Abstract: The present invention generally relates to inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses having relatively high oxygen permeability, relatively high equilibrium water content and relatively low elastic modulus. The present invention is also related to a method for making such inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer element (LE), the use of the multilayer element (LE) for producing an article, an article comprising multilayer element (LE), a layer element of at least two layers, the use of the polymer composition of the invention to produce a multilayer element, as well as to a process for producing the multilayer element (LE) and an article thereof.

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to omniphobic compatibilizers, which include a polymerization reaction product between a first vinyl monomer, optionally a second vinyl crosslinking monomer, and a functionalized omniphobic polymer. The functionalized omniphobic polymer can include two or more vinyl functional groups or at least one free radical initiator functional group such that the reaction product forming the omniphobic compatibilizer can be a vinyl or free-radical polymerization product. The omniphobic compatibilizer can be incorporated into a UV-curable or a non-UV-curable thermoset omniphobic composition. The UV-curable composition can be a crosslinked polymerization reaction product between the omniphobic compatibilizer, a third vinyl monomer, and a fourth polyvinyl crosslinking monomer. The non-UV-curable composition can be a crosslinked polymerization reaction product between the omniphobic compatibilizer, a first thermosetting component, and a second thermosetting component.

Abstract: A composition for use in selective modification of a base material surface includes a polymer having, at an end of a main chain or a side chain thereof, a group including a first functional group capable of forming a bond with a metal, and a solvent.

Abstract: Skin-contact products with a transpiration function such as medical devices or medicinal products, of which face masks, aspirators, ventilators, breast pumps or wound dressings are examples are described especially a skin-contact product with a transpiration function with an improved microclimate at a patient interface material-skin contact area. In an embodiment a material system is described that comprises a hydrophobic silicone base material and a hydrophilic silicone material that is combined with the hydrophobic base material.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing copolymer composition includes repeating units derived from a fluorine-containing monomer represented by Formula (I) and from a monomer having at least two polymerizable groups, in which the latter is 3% by mass or more with respect to a total mass of the fluorine-containing copolymer, and the former is 15% by mass or more with respect to a total solid content in the composition, in the Formula (I), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R2 represents a group having at least one fluorine atom; and L1 represents a divalent linking group including at least one selected from the group consisting of —O—, —(C?O)O—, —O(C?O)—, —(C?O)NH—, —NH(C?O)—, a divalent aromatic group which may have a substituent, a divalent aliphatic chain group which may have a substituent, and a divalent aliphatic cyclic group which may have a substituent.

Abstract: Provided are a composition for encapsulating an organic light emitting element and an organic light emitting element display device manufactured therefrom, the composition comprising: (A) a non-silicone-based photocurable multifunctional monomer; (B) a silicone-based photocurable multifunctional monomer; (C) a non-silicone-based photocurable monofunctional monomer; (D) a silicone-based photocurable monofunctional monomer; and (E) an initiator, wherein the silicone-based photocurable multifunctional monomer (B) is represented by chemical formula 1.

Abstract: A damping-enhanced pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive and a at least one damping additive. The pressure-sensitive adhesive comprises a silicone-based polymer and optionally, at least one catalyst and/or at least one initiator.

Abstract: The present invention provides a material for intraocular lens which has improved hydrolysis resistance. The material for intraocular lens according to the present invention is obtained by polymerizing a monomer composition comprising: a base monomer, a hydrophilic monomer, and a cross-likable monomer, wherein the base monomer comprises an aromatic ring-containing acrylate monomer and an alkoxyalkyl methacrylate monomer having an alkoxyalkyl group having four or less carbon atoms. A blending ratio on a molar basis of the methacrylate monomer with respect to the acrylate monomer in all the monomer components contained in the monomer composition is 0.25 to 1.00.

Abstract: Methods of manufacturing electronic devices employing wet-strippable underlayer compositions comprising a condensate and/or hydrolyzate of a polymer comprising as polymerized units one or more first unsaturated monomers having a condensable silicon-containing moiety, wherein the condensable silicon-containing moiety is pendent to the polymer backbone, and one or more condensable silicon monomers are provided.

Abstract: This disclosed is an encapsulant film made from a curable composition comprising: (A) a polyolefin polymer; (B) an organic peroxide; (C) a silane coupling agent; and (D) a co-agent comprising a silane compound of formula (I). This further disclosed is a process for preparing said encapsulant film.

