Abstract: Nanolatexes comprising functional monomers and methods for making nanolatexes. Compositions comprising between about 3:97 and 90:10 (w/w) nanolatex particles to conventional latex particles. Because of the particle size differences between the conventional and nanolatexes, the nanolatexes may distribute themselves advantageously amongst the conventional latexes during coalescence, resulting in films having unexpected properties. In particular, when the average particle size of the conventional latex is about six times larger than the average particle size of the nanolatex, a composition comprising a ratio of 1 conventional latex particle for every 25 nanolatex particles results in unexpectedly strong (large Young's modulus) and smooth (high specular gloss) films.

Abstract: Aqueous pigment dispersions having components in the dispersant capable of interacting with cellulose are described. These components include a heterocycle substituted to the oxygen atom of an acrylate ester. The heterocycle is selected based on its Hansen solubility parameters.

Abstract: An illustrative DSA formulation disclosed herein includes a block copolymer material, a casting solvent and at least one plasticizer agent. An illustrative method disclosed herein includes depositing a liquid DSA formulation on a guide layer, performing a spin-coating process to form a DSA-based material layer comprised of the liquid DSA formulation above the guide layer, wherein the DSA-based material layer includes at least one plasticizing agent and, after performing the spin-coating process, performing at least one heating process on the DSA-based material layer while at least some of the plasticizing agent remains in the DSA-based material layer so as to enable phase separation of block copolymer materials.

Abstract: A method for producing a modified conjugated diene polymer comprising a polymerization step of obtaining a conjugated diene polymer containing a nitrogen atom in a polymer chain and an active end by copolymerizing a conjugated diene compound and a nitrogen atom-containing vinyl compound, or a conjugated diene compound, an aromatic vinyl compound and a nitrogen atom-containing vinyl compound by use of an alkali metal compound and/or an alkaline earth metal compound as a polymerization initiator, and a modification step of reacting a modifier.

Abstract: Provided is a water-in-oil type emulsion adhesive, which is excellent in open shelf stability and thus a coating is difficult to be formed inside of a machine, which is excellent in storage stability, and which can be rapidly attached with low energy. The water-in-oil type emulsion adhesive includes an oil phase and an aqueous phase, wherein the oil phase contains at least an organic solvent and an emulsifier, the aqueous phase contains at least water and a polymer compound, and the aqueous phase has a particle diameter of from 1 to 100 ?m by a volume-based average diameter.

Abstract: An adhesive composition of the present invention contains, as a main composition, a polymer obtained by copolymerizing a monomer composition containing a monomer having a maleimide group, and further contains a thermal polymerization inhibitor. As a result, it is possible to provide an adhesive composition that allows forming an adhesive layer that is excellently dissolved after the adhesive layer has been subjected to a high-temperature process.

Abstract: An adhesive composition of the present invention contains, as a main composition, a polymer obtained by copolymerizing a monomer composition containing a monomer having a maleimide group, and further contains a thermal polymerization inhibitor. As a result, it is possible to provide an adhesive composition that allows forming an adhesive layer that is excellently dissolved after the adhesive layer has been subjected to a high-temperature process.

Abstract: Use of an atmospheric plasma for the surface treatment of inorganic particles selected from the group consisting of particles of metal oxides, particles of metal carbonates, particles of metal sulfates, particles of metal phosphates, acicular particles, platy particles and fibrous particles,with a fluorine-containing precursor.

Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording includes a dye ink containing a water-soluble dye and water and a pigment ink containing a self-dispersible pigment and water; wherein the dye ink further contains a polymer having a lactam structure; and the pigment ink further contains a substance having a surface active ability, a blending amount of the substance having the surface active ability being set in a ratio to fulfill a condition that a line width of a one-dot line is not less than 115 ?m when an amount of one liquid droplet of the pigment ink to be discharged is set to be within a range of 22 pL to 28 pL and the one-dot line is printed on a regular paper sheet.

