Abstract: A metallic polypropylene resin composition is provided herein. The metallic polypropylene resin composition provides appearance characteristics that are similar to those provided by painting, but without painting. The metallic polypropylene resin composition of the present invention has excellent physical properties such as scratch resistance, and thus may be applied to molding methods, such as a molded in color (MIC) method. The resin composition is useful as a material for automobile interior and exterior parts, as wells as electric and electronic products, which can be molded by the MIC method.

Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.

Abstract: Castor oil-based polyol polymer compositions and their use in processes for preparing polyurethane compounds with modified properties (e.g. tensile strength, hydrolytic stability, and the like) are described.

Abstract: To provide a photopolymerizable inkjet ink including: diethylene glycol dimethacrylate; caprolactone-modified dipentaerythritol hexaacrylate; and a photopolymerization initiator represented by the following general formula (1): where X1 is represented by the following general formula (1-1), and X2 is represented by the following general formula (1-2): where R1 to R4 are each independently a C1-C6 alkyl group, and R1 and R2 may be linked to form a ring, and R3 and R4 may be linked to form a ring; Z1 and Z2 is —NR5R6 or OR7; R5 and R6 are each independently a C1-C6 alkyl group, and R5 and R6 may be linked to form a ring; and R7 is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or a trimethylsilyl group.

Abstract: A method for producing a multi-layer plastic film comprising at least one compact cover layer and at least one layer which is arranged under the cover layer and made of extruded foamed plastic (foam layer), wherein the compact cover layer is connected to the foam layer thermally or by adhesion after extrusion and cooling of the foam layer to below the melting temperature. The layer made of foamed plastic is generated by blowing a propellent which is under positive pressure into a plastic melt during the extrusion process and by subsequently relaxing the propellent which is under positive pressure, wherein the foamed plastic is at first not cross-linked and is cross-linked together with the compact cover layer, in particular by high-energy radiation, only after the foam layer and the compact cover layer have been connected.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a graft copolymer that is usable as various functional materials, that is stimulus responsive, and that is soluble in water at ordinary temperatures; and to provide an aqueous coating composition that comprises the graft copolymer as a thickener. The present invention also provides a rheology modifier for an aqueous coating composition comprising a graft copolymer consisting of (A) a main chain comprising an N-substituted (meth)acrylamide compound and having a lower critical solution temperature in water of 40° C. or higher, and (B) a hydrophobic side chain.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a copolymer comprising: a polymeric backbone chain derived from a monomer comprising at least one conjugated diene monomer and optionally at least one vinyl aromatic monomer; and polymeric sidechains bonded to the backbone chain, the sidechains comprising a polymer capable of exhibiting a lower critical solution temperature (LCST).

Abstract: An aim of the prevention invention is to provide a water dispersion type acryl-based pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for re-peeling, which can prevent electrification of an adherend at the time of peeling (peeling antistatic properties) and which can form a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer excellent in adherability and re-peelable properties, and also to provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed of the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition. The re-peelable water dispersion type acryl-based pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present invention contains an acrylic emulsion-based polymer composed of a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester and a carboxyl-containing unsaturated monomer as raw material monomers, a perfluoroalkyl-containing oligomer, and an ionic compound.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention is directed to dendrimers comprised of macromolecules and trifunctional branches. In another aspect, the invention relates to methods for generating dendrimeric compositions comprising macromolecules and trifunctional branches. In certain embodiments, the radial density of the dendrimeric composition is controlled by selective incorporation of branches.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide: a non-aqueous dispersant which is excellent in dispersibility and dispersion stability and able to form a resin layer with excellent hydrolysis resistance; a color material dispersion liquid containing the non-aqueous dispersant; and a color resin composition containing the non-aqueous dispersant. Disclosed is a non-aqueous dispersant which is a polymer comprising at least one constitutional unit represented by the following general formula (I), wherein at least part of nitrogen sites of the constitutional units each form a salt with an acidic organophosphorous compound comprising one or more selected from the group consisting of organic phosphonic acid monoester compounds resulting from addition of a monofunctional epoxy compound or monofunctional oxetane compound to an organic phosphonic acid: Symbols shown in the general formula (I) are described in the Description.

Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composition for laser engraving comprising (Component A) a polymer having a monomer unit derived from a conjugated diene-based hydrocarbon, (Component B) a compound having an acid group and an ethylenically unsaturated bond; and (Component C) a polymerization initiator.

Abstract: A method for a polymeric or nanocomposite material. The method includes assembling a multiphase hard-soft structure, where the structure includes a hard micro- or nano-phase, and a soft micro- or nano-phase that includes a polymeric scaffold. In the method, the polymeric scaffold includes dynamically interacting motifs and has a glass transition temperature (Tg) lower than the intended operating temperature of the material.

Abstract: Adhesive compositions comprising a copolymer of isobutylene repeat units and alkene repeat units are described. At least a portion of the alkene repeat units are bonded to a pendent nitrogen atom of a quaternary ammonium salt comprising a free-radically polymerizable substituent. The adhesive optionally comprises other components such as tackifier, unfunctionalized polyisobutylene polymer, plasticizer, and combinations thereof.

Abstract: A roll covering is particularly suitable for a roll for the treatment of a paper web, paperboard web, or any other web of fibrous material in a machine for the production and/or finishing the same. The roll covering encompasses at least one layer. The at least one layer is formed of a rubber composition that includes at least one (meth)acrylate compound and a rubber component with at least one crosslinked hydrogenated nitrile rubber. Further, the at least one layer has a recovery rate of at least 12 mm per second and/or a maximal degree of plastic deformation of 0.9%, and a maximal tan ? value of 0.16 determined in accordance with DIN 53513 at 60° C. in tension at 10 Hz, 15% static elongation, and 1% dynamic elongation.

Abstract: A curable adhesive composition comprising (i) 10 to 80 wt-% of a derivatives of cyanoacrylic esters, cyanopentadienoate esters, methyliden malonate esters (ii) 15 to 50 wt-% non-reactive (co)polymer(s) based on unsaturated monomers selected from vinyl esters or alkyl (meth)acrylates, iii) hydrocarbon resins and optionally iv) additives.

Abstract: The present invention relates to anaerobically curable compositions demonstrating resistance to elevated temperature conditions.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for intracellular delivery. The compositions are polymer compositions in which the polymer serves as a carrier for therapeutic and/or diagnostic agents. The polymer compositions are effective in targeted delivery of therapeutic and/or diagnostic agents to a cell. The polymer compositions include a targeting moiety that includes carbohydrate groups that effectively target specific cell surface receptors. The polymer compositions also include an agent binding moiety that effectively associates the therapeutic and/or diagnostic agent to be delivered to the cell.

Abstract: Modified polyolefins with syndiotactic structural elements and a processes for preparation thereof are provided. The modified polyolefins are useful as an adhesive or as a constituent of adhesives.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mass polymerized rubber-modified monovinylidene aromatic copolymer composition with an excellent balance of aesthetic, physical and mechanical properties, in particular good impact with low consistent gloss across an injection molded textured part, and a method for preparing such a composition.

Abstract: Modified polymeric articles having modifying agents dispersed within and bonded to an interior region of the article. Methods of modifying polymer materials used to form polymeric articles, and methods of making polymeric articles from polymer particles having modifying agents bonded thereto.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process to functionalize propylene co-oligomer comprising contacting an alkene metathesis catalyst with a heteroatom containing alkene, and a propylene a co-oligomer having an Mn of 300 to 30,000 g/mol comprising 10 to 90 mol % propylene and 10 to 90 mol % of ethylene, wherein the oligomer has at least X % allyl chain ends, where: 1) X=(?0.94 (mol % ethylene incorporated)+100), when 10 to 60 mol % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer, and 2) X=45, when greater than 60 and less than 70 mol % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer, and 3) X=(1.83*(mol % ethylene incorporated)?83), when 70 to 90 mol % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a modified natural rubber that offers higher efficiency of graft polymerization or attachment of a polar group-containing compounds, and that possesses excellent low loss factor, wear resistance and fracture resistance when used as a rubber composition, a rubber composition using the modified natural rubber and a tire using the rubber composition. In the present invention, a polar group-containing compound is graft polymerized or attached under mechanical shear force to a natural rubber raw material having a nitrogen content of 0.4 mass % or less.