Abstract: The invention provides a contact lens manufacturing method for cast-molding of silicone hydrogel contact lenses having enhanced oxygen permeability without adversely affecting desirable lens mechanical properties (e.g., modulus). A method of the invention comprises adding a small amount of a radical scavenger (e.g., H-TEMPO) in a polymerizable composition for cast-molding of SiHy contact lenses) to provide the resultant polymerizable composition with a bi-phase curing profile at a curing temperature of from about 45° C. to about 100° C. With such a bi-phase curing profile, the resultant polymerizable composition can be thermally cured at the curing temperature to form a SiHy contact lens having an oxygen permeability higher than that for a polymerizable composition having the substantially identical composition excepting being free of any radical scavenger.

Abstract: Described herein are silicone-containing acrylic polymers useful, for example, in transdermal drug delivery compositions, to methods of making and using them, to transdermal drug delivery compositions comprising them, and to methods of making and using such transdermal drug delivery compositions. The polymers are particular suitable for formulating amine drugs, such as amphetamine, methylphenidate, rivastigmine, paroxetine and clonidine.

Abstract: A process for recycling polyolefins comprising the steps of extruding used polyolefin material, producing granules from the polyolefin material exiting from the extrusion into a liquid cooling medium, separating the cooling medium to obtain a dry polyolefin granulate, and treating the dry polyolefin granulate in a treatment space with a treatment gas, preferably by counter-current flow, immediately after separation of the cooling medium, the dry polyolefin granules still have a granule temperature (T2) which is above a temperature (T1) of the liquid cooling medium and in the range of 71° C.-200° C., preferably 80° C.-160° C., but below the melting point of the granules, and at least 75% of the dry polyolefin granules, in the treatment space, have a dry temperature (T3) which is in the range of granule temperature (T2)±20° C., but below the melting point of the granules.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink-jet printing method including the step of ejecting a water-based ink containing pigment-containing water-insoluble polymer particles and water onto a printing medium to print characters or images on the printing medium, in which the pigment is at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of C.I. Pigment Red 177, C.I. Pigment Red 254, C.I. Pigment Green 7, C.I. Pigment Green 36 and C.I. Pigment Blue 15:6; the water-insoluble polymer constituting the particles contains a constitutional unit derived from an ionic monomer, a constitutional unit derived from a hydrophobic monomer and a constitutional unit derived from a monomer capable of forming a graft chain; and the printing medium is a low-water absorbing printing medium.

Abstract: The present invention provides a stretchable film including: a cured product of a composition which contains (A) a (meth)acrylate compound having silsesquioxane, (B) a (meth)acrylate compound other than the component (A) having a urethane bond, and (C) an organic solvent having a boiling point in the range of 115 to 200° C. at atmospheric pressure; wherein the component (A) is localized in the direction of a surface of the film. The stretchable film of the present invention is excellent in stretchability and strength as well as repellency on the film surface.

Abstract: A self-healing composition including, urethane (meth)acrylate having two (meth)acrylate groups, six or more urethane groups, and a substituted or unsubstituted polyhedral silsesquioxane.

Abstract: An eye-mountable device is provided that includes a plurality of rigid polymer layers separated by liquid crystal layers. Certain eye-mountable devices includes a first rigid polymer layer, a second rigid polymer layer, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second rigid polymer layers. The liquid crystal layer has a refractive index that is electrically controllable between an ordinary refractive index and an extraordinary refractive index, and the first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer include materials having a refractive index similar to the ordinary refractive index of the liquid crystal layer. The first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer may also include a combination of monomer-derived units that provide cast-moldable materials with high oxygen permeability. Methods for fabricating the eye-mountable device and for changing the focal length of the eye-mountable device are also provided.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a composition used for formation of a coating film which simultaneously attains water repellency as well as heat resistance and light resistance. The composition of the present invention includes an organosilicon compound (a) which has at least one trialkylsilyl group and has two or more hydrolyzable silicon groups, and a metal compound (b) in which at least one hydrolyzable group is bonded to a metal atom.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to silicone hydrogel contact lenses each inherently having, on lens surfaces, a relatively-high concentration of primary amino groups and to a method for producing the same. The invention is also related to silicone hydrogel contact lens precursors each inherently having, on lens surfaces, a relatively-high concentration of N-Boc-protected primary amino groups which can be easily and conveniently deprotected during lens extraction and/or hydration steps.

