Abstract: A carbamate or terminal urea functional vinyl polymer is prepared by reacting a compound having an hydroxyl group and a carbamate group, terminal urea group, or a group that can be converted to a carbamate or terminal urea group, with a cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride group to form an ester bond and a free acid group from the anhydride; and reacting the free acid group with a compound having an epoxide group. The cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride group may be pendant to a vinyl polymer, or one of the compound having an hydroxyl group, a compound having the cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride group, and the compound having an epoxide group may have polymerizable ethylenic unsaturation that is polymerized, optionally with one or more copolymerizable monomers to form a vinyl polymer. When the compound having an hydroxyl group has a group that can be converted to a carbamate or terminal urea group, the group is converted to the carbamate or terminal urea group after step (a).

Abstract: Polymers containing amino acid and/or polypeptide moieties in their backbones or pendant to their backbones are made by metathesis. A method of making an amino acid or polypeptide containing polymer includes the steps of: providing a amino acid, amino alcohol, or polypeptide-containing monomer; forming a reaction mixture by contacting the monomer with an agent capable of catalyzing the polymerization of the monomer into a polymer; and placing the reaction mixture under conditions that result in the formation of the polymer in reaction mixture.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel multi-functional methacrylic copolymers that exhibit cationic pH-sensitive behavior as well as good water solubility under acidic conditions. The copolymers are constructed from tertiary amine methacrylates and poly(ethylene glycol) containing methacrylates. The copolymers are useful as gene vectors, pharmaceutical carriers, and in protein separation applications.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for preparing multi-functional emulsion polymers.

Abstract: The invention relates to solid polyelectrolyte membranes and processes for their production. As solid polyelectrolyte materials, there have been known fluoropolymers which have perfluoroskeletons and side chains bearing sulfonic acid groups and heat-resistant resins which have hydrocarbon skeletons and contain alkylsulfonic acid or alkylphosphoric acid groups introduced thereto. The fluoropolymers are excellent in heat resistance and chemical resistance but have the problem of being expensive, while the heat-resistant resins have the problem of being poor in chemical resistance. Further, solid polyelectrolyte materials having higher electric conductivities have been desired.

Abstract: Covalently-bound, hydrophilic copolymer coatings for implants are disclosed. The copolymer coatings comprise a hydrophobic aryl acrylic monomer, a hydrophilic monomer selected from the group consisting of hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylates, n-vinyl pyrrolidone and acrylamides, and a (meth)acrylamide reactive plasticizer.

Abstract: The method of separating reversibly thermally precipitable oligomeric N-substituted (meth)acrylamides and conjugates thereof from aqueous solution includes thermally precipitating the oligomeric N-substituted (meth)acrylamides and the conjugates thereof from an aqueous solution in the presence of at least one salt and then filtering in the presence of at least one filter aid. The filter aid has a wet density of 0.2–0.3 g/cc and comprises?99% cellulose with fiber lengths<75 ?m (99%) and=?m (65%). The salt can be a potassium, sodium, ammonium, calcium and/or magnesium chloride, acetate and/or sulfate salt and can be present in the aqueous solution in a concentration between 0.01 M and 3 M.

Abstract: A high molecular weight, water-soluble polymer comprising pendant salicylic acid groups and having a weight average molecular weight of at least about 2,000,000 daltons and use of the polymer for clarifying red mud-containing liquors generated in the Bayer process for the recovery of alumina from bauxite.

Abstract: Temporary wet strength resins, more particularly, temporary wet strength resins comprising a polymer backbone, wherein the polymer backbone comprises a co-crosslinking monomeric unit, preferably a reversible co-crosslinking monomeric unit, especially in the presence of water, a homo-crosslinking monomeric units and a cationic monomeric unit, fibrous structures comprising such temporary wet strength resins, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and processes for making such fibrous structures and/or such sanitary tissue product. Such fibrous structures and sanitary tissue products exhibit high initial wet tensile strength and improved flushability properties.

