Abstract: The present technology relates to a process for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators, wherein the polymerization is carried out in a continuously operated tubular reactor at temperatures from 100° C. to 350° C. and pressures from 180 MPa to 340 MPa, with a specific reactor surface area Asp of 2 m2/(t/h) to 5.5 m2/(t/h), and the tubular reactor has a specific ratio RDsp of 0.0050 MPa?1 to 0.0069 MPa?1 and an inner surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 2 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided are a binder composition which has high electrolyte resistance characteristics, and a secondary battery which uses a positive electrode using the binder composition for high-temperature cycle characteristics. [Solution] The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode according to the present invention contains a polymerized unit which contains a nitrile group; a polymerized unit of (meth) acrylic acid ester; a polymerized unit which contains a hydrophilic group; and a polymerized unit of linear alkylene having a carbon number of at least four. In a mixed solvent in which a volume ratio EC:DEC between ethylene carbonate (EC) and diethyl carbonate (DEC) at 20° C. is 1:2, a degree of swelling with respect to an electrolyte in which LiPF6 is dissolved to have a concentration of 1.0 mol/L is between 100% and 500%.

Abstract: There are described vinyl sequential copolymers (and processes for making them) comprising (a) at least 8. 5 wt-% preferably >=20 wt-% of a higher itaconate diester (preferably dibutyl itaconate—DBI); (b) less than 23 wt-% acid monomer but also sufficient to have an acid value less than 150 mg KOH/g of polymer, (c) optionally with less than 50 wt-% of other itaconate monomers, and (d) optionally less than 77 wt-% of other monomers not (a) to (c). The DBI may be biorenewable. One embodiment is an aqueous dispersion of the vinyl sequential polymer of two phases: A) 40 to 90 wt-% of a vinyl polymer A with Tg from ?50 to 30° C.; and B) 10 to 60 wt-% of a vinyl polymer B with Tg from 50 to 130° C.; where DBI is used to prepare A and/or B and polymer A has from 0.1 to 10 wt-% of at least one acid-functional olefinically unsaturated monomer.

Abstract: Provided is a binder for secondary battery electrodes wherein the content of a gel comprising a polymer particle obtained by copolymerizing three or more types of monomers is 50 to 100% by weight and a swelling index of the binder to an electrolyte is 1.1 to 5.0. The binder fundamentally improves electrode stability due to the gel content defined above and increases ionic conductivity due to the swelling index, thus providing secondary batteries with superior cycle properties.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide: a binder for a lithium ion secondary battery electrode, which is water-dispersible type and has favorable adhesion between active materials and between the active material and current collectors, along with charge-discharge high-temperature cycle characteristics; a slurry using the binder; an electrode using the slurry; and a lithium ion secondary battery using the electrode. The present invention relates to a binder composition for a lithium ion secondary battery electrode, which is obtained by emulsion polymerization of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer in the presence of a surfactant, the ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing, as essential constituents, 15 to 70 mass % of styrene with respect to the total mass of ethylenically unsaturated monomers, an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid ester, an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and an internal cross-linking agent.

Abstract: The invention relates to composition-gradient copolymers, comprising: repeat units resulting from the polymerization of at least one first monomer M1, the corresponding homopolymer of which exhibits a glass transition temperature Tg1 of less than 20° C., said repeat units representing from 15 to 40% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the copolymer; repeat units resulting from the polymerization of at least one second monomer M2, the corresponding homopolymer of which exhibits a glass transition temperature Tg2 of greater than 20° C., said repeat units representing from 45% to 65% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the copolymer; hydrophilic repeat units resulting from the polymerization of a least one third monomer M3, said repeat units representing from 10 to 25% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the copolymer.

Abstract: An adhesive composition of the present invention includes, as a main component, a polymer produced by copolymerization of a monomer composition including: styrene; a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester having a chain structure; a (meth)acrylic acid ester having an aliphatic ring; and a (meth)acrylic acid ester having an aromatic ring, wherein: the styrene is contained in a range of 40 to 69 parts by mass; the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester having the chain structure is contained in a range of 20 to 30 parts by mass; the (meth)acrylic acid ester having the aliphatic ring is contained in a range of 10 to 25 parts by mass; and the (meth)acrylic acid ester having the aromatic ring is contained in a range of 1 to 5 parts by mass, where the total amount of the above components is 100 parts by mass.

