives present in elastomer formulations; (C) up to 100 parts in weight, relative to (A)+(B), of at least one copolymer grafted with polyamide blocks, said copolymer comprising a polyolefin trunk and at least 1.

Abstract: A curable composition and an article produced therefrom are disclosed in which the composition can comprise an optional first component, a second component, and a third component; the optional first component includes a copolymer derived from ethylene and a polar monomer; the second component includes a copolymer derived from ethylene, a vinyl acetate or alkyl(meth)acrylate, and carbon monoxide; and the third component includes a copolymer derived from ethylene and an alkyl(meth)acrylate or a polymer of alkyl(meth)acrylate.

Abstract: Propylene copolymer composition (P) comprising (a) at least 2.5 wt.-% of units derivable from C5 to C12 ?-olefins, (b) at least 20.0 wt-%. of a crystalline fraction having a lamella thickness of more than 5.70 nm, and (c) at least 10.0 wt-%. of a crystalline fraction having a lamella thickness of below than 3.0 nm, said crystalline fractions are determined by the stepwise isothermal segregation technique (SIST).

Abstract: A cross-linked composition, obtained by cross-linking polyolefin composition comprising, all percentages being by weight: A) from 5 to 38% of a polypropylene component; B) from 35 to 85% of a copolymer of ethylene with propylene, containing from 42 to 70% of ethylene and having solubility in xylene at room temperature greater than 50%; C) from 5 to 45% of a polymer composition comprising a blend of: i) from 20 to 80% of an ethylene copolymer having a Shore A hardness value equal to or lower than 90 points and containing up to 45% of at least one ?-olefin comonomer, provided that, when propylene is present as comonomer, such copolymer i) has a composition which is different from B); ii) from 20 to 80% of a propylene copolymer having a Shore A hardness value equal to or lower than 90 points and containing up to 40% of at least one ?-olefin comonomer; wherein the amounts of A), B) and C) are referred to the total weight of A)+B)+C) and the amounts of i) and ii) are referred to the weight of C).

Abstract: Provided is a polypropylene resin composition having excellent impact resistance, impact strength at low temperature and transparence comprising ethylene-alpha olefin copolymer (c) to a polypropylene resin composition in which the ratio of viscosity is regulated by adjusting molecular weight of propylene-alpha olefin random copolymer (a) and propylene-alpha olefin elastic copolymer (b), thereby regulating impact resistance and flexural modulus of the polypropylene resin composition and improving transparence; therefore, applying as various products including cold-storage containers for freezer and refrigerator, food packaging container, extrusion blow molding material, film, sheet and bottle cap, etc.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorine-containing curable resin that can impart high stain resistant properties to the surface of a cured coating film and can exhibit high stain resistant properties even when curing is performed in an air atmosphere (in the presence of oxygen). It is also an object to provide an active-energy-ray-curable composition that uses the fluorine-containing curable resin and can exhibit high stain resistant properties even when curing is performed in an air atmosphere and a cured product of the active-energy-ray-curable composition. To achieve the object, there is provided a fluorine-containing curable resin including a poly(perfluoroalkylene ether) chain, a maleimide group, and a mercapto group in a structure of a urethane polymer or a polymer composed of a monomer having a polymerizable unsaturated group.

Abstract: Butadiene copolymers are brominated using certain quaternary ammonium or phosphonium tribromides as the brominating agent. The bromination is performed in solution in a mixture of n-butyl acetate and ethyl acetate. The bromination process proceeds easily under mild conditions, and produces a brominated product that has excellent thermal stability.

Abstract: This invention relates to a co-oligomer having an Mn of 300 to 30,000 g/mol comprising 10 to 90 mol % propylene and 10 to 90 mol % of ethylene, wherein the oligomer has at least X % allyl chain ends, where: 1) X=(?0.94 (mole % ethylene incorporated)+100), when 10 to 60 mole % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer, and 2) X=45, when greater than 60 and less than 70 mole % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer, and 3) X=(1.83*(mole % ethylene incorporated)?83), when 70 to 90 mole % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer. This invention also relates to a homo-oligomer, comprising propylene, wherein the oligomer has: at least 93% allyl chain ends, an Mn of about 500 to about 20,000 g/mol, an isobutyl chain end to allylic vinyl group ratio of 0.8:1 to 1.2:1.0, and less than 100 ppm aluminum. This invention also relates to a process of making homo-oligomer, comprising propylene, wherein the productivity is greater than 4500 g/mmol Hf (or Zr)/hour.

