Abstract: A thermoplastic mixture is described that includes at least one impact-resistant polypropylene copolymer and at least one ethylene-1-octene copolymer. The weight ratio of impact-resistant polypropylene copolymer to ethylene-1-octene copolymer can be in the range of 35:65 to 65:35. The thermoplastic mixture has a high melting point and excellent flexibility. The mixture is suitable in particular for roof membranes and waterproofing membranes.

Abstract: The invention is directed to melt-processable carbon fiber precursors which have the capability of thermal stabilization in air followed by carbonization in inert atmosphere which make them cost effective and widen their applications.

Abstract: A thermoplastic mixture is described that includes at least one impact-resistant polypropylene copolymer and at least one ethylene-1-octene copolymer. The weight ratio of impact-resistant polypropylene copolymer to ethylene-1-octene copolymer can be in the range of 35:65 to 65:35. The thermoplastic mixture has a high melting point and excellent flexibility. The mixture is suitable in particular for roof membranes and waterproofing membranes.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a curable composition having a HALS skeleton and capable of producing polymers having excellent weather resistance and outer appearance. The present invention provides a curable composition including at least a monomer component that contains a monomer (A) represented by a certain formula and a monomer (B) polymerizable with the monomer (A). In the curable composition, the content of the monomer (A) is 0.01 to 35 mol % in the monomer component, and the content of the monomer (B) is 65 to 99.99 mol % in the monomer component.

Abstract: A light-emitting element having good characteristics can be obtained by using a bipyridine compound having at least one 2,2?-bipyridine structure and at least two anthracene skeletons as light-emitting element materials. In particular, a bipyridine compound in which an anthracene skeleton is bonded to each of the 5-position and the 6-position of 2,2?-bipyridine through an arylene group can be synthesized and a light-emitting element having good characteristics can be obtained in the case where the bipyridine compound is used as a light-emitting element material.

Abstract: A rigid ballistic-resistant composite includes large denier per filament (dpf) yarns. The yarns are held in place by a resin to form a rigid composite panel with improved ballistic performance. The large dpf yarns may be selected from aromatic heterocyclic co-polyamide fibers, polyester-polyarylate fibers, high modulus polypropylene (HMPP) fibers, ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibers, poly(p-phenylene-2,6-benzobisoxazole) (PBO) fibers, poly-diimidazo pyridinylene (dihydroxy)phenylene (PIPD) fibers, carbon fibers, and polyolefin fibers.

Abstract: Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition having antistatic properties that suppresses peeling electrification voltage when peeled off from a non-antistatic adherend, low adhesive strength at high peeling speeds, adhesive strength high enough to prevent problems such as lifting and unintended separation at low peeling speeds, and an optical film to which a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, a surface protective sheet, and a surface protective sheet are attached, each sheet having high transparency. A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, comprising: 100 parts by mass of a polymer (A) with a glass transition temperature of less than 0° C.; 0.1 to 20 parts by mass of a polymer (B) having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 or more to less than 100,000 and containing a monomer unit derived from a monomer having a nitrogen-containing structure; and 0.1 to 20 parts by mass of an acidic compound (C) with a pKa of ?12.0 or more to less than 3.5.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions useful for use in separators for use in lithium ion batteries, and membranes, separators, and devices derived therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet excellent in anti-foaming release property in which whitening due to humidification hardly occurs. The invention relates to an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including: an acrylic polymer (A) which has a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 to 3,000,000 and is formed from a component including, as essential monomer components, a monomer having a nitrogen atom in a molecule thereof and a monomer having a hydroxyl group in a molecule thereof; and an acrylic polymer (B) having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 to 30,000.

Abstract: The present invention relates to various polymer compounds and/or formulations and to methods for the synthesis of same. In one embodiment, the present invention is related to polymer compounds and/or formulations that enable one to more easily remove sticky articles (e.g., chewing gum) from various surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plastics molding composition encompassing at least one poly(meth)acrylate A) and at least one impact-modified poly(meth)acrylate B), wherein the die swell of the plastics molding composition is at least 15%, measured at 5 MPa and 2200C to DIN 54811 (1984), and the melt flow rate of the poly(meth)acrylate A) is at least 10 ml per 10 minutes, measured to ISO 1133 at 2300C with a load of 3.8 kg. The present invention also describes moldings which encompass the plastics molding composition described above, and processes for the production of the said moldings.