Abstract: An improved aqueous acrylic emulsion pressure sensitive adhesive composition of diminished foaming and being formulated from an aqueous acrylic emulsion including at least one carboxyl monomer having a residual carboxyl group, which residual carboxyl group is neutralized with a hydroxyl-functional amine, such as a trialkanolamine.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical film including a copolymer that includes (a) an alkene monomer, (b) an acrylate monomer, and (c) at least one of an unsaturated organic acid monomer and an unsaturated acid anhydride monomer having one or more double bonds, a protective film for a polarizer film, and a polarizer plate and an image display device using the same.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball resin composition excellent in resilience. Another object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball excellent in a shot feeling and resilience. The golf ball resin composition of the present invention is characterized in that a storage modulus E? (Pa) and a loss modulus E? (Pa) satisfy a following expression; log(E?/E?2)??6.08 when measured at the conditions of the temperature of 12° C., the oscillation frequency of 10 Hz, and a strain of 0.05% in a tensile mode using a dynamic viscoelasticity measuring apparatus.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball resin composition excellent in resilience. Another object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball excellent in a shot feeling and resilience. The present invention provides a golf ball resin composition having the spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) of 13C nucleus measured by a High resolution solid state carbon nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method of 7.3 seconds or shorter.

Abstract: A method of forming a hologram image comprising the steps of forming an electrophotographic image by forming an electrophotographic image area on an image support via an electrophotographic image forming method using a toner containing at least a thermoplastic resin; laminating an emboss hologram transferring member over the electrophotographic image so that a surface on which a corrugation profile is formed of the emboss hologram transferring member is in contact with the electrophotographic image area heating the electrophotographic image and the emboss hologram transferring member at a temperature not lower than a softening temperature of the toner while pressurizing the emboss hologram transferring member onto the electrophotographic image; cooling the electrophotographic image and the emboss hologram transferring member, and peeling the emboss hologram transferring member from the electrophotographic image, whereby the corrugation profile of the emboss hologram transferring member is transferred onto the

Abstract: The present invention provides a copolymer that includes at least one alkene monomer, at least one acrylate monomer and at least one the unsaturated organic acid monomer having one or more double bonds, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: The present application relates to a process for the manufacture of copolymers of ethylene and of at least one vinyl ester, comprising the following steps: a) fermentation of renewable starting materials so as to produce at least one alcohol comprising ethanol; b) dehydration of the alcohol obtained so as to produce at least one alkene comprising ethylene and, optionally, purification of the alkene so as to obtain ethylene, c) copolymerization of the ethylene with at least one vinyl ester, d) isolation of the copolymer obtained. The application also relates to the copolymers of ethylene and of at least one vinyl ester in which the ethylene is at least partly obtained from renewable starting materials, and to uses thereof.

Abstract: Provided are an alkali soluble binder resin that includes a monomer including an unsaturated double bond, an unsaturated double bond character monomer including a carboxylic acid and an unsaturated double bond character monomer including an allyl group as a repeating unit, in which a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) is in a range of about 2.0 to about 3.5, and a negative-type photosensitive resin composition including the alkali soluble binder resin. Re-solubility, fine-patterned substrate adhesion and dispersion stability may be improved by including the alkali soluble binder resin according to the present invention.

Abstract: A carboxylic acid-modified nitrile copolymer latex is provided. The copolymer latex comprises a carboxylic acid-modified nitrile copolymer of an unsaturated monomer having at least one crosslinkable functional group selected from vinyl and epoxy groups. The use of the copolymer latex enables the production of a molded article that does not undergo long stirring and maturation, causes no allergic reactions due to the absence of sulfur and a vulcanization accelerator, has good oil resistance and high mechanical strength, and produces a soft feeling. Further provided is a latex composition for dip forming comprising the copolymer latex, and an article produced from the latex composition by dip forming.

