Abstract: A golf ball comprising a core, a cover encasing the core, at least one coating layer encasing the cover, and at least one indicia layer immediate adjacent to the coating layer is provided. At least one of the indicia and coating layers comprises at least one two-part, reactive composition comprising at least one radiation-curable iso(thio)cyanate and at least one isocyanate-reactive chemical.

Abstract: The invention provides water-soluble compounds that include a polymer and at least one terminal azide or acetylene moiety. Also provided are highly efficient methods for the selective modification of proteins with PEG derivatives, which involves the selective incorporation of non-genetically encoded amino acids, e.g., those amino acids containing an azide or acetylene moiety, into proteins in response to a selector codon and the subsequent modification of those amino acids with a suitably reactive PEG derivative.

Abstract: Coating powders having a low curing temperature are comprised of an acid functional acrylic resin having an acid number between about 40 and 220, triglycidyl isocyanurate, and a curing catalyst comprising tetrabutyl ammonium bromide. Such coating powders have a stoichiometry of acid groups to epoxy groups of between about 0.5 and 2.0. Low curing temperature coating powders comprising an acrylic resin, a polyester resin, an epoxy functional crosslinking agent, and a curing catalyst exhibit good flexibility properties following application to a substrate and curing. Good flexibility may also be achieved by incorporating blended epoxy crosslinking agents into acrylic resins alone or into blended acrylic and polyester resins. Such blended crosslinking agents should have an epoxy functionality of from about 2 to about 6 and an equivalent weight of from about 100 to about 700.

Abstract: A medical device with a hydrophilic and lubricious coating, wherein the coating includes a hydrophilic polymeric unit layer deposited on the medical device and cross-linked with a plasma deposited double bond monomer. The hydrophilic polymeric unit can include ethylene oxide with one or more primary or secondary alcohol groups or glycosaminoglycans such as hyaluronic acid, and the double bond monomer includes monomers containing at least one double bond, preferably a C?C, C?N or C?O bond, including N-trimethylsilyl-allylamine, ethylene, propylene and allyl alcohol.

Abstract: By using a high viscosity moisture-curable adhesive composition comprising at least one polymer or resin selected from the group consisting of (A) a reactive silyl group-containing polyoxyalkylene polymer, (B) a reactive silyl group-containing saturated hydrocarbon polymer, (C) a copolymer of which molecular chain is substantially made of one or more alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer unit(s) and (D) an epoxy resin, it becomes possible to bond an adherend to a substrate without open time and without temporary tacking after application.

Abstract: The present invention relates to stable polymer systems comprising anionic and modified polyamine polymers. When such polymer systems are employed in cleaning compositions, such cleaning compositions exhibit unexpectedly improved anti-soil re-deposition and situs whitening capabilities.

Abstract: The invention provides a curable composition which comprises a polyoxyalkylene polymer having a reactive silicon group and a (meth)acrylate copolymer and exhibits excellent weather resistance for a prolonged period. This composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a polyoxyalkylene polymer (A) having at least one silicon-containing functional group capable of causing crosslinking through the formation of a siloxane linkage and 20 to 1000 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylate copolymer (B) having a hindered amine structure.

Abstract: A curable coating composition comprises (a) a component having an active methylene group and/or an active methane group, (b) a component having a methacrylate group and/or an acrylate group, (c) a Michael reaction catalyst, and (d) a photo-polymerization initiator.

Abstract: Graft polymers containing (A) a polymeric grafting base devoid of monoethylenically unsaturated units, and (B) polymeric side chains formed by polymerization of a cyclic N-vinylamide of the general formula I where R is C1–C5-alkyl and R1 is hydrogen or C1–C4-alkyl, wherein said side chains (B) account for ?60% by weight of the total polymer.

Abstract: A polymeric material with antistatic properties, characterised by comprising a dispersion of ions within a polymeric matrix containing heteroatoms.