Abstract: Ionomers and ionomer membranes, consisting of a non-fluorinated or partly fluorinated non-, partly or fully-aromatic main chain and a non- or partly-fluorinated side chain with ionic groups or their non-ionic precursors, have a positive impact on the proton conductivity of the ionomers. Various processes produce these polymeric proton conductors.

Abstract: Multi-piece golf balls having at least one component made of a composition comprising a polymerized substituted imidazolium liquid ionomer are provided. The multi-piece golf ball contains a core, which may have a dual-core construction including a center and surrounding outer core layer or other multi-layered structure. Preferably at least one of the core layers is formed from a composition comprising a rubber material or highly neutralized acid copolymer (HNP) and the liquid ionomer. The resulting golf ball has high resiliency.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymer including a polymer polymerized of a phosphorous-based monomer, a polymer polymerized of a nitrogen-based monomer, or a polymer polymerized of the phosphorous-based monomer and the nitrogen-based monomer. The phosphorous-based monomer has the formula as follows: and the nitrogen-based monomer has the formula as follows: R1 and R3 consists of hydrogen, a phenyl group, a C7-12 alkyl phenyl group, a C1-12 alkyl group, a C2-12 ether group, a C1-12 alkoxyl group, or a C1-12 hydroxylalkyl group, respectively. R2 and R4 consists of a phenylene group, a C7-12 alkyl phenylene group, a C1-12 alkylene group, a C2-12 ether group, a C1-12 alkylene glycol group, or a C1-12 hydroxylalkylene group, respectively.

Abstract: Ionomers and ionomer membranes, consisting of a non-fluorinated or partly fluorinated non-, partly or fully-aromatic main chain and a non- or partly-fluorinated side chain with ionic groups or their non-ionic precursors, have a positive impact on the proton conductivity of the ionomers. Various processes produce these polymeric proton conductors.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymer including a polymer polymerized of a phosphorous-based monomer, a polymer polymerized of a nitrogen-based monomer, or a polymer polymerized of the phosphorous-based monomer and the nitrogen-based monomer. The phosphorous-based monomer has the formula as follows: and the nitrogen-based monomer has the formula as follows: R1 and R3 consists of hydrogen, a phenyl group, a C7-12 alkyl phenyl group, a C1-12 alkyl group, a C2-12 ether group, a C1-12 alkoxyl group, or a C1-12 hydroxylalkyl group, respectively. R2 and R4 consists of a phenylene group, a C7-12 alkyl phenylene group, a C1-12 alkylene group, a C2-12 ether group, a C1-12 alkylene glycol group, or a C1-12 hydroxylalkylene group, respectively.

Abstract: A composition and a polymer are provided. The composition includes the polymer and a melamine derivative. The polymer has a formula of R is hydrogen, halide, alkyl group, alkoxyl group, haloalkyl group or nitro group. n is 1-5 of integer. x+y+z=1, x>0, y?0, z?0. The melamine derivative includes R1 is hydrogen, CqH2q+1, or m and q independently is 1-10 of integer. R2, R3 and R4 independently is hydrogen, halide, or C1-C54 alkyl group.

Abstract: Reversibly switchable polymers, surfaces that include the polymers, and methods for making and using the polymers and surfaces. The switchable polymers are non-fouling in their zwitterionic form and are antimicrobial in their cationic form.

Abstract: Benzotriazole UV/Visible light-absorbing monomers are disclosed. The UV/Vis absorbers are particularly suitable for use in intraocular lens materials.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are dual cure coating compositions that include (a) a melamine-group containing polyethylenically unsaturated compound and (b) an acrylate-containing compound different from (a), wherein the acrylate-containing compound is present at a level sufficient to provide a cured coating layer having a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or below and a crosslink density of 20.0 mmoles/cc or below. Also disclosed are related multi-component composite coatings, coated substrates, and methods for coating a substrate.

Abstract: A composition and a polymer are provided. The composition includes the polymer and a melamine derivative. The polymer has a formula of R is hydrogen, halide, alkyl group, alkoxyl group, haloalkyl group or nitro group. n is 1-5 of integer. x+y+z=1, x>0, y?0, z?0. The melamine derivative includes R1 is hydrogen, CqH2q+1, or m and q independently is 1-10 of integer. R2, R3 and R4 independently is hydrogen, halide, or C1-C54 alkyl group.