Abstract: A dry coating binder includes a polymer which includes at least 80% by weight of main monomers. The main monomers are selected from C1-C20-alkyl (meth)acrylates, C1-C20-hydroxy alkyl (meth)acrylates, vinyl esters of carboxylic acids including up to 20 carbon atoms, vinyl aromatics having up to 20 carbon atoms, ethylenically unsaturated nitriles, vinyl ethers of alcohols including 1 to 10 carbon atoms, aliphatic hydrocarbons having 2 to 8 carbon atoms and one or two double bonds or mixtures of these monomers, and that the particle size of the binder is between 200-400 nm. Further, the use of the dry coating binder, and a dry coating composition are also described.

Abstract: The present invention provides a copolymer that includes at least one alkene monomer, at least one acrylate monomer and at least one the unsaturated organic acid monomer having one or more double bonds, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to composition-gradient copolymers, comprising: repeat units resulting from the polymerization of at least one first monomer M1, the corresponding homopolymer of which exhibits a glass transition temperature Tg1 of less than 20° C., said repeat units representing from 15 to 40% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the copolymer; repeat units resulting from the polymerization of at least one second monomer M2, the corresponding homopolymer of which exhibits a glass transition temperature Tg2 of greater than 20° C., said repeat units representing from 45% to 65% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the copolymer; hydrophilic repeat units resulting from the polymerization of a least one third monomer M3, said repeat units representing from 10 to 25% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the copolymer.

Abstract: A polymer for filling gaps in a semiconductor substrate and a composition using the polymer are provided. According to the composition, holes having a diameter of 100 nm or less and an aspect ratio (i.e. a ratio between the diameter and height of the holes) of 1 or higher in semiconductor substrates can be substantially completely filled by common spin coating without formation of defects, e.g., air voids, the film can be dissolved by an aqueous alkaline solution (i.e. a developing solution) until a desired thickness is reached, the film is highly resistant to isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and plasma etching after curing by baking, and residue can be rapidly removed from the inside of the holes by ashing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a copolymer that includes at least one alkene monomer, at least one acrylate monomer and at least one the unsaturated organic acid monomer having one or more double bonds, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides a copolymer that includes at least one alkene monomer, at least one acrylate monomer and at least one the unsaturated organic acid monomer having one or more double bonds, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for optical filter used in Plasma Display Panel (PDP), a pressure-sensitive adhesive film, an optical filter and a PDP panel display device, using the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition having a dynamic storage elastic modulus of 5×103˜5×104 Pa and a dynamic loss elastic modulus of 5×102˜5×103 Pa, at a temperature of 30° C. and a frequency of 0.01 Hz, and a dynamic storage elastic modulus of 8×103˜1×105 Pa and a dynamic loss elastic modulus of 1×103˜5×104 Pa, at a temperature of 30° C. and a frequency of 500 Hz. The pressure-sensitive adhesive according to the present invention and the optical filter applied by the adhesive comply with endurance reliability under high temperature/high humidity conditions, do not cause fine bubbles on bonding the optical filter directly to PDP and have excellent re-workability in adhering processes.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical film including a copolymer that includes (a) an alkene monomer, (b) an acrylate monomer, and (c) at least one of an unsaturated organic acid monomer and an unsaturated acid anhydride monomer having one or more double bonds, a protective film for a polarizer film, and a polarizer plate and an image display device using the same.