Abstract: Graft polymer, comprising (A) a polymer graft skeleton with no mono-ethylenic unsaturated units and (B) polymer sidechains formed from co-polymers of two different mono-ethylenic unsaturated monomers (B1) and (B2), each comprising a nitrogen-containing heterocycle, whereby the proportion of the sidechains (B) amounts to more than 55 wt. % of the total polymer.

Abstract: Processes for producing an AB block copolymer, an ABA block copolymer or a multiblock copolymer are provided, which comprises adding an alkenyl-containing polymer (I) to a living or to an atom transfer radical polymerization system or a living cationic polymerization system.

Abstract: Compositions enriched with natural phyto-oestrogens or analogues thereof selected from Genistein, Daidzein, Formononetin and Biochanin A. These may be used as food additives, tablets or capsules for promoting health in cases of cancer, pre-menstrual syndrome, menopause or hypercholesterolaemia.

Abstract: An epoxy composition includes an epoxy resin, a latent curing agent, and a catalyst. The composition includes two epoxide groups per molecule, and the latent curing agent is preferably a dicyanopolyamide, and most preferably dicyandiamide. The catalyst includes 2,4-toluene bis dimethyl urea, preferably in a concentration exceeding 70% by weight. The composition can be used in prepregs. The relative concentrations of the epoxy resin, curing agent, and catalyst are selected to achieve desired properties, including specific curing times and temperatures, and glass transition temperatures that enable a cured resin composition to be removed from a mold after being heated to its curing temperature, without being cooled. Exemplary formulations have reduced cure times, at both high and low curing temperatures, as compared to prior art formulations.

Abstract: Compositions enriched with natural phyto-oestrogens or analogues thereof selected from Genistein, Daidzein, Formononetin and Biochanin A. These may be used as food additives, tablets or capsules for promoting health in cases of cancer, pre-menstrual syndrome, menopause or hypercholesterolaemia.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel solventless reactive systems curable at room temperature, based on blocked polyisocyanates, primary amines, compounds with oxirane groups, and 2,3-dimethyl-3,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidine, and to processes for the preparation of these solventless reactive systems curable at room temperature.

Abstract: A wet-stick pressure-sensitive adhesive is provided wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive comprises: at least one copolymerized monoethylenically unsaturated (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer, wherein the (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer, when homopolymerized, has a Tg of less than about 10° C.; at least one copolymerized hydrophilic acidic comonomer; and at least one nonreactive copolymer comprising at least two copolymerized alkylene oxides, at least one of which is hydrophobic and at least one of which is hydrophilic.

Abstract: There is provided: a (meth)acrylic acid (salt) polymer which has high properties and is little colored; and a process which can produce this polymer with a high polymerization conversion without causing the corrosion of the reaction vessel.

Abstract: The present invention is a hydrolytically modified, biodegradable polymer and a method of making a hydrolytically modifiable a biodegradable polymer. In a preferred embodiment, the invention is a method of grafting polar groups onto biodegradable polymers and modified biodegradable polymer compositions produced by the method. The polymer compositions are useful as components in flushable and degradable articles. Water-sensitive polymer blends and method of making those polymer blends are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides ultraviolet (UV) curable powders for powder coatings comprising one or more than one free radical curable epoxy resin and one or more than one second free radical curable resin, or, alternatively, one or more than one free radical curable unsaturated polyester resin in combination with one or more than one wax, and one or more than one free radical photoinitiator, wherein the coating powder has an average particle size of 5 to 25 microns. Further, the present invention provides a method for making a powder for thin (1.0 to 4.0 mil), smooth coatings having an average particle size of from 5 to 25 microns, the method preferably comprising jet milling dry powder or spray drying an aqueous emulsion, fluid mixture, or a supercritical suspension of a powder or of the composition for making the powder.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for preparing, in high purity and high yield, heterobifunctional derivatives of poly(ethylene glycol) or related polymers. A chromatographic purification step is not necessary in the method. In accordance with the method of the invention, an intermediate polymer having a formula of W-Poly-OH is provided bearing a removable group W at one terminus. The intermediate polymer W-Poly-OH is first altered by modifying the OH group to a first functional group X, followed by the removal of W to generate a second hydroxyl group. The latter hydroxyl group may then be further converted to a second functional group Y, thus providing the desired heterobifunctional derivative.