Abstract: A process for producing a water-soluble, hydrolysis-stable, polymerizable polymer, comprising a) a step of copolymerizing a mixture comprising (i) a first copolymerizable monomer comprising at least one optionally protected carboxylic acid group and a first polymerizable organic moiety, and (ii) a second copolymerizable monomer comprising one or more optionally protected primary and/or secondary amino groups and a second polymerizable organic moiety, for obtaining an amino group containing copolymer; b) a step of coupling to the amino group containing copolymer a compound having a polymerizable moiety and a functional group reactive with an amino group of repeating units derived from the second copolymerizable monomer in the amino group containing copolymer obtained in the first step wherein the optionally protected amino group is deprotected, so that polymerizable pendant groups are linked to the backbone by hydrolysis-stable linking groups, and, optionally, a step of deprotecting the protected carboxylic ac

Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing a styrene-butadiene copolymer having improved silica affinity through introduction of a novel reactive emulsifier. The styrene-butadiene copolymer prepared according to the disclosed method has superior affinity for thereby and thus has superior processability and tensile properties and remarkably improved dynamic properties. Therefore, when the styrene-butadiene copolymer according to the present invention is used as a tire tread material, it can greatly improve its physical properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high molecular weight bimodal neodymium-catalysed polybutadiene having a high proportion, >95%, of cis-1,4 units and a low proportion, <1%, of 1,2-vinyl content, wherein the polybutadiene has a linear polymeric main fraction and a long chain branched polymeric fraction, wherein the slope in the RGM relationship is >0.5 for the polymeric main fraction and <0.3 for the long chain branched polymeric fraction.

Abstract: A polymeric particle including a core, a first shell, and a second shell is provided: the core including, when dry, at least one void; the first shell polymer having a calculated glass transition temperature (“Tg”) greater than 50° C. and including, as polymerized units, from 15% to 60%, by weight based on the weight of the first shell, monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, acrylamide, methacrylamide, and mixtures thereof; and from 0.3% to 10%, by weight based on the weight of the first shell polymer, multiethylenically unsaturated monomer; and the second shell polymer having a Tg of from ?60° C. to 50° C.; wherein the weight ratio of the second shell polymer to the total of all other structures of the polymeric particle is from 0.5:1 to 3:1. The particle provides binding functionality and, when dry, opacity and energy savings. A method for providing a polymeric particle and a method for providing opacity to a dry coating are also provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a conjugated diene-based polymer capable of providing a polymer composition which is excellent in a reduction in fuel consumption when silica is incorporated as a filler, a process for producing the conjugated diene-based polymer, and a polymer composition comprising said conjugated diene-based polymers and silica.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel copolymer useful as a dispersing agent for a pigment or the like. The novel copolymer contains: a block chain (A) comprising at least one repeating unit selected from the group consisting of a repeating unit having a tertiary amino group and a repeating unit having a quaternary ammonium salt group; and a block chain (B) comprising a repeating unit having an acidic group and a repeating unit represented by the following formula (I) (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C3 alkyl group; and R2 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group or an alicyclic hydrocarbon group), wherein the repeating unit represented by formula (I) has a copolymerization ratio of 90 mass % or more in the block chain (B).

Abstract: A process is provided for preparing an imidized polymer in a mixing or kneading device, by a reaction in the presence of an acid of a mixture containing a polymer having anhydride groups or derivatives thereof and an aromatic polyamine compound. A solid multifunctional viscosity modifier is also provided which includes a polymer having between 0.1 and 10 functional groups per 1000 C-atoms. The functional groups include aromatic amine based imide groups with a ratio of imide groups to the functional groups being more than 0.85.