Abstract: A block copolymer including a first block and a second block, the first block consisting of a polymer (P1) having a repeating structure of a structural unit (u1) containing in a side chain thereof a hyperbranched structure containing a silicon atom.

Abstract: A polymerizable monomer compound is disclosed, which can produce a polymer having advantageous transparency and high oxygen permeability for use as an ophthalmic device, while exhibiting sufficient resistance to hydrolysis. A silicone compound of the following formula (1) is described: where the residue R1R2R3Si— has a steric parameter value of ?1.00 or less, the parameter indicating the steric bulkiness of the unsubstituted hydrocarbon groups bonded to the silicon atom, and in a case where at least one of R1, R2 and R3 is a substituted hydrocarbon group, the steric parameter value of the residue in which each of the functional group and halogen atom bonded to the carbon atom of the substituted hydrocarbon group is supposed to be substituted with a hydrogen atom is ?1.00 or less. Methods for producing the monomer compound, and methods for preparing the silicone compound are also described.

Abstract: A copolymer of ethylene with silane groups containing comonomer that is produced in a high pressure radical polymerisation process comprising the steps of: (a) compressing ethylene together with the silane groups containing comonomer under pressure in a compressor, wherein a compressor lubricant is used for lubrication, (b) polymerising ethylene together with the silane groups containing comonomer in a polymerisation zone, (c) separating the obtained ethylene from the unreacted products and recovering the separated ethylene copolymer in a recovery zone, wherein in step a) the compressor lubricant comprises a mineral oil and ethylene copolymer has a silane groups containing comonomer content of 0.5 to 3 wt % and an MFR2 of 0.3 to 10 g/10 min. The copolymer of ethylene with silane groups containing comonomer can be used.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses having relatively high oxygen permeability, relatively high equilibrium water content and relatively low elastic modulus. The present invention is also related to a method for making such inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses having relatively high oxygen permeability, relatively high equilibrium water content and relatively low elastic modulus. The present invention is also related to a method for making such inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for an organic electronic device encapsulant and an encapsulant formed by using the same. A composition for an encapsulant according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: 1) a first copolymer including the first unit represented by Chemical Formula 1, the second unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, and the third unit represented by Chemical Formula 3; 2) a second copolymer including the second unit represented by Chemical Formula 2 and the third unit represented by Chemical Formula 3; and 3) one or more photoinitiators.

Abstract: A hydrophilic siloxane copolymer of siloxane and hydrophilic organic monomer/s The copolymers can be functionalized to make them capable of undergoing further polymerization by thermal or actinic radiations. The hydrophilicity of these polymers can be varied by varying the siloxane versus organic monomer ratio thereby going from water dispersible to soluble states. The siloxane content can be tuned accordingly in order to provide moderate to high oxygen permeability. These copolymers can be used as a single component curable composition which results in hydrogels to minimize the presence of leachable components thus by reducing the processing cost. The polymers may also find applications in personal care formulations as copolymers, film-formers, hydrogels, coating, emulsions/latex etc.

Abstract: A method includes performing a first polymerization process on a monomer solution to form a partially processed resin solution, the partially processed resin solution comprising a solvent and a silicon-based resin, spin coating the partially processed resin solution on a substrate, and performing a second polymerization process on the partially processed resin solution to shrink the partially processed resin solution to form a conformal silicon-based resin layer.

Abstract: A cosmetic composition for making up and/or caring for the skin, containing a physiologically acceptable medium containing at least one vinyl polymer having at least one carbosiloxane-dendrimer-derived unit and at least 2% by weight of a silica, relative to the total weight of the composition, the ratio by weight between said polymer and said silica being greater than or equal to 1.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing connection structure, the method includes arranging conductive particles and a first composite on a first electrode located on a first surface of a first member, arranging a second composite on a region other than the first electrode of the first surface, arranging the first surface and a second surface of a second member where a second electrode is located, so that the first electrode and the second electrode are opposed to each other, pressing the first member and the second member; and curing the first composite and the second composite.

Abstract: A self-healing composition including, urethane (meth)acrylate having two (meth)acrylate groups, six or more urethane groups, and a substituted or unsubstituted polyhedral silsesquioxane.

Abstract: There is provided novel mono-acrylate functionalized siloxane monomer containing carbosiloxane linkage for improved hydrolysis resistance. This invention also provides copolymers produced using these monomers and their use in various applications.

