Abstract: An encapsulating composition for a light emitting element, a light emitting diode (LED) and a liquid crystal display device (LCD) are provided. A silicone-cured product included as a main ingredient and a conductivity-providing agent having excellent compatibility and capable of providing superior conductivity can be used to significantly reduce the surface resistivity of the silicone-cured product. Therefore, the encapsulating composition for a light emitting element, the LED and the LCD can be useful in solving the problems regarding attachment of a foreign substance such as dust due to static electricity, and degradation of transparency since the composition has low surface resistivity when used as a semiconductor encapsulation material for an LED, and also in providing a cured product having excellent properties such as light resistance, heat resistance, durability and optical transparency.

Abstract: To provide a composition comprising a fluorocopolymer such as an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer which can be produced at a relatively low temperature, and its production process. A fluorocopolymer composition which comprises a fluorocopolymer such as an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer and a fluorinated aromatic compound having a melting point of at most 230° C. and having a fluorine content in the compound of from 5 to 75 mass %, and is in a solution state at a temperature of at most the melting point of the fluorocopolymer, and a process for producing the fluorocopolymer composition, which comprises a step of dissolving the fluorocopolymer in a solvent containing the fluorinated aromatic compound at a temperature of at most the melting point of the fluorocopolymer.

Abstract: The invention is directed a synthetic wood composite comprising biomimetic macromolecules and methods for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: A composition designed for the detachable assembly of a first substrate and a second substrate by gluing, includes an adhesive polymer base and at least one active substance. The active substance is encapsulated in a wax matrix so as to prevent any reaction with the adhesive polymer material during the storage of the composition or during its implementation. A process for preparing this composition is also described.

Abstract: A curable halogen-free epoxy resin composition comprising from 40 to 80 percent by weight of a phenol aldehyde condensation product, from 10 to 40 percent by weight of a phosphorous-containing phenolic epoxy resin, and from 10 to 40 percent by weight of an aromatic hardening agent having a sulphone group and an amine group. A prepreg and laminate can be formed from this composition.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compound having high optical anisotropy and high compatibility with a polymer resin, which is represented by Formula 1 and necessarily has at least one meta substituent. Also, a resin composition including the compound and a polymer resin, and an optical member including the resin composition are disclosed. Since the compound represented by Formula 1 is an anisotropic compound having high compatibility with a polymer resin and high optical anisotropy, in the case of an optical member obtained by using a polymer resin composition including the compound represented by Formula 1, there is no phase separation, and it is possible to achieve a required optical characteristic with only a small amount thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a set of (co)polymers, dispersion formulations, solid solutions and formulation conditions able to disperse a dye selected from the group of a monoazo dye, quinophthalone dye and an anthraquinone dye in a stable nanoparticular form in an aqueous medium.

Abstract: A hydrophilic coating having excellent hydrophilicity, which can prevent offensive odor generation, and which has a good antibacterial performance and formability, is formed on an aluminum-containing metal material by coating an aqueous hydrophilization treating liquid containing (A) a glycidyl group-containing, water-soluble organic compound; (B) a water-soluble polymeric or polymerizable compound having a tert-amino group and at least one hydrophilic functional group selected from sulfonic, phosphonic, carboxyl, polyalkyleneglycol, hydroxyl and amide groups; and (C) an antibacterial agent not decomposing at 100° C. or lower, on an aluminum-containing metal material; and heat-drying the coated liquid.

Abstract: The discoloration of a non-acidic room temperature vulcanizable silicone sealant containing a ultraviolet radiation degradable fungicide is delayed by adding zinc oxide.

Abstract: Photographic film sheet picking-up device in a feeding apparatus for feeding such sheets from a station containing at least one sheet to a following station, such as a transport or processing station where the film sheets are to be processed one at a time, wherein such sheet picking-up device comprises rubber suction cups containing at least one antistatic compound selected within the group consisting of a) a metal salt selected within the group consisting of perfluoroalkylsulfonylmethide compounds and perfluoroalkylsulfonylimide compounds, b) a perfluoroalkyl(ene)polyoxyethylene non-ionic type surfactant, c) a modified polyoxyethylenepolysiloxane type surfactant, and a mixture of such compounds.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wall for a package, which wall comprises, or includes a layer comprising, a composition comprising a polymer and capable of scavenging oxygen through the metal-catalysed oxidation of an oxidisable organic component thereof. The oxidisable organic component is preferably itself a polymer, and may be the only polymer in the composition. Preferred compositions include a blend of 96% polyethylene terephthalate and 4% poly (m-xylyleneadipamide) containing 200 ppm cobalt as catalyst, with good permeance-versus-time performance (3) when formed into a bottle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to acetoxy, ketoximo, and alkoxy silicone sealants suitable for use in various sealant applications and additionally food contact applications comprising di-iodomethyl-para-tolylsulfone and having physical properties improved thereby.