Abstract: A process for chemically bonding an odor-encapsulating agent to textiles includes reacting a cyclodextrin with a cross-linking agent capable of forming ether bonds with the cyclodextrin and with the textile material, and curing the textile material treated with a mixture of the cyclodextrin and cross-linking agent. Preferably, the cross-linking agent is imidazolidone, which forms an ether bond with a hydroxyl group on the cyclodextrin and with a hydroxyl group. In textile materials containing cellulose, imidazolidone forms an ether bond with a hydroxyl group on the cellulose. An active agent can be complexed with the cyclodextrin for release. Textiles formed by such a process can comprise an article of clothing adapted to trap odors emanating from a wearer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an acrylic monomer defined by formula (I): wherein R1, R2 and R3 are H or CH3; R4 and R5 are H or OH; R6 and R7 are H or OH; R8 is H or CH3; m is 2–4; and n and p are 0 or 1. The invention also relates to a polymer comprised of repeated such monomer units as well as a separation matrix prepared thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyvalent imprinted polymer useful in medicine and biotechnology and to a process for the preparation thereof. More particularly it relates to the said polymer of formula (1) herein below wherein R is H, CH3, C2H5, C6H5, R1is H, CH3, C2H5, C6H5; R2 is H, CH3, C2H5, C6H5, X is based on 4-Amino Butyric Acid (4-ABa), 6-Amino Caproic Acid (6-ACA), 8-Amino Octanoic Acid (8-AOA), 10-Amino Decanoic Acid (10-ADA), 11-Amino Undecanoic Acid (11-ADA), n is from 3 to 50, L is OH, NH2, OCH3, NH—CH—(CH3)2, Cl, OCH2, CH?CH2, O—CH?CH2; and Y is N-Acetyl Glucosamine (NAG), mannose, galactose, sialic acid, fructose, ribulose, erythrolose, xylulose, psicose, sorbose tagaose, glucopyranose, fructofuranose, deoxyribose, galactosamine, sucrose, lactose, isomaltose, maltose, cellobiose, cellulose and amylose; Z is based on chain terminating agent such as Mercapto Ethanol, Mercapto, Mercapto Propanol, Mercaptoethylamine HCl.

Abstract: The present invention relates to bottom antireflective coating compositions and polymers useful in making such compositions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a radiation-curable prepolymer. The radiation-curable prepolymer of the invention is prepared by reacting an isocyanate-capped polyurethane with an ethylenically unsaturated amine or an ethylenically unsaturated monohydroxy compound or a mixture thereof, wherein the isocyanate-capped polyurethane is a copolymerization production of: (a) at least one polyalkylene glycol; (b) at least one branching agent having at least three hydroxy groups; and (c) at least one di- or polyisocyanate. The radiation-curable prepolymer of the invention can find use in economically producing contact lenses which have durable, highly elastic soft contact lenses with desired physical properties. In addition, the present invention provides method for making a radiation-curable prepolymer of the invention and for making a medical device, preferably an ophthalmic device, more preferably a contact lens.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adsorbent material for chromatography comprising a polymer immobilized onto a support, wherein the polymer backbone is attached to the support by one or more linkages which comprise one or more amide groups. It further relates to a method for preparing an adsorbent material for chromatography wherein a support is reacted with a polymer.

Abstract: A composition comprising expandable cross linked polymeric microparticles having an unexpanded volume average particle size diameter of from about 0.05 to about 10 microns and a cross linking agent content of from about 9,000 to about 200,000 ppm of labile cross linkers and from 0 to about 300 ppm of non-labile cross linkers. The composition is used for modifying the permeability of subterranean formations and increasing the mobilization and/or recovery rate of hydrocarbon fluids present in the formations.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel high-molecular substance having a unique function and a process for producing the same. That is, it is a poly(meth)acrylamide which has a syndiotacticity of 50% or lower and is highly isotactic or heterotactic. The poly(meth)acrylamide is obtained by radical-polymerizing an acrylamide or methacrylamide in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a slightly anionic and water-soluble copolymer, as a dispersing agent and/or an agent for assisting the grinding of pigments and/or mineral fillers in aqueous suspension giving on the one hand a low Zeta potential to the aqueous suspensions of the said fillers and/or pigments and on the other hand affording an electro-steric stabilisation of the said suspensions. The invention also relates to the said aqueous suspensions of mineral pigments and/or fillers and their uses in the fields of paper, such as the manufacture or coating of paper, and drilling muds used for petroleum prospecting or extraction. The invention also relates to the use of the said dispersing agents and/or agent for assisting the grinding in the field of paints and plastic materials such as thermoplastic or thermosetting resins.

Abstract: Low density polymeric beads made by polymerizing monomeric building blocks into large crosslinked polymer molecules in porous, spherical bead form by droplet or suspension polymerization in the presence of a porogen.

Abstract: Disclosed are monomers which contain groups that are at least trinuclear, which are capable of absorbing the electromagnetic radiation of visible light, and which are structured such that in their thermodynamically stable state they are distended and strongly anisometric. Homopolymers prepared from such monomers, a process of preparing such homopolymers, and articles comprising such homopolymers are also disclosed. The trinuclear groups of the monomers include at least one electron-attracting substituent which gives rise to a dipole moment which forms an angle of at least 20° with the longitudinal axis of the trinuclear groups.

