Abstract: An ink set includes an inkjet ink and a cleaning solution. The inkjet ink contains a first aqueous medium, a carbon black, a dispersing resin, a first zwitterionic surfactant having an amidoalkylbetaine structure, and a first sugar alcohol. The carbon black has an oil absorption number of at least 130 mL/100 g and no greater than 165 mL/100 g. A ratio of a content of the dispersing resin to a content of the carbon black is at least 12.0% by mass and no greater than 19.0% by mass. The cleaning solution contains a second aqueous medium, a second zwitterionic surfactant having an amidoalkylbetaine structure, and a second sugar alcohol.

Abstract: The invention is related to a class of hydrophilic poly(meth)acrylamide-based copolymers each comprising dangling (i.e., pendant) reactive chains each terminated with a carboxyl group groups and at least 50% by mole of (meth)acrylamide repeating units relative to all repeating units of the hydrophilic poly(meth)acrylamide-based copolymer. The hydrophilic copolymers have a relatively high affinity to a base coating of a polyanionic polymer on a medical device or contact lens and are highly reactive towards azetidinium groups of an azetidinium-containing polymer upon heating. They can find particular use in producing water-soluble highly-branched hydrophilic polymeric material and in producing water gradient contact lenses.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermosetting material, which contains the following components (A) to (C) and which, when measured with a rotational viscometer at a constant shear rate (JIS K7117-2:1999), exhibits a viscosity at 25° C. and 10 s?1 of 5 Pa·s or more and 200 Pa·s or less and, when measured with a rotational viscometer at a constant shear rate in the same manner as above, exhibits a viscosity at 25° C. and a shear rate of 100 s?1 of 0.3 Pa·s or more and 50 Pa·s or less. (A): a (meth) acrylate compound in which a substituted or unsubstituted alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 6 or more carbon atoms is ester-bonded, and which, when measured with a rotational viscometer at a constant shear rate in the same manner as above, exhibits a viscosity of 5 to 300 mPa·s as a viscosity measured at 25° C. and 10 to 100 s?1; (B): spherical silica; and (C): a black pigment.

Abstract: A drilling fluid comprises an aqueous solution; a clay-based component comprising layered silicate; and a viscosifier additive comprising poly(acrylamide-co-diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (poly(AAm-co-DMAC)) polymer. The polymer comprises a number average molecular weight of from 10,000 g/mol to 2,000,000 g/mol. The layered silicate and poly(AAm-co-DMAC) reacts to form a silicate-poly(AAm-co-DMAC) complex within the aqueous solution. A mass ratio of the poly(AAm-co-DMAC) to the layered silicate is 1 to 8.

Abstract: An ink set of a radiation-curable ink jet composition containing a polymerizable compound, wherein the ink set includes a color ink and a clear ink as the radiation-curable ink jet composition, the polymerizable compound contained in the clear ink contains at least one of Polymerizable monomer A1 and Polymerizable oligomer A2, Polymerizable monomer A1 having a volume of 0.26 nm3 or more and an area in the direction of the height relative to a long side of 0.25 nm2 or more that are defined by using the van-der-Waals radius, and a total content of Polymerizable monomer A1 and Polymerizable oligomer A2 contained in the clear ink is 80% by mass or more relative to a total amount of the polymerizable compound.

Abstract: Ink compositions are provided which may comprise water; resin particles; a colorant; and optionally, a wax, wherein the resin particles comprise a polymerization product of reactants comprising a dioxane/dioxalane monomer and an additional monomer, wherein the dioxane/dioxalane monomer is an ester of (meth)acrylic acid with an alcohol comprising a dioxane moiety, an ester of (meth)acrylic acid with an alcohol comprising a dioxalane moiety, or both.

Abstract: A modified conjugated diene-based polymer and a rubber composition including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the modified conjugated diene-based polymer includes a modified monomer-derived functional group represented by Formula 1, and an aminoalkoxysilane-based modifier-derived functional group at least one end thereof, wherein the polymer having a unimodal molecular weight distribution, and a polydispersity index (PDI) of 1.0 or more to less than 1.7. The polymer has a narrow and unimodal molecular weight distribution, and has excellent tensile properties and viscoelastic properties while having excellent processability.

Abstract: Provided are a rubber composition for tires that provides improved silica dispersion and fuel economy while maintaining good hardness, and a pneumatic tire including the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for tires, containing a rubber component, silica, and a silica dispersing agent represented by the following formula (I).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a thermosetting resin composition for a semiconductor package including a modified phenylene ether oligomer or a modified poly(phenylene ether) having ethylenically unsaturated groups at both ends thereof; a thermosetting resin; a predetermined elastic (co)polymer; and an inorganic filler, and a prepreg and a metal clad laminate including the same.