Abstract: Benzotriazole UV/Visible light-absorbing monomers are disclosed. The UV/Vis absorbers are particularly suitable for use in intraocular lens materials.

Abstract: Norbornene-based biocidal polymers having primary, secondary or tertiary amine or phosphine end groups, the parent monomers, processes for preparing the monomers and polymers, and their use.

Abstract: An activated carbon fiber for fabricating a supercapacitor electrode and its precursor material are provided. The precursor material of the activated carbon fiber includes polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and a polymer having formula (I): wherein R1 is cyano, phenyl, acetate, or methoxycarbonyl, R2 is ?R3 is C1-7 alkyl, X is chlorine, bromine, tetrafluoroborate (BF4), hexafluorophosphate (PF6), or NH(SO2CH3)2, and m/n is 1-99/99-1.

Abstract: Polymeric ionic liquids, methods of making and methods of using the same are disclosed.

Abstract: An acrylic resin composition containing the following acrylic resins (1) and (2): an acrylic resin (1) containing a structural unit (a) derived from a monomer (a) and a structural unit (b) derived from a monomer (b); an acrylic resin (2) having a molecular weight of 1,100,000 to 1,500,000, and containing the structural unit (a) as the main component and a structural unit(c)derived from a monomer (c) and substantially not containing the structural unit (b); (a): a (meth)acrylate of the formula (A) (wherein, R1 and R2 are defined in the specification), (b): a monomer containing an olefinic double bond and at least one 5- or more-membered heterocyclic group in the molecule, (c): a monomer not containing 5- or more-membered heterocyclic group and containing one olefinic double bond and at least one polar functional group which is a carboxyl, hydroxyl, amide, amino, epoxy, oxetanyl, aldehyde or isocyanate group in the molecule.

Abstract: Provided are chemically protective articles prepared in part from a hydrophilic polymer/barrier polymer blend film. In various embodiments, the chemically protective article is substantially impermeable to hazardous chemical agents, but is sufficiently permeable to water vapor that, if worn as protective apparel, it is both protective and comfortable to wear.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive including: a) an acrylic polymer containing, as a monomer unit, an alkyl (meth)acrylate including an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms in an amount of 50% by weight or more; and b) a tackifier resin, in which the acrylic polymer a) contains two kinds of monomer units having a difference in solubility parameter (SP value) of 0.2 (MPa)1/2 or more, each in an amount of 15% by weight or more.

Abstract: Particle-toughened polymer compositions include a base polymer formulation and a plurality of toughening particles. In certain embodiments, the base polymer formulation includes bismaleimides or other polymer resins capable of high temperature service. A first plurality of toughening particles may include core shell rubbers. A second plurality of toughening particles may be selected from a variety of polymer compositions, including polyimides, polyether ketone (PEK), polyether ether ketone (PEEK), polyether ketone ketone (PEKK), polyether imide, polyether sulfones, and polyphenylene oxide. It is found that increasing concentration of the core shell rubbers may improve the toughness of the composition while preserving thermal properties of the composition, such as glass transition temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to scorch prevention and, more specifically, to a composition which comprises a nitroxide and at least one organic peroxide and which can be used to delay scorching prior to crosslinking of thermoplastic compositions and/or elastomers. The invention also relates to a crosslinkable composition and to a crosslinking method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a chemical and impact resistant thermoplastic resin composition that can have improved extrudability. In one embodiment, the thermoplastic resin composition comprises a base resin including (A) about 1 to about 98% by weight of an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer resin; (B) about 1 to about 98% by weight of a rubber modified styrene copolymer resin; and (C) about 1 to about 98% by weight of a polyester resin; and about 1 to about 6 parts by weight of an aromatic vinyl-vinyl cyanide copolymer resin having a weight average molecular weight of about 1,000,000 to about 5,000,000, per 100 parts by weight of the base resin comprising (A)+(B)+(C). In another embodiment, the thermoplastic resin composition comprises a base resin including (A) about 1 to about 98% by weight of an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer resin; (B) about 1 to about 98% by weight of a rubber modified styrene copolymer resin; and (C) about 1 to about 98% by weight of a polyester resin; and (E) about 0.