Abstract: A zwitterion containing an adduct having the formula (I) wherein Z is a zwitterionic group; X is an electron withdrawing group selected from the group consisting of carbonyl and sulphone groups, sulphonium and phosphonium salts; R is a difunctional organic group; A is O or NR6 where R6 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen and C1-C12 alkyl groups; and R3 is hydrogen or an organic group; R4 is an organic group, preferably an optionally substituted alkyl group, an organopolysiloxane group, an organosilyl group or an oligo alkoxyalkyl group. The invention additionally provides processes for the production of such an adduct, polymers formed therefrom, coating processes and compositions comprising an adduct or polymers produced therefrom.

Abstract: Polymer composites comprising a water-insoluble polymer and a water-sensitive polymer are disclosed. The water-sensitive polymer is a copolymer polymerized from one or more alkylene oxide monomers and one or more epoxy-functional monomers. The polymer composites can be used in the manufacture of articles having enhanced lubricious-when-wet properties, e.g., wet-shaving devices, and medical devices, e.g., catheters. The articles can provide enhanced retention of lubricity after repeated uses.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to substantially improve the compatibility between a radical copolymerizable unsaturated resin and an addition polymerized polymer (thermoplastic resin) which is added for the purpose of low profile and improvement of physical properties. The present invention provides a compatibilizing agent for compatibilizing a radical copolymerizable unsaturated resin with an addition polymerized polymer, characterized in that said compatibilizing agent is a graft copolymer (A) which contains a styrene monomer as a principal component, and has a principal chain (A1) consisting of a copolymer with a (meth)acrylate monomer and a side chain (A2) selected from a ring-opening polymerized polyether side chain consisting of a polyoxyalkylene ether, a polyester side chain, and a polycarbonate side chain, the side chain (A2) being bonded to the principal chain.

Abstract: There is provided a (meth)acrylic ester polymer having a silicon-containing functional group capable of crosslinking through formation of a siloxane bond, or a composition comprising the polymer, which does not contain any environment-hostile aromatic compound derived from a solvent, and of which TVOC (total volatile organic compound) emission is less than 1,500 &mgr;g/m3. There is further provided a method for producing a polymer comprising a (meth)acrylic ester monomer unit as a molecular chain and having a silicon-containing functional group capable of crosslinking through formation of a siloxane bond, which comprises polymerizing a (meth)acrylic ester monomer using a solvent not containing any aromatic solvents as a polymerization solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to powder coating binders containing polyurethanes having (meth)acryloyl groups which are applied onto a substrate, fused with heat and cured by electromagnetic radiation and to a process for preparing the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to crosslinked polymers, synthesized through ring-opening polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated epoxides, in combination with &agr;-hydroxy acids using a hydrophilic macroinitiator, such as poly(ethylene glycol), to form substituted copolymers having ethylenically unsaturated functionality randomly distributed along the polyester polymer backbone. That copolymer is subsequently crosslinked to form a hydrogel network. More particularly, the present invention relates to the synthesis of biodegradable poly(&agr;-hydroxy acid-co-glycidyl methacrylate)-block-poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(&agr;-hydroxy acid-co-glycidyl methacrylate) copolymers, which are subsequently crosslinked to form hydrogel networks. The invention also relates to the use of these hydrogel networks in various applications, in particular, for the controlled release of drugs and proteins.