Abstract: Disclosed is a preparation method of a polycarboxylate water reducer having a regular sequence structure. The preparation method of the present invention comprises: performing Michael addition on polyethylene glycol ether acrylate macromonomer A and amino-containing carboxylic acid B for 5-12 hours, then cooling to 0° C., dropwise adding acryloyl chloride slowly and evenly, and further reacting for 12 hours at room temperature to obtain carboxyl-containing polyether macromonomer C; mixing the carboxyl-containing polyether macromonomer C, a small molecular RAFT reagent, an initiator, and water adequately; and holding the polymerization mass concentration at 30%-60% and heating to 60-80° C. in the atmosphere of N2 to react for 2-5 hours to obtain the polycarboxylate water reducer having a regular sequence structure.

Abstract: A modified conjugated diene-based polymer, and more particularly, a modified conjugated diene-based polymer having a unimodal molecular weight distribution curve measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), molecular weight distribution (PDI; MWD) of less than 1.7, and a Si content of 100 ppm or more based on weight, and including a repeating unit derived from an aromatic vinyl monomer in an amount from 15 wt % to less than 30 wt %, and a rubber composition including the same.

Abstract: The present teaching relates to photo-responsive hydrogels comprising a copolymer comprising N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM), a polymerisable derivative of benzospiropyran, a cross-linking agent and an acid, the acid having a pKa of less than 6, wherein the hydrogel is operably responsive to exposure to water so as to undergo spontaneous protonation and swelling. The photo-responsive hydrogels described can be used in the field of microfluidic platforms.

Abstract: The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent, an acidic gas removal method using the absorbent, and an acidic gas removal apparatus using the absorbent. The absorbent absorbs an acidic gas in a large amount and is hardly diffused.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a modified conjugated diene-based polymer, and more particularly, provides a modified conjugated diene-based polymer including a repeating unit derived from a conjugated diene-based monomer and a functional group derived from a modifier containing a compound represented by Formula 1 at one terminal, and a method of preparing the same.

Abstract: An object is to provide an ink composition for inkjet printing that permits inkjet printing, particularly on metal surfaces, wherein such ink composition possesses sufficiently high adhesion and heat resistance with respect to metal surfaces. As a means for achieving the object, a photocurable inkjet printing ink composition is provided, which contains, relative to the entire ink composition, 0.1 percent by mass or more of an acid-modified acrylic monomer and 10 to 30 percent by mass of a monofunctional monomer with a Tg of 100° C. or above, wherein the monofunctional monomer accounts for 80 percent by mass or more of all monomers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material formed by a polymer substrate and a hydrogel based on vinyl-lactams and ionic methacrylates. The invention also relates to a method for producing this material and to the use thereof for cell culture and cell monolayer engineering, for preparing 3D scaffolds and manufacturing thermosensitive mechanical actuators.

Abstract: The present invention provides a modifier including a silane-based compound of Formula 1, which may prevent the agglomeration of a filler in a rubber composition and increase the dispersibility of a filler, thereby improving the processability of a rubber composition, by easily introducing a functional group having affinity with a filler into a conjugated diene-based polymer chain, and a modified and conjugated diene-based polymer prepared using the same.

Abstract: A light-transmissive encapsulating package is configured to encapsulate an LED die. The encapsulating package includes a light-transmissive bulk encapsulating material. One or more phosphors are blended into the bulk encapsulating material for white light emission. A notch-filtering filter material is blended into the bulk encapsulating material and includes Nd(III) bonded to a non-fluoride halide and is present at a concentration in the range 0.5-3.0% by volume of the bulk encapsulating material.

Abstract: A polystyrene-g-(polyisobutylene-b-polystyrene) is taught. The polystyrene-g-(polyisobutylene-b-polystyrene) is synthesized by first providing a polystyrene backbone. Once the polystyrene backbone is provided, the polystyrene backbone is acetylated to provide acetyl groups on the polystyrene backbone. Next, the acetyl groups are converted to —C(CH3)2OH groups. Finally, the living polymerization of isobutylene is initiated, which is then followed by the living block polymerization of styrene. A polymer network of polystyrene-g-(polyisobutylene-b-polystyrene)s is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer comprising an N-vinyl amide monomer and a dual functional monomer. In the case where the dual functional monomer incorporates a glycidyl acrylate, a third polymerizable monomer is also included. The polymer can be varied in charge.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for an insulator of a thin film transistor, an insulator and an organic thin film transistor comprising the same. The insulator of a thin film transistor prepared with the composition of the present invention displays an excellent permittivity along with a low surface energy, and the organic thin film transistor comprising the same displays an improved organic semiconductor morphology formed on the top surface of the insulator, so that it can bring the effect of reducing leakage current density, improving charge carrier mobility, and improving current on/off ratio.