Abstract: Provided are cold process formulation aids (CPFAs), methods for their manufacture, and personal care products made using them. CPFAs include (i) a polymer having an aliphatic backbone and a plurality of pendant groups thereon that are pendant ionic or ionizable groups, or pendant groups having at least one permanent dipole that includes an acid, alcohol, thiol, ester, amine, amide, imide, imine, or nitrile moiety, and (ii) a wax selected from natural waxes and synthetic waxes, wherein if the wax is not micronized and is not self-emulsifying, the ratio, by weight, of the non-micronized wax to the polymer having an aliphatic backbone is from about 60:40 to 80:20, and if the wax is a micronized wax or a self-emulsifying wax, the ratio, by weight, of wax to polymer backbone is 70:30 to 98:2.

Abstract: Acrylic copolymers that include the controlled placement of particular functional groups within the polymer structure are provided. The copolymers contain at least two reactive segments and are manufactured via a controlled radical polymerization process. The copolymers are useful in the manufacture of adhesives and elastomers.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to softening amorphous polymeric materials based on a combination of thiol, acrylate, ene and epoxy monomers. These materials can soften to the modulus of tissue, have a sharp transition and are highly tunable. The materials have a glassy modulus of 1-7 GPa and exhibit a rubbery plateau in modulus that can range from 100 MPa down to as low as 0.03 MPa, which is at or below the modulus of tissue. They have potential uses as materials for near net shape processing such as casting, stereolithography, reaction injection molding, fused deposition molding and various other forms of 3D printing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition comprising an ethylene copolymer and a solvent wherein the composition is a binder for a lithium ion battery; the ethylene copolymer comprises or is produced from repeat units derived from ethylene and a comonomer selected from the group consisting of an ?, ?-unsaturated monocarboxylic acid or its derivative, an ?, ?-unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or its derivative, an epoxide-containing monomer, a vinyl ester, or combinations of two or more thereof; and the composition can further comprises a curing agent to crosslink the ethylene copolymer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition comprising an ethylene elastomer and a solvent wherein the composition is a binder for a lithium ion battery; the elastomer comprises or is produced from repeat units derived from ethylene and one or more comonomer selected from the group consisting of an alky(meth)acrylate; and the elastomer comprises a curing agent. The elastomer can further comprise or can be further produced from repeat units derived from a second alky (meth)acrylate, 2-butene-1,4-dioic acid or its derivative, or both.

Abstract: Use of cationic polymers comprising quaternary nitrogen atoms as antistat in coating compositions, characterized in that the polymers are selected from the group consisting of compounds according to the formula (I), polydiallyldialkylamines and copolymers thereof, polyalkyleneimines, polyvinylimidazoles and copolymers thereof, and mixtures of these. The effect of the antistat is that dust adheres to a lesser degree to the coating of the composition. The compositions are employed more particularly in the interior architectural sector.

Abstract: A water-dispersible, cyclocarbonate-functionalized vinyl copolymer binder, a process for the preparation of the binder, an aqueous dispersion containing the binder, a system comprising the binder, water and an (amine) curing agent and the use of the binder for the production of a hardened coating are proposed. It was surprisingly found that this binder, in which the emulsifier groups according to the invention are incorporated in the polymer chain, gives stable aqueous dispersions having a solids content of up to a 30% by weight.

Abstract: Provided is a process for dry, solvent free, transfer of solid material onto a flexographic plate.

Abstract: Described herein are compositions including heterocyclic organic compounds based on fused thiophene compounds, polymers based on fused thiophene compounds, and methods for making the monomers and polymer along with uses in thin film-based and other devices.

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: A solution includes an organic solvent and a compound dissolved in the organic solvent, having the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents an aromatic group which may have a substituent or an alkyl group which may have a substituent; R2 and R3 independently represent an alkyl group which may have a substituent, an alkoxy group which may have a substituent, an alkylthio group which may have a substituent or a hydrogen atom, and may form a ring together; X represents an alkyl group having 4 to 6 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent; and n represents 1, 2 or 3.

Abstract: Coatings for a surface, especially a priming coating, of the present invention have been found to be durable, resistant to oxidative degradation, erosion and depolymerisation, stable to sterilization and low particulating, and are easily applied to the required surface of a substrate in a surface-independent manner. Such coatings, when used as priming coatings to be coated with a subsequent coating, in at least some embodiments, form exterior coatings which are also highly durable and are stable to sterilisation and aging.

