Abstract: Described herein are compounds having a hydrogen-bonding group and optionally a functional group for binding (e.g., covalently binding) the compound to another compound (e.g., hyaluronic acid and/or gelatin). A compound of the present invention may have a structure represented by and/or comprising Formula I, Formula II, Formula III, Formula IV, Formula IV?, Formula V, Formula V?, Formula VI, Formula VII, and/or Formula VIII as described herein. Compositions including compounds of the present invention along with methods of preparing and using the same are also described herein.

Abstract: A method to accelerate cure of a multicomponent coating composition is described herein, including the steps of providing an isocyanate and an isocyanate-reactive compound, and replacing a portion of the isocyanate-reactive compound with a compound of formula I:

Abstract: Described herein are anti-skid compositions that exhibit good mechanical strength, water resistance, and minimal product transfer. In certain aspects, the anti-skid compositions can be applied to articles using an aerosol delivery system. The anti-skid compositions can be applied to any article such as, for example, a rug, floor mat, chair mat, runner, and the like. The anti-skid compositions are particularly effective in preventing sliding or skidding of area rugs on or across substrates such as, for example, hard floors.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions for treating textiles, including carpet and other floor coverings. Compositions of the present invention, in some embodiments, can impart flame resistant and/or stain resistant properties to fibers, including synthetic fibers comprising polyolefins, polyamides, and polyesters such as polytrimethylene terephthalate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing chitin nanofibers, which includes the steps of deproteinizing a material derived from a chitin-containing organism by an alkali treatment, deashing a deproteinized integument by an acid treatment, optionally treating the deashed integument under acidic conditions, and then subjecting to a fiber-loosening treatment. The present invention also provides chitin nanofibers obtained by the method, and a composite material and a coating composition each containing the same. The present invention provides a method for producing chitosan nanofibers, which includes, in addition to the above steps, a deacetylation step and chitosan nanofibers obtained by the method, and a composite material and a coating composition each containing the same.

Abstract: This invention relates to electrically conductive and non-conductive polymer composite materials suitable for use as polymer composites, electrically conductive materials, electromagnetic wave shielding materials, heating elements, antistatic materials, substitute for existing polymer composites, and the like. The invention also relates to methods of making the electrically conductive and non-conductive polymer composite materials, and compositions containing the polymer composites also are disclosed herein.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a method of generating functionalized latex particulates in a colloidal suspension. The method can comprise steps of protecting functional groups present on polymerizable monomers with photo labile groups to form protected monomers; polymerizing the protected monomers to form a protected polymer; and exposing the protected polymer to a wavelength of light that removes the photo labile groups from the functional groups, thereby forming the functionalized latex particulates. These latex particulates can be used in a wide variety of applications, including in ink-jet ink printing applications.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a method of generating functionalized latex particulates in a colloidal suspension. The method can comprise steps of protecting functional groups present on polymerizable monomers with photo labile groups to form protected monomers; polymerizing the protected monomers to form a protected polymer; and exposing the protected polymer to a wavelength of light that removes the photo labile groups from the functional groups, thereby forming the functionalized latex particulates. These latex particulates can be used in a wide variety of applications, including in ink-jet ink printing applications.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a laser ablative recording material which has one or more layers including a coloring agent layer on a surface of a support, wherein at least one layer from among one or more layers including the coloring agent layer contains nitric acid ester of carboxyalkyl cellulose having a degree of nitric ester group substitution per glucose anhydride unit within a range of from 0.05 to 2.8; and at least one layer from among one or more layers including the coloring agent layer contains a material having absorption in the laser wavelength region. The laser ablative recording material of the invention is characterized by a small Dmin and a high removing efficiency of the image forming dyes.