Abstract: In accordance with sonic embodiments of the present invention, an active energy ray curable composition including a polymerizable compound composition is provided. When the active energy ray curable composition is formed into a film having an average thickness of 10 ?m on a substrate and, after a lapse of 15 seconds, the film is irradiated with an active energy ray having a light quantity of 1,500 mJ/cm2 to become a cured product, the cured product satisfies the following conditions (1) and (2): (1) when the substrate is a polypropylene substrate, the cured product has a glass transition temperature of 60° C. or more; and (2) when the substrate is a polycarbonate substrate, an adhesion between the polycarbonate substrate and the cured product is 70 or more, the adhesion being measured according to a cross-cut adhesion test defined in Japanese industrial Standards K5400.

Abstract: A photocurable composition contains at least one ultraviolet absorber represented by Formula (1), and a hard coating agent including the photocurable composition. wherein R1, R2 and R3 may be the same as or different from each other and represent a branched or linear alkyl group with 1-20 carbon atoms and is substituted with a (meth)acryloyloxy group; the alkyl group may be substituted with a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group having 1-8 carbon atoms, or an acyloxy group having 1-8 carbon atoms; the alkyl group may be interrupted by an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a carbonyl group, an ester group, an amide group, or an imide group; and R4, R5 and R6 may be the same as or different from each other and represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group having 1-12 carbon atoms, or an alkoxy group having 1-12 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a device to apply a treatment liquid to a medium; a drying device to dry the treatment liquid applied to the medium; a device to apply a liquid containing a colorant to the medium on which the treatment liquid has been applied; and a control device. The control device controls a supply amount of the treatment liquid to an amount such that a surface hardness of the medium is 0.07 GPa or more as measured by nano indentation after the drying device dries a surface of the medium.

Abstract: An active energy ray curable composition including a polymerizable compound is provided. When a three-layer cured product of the active energy ray composition is obtained by a specific procedure, the three-layer cured product has (1) a stretchability of 1.1 or more and (2) a glass transition temperature of 50° C. or more. The stretchability is defined by a ratio L2/L1, wherein L1 represents a first length of the cured product before a tensile test and L2 represents a second length of the cured product after the tensile test. The tensile test includes stretching the cured product along with the substrate with a tensile tester at a stretching speed of 20 mm/min and a temperature of 180° C.

Abstract: Surface coverings, such as floor coverings, with an interlocking design are described. Methods of making the surface coverings are further described. A plank including a resilient composite sheet having four sides, an upper surface, a lower surface, and an overall thickness, and said composite sheet comprising at least one base layer, wherein said at least one base layer comprising at least one polymeric material and at least one filler, wherein opposite sides of the composite sheet comprise a first tongue on a first side and a first groove on the opposite second side, wherein the first tongue and first groove have complementary shape to each other to be interlockingly engageable with a corresponding groove or tongue on an adjacent floor plank.

Abstract: An adhesive film that includes a first region having a first hardness, and second regions disposed on opposing sides of the first region and having a second hardness that is greater than the first hardness.

Abstract: A method of preparing a ferroelectric thin film-forming composition, specifically, a method of preparing a PZT thin film-forming composition includes: a step of allowing composition precursor raw materials, which contain PZT precursor substances at a concentration of 23 to 38 mass % in terms of oxides in 100 mass % of the composition precursor raw materials, and a high-molecular compound to react with each other to obtain a PZT thin film-forming composition precursor; and a step of aging the PZT thin film-forming composition precursor at a temperature of 0 to 10° C. for at least 30 days.

Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous inkjet inks containing a polymeric ink additive as a binder. The binder contains a component capable of interacting with cellulose. Certain heterocycles having similar Hansen solubility parameters as cellulose were incorporated into the polymeric binders. Prints from these inks have better durability and optical properties than similar additives that do not have the components capable of interacting with cellulose.

Abstract: Aqueous suspension comprising 35-45 wt % of solid diacyl peroxide particles having a d50 in the range 1-10 microns, 0.05-1 wt % of a dispersant, and not more than 1 wt % of an organic solvent. This concentrated peroxide suspension comprises only a minor amount of dispersant, has a low volatile organic content and is nonetheless stable for months and low in viscosity.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for treating a substrate are provided. The composition contains a corrosion-inhibiting metal cation and a conjugated compound.