Abstract: Nitroxide mediated free radical polymerization of vaporized vinyl monomers, including acrylic acid (AAc), styrene (St), N-2-(hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) and N-isopropyl acrylamide (NIPAAm), on silicon wafers is demonstrated. FTIR, ellipsometry and contact angle goniometry were used to characterize the chemical structures, thickness and hydrophilicity of the films. The growth of film is linearly proportional to its reaction time, leading to the easy and exact control of polymer film thickness from nanometers to submicrons. The capability of polymerizing various monomers allows us to fabricate various functional polymer brushes. The reversible thermo-responsiveness of a 200 nm thick grafted poly(NIPAAm) film in aqueous solution is demonstrated with over 50% change in thickness at its lower critical solution temperature. A tri-block copolymer of poly(AAc)-b-polySt-b-poly(HPMA) is successfully synthesized, proving the renewability of TEMPO-mediated polymerization at vapor phase.

Abstract: A process for chemically bonding an odor-encapsulating agent to textiles includes reacting a cyclodextrin with a cross-linking agent capable of forming ether bonds with the cyclodextrin and with the textile material, and curing the textile material treated with a mixture of the cyclodextrin and cross-linking agent. Preferably, the cross-linking agent is imidazolidone, which forms an ether bond with a hydroxyl group on the cyclodextrin and with a hydroxyl group. In textile materials containing cellulose, imidazolidone forms an ether bond with a hydroxyl group on the cellulose. An active agent can be complexed with the cyclodextrin for release. Textiles formed by such a process can comprise an article of clothing adapted to trap odors emanating from a wearer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising poly-HEMA having a peak molecular weight between about 25,000 and about 100,000, preferably between 25,000 and 80,000 and a polydispersity of less than about 2 to less than about 3.8 respectively and covalently bonded thereon, at least one cross-linkable functional group. The present invention further relates to low polydispersity poly-HEMA suitable for making the crosslinkable prepolymers, processes for functionalizing and purifying said poly-HEMA to form said crosslinkable prepolymers, viscous solutions made from said crosslinkable prepolymers, hydrogels made from said viscous solutions and articles made from said crosslinkable polymers, hydrogels and viscous solutions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers which are modified by functional end groups and are based on conjugated dienes or on conjugated dienes and vinylaromatic compounds, a process for their preparation and their use for the production of rubber shaped articles of all types, in particular for the production of tires and tire components, such as tire treads.

Abstract: New photoactive polymers, their use as liquid crystal (LC) orientation layers and their use in the construction of unstructured and structured optical and electro-optical elements and multi-layer systems. The new photoactive polymers are crosslinkable polymers that can be readily cross linked over a relatively short irradiation time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to copolymers for applications in medicine and biotechnology and preparation thereof. Copolymers comprises polyvalent N-Acetyl Glucosamine(NAG) in polyvalent form and bind more efficiently to lysozyme than NAG itself. The copolymers exhibit effective inhibition even at very low ligand concentrations. The copolymers could be used for prevention and treatment of bacterial and viral infections. Moreover, these copolymers form are stimuli sensitive polymers and can be used for the recovery of biomolecules. The methodology can be extended to other ligands such as sialic acid and used for preventing influenza and/or rotavirus infections. It also provides a method for the synthesis of copolymers wherein polymers comprising sequences of specific ligands are required.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymerizable macromers for applications in medicine and biotechnology and synthesis thereof. Macromers comprises polyvalent various carbohydrates including N-Acetyl Glucosamine(NAG) which bind more efficiently to lysozyme than NAG itself. Effective inhibition of lysozyme is possible even at very low ligand concentrations. The polymerizable macromer could be used for prevention and treatment of bacterial and viral infections. Moreover these macromers can be copolymerized with other comonomers to form stimuli sensitive polymers and used for the recovery of biomolecules. The methodology can be extended to other ligands such as sialic acid and used for preventing influenza and/or rotavirus infections.

Abstract: Photoiniferters for controlled radical polymerizations and telechelic copolymers comprising polymerized units of one or more free radically (co)polymerizable monomers having a first azalactone terminal group and a second dithiocarbamate terminal group are described.