Abstract: A flame-retarded resin includes at least one resin for which flame retardant capability is desired and at least one triaryl silicon-containing compound (I) as flame retardant in admixture therewith and/or chemically bonded, e.g., grafted, to the resin.

Abstract: A pack comprising: a container, the container having a container body, and the container body being sufficiently oxygen permeable to prevent an anaerobically curable composition held therein from curing due to absence of oxygen; and an anaerobically curable composition held within the container is provided. The container body is constructed from a plastics material which is formed from a blend of a thermoplastic starch component and a polyethylene.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical film having low wavelength dispersibility which is obtained by stretching a film formed of a fluorine-containing cyclic olefin polymer including at least one selected from a repeating structural unit represented by the formula described below, wherein a phase difference at a wavelength of 550 nm is greater than or equal to 50 nm, wavelength dispersibility represented by a ratio Re (400 nm)/Re (550 nm) of a phase difference Re (400 nm) at a wavelength of 400 nm to a phase difference Re (550 nm) at a wavelength of 550 nm is 1.00 to 1.05, wavelength dispersibility represented by a ratio Re (400 nm)/Re (800 nm) of a phase difference Re (400 nm) at a wavelength of 400 nm to a phase difference Re (800 nm) at a wavelength of 800 nm is 1.00 to 1.05, and total light transmittance is greater than or equal to 92%.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a copolymer of 1,3-butadiene or isoprene and a monomer of formula I or formula II where R1 is a covalent bond or C1 to C8 linear or branched alkanediyl; R2, R3, R4 are independently C1 to C8 linear or branched alkyl or —OR6, where R6 is C1 to C8 linear or branched alkyl, with the proviso that at least one of R2, R3, and R4 is —OR6, and where R5 is hydrogen or C1 to C8 linear or branched alkyl. The invention is further directed to a rubber composition including the copolymer, and a pneumatic tire containing the rubber composition. The invention is further directed to a method of making such a copolymer.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to brush block copolymer compositions comprising first and second homopolymers or random copolymers whose presence provides access to photonic bandgaps in the infrared frequency range, their use in this capacity, and methods of making the same. The specific parameters associated with these compositions are described within the specification.

Abstract: According to the invention there is provided a composite article including: a textile layer having a first and a second face, each of the first and second faces having a polymeric coating thereon; a first polymeric layer adhered to the polymeric coating on the first face of the textile layer; and a second polymeric layer adhered to the polymeric coating on the second face of the textile layer; in which the polymeric coatings on the first and second faces of the textile layer are each formed by polymerizing a polymeric precursor which includes a group of sub-formula (I) where R2 and R3 are independently selected from (CR7R8)n, or a group CR9R10, CR7R8CR9R10 or CR9R10CR7R8 where n is 0, 1 or 2, R7 and R8 are independently selected from hydrogen, halo or hydrocarbyl, and either One of R9 or R10 is hydrogen and the other is an electron withdrawing group, or R9 and R10 together form an electron withdrawing group, and R4 and R5 are independently selected from CH or CR11 where R11 is an electron withdrawing group, t

Abstract: A family of silicone rubbers (e.g., polydimethylsiloxane) carrying one or more cyanoacrylate groups and their methods of production are provided. These silicone rubbers endowed with cyanoacrylate groups are useful in a variety of wound care applications, including wound closures, adhesives, sealants and skin protectors. The silicone rubber moiety provides oxygen and moisture permeability (i.e., “breathability”), biocompatibility, optical transparency, and good mechanical properties, while the cyanoacrylate group imparts instantaneous adhesion/attachment to living tissues such as skin on par with that of contemporary cyanoacrylate-based wound care products.

Abstract: The present invention includes silicon-containing (meth)acrylate compounds of formula (I): where A is a C1-C12 organic moiety such as an alkyl or aryl moiety, B is a silane functional group, C is a (meth)acrylate functional group and D is an allyl functional group, with w=0 or 1, z=0, 1 or 2, x=1, 2 or 3, y=1, 2 or 3 and w+x+y+z=4. The compounds are suitable for use in curable compositions, such as peroxide-curable compositions or radiation-curable compositions and may be applied to a substrate as a coating or sealant, for example. Compositions containing the silicon-containing (meth)acrylate compounds may have reduced volatility and odor problems along with improved adhesion to substrates, increased crosslink density and/or improved hardness.