Abstract: A sealer or adhesive composition based on a polyoxyalkylene polymer having a silicon-containing hydrolyzable group, which has improved adhesion in a dried, cured state with a paint coating containing acrylic resins, acrylic-urethane resins, or urethane resins. The improvement involves the addition to such a sealer/adhesive composition of an alkylarylsulfonamide contained therein in an amount of least about 50 phr or more, by weight. The invention also pertains to a method applying and adhering a paint coating to such a sealer composition after it is dried.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of diaminodirosinate salts as coupling agents for siliceous fillers in rubber polymers.

Abstract: A cyanoacrylate monomer adhesive formulation which has improved thermal properties resulting from the inclusion in the formulation of an effective amount for enhancing the thermal resistance of the cured polymer of a naphthosultone compound having at least one strong electron withdrawing group thereon, suitably a nitro group.

Abstract: HVAC systems having interior surfaces exposed to moist air are protected against fungal growth by coating the interior surfaces with an adherent flexible polymer film which includes a fungicidal composition in an amount effective to provide a zone of inhibition against multiple fungal species of at least 1 mm, and which employs active fungicidal ingredients which are substantially non-volatile and non-soluble in water.

Abstract: Elastomers are very effectively stabilized against thermal and oxidative degradation at elevated temperatures with a blend of an N,N,N',N'-tetrasubstituted 1,4-diamino-2-butene, where the substituents are alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, aryl or mixtures thereof, in combination with a mercaptoimidazole of formula IV ##STR1## where E is hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or phenylalkyl.

Abstract: This invention relates to polyarylene sulphides (PAS) containing certain nitro compounds with reduced flash formation.

Abstract: N,N,N',N'-Tetrasubstituted 1,4-diamino-2-butynes or N,N-disubstituted propargylamines where the substituents are alkyl, cycloalkyl, phenylalkyl, aryl or mixtures thereof provide effective antioxidant protection to lubricants and/or synthetic polymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to bis-amide linked rosin acid derivatives which are useful as a rubber additive. In one embodiment, the amide linked rosin acid derivative may serve as a total or partial replacement for antiozonants. The bis-amide linked rosin acids are prepared by reacting abietic acid and/or dehydroabietic acid with a diamine under amidation conditions.

Abstract: The invention relates to new, free-flowing arylene sulfide polymers (PAS) preferably phenylene sulfide polymers, which crystallize with delay, optionally additionally display improved resistance to UV radiation, and are prepared by mixing PAS with aromatic mononitro compounds in the melt, preferably with the application of shearing forces.

Abstract: A deodorant and mildewproof sheet comprises a vinyl chloride resin, a deodorant which is hardly soluble in water or insoluble in water, and an antifugnal agent which is hardly soluble in water or insoluble in water.

Abstract: Described herein are tough solvent resistant materials from a crystallizable, crosslinkable resin mixture comprising a particular polyarylether and a crystallization promoting plasticizer, and reinforced composites made from such resin mixture.

Abstract: Compounds having the formula ##STR1## in which Y is hydrogen, halogen, or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently hydrogen or methyl; and n is 1 or 2, are effective biocides or biostats for protection of plastic, polymeric or cellulosic materials against attack by microorganisms.

Abstract: An organic high polymer composition having an improved flame retarding property which is obtained by incorporating into a flame resistive composition comprising (a) an organic high polymer substance, (b) an organic flame retarder and (c) incombustible active inorganic powder (d) a polyfunctional compound and (e) an organic compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein Z is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, A is a C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 divalent hydrocarbon group having or not substituents and forming a ring together with the adjacent two carbon atoms and B, and B is an oxygen atom or an amino group: --NY-- (Y being a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an organic group having not more than 30 carbon atoms) or its hydrolyzate.