Abstract: A method for making modified poly(ethylene oxide) by graft polymerizing thereto organic monomers containing a trialkoxy silane functional group or a moiety that reacts with water to form a silanol group, such as methacryloxypropyl trimethoxy silane, onto the poly(ethylene oxide) is disclosed. The graft polymerization is accomplished by mixing the poly(ethylene oxide), the silane-containing monomer(s) and an initiator and applying heat. Preferably, the method is a reactive-extrusion process. After graft polymerization, the modified poly(ethylene oxide) may be exposed or subjected to relatively high moisture conditions, thereby causing crosslinking and formation of a structure that is capable of absorbing relatively large amounts of saline. The resulting modified poly(ethylene oxide) has improved properties over articles similarly processed from unmodified poly(ethylene oxide).

Abstract: The invention provides a biodegradable polymer composition comprising a biodegradable polymer and a phenol-containing compound mixed with the polymer. The phenol-containing compound is present in the biodegradable polymer at an amount sufficient to slow the degradation rate of the biodegradable polymer. The invention also pertains to a method for slowing the degradation rate of a biodegradable polymer.

Abstract: A method for making a hydrophilic and lubricious coating, the coating so made and a medical device including such coating, wherein the coating includes a hydrophilic polymeric unit layer cross-linked with a plasma deposited double bond monomer. The hydrophilic polymeric unit can include ethylene oxide with one or more primary or secondary alcohol groups or glycosaminoglycans such as hyaluronic acid, and the double bond monomer includes monomers containing at least one double bond, preferably a C═C, C═N or C═O bond, including N-trimethylsilyl-allylamine, ethylene, propylene and allyl alcohol. The invention also provides products containing such coatings and their uses in medical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a novel water-soluble copolymer which is excellent in performance for uses, such as detergent builders, pigment dispersants, and scale inhibitors. In addition, the present invention provides: a novel liquid detergent builder which has extremely excellent compatibility, high transparency when a liquid detergent composition comprises it, and excellent detergency; and a novel liquid detergent composition comprising the liquid detergent builder.

Abstract: The invention generally concerns a novel family of biocompatible surfactant copolymers having a wide range of uses, in particular in pharmaceutics and for synthesizing substances in dispersed state and for surface treatment of materials or biomaterials. Said copolymers are characterised in that they comprise a hydrophobic sequence constituted by: either a homopolymer consisting of recurrent units corresponding to the general formula (I): in which: R1 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group or a (CH2)m—COOR3 group wherein m is an integer between 1 and 5 and R3 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group; R2 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group; and n is an integer between 1 and 5; or a random copolymer consisting of different recurring units corresponding to formula (I) as defined above; or finally a random copolymer consisting for the major part of units corresponding to formula (I) as defined above.

Abstract: The invention is directed to multi-functional N-maleimidyl polymer derivatives comprising a water soluble and non-peptidic polymer backbone having a terminal carbon, such as a poly(alkylene glycol), the terminal carbon of the polymer backbone being directly bonded to the nitrogen atom of a N-maleimidyl moiety without a linking group therebetween. The invention also provides two methods of preparing such linkerless N-maleimidyl polymer derivatives.

Abstract: The present invention relates to crosslinked polymers, synthesized through ring-opening polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated epoxides, in combination with &agr;-hydroxy acids using a hydrophilic macroinitiator, such as poly(ethylene glycol), to form substituted copolymers having ethylenically unsaturated functionality randomly distributed along the polyester polymer backbone. That copolymer is subsequently crosslinked to form a hydrogel network. More particularly, the present invention relates to the synthesis of biodegradable poly(&agr;-hydroxy acid-co-glycidyl methacrylate)-block-poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(&agr;-hydroxy acid-co-glycidyl methacrylate) copolymers, which are subsequently crosslinked to form hydrogel networks. The invention also relates to the use of these hydrogel networks in various applications, in particular, for the controlled release of drugs and proteins.