Abstract: An aqueous alkyd resin coating composition, comprising (a) at least one alkyd resin as a dispersed phase; (b) an emulsifier based on styrenated phenols that have been converted into reactive surfactants by first reaction with one or more equivalents of an allyl glycidyl ether to provide pendant allyl groups and then oxyalkylated and (c) water. The invention also provides a method for preparing these aqueous alkyd resin coating compositions from solvent borne alkyd compositions.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive of the invention include a (meth)acryl-based polymer obtained by polymerization of a monomer component including 30 to 99.5% by weight of an alkyl (meth)acrylate having an alkyl group of 10 to 18 carbon atoms at an ester end and 0.5 to 50% by weight of a cyclic nitrogen-containing monomer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive has a satisfactory level of adhesive performance and can form a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer with a lower dielectric constant and reliable moisture resistance.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of aqueous formulations, wherein (A) at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, (B) at least one heterocyclic comonomer having at least one permanent cationic charge per molecule and (C-P1) at least one ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or its anhydride are subjected to free radical copolymerization with one another in an aqueous medium and, shortly before the end or after the end of the copolymerization, further ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid (C-P2) or its anhydride is added.

Abstract: A binder composition for a secondary battery, and an anode and a lithium battery that include the binder composition are disclosed. The binder composition may include: first nanoparticles having a glass transition temperature of about 60° C. or greater and an average particle diameter of about 100 nm or less; and a first polymer binder having a glass transition temperature of about 20° C. or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers imprinted by retention solutes, use of same as well as compositions containing same.

Abstract: Provided are an optical component capable of suppressing the occurrence of undulations, having an excellent corrosion inhibition effect while maintaining a high level of adhesion reliability and transparency, as well as a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet that can produce such an optical component efficiently and at a low cost. The present invention provides an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprising a base polymer and a rust inhibitor, characterized in that the base polymer does not or substantially does not contain an acid group-containing monomer as a constituent monomer component, and that an 85° C. modulus of elasticity is not less than 5.0×104 Pa.

Abstract: Provided are an optical component having an excellent corrosion inhibition effect while maintaining a high level of adhesion reliability and transparency, as well as a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition and a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet that can produce such an optical component efficiently and at a low cost. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according to the present invention includes a rust inhibitor and a base polymer, characterized in that the base polymer does not or substantially does not contain an acid group-containing monomer as a constituent monomer component. Further provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed from such pressure-sensitive adhesive composition.

Abstract: Provided is the pattern formability and line edge roughness of the resultant substrate. An underlay film composition for imprints comprising a compound (A) and a solvent (B), the compound (A) having at least either one of a group (Ka) capable of covalently bonding and/or interacting with a substrate, and, a group (Kb) capable of covalently bonding and/or interacting with a curable composition for imprints, an Ohnishi parameter (Z) calculated from (equation 1) of 3.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides pre-treatment compositions and related methods. As such, a pre-treatment coating for a print medium can include an evaporable solvent, a matrix, and a wax. The matrix can include from 50 wt % to 80 wt % of a fixer and from 5 wt % to 20 wt % of a low Tg latex. The wax can be present at from 5 wt % to 30 wt %. The weight percentages of the matrix and the wax are based on a total amount present in the pre-treatment coating after removal of the solvent.

Abstract: The present inventions are directed to novel medical adhesives and their use, for example, in biomedical applications. These compositions and applications allow for improved adhesion with and between mammalian tissues.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for household care which include a cationic nanogel, particularly for treating and/or modifying hard or textile surfaces. The composition particularly enables a hydrophilization of hard surfaces, particularly useful in cleaning or rinsing operations.