Abstract: There is provided a resin composition. A resin composition includes: a copolymer having structural units of the following Formula (1), Formula (2) and Formula (3): where X is a C1-5 alkyl group, a C5-6 cycloalkyl group, a phenyl group or a benzyl group, while the alkyl group, the cycloalkyl group, the phenyl group and the benzyl group optionally have a portion or all of the hydrogen atoms substituted with halogen atoms, carboxy groups, hydroxy groups, amino groups or nitro groups; each of R1s is independently a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 is a single bond or a C1-5 alkylene group; R3 is a blocked isocyanate group; Y is an —O— group or an —NH— group; R4 is a single bond or a C1-5 alkylene group; and R5 is a C1-20 hydrocarbon group or a phenyl group having a hydroxy group as a substituent; and a solvent.

Abstract: An ink composition includes a graft copolymer including a repeating unit having a partial structure represented by Formula (1) described below and a repeating unit having a hydrophilic group in which a graft chain includes the repeating unit and water.

Abstract: Provided is an antifoaming agent for a coating agent, which suppresses foaming of a coating agent by being blended into a nonaqueous agent in a small amount, thereby improving pinhole preventing performance, and which may form a thermo-setting coating film or a thermo-drying coating film having an excellent aesthetic appearance by suppressing the generation of pinholes without deteriorating smoothing performance of the coating film even under conditions where pinholes are easily generated.

Abstract: A process for preparing an aqueous pigment dispersion suitable for use in an ink jet printing ink comprising the following steps in the order I) followed by II): I) providing a dispersion having a sodium chloride critical coagulation concentration of no more than 2.0M, said dispersion comprising a pigment, an aqueous liquid medium and a dispersant having one or more ionic group(s); and II) reducing the hydrophilicity of the dispersant by reacting at least some, but not all of the ionic group(s) in the dispersant with the one or more hydrophobic compound(s).

Abstract: In one embodiment, a material includes a plurality of particles, a solvent system and one or more stabilizing agents; the particles are configured to complete a self-propagating and/or self-sustaining reaction upon initiation thereof. In another embodiment, a method includes dispersing a plurality of particles in solution to form a dispersion and adding a stabilizing agent to the dispersion in an amount sufficient to cause the dispersion to exhibit one or more predetermined rheological properties; again, the particles in the dispersion are configured to complete a self-propagating and/or self-sustaining reaction upon initiation thereof. In still another embodiment, a method includes depositing a material on a substrate; the material includes a plurality of particles configured to complete a self-propagating and/or self-sustaining reaction upon initiation thereof, a solvent system and one or more stabilizing agents.

Abstract: Block copolymers for use in block copolymer lithography, self-assembled films of the block copolymers and methods for polymerizing the block copolymers are provided. The block copolymers are characterized by high Flory-Huggins interaction parameters (?). The block copolymers can be polymerized from protected hydroxystyrene monomers or from tert-butyl styrene and 2-vinylpyridine monomers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the functionalisation of metal nanowires and the use of said nanowires. The functionalisation method of the invention includes a step comprising the formation of a self-assembled monolayer on at least part of the external surface of metal nanowires, using a compound of formula R1—Zn—R2, wherein Z is S or Se, and n is equal to 1 or 2, and R1 is a hydrogen atom or an acyl group or a hydrocarbon group comprising between 1 and 100 carbon atoms and R2 is an electron-attracting or -donating group. The method if the invention is particularly suitable for use in the field electrode production.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for immobilization of biological molecules such as nucleic acids, peptides and proteins onto the surface of a glass or plastic solid support.

Abstract: A method of heat transfer printing using quantum dots is described. The method can be used to form an image using quantum dots on a substrate that is not easily printed using conventional printing techniques. Also described is a quantum dot ink formulation for heat transfer printing. The methods and materials can be used for anti-counterfeiting applications.

Abstract: A plastic packaging component is provided that is formed of a resin containing an electromagnetic spectrally detectable additive mixed with the resin. The resin formed into a plastic packaging component of an aerosol package lid, an aerosol spray button, an aerosol spray tube, a trigger sprayer, an integrated lid-sprayer, a grease cartridge, a grease cap, plastic fiber toweling, a packaging strap, a pail lid, a jar cap, or a brush. A process for detecting a displaced packaging component in an organic production stream is provided that includes adding to a resin an electromagnetically detectable additive intermixed with the resin and forming the additive loaded resin into the plastic packaging component. The production stream is then scanned for the detectable signal of the additive. Upon detecting the additive, an alarm signal is provided that the production stream contains the displaced packaging component.