Abstract: Water soluable, aqueous salt solution dispersible polymers and aqueous salt solutions containing dispersed polymers are produced by polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated soluble monomers in an aqueous salt solution in the presence of at least one carbohydrate. The polymers and aqueous salt solutions containing the dispersed polymers are useful for paper making, water clarification and emulsion breaking.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the use of nonpolymerizable, hydrophobically-modified saccharides as emulsion stabilizers during the synthesis of acrylic latexes, and coating compositions prepared with the acrylic latexes which has been prepared using the saccharide stabilizers.

Abstract: The invention relates to the fabrication and use of biosensors comprising a plurality of optical fibers each fiber having attached to its "sensor end" biological "binding partners" (molecules that specifically bind other molecules to form a binding complex such as antibody-antigen, lectin-carbohydrate, nucleic acid-nucleic acid, biotin-avidin, etc.). The biosensor preferably bears two or more different species of biological binding partner. The sensor is fabricated by providing a plurality of groups of optical fibers. Each group is treated as a batch to attach a different species of biological binding partner to the sensor ends of the fibers comprising that bundle. Each fiber, or group of fibers within a bundle, may be uniquely identified so that the fibers, or group of fibers, when later combined in an array of different fibers, can be discretely addressed. Fibers or groups of fibers are then selected and discretely separated from different bundles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyurea-covered particle having a narrow particle size distribution, which comprises a vinyl polymer particle as a seed particle and a polyurea cover layer formed on the vinyl polymer particle. The present invention also provides a process for producing the polyurea-covered particle having a narrow particle size distribution, which comprises:dispersing vinyl polymer particles having a narrow particle size distribution in an aqueous medium,adding thereto a polyisocyanate compound to swell the vinyl polymer particles, andadding a polyamine compound to effect interfacial polymerization.

Abstract: The invention relates to free-flowing, quick-dissolving lacquer binder granules based on cellulose esters, more particularly cellulose nitrates, and to a process for their production.

Abstract: The present invention lies in the field of nitrocellulose nail varnishes and its subject is the use of an arylsulphonylurethane as film forming resin in these varnishes, which makes it possible in particular to avoid the release of formaldehyde, a carcinogenic compound which is formed when an arylsulphonamide-formaldehyde resin is employed.Another subject of the invention is new poly(arylsulphonylurethanes) containing from 2 to 5 arylsulphonylurethane groups and possessing a molecular mass of between 450 and 1500.

Abstract: The setting properties of an .alpha.-cyanoacrylate adhesive composition are ccelerated by adding thereto a hydroxyl group derivative of an .alpha.-, .beta.- or .gamma.-cyclodextrin which is at least partly soluble in the .alpha.-cyanoacrylate.

Abstract: Water wet nitrocellulose, butyl acrylate/methyl methacrylate monomers and phosphate surfactant are emulsified into an oil-in-water emulsion and polymerized to produce a nitrocellulose/acrylic latex emulsion with a particle size below 0.25 microns. Wood finishing lacquers produced from this latex emulsion are equivalent in performance to solvent lacquers while lowering VOC to below 2.3 lb/gal.

Abstract: A protective composition which comprises at least one aliphatic polyisocyanate, at least one aromatic polyisocyanate and a solvent.

Abstract: Nitrocellulose moistened with alcohol, particularly for polyurethane lacquers, characterized in that a lower aliphatic tertiary alcohol is used as moistening agent.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of aqueous polymer dispersions comprising polymerizing vinyl esters and up to 50% by weight of the total monomer of compounds with unsaturated ethylenic bonds at a temperature of 10.degree. to 100.degree. C. in the presence of an at least partially water-soluble free-radical initiator and at least one starch member of the group consisting of cyanalkylated starch, hydroxyalkylated starch and carboxyalkylated starch and optionally present conventional adjuvants with the starting mixture containing not more than one-third of the total monomers and the remaining monomers being added by metering during the polymerization, the initiators being at least one member of the group consisting of hydrogen peroxide and organic hydroperoxides in an amount of at least 30 mmol per kg of total monomer mixture and optionally present water-soluble reducing agent and the amount of starch being at least 1% by weight based on the total monomer weight.