Abstract: Grafted triglycerides comprising an acrylated triglyceride grafted with a fatty acid residue containing 4 to 28 carbon atoms. Also described are methods for making a grafted triglyceride and for curing a material selected from vinyl esters and unsaturated polyesters and mixtures thereof and optionally a reactive diluent. The method includes the steps of mixing a grafted triglyceride of the present invention with a material selected from vinyl esters, unsaturated polyesters and mixtures thereof to form a mixture, and curing the mixture to form a cured resin system. A cured resin system comprising a cured product obtained by the foregoing method and composites containing the cured product and a filler or reinforcing material are also disclosed. This method also includes use of the grafted triglycerides to make toughened resin and composite systems with reduced hazardous air pollutants without significantly reducing the glass transition temperature and significantly increasing the viscosity.

Abstract: Polymers, paper coating compositions, and coated paper.

Abstract: Provided are a polymer composition on a substrate and a surface modification method which is non-selective to substrate materials. Chemical vapor deposition polymerization is used to deposit a maleimide-functionalized poly-p-xylylene coating on a substrate. The substrate is readily available to perform a thiol-maleimide coupling reaction under mild conditions so as to modify the surface thereof. Furthermore, through a tailored thiol-terminal molecule, a designer surface can be created via thiol-maleimide coupling on a substrate, and the resulting surface can exhibit various desired biological functions for biotechnological applications. Therefore, this modification technique can be applied to biological fields extensively.

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: The present invention relates to photoreactive compounds that are particularly useful in materials for the alignment of liquid crystals.

Abstract: An adhesive film, an adhesive composition for the same, and a display member including the same are disclosed. The adhesive film includes a cured product of an adhesive composition, which includes a (meth)acrylic copolymer formed from a monomer mixture including (a1) an alkyl (meth)acrylate having a C1 to C17 alkyl group and (a2) an alkyl (meth)acrylate having an alkyl group having 18 or more carbon atoms. The adhesive film has a ratio (B/A) of 90° peel strength (B) after aging the adhesive film at 25° C. for 30 minutes and leaving the adhesive film at 90° C. for 40 seconds to 90° peel strength (A) after aging the adhesive film at 25° C. for 30 minutes of about 0.1 or less.

Abstract: A non-aqueous ink composition for inkjet printing, comprising 5 to 15% by mass of pigment relative to a mass of the non-aqueous ink composition, a pigment dispersant in such an amount that a mass ratio of the pigment dispersant to the pigment ranges from 0.2 to 2.0, and an organic solvent, the pigment dispersant comprising (A) a polyamide having a polyester side chain and/or a copolymer of vinylpyrrolidone and a C10-40 alkene, and (B) an alkyl(alkyl)acrylate copolymer having a C12-25 alkyl group and a nitrogen-containing group in such an amount that a mass ratio of the dispersant (B) to a total of the dispersant (A) and the dispersant (B), (B)/[(A)+(B)], ranges from 0.75 to 0.99. The ink composition has good storage stability and causes no satellite even printed in an environment of a low temperature.

Abstract: The present invention relates to olefin polymers having associative groups containing nitrogen heterocyclic compounds, to hot-melt adhesives including such polymers, and to method for producing same. Specifically, the invention relates to a polymer comprising units from ethylene and from a monomer having associative groups, said monomer including a polymerizing reactive group and an associative group containing nitrogen heterocyclic compounds.

Abstract: Disclosed is an active energy ray-curing composition containing an active energy ray-curing prepolymer (A) obtainable by a reaction of an acrylic-based prepolymer having a hydroxyl group and an acrylic monomer (a4) having an isocyanate group, an active energy ray-curing compound (B) having a benzotriazole group, another active energy ray-curing compound (C) differing from the (A) component and the (B) component, and inorganic oxide particles (D). The acrylic-based prepolymer having the hydroxyl group is a copolymer that includes an acrylic monomer (a1) having a piperidinyl group, an acrylic monomer (a2) having a hydroxyl group, etc., as monomer units.