Abstract: A method for preparing a polymeric material including a multiblock copolymer with n blocks, where n is an integer no lower than 2, which method comprises at least one cycle of steps including (a) a step of synthesising a block by performing controlled free-radical polymerisation of one or more free-radical polymerisable monomers, and (b) a step of polymerising the monomers that were not converted during step (a) into a polymer having a number-average molecular weight lower than the number-average molecular weight of said block, wherein said cycle of steps is carried out at least for the (n?1) first blocks.

Abstract: New carbon nanotube polymers and compositions are provided. The polymers comprise recurring blocks or units of carbon nanotubes and a compound other than a carbon nanotube. The compound is a polymeric or oligomeric block and is bonded to the carbon nanotube outer sidewall rather than to the carbon nanotube end, and is preferably a block copolymer of the compound and the carbon nanotube. The polymers can be used to prepare compositions that can be formed into products that are useful for building components present in airplanes.

Abstract: This invention provides methods to form modified hydrogel materials using reactive compounding. The method includes mixing a hydrogel material with a plasticizer in a compounding apparatus. During mixing, a reactive chemical compound is added to the mixture that reacts with the hydrogel material to form a modified hydrogel material.

Abstract: An activated carbon fiber for fabricating a supercapacitor electrode and its precursor material are provided. The precursor material of the activated carbon fiber includes polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and a polymer having formula (I): wherein R1 is cyano, phenyl, acetate, or methoxycarbonyl, R2 is R3 is C1-7 alkyl, X is chlorine, bromine, tetrafluoroborate (BF4), hexafluorophosphate (PF6), or NH(SO2CH3)2, and m/n is 1-99/99-1.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine. The method comprises forming a reaction mixture comprising at least one substituted or unsubstituted phenolphthalein, at least one substituted or unsubstituted primary hydrocarbyl amine, and an acid catalyst; and heating the reaction mixture to a temperature of less than 180° C. to remove a distillate comprising water and form a crude 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine product; where the 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine has a formula: where R1 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen and a hydrocarbyl group, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen, a hydrocarbyl group, and a halogen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the prevention of scorching before crosslinking of a thermoplastic and/or elastomeric composition with peroxides or azo compounds. This is achieved by using a family of specific nitroxides as additive.

Abstract: Polymer-bonded functional agents are each obtained by reacting a functional agent containing reactive groups with a polymer containing groups reactive with the reactive groups of the functional agent. The functional agent comprises at least one functional agent selected from the group consisting of antioxidants, ultraviolet absorbers, light stabilizers, infrared absorbers and antistatic agents. Use of these polymer-bonded functional agents can provide articles with improved functions.

Abstract: A primer composition comprises (A) a vinyl copolymer obtained through copolymerization of (a-1) a UV-absorbing vinyl monomer, (a-2) an alkoxysilyl group-containing vinyl monomer, and (a-3) another copolymerizable monomer, (B) a curing agent, and (C) a thermoplastic vinyl resin having a Tg of at least 80° C. Polycarbonate resin articles, when covered with an undercoat of the primer composition and an overcoat of an organopolysiloxane composition, exhibit improved transparency, mar resistance, weather resistance, and chemical resistance and find outdoor use as vehicle and building windows and windshields.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel compositions prepared from a first oligomer containing reactive functional groups capable of reaction at effective rates (at normal processing temperatures) with a co-reactive second component oligomer possessing functionality that is complementary to that of the first oligomer. The compositions may be used as coatings, including hard surface coatings, clear coatings, powder coatings and pattern coatings; as adhesives, including pressure sensitive adhesives and hot melt adhesives; as sealants; as optical coatings; as blown microfibers (BMF); as high refractive index optical materials; as barrier films; in microreplication; as low adhesion backsizes, (LABs) and as release coatings.

Abstract: The present invention provides melt-processible adhesive compositions prepared from a first oligomer containing reactive functional groups capable of reaction at effective rates (at normal processing temperatures) with a co-reactive second component oligomer possessing functionality that is complementary to that of the first oligomer. The compositions may be used as coatings, including hard surface coatings, clear coatings, powder coatings and pattern coatings; as adhesives, including pressure sensitive adhesives and hot melt adhesives; as sealants; as optical coatings; as blown microfibers (BMF); as high refractive index optical materials; as barrier films; in microreplication; as low adhesion backsizes, (LABs) and as release coatings.