Abstract: Gel-forming macromers including at least four polymeric blocks, at least two of which are hydrophobic and at least one of which is hydrophilic, and including a crosslinkable group are provided. The macromers can be covalently crosslinked to form a gel on a tissue surface in vivo. The gels formed from the macromers have a combination of properties including thermosensitivity and lipophilicity, and are useful in a variety of medical applications including drug delivery and tissue coating.

Abstract: The present inventors provides polyol-containing resin compositions for coatings which can give cured coating films having high hardness and at the same time high solid compositions to meet the recent resources saving and/or environmental protection requirements, and curable coating compositions having high reactivity at curing, giving the coating film with good appearance and the coatings with prolonged pot life. The invention is directed to a resin composition for coatings comprising a polyol (A1) or (A2), a polyether polyol (B) and a solvent (C), wherein the polyol (A1) comprises a hydroxyl-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomer and a ring structure-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomer as essential components and the polyol (A2) comprises a hydroxyl-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomer and a linear branched structure-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomer as essential components.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to substantially improve the compatibility between a radical copolymerizable unsaturated resin and an addition polymerized polymer (thermoplastic resin) which is added for the purpose of low profile and improvement of physical properties. The present invention provides a compatibilizing agent for compatibilizing a radical copolymerizable unsaturated resin with an addition polymerized polymer, characterized in that said compatibilizing agent is a graft copolymer (A) which contains a styrene monomer as a principal component, and has a principal chain (A1) consisting of a copolymer with a (meth)acrylate monomer and a side chain (A2) selected from a ring-opening polymerized polyether side chain consisting of a polyoxyalkylene ether, a polyester side chain, and a polycarbonate side chain, the side chain (A2) being bonded to the principal chain.

Abstract: This invention relates to use of copolymers which are obtained through copolymerization, in the presence of a radical-polymerization initiator, of monomeric mixtures comprising: macromonomers obtained by (co)polymerizing, in the presence of a metal complex which is a catalytic chain transfer agent or an addition-cleavage-type chain transfer agent, and optionally a radical-polymerization initiator, at least one polymerizable monomer selected from methacrylic acid esters and styrene and if necessary methacrylic acid, or the macromonomers into which polymerizable unsaturated groups are further introduced; polymerizable unsaturated monomers containing at least one ionic functional group selected from amino, quaternary ammonium salt and sulfonic acid groups; polyoxyalkylene chain-containing nonionic polymerizable unsaturated monomers; and other ethylenically unsaturated monomers (D); and also such copolymers into which long chain alkyl groups are further introduced, as pigment-dispersing resins to be used in w

Abstract: Autodeposition compositions for polymeric coatings of reduced gloss, good corrosion resistance, and uniform appearance are prepared using a combination of acrylic and epoxy resins.

Abstract: Compositions enriched with natural phyto-oestrogens or analogues thereof selected from Genistein, Diadzein, Formononectin and Biochanin A. These compositions may be used as food additives, tablets or capsules for promoting health in cases of cancer, pre-menstrual syndrome, menopause or hypercholesterolaemia.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a stable dispersion of a preformed polymer in a polyol in a single mixer. A preformed polymer is mixed under sufficient heat and shear to reduce its particle size to a desired size in the presence of a polyol. The present invention also provides stable dispersions of polymers in polyols and polyurethane formulations containing stable dispersions made by the process of the present invention.

Abstract: A method for making modified poly(ethylene oxide) by graft polymerizing thereto organic monomers containing a trialkoxy silane functional group or a moiety that reacts with water to form a silanol group, such as methacryloxypropyl trimethoxy silane, onto the poly(ethylene oxide) is disclosed. The graft polymerization is accomplished by mixing the poly(ethylene oxide), the silane-containing monomer(s) and an initiator and applying heat. Preferably, the method is a reactive-extrusion process. The resulting modified poly(ethylene oxide) has improved water absorption characteristics and melt processabilities and may be used to make thermally processed articles, such as fibers, films and foams, that have improved properties over articles similarly processed from unmodified poly(ethylene oxide).