Abstract: Compounds are described that have both an aziridinyl group as well as a polymeric group. Methods of making these compounds are also described. The aziridinyl group of the compound can be reacted with an acidic group on a second compound resulting in the opening of the aziridinyl ring and the attachment of the polymeric group to the second compound.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are functionalized polymers comprising ethylene and substituted ethylene segments, which have been modified by epoxidation to enhance their crosslinking ability. These functionalized polymers are useful as film forming resins in cathodic electrocoating compositions. Also disclosed herein are aqueous dispersion compositions comprising the functionalized polymers and a process for coating various electrically conductive substrates.

Abstract: A polymer includes a linker represented by Formula I ([OR1OCH2OR2OCH2]m), where R1 and R2 are, independently, alkylene, alkenylene, arylene, heteroarylene, or alkylarylalkylene; and the polymer has a weight average molecular weight of about 500 g/mol to about 2,000,000 g/mol, and m is 1 to 1000.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention relates to a linker-free, one-step method of grafting polymer films onto organic substrates, and the films obtained by such a method. In certain embodiments, the grafted polymer films are conductive. In certain embodiments, said grafting method utilizes the ability for Friedel-Crafts catalyst to form radical cations from organic substrates. In one embodiment, the method provides poly-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT) thin films grafted to organic substrates. In other embodiments, the method is applicable to the polymerization of other monomers to yield conducting polymers, such as polyanilines, polypyrroles, polyfurans, polythiophenes and their derivatives. Remarkably, the polymer films grafted by the inventive methods show enormous increases in adhesion strength. Further, in certain embodiments, polymer patterns were easily obtained using the inventive methods and soft lithography techniques.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-curable silicone rubber composition having antistatic properties, even after secondary vulcanization at high temperatures. Specifically disclosed is a heat-curable silicone rubber composition which is obtained by adding 0.05 to 1000 ppm of (B) a poorly water-soluble or water-insoluble ionic substance whose anionic component is bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, to 100 parts by weight of (A) a heat-curable silicone rubber.

Abstract: A method for preparing a modified thermoplastic resin by mixing a thermoplastic resin having a tg of 95° C. or greater and having a melt processing temperature of 250° C. or greater with a silicone base comprised of 100 parts by weight of a diorganopolysiloxane gum and having an average of at least 2 alkenyl groups per molecule in conjunction with 0 to 50 parts by weight of a reinforcing filler along with a radical initiator. The silicone base and this combination are dynamically vulcanized to cure the silicone base at an elevated temperature.

Abstract: A silicone emulsion composition is provided comprising organopolysiloxane, organohydrogenpolysiloxane, surfactant, and water. Two organopolysiloxanes of different type are blended, whereby a cured silicone coating is improved to be fully adherent to plastic film and lightly peelable from pressure-sensitive adhesive. By limiting the SiH content of organohydrogenpolysiloxane, the composition is improved in shelf stability. A specific surfactant is used to control the size of emulsion particles so as to improve wettability to plastic film.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of aqueous solutions of nonionic surfactants as gel phase free emulsion systems for emulsion polymerization. The nonionic surfactants are chosen from the group (a) of the addition products from 1 to 40 mol ethylene and/or propylene oxide per mol of allyl alcohol, and (b) of the addition products from 1 to 40 mol ethylene and/or propylene oxide per mol of allyl alcohol, wherein the OH-group of said addition products is end-capped in the sense that it is substituted by a group OR, wherein R is an alkyl group with 1 to 20 C-atoms, which can be saturated or unsaturated, straight chained or branched.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermoplastic acrylic resin comprising (i) a repeating unit derived from a methacrylate monomer, (ii) a repeating unit derived from a vinyl aromatic monomer, (iii) a repeating unit derived from an aromatic group-containing methacrylate monomer, and (iv) a cyclic acid anhydride repeating unit, and a molding for optical material comprising the same.

Abstract: A method for the production neutral triblock all-conjugated copolymers by palladium-catalyzed chain-growth polymerization, and methods to convert these copolymers into all-conjugated triblock polyelectrolytes with well-controlled molecular weight and polydispersity. A device is provided which incorporates such all-conjugated triblock polyelectrolytes as an electron injection layer.

Abstract: A process for condensation between at least one ?SiOH unit and at least one ?SiOR unit is provided. In accordance with the present invention, R=a hydrogen or a C1-C20 hydrocarbon group optionally comprising one or more heteroatoms, and the ?SiOH and ?SiOR units belong to at least one identical or different (organo)silicon compound P. The process is conducted in the presence of an effective amount of at least one catalyst C, comprising a carbene. Compositions are also provided.