Abstract: A pre-adhesive syrup polymer composition is described comprising an acid-functional (meth)acrylate copolymer and an aminoalkyl (meth)acryloyl solvent monomer, which when polymerized, provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive and pressure-sensitive adhesive articles.

Abstract: A composition is provided for manufacturing contact lenses including a siloxane macromer represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1, R2 and R3 are independently C1-C4 alkyl groups, R4 is C1-C6 alkyl group, R5 is a residue obtained by removing NCO group from an aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate, R6 and R7 are independently alkylene groups, and n is an integer of about 4-80, m is an integer of about 3-40; a crosslinking agent or a siloxane macromer represented by the following formula (II), wherein p is an integer of 4-80 and q is an integer of 3-40: and an initiator.

Abstract: Norbornene monomers with epoxy groups and polymer materials thereof are disclosed. The Norbornene monomers with epoxy groups are prepared by Diels-Alder reaction. The Norbornene monomers with epoxy groups are highly active for ring-opening-metathesis polymerization (ROMP), and the molecular weight and PDI value of the obtained polymers are controllable.

Abstract: A pre-adhesive composition is described comprising an acid-functional (meth)acrylate copolymer and an acylaziridine crosslinking agent, which when crosslinked provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive and pressure-sensitive adhesive articles.

Abstract: Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape made of a flat, support material each side of which is coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive, the pressure-sensitive adhesive on at least one side being produced from a monomer mixture comprising a monomer of the formula CH2?CH(R1)(COOR2), where R1?H or CH3 and R2 is an alkyl radical having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or H and the homopolymer possesses a static glass transition temperature of <?30° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing an aqueous polymer dispersion comprising reacting, in the presence of a polymeric cationic co-stabilizer (A), one or more monomers (m), and a polymer (B) of a monomer mixture comprising at least one monomer (x) having a primary, secondary or tertiary amine or amide group and at least one olefinic unsaturation, and, at least one cationic monomer (y) having at least one olefinic unsaturation. The invention also relates to a polymer dispersion, a process for preparing a polymeric stabilizer (C), a polymeric stabilizer (C) and a process for producing paper.

Abstract: Methods comprising providing a relative permeability modifier that comprises a hydrophilic polymer backbone with a hydrophobic modification and incorporating at least one cationic compound onto the hydrophilic polymer backbone. The hydrophilic polymer is one or more of: a polyacrylamide; a polyvinylamine; a poly(vinylamine/vinyl alcohol); an alkyl acrylate polymer; cellulose; chitosan; a polyamide; a polyetheramine; a polyhydroxyetheramine; a polylysine; a polysulfone; a gum; or a starch. The hydrophobic modification is achieved either by reacting the hydrophilic polymer with a hydrophobic compound or by a polymerization reaction product of a hydrophilic monomer and a hydrophobically modified hydrophilic monomer. The hydrophobic compound has an alkyl chain length from 4 to 22 carbons and is one or more of: an alkyl acrylate; an alkyl methacrylate; an alkyl acrylamide; an alkyl methacrylamide; or an alkyl dimethylammoniumethyl methacrylate halide.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process to functionalize propylene co-oligomer comprising contacting an alkene metathesis catalyst with a heteroatom containing alkene, and a propylene a co-oligomer having an Mn of 300 to 30,000 g/mol comprising 10 to 90 mol % propylene and 10 to 90 mol % of ethylene, wherein the oligomer has at least X % allyl chain ends, where: 1) X=(?0.94 (mol % ethylene incorporated)+100), when 10 to 60 mol % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer, and 2) X=45, when greater than 60 and less than 70 mol % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer, and 3) X=(1.83*(mol % ethylene incorporated)?83), when 70 to 90 mol % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer.

Abstract: A pre-adhesive syrup polymer composition is described comprising an acid-functional (meth)acrylate copolymer and an aminoalkyl (meth)acryloyl solvent monomer, which when polymerized, provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive and pressure-sensitive adhesive articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to polymers comprising indenofluorene units or derivatives thereof, organic semiconductor (OSC) materials comprising them, their use in electronic or electrooptical devices, and devices comprising said polymers or materials.