Abstract: Disclosed laminates particularly useful as safety glazings comprising a polymeric interlayer sheet, wherein the polymeric interlayer sheet comprises a blend composition of an ethylene copolymer A and an ethylene copolymer B, which has a melt flow rate of less than 100 g/10 min, as determined in accordance with ASTM D1238 at 190° C. and 2.16 kg, and wherein the ethylene copolymer A comprises copolymerized units of ethylene and about 3 to about 20 wt % of an ester or anhydride of a C4-C8 unsaturated acid having two carboxylic acid groups and the ethylene copolymer B comprises copolymerized units of ethylene and about 6 to about 40 wt % of a polar monomer selected from the group consisting of vinyl acetate, alkyl (meth)acrylates, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: Alkyldiketene-containing aqueous polymer dispersions which are obtainable by miniemulsion polymerization of hydrophobic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of alkyldiketenes, processes for the preparation of such polymer dispersions and the use of the thus obtainable dispersions as sizes for paper or as water repellents for leather, natural and/or manmade fibers and textiles.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ionomer composition for a golf ball providing a golf ball which is excellent in abrasion-resistance, durability and resilience, and a golf ball using the same. An ionomer composition for a golf ball of the present invention comprises a binary copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an olefin monomer having 2 to 8 carbon atoms with an unsaturated monomer having an acid functional group and/or a ternary copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an olefin monomer having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, an unsaturated monomer having an acid functional group and an unsaturated carboxylic acid ester, wherein a functional group is introduced in both terminals of the copolymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vinyl ester based polymer latex composition obtainable by free radical emulsion polymerization in substantial absence of a protective colloid and in the presence of no or small amounts of a surfactant, and to a process of making the same. The invention further pertains to a dispersion incorporating said vinyl ester based polymer latex composition, products comprising said dispersion, and various uses of the dispersion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a golf ball with excellent abrasion-resistance, durability and resilience having an ionomer resin cover therein. The ionomer composition for the golf ball of the invention comprises a reaction product obtained by reacting a telechelic copolymer having functional groups introduced in both terminals of a binary copolymer formed by copolymerizing an olefin monomer having 2 to 8 carbon atoms and an unsaturated carboxylic acid having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, and/or a ternary copolymer formed by copolymerizing an olefin monomer having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, an unsaturated carboxylic acid having 2 to 18 carbon atoms and an unsaturated carboxylic acid ester with a hydroxyl group-containing compound or an isocyanate group-containing compound, wherein at least 10 mole % of a carboxylic group in said reaction product is neutralized with an inorganic metal.

Abstract: The invention provides a self-dispersible polymer having one or more hydrophilic structural units and one or more aromatic group-containing structural units. The content of the aromatic group-containing structural units is in a range from 10 mass % to 95 mass % with respect to the total mass of the self-dispersible polymer, and the content of one or more water soluble components, which are contained in the self-dispersible polymer and exhibit solubility in water when the self-dispersible polymer is dispersed in a water-based medium, is 10 mass % or less with respect to the total mass of the self-dispersible polymer.

Abstract: A process for producing a copolymer which comprises reacting a vinyl monomer with a macromonomer composition containing a macromonomer. The macromonomer composition is obtained by polymerizing at a temperature of 160 to 350° C. a monomer mixture comprising 10 to 80 wt. % first vinyl monomer having an alkyl group in the ?-position, 0 to 30 wt. % styrene as an optional ingredient, and 0 to 90 wt. % one or more other vinyl monomers based on the total amount of all monomers.

Abstract: A film having a large tensile stress in the machine direction, excellent mechanical properties and stretch-wrapping property, and that is less broken at the time of wrapping, can be favorably torn off in the transverse direction, can be intimately adhered on the container walls to be wrapped, and excellently restores its shape after it is depressed and deformed as a result of wrapping. The film for stretch-wrapping is formed of a resin composition containing, as a chief component, an ethylene/(meth)acrylic acid/(meth)acrylic acid ester terpolymer that contains not more than 7% by weight of a (meth)acrylic acid ester unit, and, optionally, containing an anti-fogging agent or a tackifier.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing an aqueous polymer dispersion of a copolymer CP of at least two different monomers M1 and M2 by free-radical aqueous emulsion polymerization of the monomers M in the presence of at least one initiator, at least 80% of the monomers M and at least 75% of the initiator being supplied continuously to the polymerization reaction during its course, which comprises changing the rate at which the initiator is supplied to the polymerization reaction a number of times, or continuously, during the polymerization reaction. The invention further provides the polymer dispersions obtainable by this process, polymer powders prepared therefrom, and for the use of the dispersions and/or of the polymer powders to prepare pressure sensitive adhesives.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process of printing using a single fluid lithographic printing ink that includes a continuous phase and a discontinuous polyol phase.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions of and methods employing printing inks employing novel vinyl resins that are prepared using polyfunctional monomers, wherein the vinyl resins have low number average molecular weights and broad polydispersities. The printing inks of the invention have unexpectedly reduced misting and slinging in high speed press operations.