Abstract: Provided is a resin blend including a first resin and a second resin, the second resin having a hydrophobic functional group in a side chain and having a surface energy difference of 0.1 to 20 mN/m from the first resin at 25° C., wherein the resin blend is capable of forming a layer separation structure. Also, provided are a pellet, a method for preparing the same, and a resin molding article having a specific layer separation structure. The resin blend may not only improve mechanical properties and surface hardness of the molding article but also shorten process time, increase productivity and reduce production cost by omitting an additional surface coating step.

Abstract: High purity cyclohexasilane and a method for increasing the purification efficiency thereto are provided. The method for producing cyclohexasilane of the present invention is characterized in that, in distilling crude cyclohexasilane to obtain purified cyclohexasilane, the absolute pressure during distillation is set to 2 kPa or less, and the heating temperature of crude cyclohexasilane is set to 25 to 100° C. The cyclohexasilane of the present invention contains pure cyclohexasilane at a rate of 98% by mass or more and 100% by mass or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process comprising the steps of reacting a reactive mixture comprising at least one silicone-containing component, at least one hydrophilic component, and at least one diluent to form an ophthalmic device having an advancing contact angle of less than about 80°; and contacting the ophthalmic device with an aqueous extraction solution at an elevated extraction temperature, wherein said at least one diluent has a boiling point at least about 10° higher than said extraction temperature.

Abstract: A method for forming a silicon layer using a liquid silane compound is described. The method includes the steps of: forming a first layer on a substrate, preferably a flexible substrate, the first layer having a (poly)silane; and, irradiating with light having one or more wavelength within the range between 200 and 400 nm for transforming the polysilane in silicon, preferably amorphous silicon or polysilicon.

Abstract: Provided is an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition, includes a resin (P) containing a repeating unit (A) that when exposed to actinic rays or radiation, is decomposed to thereby generate an acid and a repeating unit (B) with a structure that when acted on by an acid, is decomposed to thereby increase its solubility in an alkali developer, and a compound (U) structured so that when the composition is formed into a film, the compound is unevenly distributed in a surface of the film.

Abstract: A hydrophilic film that has high adhesion to inorganic materials and is safer and excellent in transparency and also exhibits both very high hydrophilicity and abrasion resistance, and a laminate including the hydrophilic film. The hydrophilic film is produced by applying a specific hydrophilic compound (c) having an acryloyl group and a potassium sulfonate group or the like to a surface of a layer formed from a mixture containing a silane compound (a) including one silicon atom, a mercapto group or the like, and at least one silicon-bonded group, and a silane compound (b) including at least four silicon-bonded groups and not including groups reactive with a carbon-carbon double bond, and allowing a reaction between at least a part of acryloyl groups contained in the hydrophilic compound (c) and at least a part of mercapto groups derived from the compound (a).

Abstract: Provided is an acrylic rubber composition having further improved compression set resistance and comprising, based on 100 parts by mass of (a1) an acrylic rubber obtained by copolymerizing 0.1 to 10% by mass of a crosslinkable group-containing monomer, (a2) 0.4 to 50.0% by mass of a liquid fluororubber, and the crosslinked product thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate with a crystallized silicon film and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the substrate with the crystallized silicon film comprises: a substrate, which is a polymer substrate; and a crystallized silicon film, which is formed on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the crystallized silicon film comprises a plurality of silicon crystals with column structures, and the crystallinity of the crystallized silicon film is higher than 90%.

Abstract: Methods for producing a silyl-functionalized polyolefin with silyl monomer incorporation are provided. The method includes reacting a silicon-containing olefin with an ?-olefin, in the presence of a catalytic amount of a group IV catalyst for a time sufficient to produce a silyl-functionalized polyolefin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a curable composition, comprising: (A) at least one polycarbosilane A represented by the following formula (1): [R1R2R3SiX1/2]M[R4R5SiX2/2]D[R6SiX3/2]T[SiX4/2]Q??(1), (B) at least one organopolysiloxane B represented by the following formula (2): [R7R8R9SiO1/2]M?[R10R11SiO2/2]D?[R12SiO3/2]T?[SiO4/2]Q?,??(2), and (C) at least a catalyst, as well as a cured product obtainable by heating such composition, and the use of the composition as semiconductor encapsulating material and/or electronic elements packaging material.