Abstract: Described is a pre-adhesive, curable composition comprising an acid-functional (meth)acrylate copolymer and a novel (meth)acryloyl-aziridine crosslinking agent, which when crosslinked provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition.

Abstract: To provide a resist polymer comprising, as a structural unit, an acid-decomposable unit having a structure represented by formula (1) or (2) which exhibits a small line edge roughness and produces little defects in DUV excimer laser lithography or the like.

Abstract: A pre-adhesive syrup polymer composition is described comprising an acid-functional (meth)acrylate copolymer and an aminoalkyl (meth)acryloyl solvent monomer, which when polymerized, provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive and pressure-sensitive adhesive articles.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a binder resin composition for a magnetic recording medium, which comprises a vinyl chloride resin containing a radiation-curable functional group, and a methacrylate compound denoted by formula (A): in an amount of equal to or more than 0.3 weight percent but equal to or less than 10 weight percent relative to a content of the vinyl chloride resin.

Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing a styrene-butadiene copolymer having improved silica affinity through introduction of a novel reactive emulsifier. The styrene-butadiene copolymer prepared according to the disclosed method has superior affinity for thereby and thus has superior processability and tensile properties and remarkably improved dynamic properties. Therefore, when the styrene-butadiene copolymer according to the present invention is used as a tire tread material, it can greatly improve its physical properties.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making functionalized polymers comprising ethylene and substituted ethylene segments. The process comprises combining a starting copolymer as a solid with at least one amine-containing compound. The functionalized polymers are useful as film forming resins in cathodic electrocoating compositions.

Abstract: The invention provides novel defoamers which are useful as defoamers for top coat paints for motor vehicles. When the defoamers are incorporated with paints which do not use melamine resins as the curing agent, they can impart defoaming property to the paints without inviting turbidity in the painted films caused by infiltration of water. Hence the defoamers are particularly useful when used for baking finish type clear top coat paints for motor vehicles. The defoamer is characterized by comprising a copolymer of 2-50% by weight of (A) a polymerizable monomer capable of forming a copolymer having isocyanate groups which can react with a binder resin in thermosetting type paint or (b) a polymerizable monomer capable of forming a copolymer having the groups which produce isocyanate groups reactable with a binder resin in thermosetting type paint during the baking step of the same paint, and 98-50% by weight of (C) a monomer or polymer conventionally used for defoamers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of sevelamer, in particular sevelamer hydrochloride and sevelamer carbonate/bicarbonate, by means of a process that allows sevelamer to be obtained with good yields and using conventional reactors, without requiring to use specific and expensive equipment.

Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for synthesis of composite materials involving gas phase plasma polymerization to covalently plasma graft an organic molecule onto particles; covalently binding an organic monomer to the functionalized particles; and, polymerizing the organic monomers into hybrid polymer composite materials.

Abstract: Provided is a radiation-curable adhesive composition for an optical component, the radiation-curable adhesive composition exhibiting a high tensile strength and flexibility suitable for enabling stable adhesion between the optical component and an adherend when light-cured and exhibiting excellent durability. A radiation-curable adhesive composition for an optical component includes 100 parts by weight of a specific (meth)acrylic copolymer (A), 2 to 20 parts by weight of a specific radiation-curable acrylic compound (B), 3 to 50 parts by weight of a specific radiation-curable acrylic compound (C), 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a hydrogen abstraction-type photopolymerization initiator (D), 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of an isocyanate crosslinking agent (E), and 0.01 to 3 parts by weight of a silane compound (F), wherein the total amount of the amount of (B) mixed and the amount of (C) mixed is 5 to 60 parts by weight.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymeric compositions useful in the manufacture of biocompatible medical devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to certain cationic monomers capable of polymerization to form polymeric compositions having desirable physical characteristics useful in the manufacture of ophthalmic devices. The polymer compositions comprise polymerized fluorinated polyether monomer end-capped with ethylenically unsaturated cationic hydrophilic groups.