Abstract: A carbamate or terminal urea functional vinyl polymer is prepared by reacting a compound having an hydroxyl group and a carbamate group, terminal urea group, or a group that can be converted to a carbamate or terminal urea group, with a cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride group to form an ester bond and a free acid group from the anhydride; and reacting the free acid group with a compound having an epoxide group. The cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride group may be pendant to a vinyl polymer, or one of the compound having an hydroxyl group, a compound having the cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride group, and the compound having an epoxide group may have polymerizable ethylenic unsaturation that is polymerized, optionally with one or more copolymerizable monomers to form a vinyl polymer. When the compound having an hydroxyl group has a group that can be converted to a carbamate or terminal urea group, the group is converted to the carbamate or terminal urea group after step (a).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing copolymer hydrogels with controlled molecular weights and having both thermo- and pH-responsive properties, wherein the process comprises the steps of (a) providing sulfonamide type styrenic or (meth)acrylamide-based monomers exhibiting different pKa values; (b) providing poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) or crosslinked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-methylene bisacrylamide) hydrogels having thermo-responsive properties; and (c) providing several hydrogels exhibiting pH-sensitive properties and random or block copolymerizations of the sulfonamide type styrenic or (meth)acrylamide-based monomers prepared in step (a) with N-isopropylacrylamide and/or methylene bisacrylamide monomers used in step (b) in a polar or non-polar solvent; wherein said steps (b) and (c) are carried out by controlled/living radical polymerization using alkyl halides as the initiators and the transition metals with phosphine or amine ligands as the catalysts.

Abstract: Initiators for nitroxide-mediated radical polymerizations are described. The initiators have an azlactone or ring-opened azlactone moiety to provide telechelic (co)polymers.

Abstract: Initiators for nitroxide-mediated radical polymerizations are described. The initiators have an azlactone or ring-opened azlactone moiety to provide telechelic (co)polymers.

Abstract: Initiators for nitroxide-mediated radical polymerizations are described. The initiators have an azlactone or ring-opened azlactone moiety to provide telechelic (co)polymers.

Abstract: Initiators for nitroxide-mediated radical polymerizations are described. The initiators have an azlactone or ring-opened azlactone moiety to provide telechelic (co)polymers.

Abstract: Hydrophobic, oil-absorbing polymeric compositions, prepared from high levels of hydrophobic monomers, are provided for transferring oily substances and hydrophobic materials to and from various surfaces in a heterogeneous medium. A reversible process is described for transferring oily substances and hydrophobic materials to and from various surfaces in a heterogeneous medium using oil-absorbing films, solid particles or dispersions of aqueous emulsion polymers prepared from hydrophobic monomers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer for a chemically amplified resist and a resist composition using the same. The present invention provides a polymer represented by the Formula (1) and a chemically resist composition for deep ultraviolet light comprising the same, The chemically amplified resist composition comprising the polymer represented by the formula (1) of the present invention responds process and can embody a micro-paten of high resolution on a substrate.

Abstract: An adhesion promoter for a water-based adhesive, said adhesion promoter having the general formula:

Abstract: A composition comprising a polymer containing a compound represented by Formula (1) or a salt thereof as a constituent monomer, or a polymer containing a structure represented by Formula (9) as a partial structure is used for protecting or improving skin. In the formula, R1, R2 and R3 each independently represent hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxyl group, or an alkylamino group; R4 represents an amino acid residue, a polyamine residue, or an aminoalcohol residue; and X represents oxygen atom or a group represented as NH. In the formula, R1, R2 and R3 each independently represent hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxyl group, or an alkylamino group; R4 represents an amino acid residue, a polyamine residue, or an aminoalcohol residue; and X represents oxygen atom or a group represented as NH.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing copolymer hydrogels with controlled molecular weights and having both thermo- and pH-responsive properties, wherein the process comprises the steps of (a) providing sulfonamide type styrenic or (meth)acrylamide-based monomers exhibiting different pKa values; (b) providing poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) or crosslinked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-methylene bisacrylamide) hydrogels having thermo-responsive properties; and (c) providing several hydrogels exhibiting pH-sensitive properties and random or block copolymerizations of the sulfonamide type styrenic or (meth)acrylamide-based monomers prepared in step (a) with N-isopropylacrylamide and/or methylene bisacrylamide monomers used in step (b) in a polar or non-polar solvent; wherein said steps (b) and (c) are carried out by controlled/living radical polymerization using alkyl halides as the initiators and the transition metals with phosphine or amine ligands as the catalysts.

Abstract: Initiators for nitroxide-mediated radical polymerizations are described. The initiators have an azlactone or ring-opened azlactone moiety to provide telechelic (co)polymers.