Abstract: Use of a copolymer (A) preparable by free-radical polymerization of a) at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer and b) at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer different than the olefinically unsaturated monomer (a) and of the general formula I R1R2C?CR3R4??(I), in which the radicals R1, R2, R3 and R4, in each case independently of one another, are hydrogen atoms or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkylcycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, cycloalkylaryl, arylalkyl or arylcycloalkyl radicals, with the proviso that at least two of the variables R1, R2, R3 and R4 are substituted or unsubstituted aryl, arylalkyl or arylcycloalkyl radicals, especially substituted or unsubstituted aryl radicals; in an aqueous medium for producing molding compounds and moldings.

Abstract: Polymer-bonded functional agents are each obtained by reacting a functional agent containing reactive groups with a polymer containing groups reactive with the reactive groups of the functional agent. The functional agent comprises at least one functional agent selected from the group consisting of antioxidants, ultraviolet absorbers, light stabilizers, infrared absorbers and antistatic agents. Use of these polymer-bonded functional agents can provide articles with improved functions.

Abstract: Anti-reflective compositions and methods of using those compositions with low dielectric constant materials are provided. In one embodiment, the compositions include polymers comprising recurring monomers having unreacted ring members. In another embodiment, the polymers further comprise recurring monomers comprising ring members reacted with a light attenuating compound so as to open the ring. The compositions can be applied to dielectric layers so as to minimize or prevent reflection during the dual damascene process while simultaneously blocking via or photoresist poisoning which commonly occurs when organic anti-reflective coatings are applied to low dielectric constant layers.

Abstract: An organic polymer having a plurality of regions along the length of the polymer backbone and comprising two or more of the following a first region for transporting negative charge carriers and having a first bandgap defined by a first LUMO level and a first HOMO level; and a second region for transporting positive charge carriers and having a second bandgap defined by a second LUMO level and a second HOMO level; and a third region for accepting and combining positive and negative charge carriers to generate light and having a third bandgap defined by a third LUMO level and a third HOMO level, wherein each region comprises one or more monomers and the quantity arrangement of the monomers in the organic polymer is selected so that the first, second and third bandgaps are distinct from one another in the polymer.

Abstract: An organic block polymer useful in an electroluminescent polymer device (or in a polymer field effect transistor) that includes an emissive polymer block that is consistently conjugated along the backbone of the emissive polymer block (e.g., a copolymer of 2,7-linked 9,9 dioctyl fluorene and 4,7-linked 2,1,3 benxothiadiazole); and a positive charge carrier polymer block that is consistently conjugated along the backbone of the positive charge carrier polymer block (e.g., a copolymer of 2,7-linked 9,9 dioctyl fluorene and 4N, 4N′-linked N,N′-di(3-carboxomethoxyphenyl)benzidine) for transporting positive charge carriers to the emissive polymer block so that the positive charge carriers can combine with negative charge carriers to generate light.

Abstract: Disclosed are chlorine containing polymer compositions containing stabilizers which impart good thermal stability. PVC compositions and, in particular, flexible PVC compositions containing stabilizers which are oligomeric and/or polymeric aminouracyls exhibit high thermal stability as evidenced by improved resistance to yellowing and blistering upon extended exposure to high temperatures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compatible binary and ternary cation-exchanger polymer and anion-exchanger polymer blend membranes.

Abstract: The rubber mixtures according to the present invention comprising uncrosslinked butyl rubbers and nitrile-containing rubber gels as well as optionally, conventional additives and auxiliary substances, are suitable for the production of vulcanizates and molded rubber bodies of all kind having low gas permeability, low weight and acceptable mechanical properties, the mixtures exhibiting good processability.

Abstract: In one aspect, the invention provides ene-thiol elastomers comprising the reaction product of a polythiol free of hydrophilic groups and having at least two thiol groups and an aromatic, heterocyclic, aliphatic, or cycloaliphatic polyene having at least two reactive unsaturated carbon to carbon bonds. In another aspect, the invention provides ene-thiol elastomer comprising the reaction product of (a) a thiol terminated oligomer comprising the reaction product of a polythiol having two thiol groups and a first polyene or mixture of polyenes having two reactive unsaturated carbon to carbon bonds; and (b) a second polyene or a mixture of polyenes having at least 5 percent functional equivalents of unsaturated carbon to carbon bonds from polyenes having at least three unsaturated carbon to carbon bonds. The ene-thiol elastomers of the invention have a weight increase of not more than 4 weight percent in 15 days at a temperature of 22° C.