Abstract: Novel silicone polyether copolymers of inverse structure of the formula 1, characterized in that no unsaturated functional groups caused by side reactions or conversion products thereof are present in the copolymer, and a process for preparation thereof, in which a polyether modified terminally and/or laterally with alkoxysilyl groups is reacted with silanes and/or siloxanes which bear one or more hydrolysis-labile groups, in a hydrolysis and condensation reaction.

Abstract: Novel silicon compounds containing a siloxane or silane moiety and at least one moiety derived from a furfuryl alcohol, and methods for their synthesis, are provided. The novel compounds may be used as surface modifying agents, surfactants, defoamers, and as monomers for silicone polymerization.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for producing poly(arylene) ethers with improved particle size characteristics. The improved particle size characteristics of the polyphenylene ether include one or both of: (i) up to about 50 weight percent of particles smaller than 38 micrometers; and a (ii) mean particle size greater than 100 or more micrometers.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved linear microdialysis probe comprising a continuous length of flexible tubing (1) having at least one window (4) formed therein, said window covering at least one part of the circumference of the tubing, while the remaining part forms at least one unbroken connection between a first end of said tubing and a second end of said tubing, said ends adapted to be attached to an inlet for perfusion liquid and the other end forming an outlet for the dialysate, said at least one window (4) exposing a tubular semipermeable membrane (2).

Abstract: Disclosed are polylactide resin that may exhibit and maintain excellent mechanical properties, exhibit excellent heat resistance, and thus can be used for a semi-permanent use, a method for preparing the same, and a polylactide resin composition comprising the same. The polylactide resin has a low hydrolysis rate constant of 0.1 day?1 or less and a weight average molecular weight of 100,000˜1,000,000, under specific conditions.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a process for producing a polyether-polyester block copolymer with a di(C 1-C 4)alkyl ester of aromatic dicarboxylic acid, an aliphatic diol or aliphatic polyol and a polyether having at least one terminal hydroxyl group in an inert solvent. In the present invention, the inert solvent 5 is used to prevent the di(C 1-C 4)alkyl ester of aromatic dicarboxylic acid from sublimation instead of excessive polyol, such that the subsequent removal of excessive polyol under high temperature and high vacuum is avoided.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of producing a modified polyimide comprising a polycarbonate, which modified polyimide has excellent electric properties and adhesion as well as excellent heat resistance, flexibility, bending property, low warping, chemical resistance and storage stability; and the modified polyimide. Also disclosed are a composition comprising the modified polyimide and used thereof.

Abstract: An electrochromic material containing a ?-electron based conjugated polymer that changes from a desired color developed state to a decolored state, and a method for producing the electrochromic material, are provided. The electrochromic material contains a?-electron based conjugated polymer as shown in chemical formula (1). In formula (1), each X is any one selected from —S—, —O—, —Se— and —Te—; each Y is any one selected from a hydrogen atom and an organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; W is an arylene group or divalent heteroaromatic ring group; and n is a number of 2 to 1,000. Repetition of this structure forms a structure of random copolymers, graft copolymers, block copolymers and/or dendrimers.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aliphatic polycarbonate production method which, using carbon dioxide and an epoxide, easily produces aliphatic polycarbonates having a low metal catalyst content. The invention relates to an aliphatic polycarbonate production method which includes a step of polymerization by reacting carbon dioxide with an epoxide in the presence of a metal catalyst; and a step of treating a polymer obtainable in the polymerization step with a surfactant. High-purity aliphatic polycarbonate having a low metal catalyst content can be easily provided by the aliphatic polycarbonate production method of the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to genes and proteins involved in the sporulation of Mycobacteria and the use thereof in the technical fields of immunology and medicine. A vaccine comprising spore forming peptides, such as CotA or CotD, or antibodies thereto is used for the treatment of diseases caused by Mycobacterium such as leprosy and tuberculosis.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for tissue repair are provided including cell binding peptides and growth factor binding peptides. The cell binding peptides bind to one or more of stem cells, fibroblasts, or endothelial cells. The growth factor binding peptides include platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) binding peptides and growth differentiation factor (GDF) binding peptides. The tissue for repair includes tendon, muscle, connective tissue, ligament, cardiac tissue, vascular tissue, or dermis. Implantable devices for tissue repair are provided to which the cell and growth factor binding peptides are attached, such as acellular extracellular matrix having attached binding peptide.