Abstract: A vinyl polymer pigment dispersing agent having a vinyl addition polymer backbone, one or more polymer side chains with pendant cyclic urea functional group(s) separated from the polymer backbone by at least 10 intervening atoms, and in some embodiments one or more polymer side chains comprising pendant urea functional groups separated from the polymer back-bone by less than 10 intervening atoms. The dispersing agent may be made by addition polymerizing a mixture of one or more vinyl monomers and one or more monomers having cyclic urea functional groups and vinyl functional groups. The dispersing agent may be combined with pigment particles, a carrier and an optional surfactant to make a pigment grind dispersion with excellent pigment wetting and dispersing properties.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle member that includes a molded body and a protective film disposed on a surface of the molded body and formed by curing of an active energy ray-curing composition. The active energy ray-curing composition contains an active energy ray-curing prepolymer (A) obtainable by a reaction of an acrylic-based prepolymer having a hydroxyl group and an acrylic monomer (a4) having an isocyanate group, an active energy ray-curing compound (B) having a benzotriazole group, another active energy ray-curing compound (C) differing from the (A) component and the (B) component, and inorganic oxide particles (D). The acrylic-based prepolymer having the hydroxyl group is a copolymer that includes an acrylic monomer (a1) having a piperidinyl group, an acrylic monomer (a2) having a hydroxyl group, etc., as monomer units.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous coating material containing polymer (I), colloidal silica (II), and nonionic surfactant (III) with an HLB value of 16 or more. The polymer (I) is obtained by copolymerization of monomer mixture (M) that contains 0.2 to 10% by mass of monomer (a) having two or more radically polymerizable groups. The solid content of the colloidal silica (II) is 0.1 to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polymer (I). The content of the nonionic surfactant (III) is 0.01 to 10 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polymer (I). The present invention also relates to a painted article where the aqueous coating material is applied. Therefore, an aqueous coating material and a painted article capable of expressing stain resistance and weather resistance can be provided by reducing a water contact angle.

Abstract: Provided is a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive agent convertible into an adhesive agent that allows adherends to be instantly fixed to each other, allows the adherends to be reattached to each other, is excellent in processability such as being able to be cut into a sheet shape, is not peeled from the adherends even when exposed to a high-temperature atmosphere such as one in a fire, and has such transparency as to hardly impair the designs of the adherends. The transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive agent convertible into an adhesive agent has pressure-sensitive adhesive property before being sintered, and has adhesive property after being sintered.

Abstract: There is provided a resin composition including a copolymer having structural units of Formula (1), Formula (2), and Formula (3), and a solvent; or a resin composition including a copolymer having structural units of Formula (1), Formula (4), and Formula (5), and a solvent.

Abstract: Cyanoacrylate-containing compositions that include, in addition to the cyanoacrylate component, a hydrogenated anhydride and optionally a benzonitrile, are provided. Cured products of the inventive cyanoacrylate compositions demonstrate improved heat resistance without compromising fixture time, stability or color.

Abstract: A photopolymerizable inkjet ink including: a photopolymerizable monomer having a Stimulation Index (SI value) of less than 3, where the Stimulation Index indicates the extent of sensitization as measured by a skin sensitization test based on Local Lymph Node Assay; and a phenol aromatic compound having two hydroxyl groups in the molecule thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an innovative (meth)acrylic reactive resin which cures with low odour or odourlessly. The present invention relates more particularly to reactive resins comprising high-boiling, reactive (meth)acrylic monomers from the group of the polar, cyclically substituted esters of (meth)acrylic acid, more particularly glycerol acetal, ketal or carbonate methacrylates. These new components are used as substitutes for MMA, which represents the major part of the odour nuisance in the existing, prior-art reactive resin systems. Using these new components it is possible to obtain resin formulations which have glass transition temperatures similar to, and properties comparable with, MMA-based resins. The innovative reactive resins are able in addition to exhibit more rapid curing than prior-art MMA-based systems. Reactive resins for the purposes of the invention are reactive monomer mixtures or mixtures of monomers and polymers that when used as a 2-component system can be readily cured.

Abstract: This invention discloses and claims a series of polycyclic monomers and polymers useful in the production of optical waveguides. The polymers of the invention comprise one or more repeating units represented by the formula (IV): Wherein m, X, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. The films formed from the polymers of this invention exhibit significant changes in refractive index (greater than or equal to 0.5%) after exposure to suitable actinic or thermal energy thereby having superior optical transmission performance, which is of importance for modern optical applications such as wave guiding and optical data storage.