Abstract: The invention relates to solvent-based coating compositions, comprising at least one hydroxy-functional (meth)acrylic copolymer I having an OH-value from 40 to 260 mg KOH/g, and a number average molecular mass (Mn) from 1,300 to 20,000 g/mol, which comprise the following polymerized components:

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a game ball and method for making the same. The game ball has an unneutralized terpolymer resin cover that has been irradiated. The unneutralized terpolymer resin includes ethylene, acrylic or methacrylic acid, and a third component selected from the group of lower alkyl acrylates and lower alkyl methacrylates. The irradiated unneutralized terpolymer resin cover is superior in at least one of cut resistance and scuff resistance to a cover substantially identical in composition but which has not been irradiated. The game ball cover of the invention is particularly useful for improving the durability of golf balls to be struck with sharp-grooved clubs.

Abstract: The invention relates to copolymers of ethylene and at least one further olefinically unsaturated comonomer containing one or more hydroxyl groups. The invention furthermore relates to fuel oils comprising middle distillates containing a maximum of 0.5% by weight of sulfur and at least one copolymer of ethylene and at least one further olefinically unsaturated comonomer containing one or more hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: An aqueous, blush-retardant pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) is made from an aqueous latex emulsion having an average particle size diameter of not substantially above about 100 nm and emulsified in the presence of an emulsifier consisting essentially of: In structure I, R1 is an alkyl, alkenyl, or aralkyl group containing between 6 and 18 carbon atoms, R2 is H or R1, R3 is H or a propenyl group; A is an alkylene group of 2 to 4 carbon atoms, N is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, and M is an alkali metal, an ammonium ion, or an alkanolamine cation. Preferably, the emulsifier is: The preferred aqueous latex emulsion is prepared from a monomer mixture consisting essentially of at least one alkylacrylate having at least 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain, at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or its corresponding anhydride, and at least one styrenic monomer, and has a mean particle size diameter of less than or equal to about 100 nm.

Abstract: The polyolefin stretch film comprises a film produced from a resin composition principally composed of a polyolefin resin consisting either entirely of ethylene (meth)acrylic acid copolymer or ethylene (meth)acrylic acid (meth)acrylic ester terpolymer, or a mixed resin of both, and being, insofar as necessary, compounded with an anti-fogging agent and a tackifier, such film having a stress at 100% elongation in the longitudinal direction of 12-30 MPa and a stress at 100% elongation in the transverse direction of 5-11 MPa. This film is suitably used as a stretch wrap film material for packaging food and various items, inasmuch as it is free of pollution and sanitary/health hazard problems, and imparts a large elongation, excellent cut property of traverse direction, adherence/conformance property (cling property), elastic recovery after distention by fingertips, etc.

Abstract: A polymer useful as an inorganic pigment dispersant is provided. The polymer is derived from monomers consisting essentially of an ethylenically unsaturated aromatic monomer, an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid monomer, and an ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acid monomer. The total amount of said ethylenically unsaturated acid monomers is sufficient to permit said polymer to associate with an inorganic pigment in an aqueous medium in a manner which disperses said inorganic pigment in said aqueous medium to form a stable aqueous dispersion of said inorganic pigment, and the amount of said ethylenically unsaturated aromatic monomer is sufficient to reduce the water sensitivity of a dried coating of a latex paint comprised of said stable aqueous dispersion of said inorganic pigment. A process of preparing a polymer useful as an inorganic pigment dispersant and a method of preparing an inorganic pigment dispersion useful in the preparation of latex paints are also provided.