Abstract: An optical device includes a support structure configured to retain an optical element using a cured adhesive composition that is disposed between a surface of the support structure and a surface of the optical element, wherein a structured optical particulate material is dispersed throughout the cured adhesive. The structured optical particulate material redirects curing radiation via a scattering mechanism to facilitate curing of portions of the adhesive compositions that cannot be directly exposed to the radiation, thereby facilitating rapid and more thorough curing than could otherwise be achieved without the structured optical particulate material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive using wire pigments and a manufacturing method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an adhesive using wire pigments, which includes an adhesive resin composition including a photocurable adhesive material; and wire pigments formed in a nano-sized wire structure to be immersed in the adhesive resin composition and having light shielding properties, is provided. Further, a manufacturing method of an adhesive using wire pigments is provided.

Abstract: Pigment based inks are provided. The inks include a non-polar carrier fluid and a surface-functionalized pigment particle including a nitrogen-linked moiety to the surface of the pigment particle through a nitrogen link at one end of the nitrogen-linked moiety and a graft copolymer having two or three blocks attached at another end, the pigment particle suspended in the non-polar carrier fluid, the nitrogen-linked moiety further including an alkyl chain interposed between the nitrogen-linked moiety and the graft copolymer having the structure (I), where X is the nitrogen-linked moiety and Y is a copolymer, and the letter a is an integer between 0 and about 5,000, while the letter b is an integer of 2 or more.

Abstract: An ink-jet ink composition includes a jettable vehicle, a plurality of pigment solids dispersed in the jettable vehicle, and a half-ester of styrene maleic anhydride (SMA) dispersed in the jettable vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to composite particles comprising a carrier material as well as at least one pearlescent pigment, wherein the carrier material and the at least one pearlescent pigment are bonded to one another without an adhesive agent. In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing these composite particles as well as the use thereof.

Abstract: A method for producing a conjugated diene-based polymer is described. The conjugated diene-based polymer is produced by polymerizing monomers including a conjugated diene compound, a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a compound represented by the following formula (2) using an organoalkali metal compound and a secondary amine compound, and then reacting a compound containing a nitrogen atom and/or a silicon atom to an active end of the polymer formed via the polymerization, E1-A1??(1) E1 represents a hydrocarbyl group having a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond, and A1 represents a substituted amino group or a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, E2-A2??(2) E2 represents a hydrocarbyl group having a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond, and A2 represents a substituted silyl group.

Abstract: Organic polymeric bi-metallic alkoxide or aryloxide composites are used as dielectric materials in various devices with improved properties such as improved mobility. These composites comprise a poly(meth)acrylate or polyester having metal coordination sites, and the same or different bi-metallic alkoxide or aryloxide molecules that are coordinated with the organic polymer. The bi-metallic alkoxide or aryloxide molecules can be represented by Structure (I) shown herein. Such composites are generally soluble at room temperature in various organic solvents and be provided in homogeneous organic solvent solutions that can be suitably applied to a substrate to form dielectric materials.

Abstract: A photocurable composition contains at least one ultraviolet absorber represented by Formula (1), and a hard coating agent including the photocurable composition. wherein R1, R2 and R3 may be the same as or different from each other and represent a branched or linear alkyl group with 1-20 carbon atoms and is substituted with a (meth)acryloyloxy group; the alkyl group may be substituted with a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group having 1-8 carbon atoms, or an acyloxy group having 1-8 carbon atoms; the alkyl group may be interrupted by an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a carbonyl group, an ester group, an amide group, or an imide group; and R4, R5 and R6 may be the same as or different from each other and represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group having 1-12 carbon atoms, or an alkoxy group having 1-12 carbon atoms.

Abstract: There are described vinyl sequential copolymers (and processes for making them) comprising (a) at least 8. 5 wt-% preferably >=20 wt-% of a higher itaconate diester (preferably dibutyl itaconate—DBI); (b) less than 23 wt-% acid monomer but also sufficient to have an acid value less than 150 mg KOH/g of polymer, (c) optionally with less than 50 wt-% of other itaconate monomers, and (d) optionally less than 77 wt-% of other monomers not (a) to (c). The DBI may be biorenewable. One embodiment is an aqueous dispersion of the vinyl sequential polymer of two phases: A) 40 to 90 wt-% of a vinyl polymer A with Tg from ?50 to 30° C.; and B) 10 to 60 wt-% of a vinyl polymer B with Tg from 50 to 130° C.; where DBI is used to prepare A and/or B and polymer A has from 0.1 to 10 wt-% of at least one acid-functional olefinically unsaturated monomer.