Abstract: A cement dispersant (especially a dispersant for concretes with ultrahigh performance) comprising as a main component a water-soluble amphoteric copolymer obtained by copolymerizing (A) a polyamide-polyamine of an alkylene oxide adduct thereof with (B) (meth)acrylic acid or an alkali metal, ammonium, or alkanolamine salt thereof and (C) a polyalkylene glycol ester of (meth)acrylic acid in an A/B/C ratio of (10-40)/(10-40)/(50-80) (wt. %); and a concrete composition (especially an ultral high-performance concrete) containing the dispersant. The dispersant satisfies all of a water-reducing effect, slump flow retention, strength development, etc.

Abstract: Initiators for nitroxide-mediated radical polymerizations are described. The initiators have an azlactone or ring-opened azlactone moiety to provide telechelic (co)polymers.

Abstract: Optically transparent, high refractive index hydrogels and intraocular lenses fabricated therefrom. The preferred hydrogels have a refractive index of 1.45 or above and a water content of approximately 5 to 30 percent by weight.

Abstract: Polymer for antifouling coatings which comprises units corresponding to the following monomers: A) 5 to 100 mol. % of one or more compounds of general formula (I) in which R=H or CH3; X=O or S; R1=Ph(R2)m, —C(H)3−(p+q)(CO—R)3p(COOR3)q, —(CH2)n−(CO)t—COOR3 or optionally substituted thiadiazolyl and thiazolylsulfamyl groups; Ph=phenyl; m=1-3; p=0-3; q=0-3; p+q=1-3; s=0 or 1; t=0 or 1; R2=each independently selected from halogen, —C(O)H, —COOR3, —CH2—COOR3, —O—R3 , —NH COOR3, —NH—CO—R3 and —NH2; R3=II or optionally halogen substituted alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl groups with 1-10 C atoms; and B) 0 to 95 mol. % of one or more other ethylenically unsaturated compound.

Abstract: Compounds of general formula (I), the described methods to prepare these macromonomer compounds, and the copolymer products of these compounds with other vinyl monomers. Wherein W is a capping group; l is 0 or 1; n is 2-1000; m is 2-5; R1 is CH2═CH—CH2—, or CH2═CH—O—R8—; R2 is selected from H, CH2═CH—CH2—, and phenyl or alkyl and wherein R3-R7 is H1, C1-C4 alkyl, and quaternary salts thereof. When R7 and X— is absent, the polymer is amphiphilic. When R7 is alkyl and X— is an anion, the polymer is cationic polymer.

Abstract: A cationic, water-soluble polymer is disclosed as a substrate treatment resin (i.e., coating) to improve color-fastness and adhesion of an ink-jet ink printed onto the substrate. More particularly, a 50% solids aqueous solution of a cationic acrylic resin is provided as the printed substrate treatment resin. Also disclosed is a method for preparing the invention resin.

Abstract: A printing fluid composition with an additive which functions as a compatibilizer between the hydrophilic material coating a media surface and the hydrophobic thermal transfer overcoat (TTO) material used in a clear protective TTO overcoat and a method of using such an printing fluid composition to promote adhesion of such TTO material and a digitally printed medium.

Abstract: A crosslinked hydrophilic gel in which the crosslinker used in a compound of Formula I or Formula II or combination thereof. These crosslinked hydrophilic gels provide enhanced separation in electrophoresis. The use of the crosslinkers of Formula I and/or II can result in electrophoresis gels having improved properties including: 1) a broader pore size range; 2) control of pore size distribution; 3) greater resistance to hydrolysis in alkaline media; 4) greater clarity of gels prepared with high concentration of the crosslinkers; and 5) improved background silver staining.

Abstract: A curable resin composition containing (A) an aromatic diallyl compound, (B) an acid derivative or an aliphatic group-containing compound having at least 4 (meth)acryl groups in one molecule, (C) divinylbenzene, and (D) a polythiol compound having at least two mercapto groups in one molecule provides an optical material having a desirable refractive index, Abbe number and transparency, and excellent heat resistance.

Abstract: A method is provided for the production of a graft copolymer or acrylate polymer blend in the presence of at least one liquid diluent comprising the steps of (1) providing a reaction mixture of at least one A monomer consisting of a monomeric (meth)acrylic acid ester of a non-tertiary alcohol in admixture with at least one liquid diluent which is non-reactive under conditions of free radical polymerization employed, optionally at least one B monomer different from said A monomer, optionally at least one polymeric graft moiety C having a Tg greater than 20° C.