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer obtained by polymerizing a mixture composed of a methacrylic ester monomer having an electron-donating group bonded to a specific site of its ester-forming residue (its alcohol moiety) and optionally a lactone or lactide, while using an alkali metal alcoholate as a polymerization initiator. Moreover, it also provides a process for preparing the polymer and polymer micelles formed from the polymer. Since the polymer has a functional group corresponding to the polymerization initiator and the aforesaid electron-donating groups (functional groups), it can perform a great variety of functions by taking advantage of these functional groups.

Abstract: A method for manufacture of particles for powder coating is disclosed in which the particles are prepared from a suspension obtained from a mixture of a thermosetting resin solution and an aqueous solution containing a water-soluble polymer.

Abstract: A curable resin composition of the present invention has a compound having two or more blocked isocyanate groups where the isocyanate group is blocked by a blocking agent and the dissociation temperature between the isocyanate group and the blocking agent is 140° C. or less, or a compound having two or more free isocyanate groups, and a nylon salt (I), (II) or (III), which has a specific chemical structure, and it has extremely excellent storage stability and low-temperature curing property which are compatible with each other. Also, a curable resin composition which is obtained by allowing the above composition to contain an epoxy compound is provided, so that excellent weatherability is obtained in addition to the storage stability and the low-temperature curing property.

Abstract: Ink compositions containing a surfactant-effective and/or defoaming-effective quantity of at least one reaction product comprising the following reactants: A) at least one compound of formula I R1(X)3  (I)  wherein each X group is a halogen atom or one X group is a halogen atom and two X groups represent an epoxy oxygen atom, which is attached to two adjacent carbon atoms in the R1 group to form an epoxy group, and R1 is an alkanetriyl group containing from 3 to 10 carbon atoms; and B) at least one compound having the formula II R2X(AO)nY   (II)  wherein R2 is a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated or unsaturated, organic group having from 1 to 36 carbon atoms; X is —O—, —S—, or NR33— where R3 is hydrogen or a C1-C18 group; each AO group is independently an ethyleneoxy, 1,2-propyleneoxy, or 1,2-butyleneoxy group, n is a number of from 0 to 200, preferably from 1 to 100, more preferably from 2 to 20; and Y is hydrogen, or Y can be a mercapt

Abstract: The present invention relates to amphiphilic copolymer networks comprising polyisobutylene segments and poly(alkylene glycol) segments. The polyisobutylene segments of the amphiphilic networks are physically crosslinked by hydrophobic forces. The amphiphilic networks have particular use as coatings for biological implants. Also provided is a process for preparing a physically crosslinked amphiphilic copolymer network comprising: providing a block copolymer comprising polyisobutylene segments and poly(alkylene glycol) segments; introducing the block copolymer into an aqueous solvent; and allowing the block copolymer to self-assemble into physically crosslinked a copolymer network.

Abstract: Ink compositions containing a surfactant-effective and/or defoaming-effective quantity of at least one reaction product comprising the following reactants:

Abstract: Inert nitrogen-containing compounds, such as melamine, urea, dicyandiamide, and benzoguanamine and derivatives of such compounds are added to thermosetting resin powder coatings to enhance the electrostatic charge of the powders. Such enhancement improves coating processes for non-conductive and conductive substrates.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a copolymer comprises reacting in an aqueous medium at a temperature of from 25° C. to 100° C. in the presence of from 1.0-25 weight percent based on the total weight of a), b) and c) of a free-radical initiator, a) at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated monocarboxylic acids and their salts, &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated dicarboxylic acids, their half-esters free of polyoxyalkylene side chains and their salts, b) at least on olefinic monomer selected from the group consisting of aromatic vinyl compounds, vinyl ethers, vinyl esters, nitrogen-containing vinyl compounds and aliphatic olefins, and c) from 0.