Abstract: An aromatic polyamide fiber comprising an aromatic polyamide containing a structural repeating unit of the following formula (1), and a structural repeating unit of the following repeating unit (2) in an amount of 30 mol % or more to the whole amount of the aromatic polyamide structural units, the fiber having strength of 20 cN/dtex or more and modulus of elongation of 500 cN/dtex or more: wherein Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represent an unsubstituted or substituted divalent aromatic group.

Abstract: A polymeric resin comprising guanidine groups having at least one C4-C22 tertiary alkyl substituent.

Abstract: In a preparation of random polyoxadiazole copolymer by reaction of a mixture of oleum, hydrazine sulfate, terephthalic acid, and isophthalic acid, the improvement requires the addition of oleum in more than one step.

Abstract: Disclosed are polyester based polyurethane microcellular elastomers, suitable for shoe soles, with intrinsic hydrolytic stability prepared by the reaction of a polyisocyanate with and isocyanate reactive composition. The elastomers are produced from a polyisocyanate which is a prepolymer containing a polyester based on isomeric mixtures of 1,3- and 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol, where the isocyanate reactive composition contains such a polyester or where the polyester based on mixtures of 1,3- and 1,4-cyclo-hexane dimethanol are present in both the prepolymer and isocyanate reactive composition.

Abstract: Methods and systems for modifying a polymer are disclosed herein. A matrix is generally provided having a surface thereof, wherein the matrix comprises a plurality of hyperbranched polymers. The plurality of hyperbranched polymers can be chemically bound to a plurality of surfactants or order to modify the surface and produce a polymeric material thereof. The surface is tailored with a plurality of functional groups that self-assemble and are deliverable to the surface of the solution, including interfaces thereof, thereby permitting a high-density assembly of functional groups to operate in concert with one another in order to generate a modified surface thereof. The polymeric material produced thereof can be reversibly adaptable to environmental conditions through a blooming of varying surface functional group to the surface of the solution.

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

Abstract: The invention is to provide a novel polyhydroxyalkanoate having a reactive function group within the molecule and a producing method therefor In a polyhydroxyalkanoate containing a unit having a vinyl group in a side chain, such vinyl group is utilized for deriving a polyhydroxyalkanoate comprising a carboxyl group or a unit having an amide group and a sulfonic acid group.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, polymers that have a plurality of well defined polymer segments linked by disulfide linkages are provided. When these disulfide linkages are broken, multiple smaller polymers of lower molecular weight are produced. According to another aspect of the present invention, implantable or insertable medical devices are provided that contain polymers that have a plurality of well defined polymer segments linked by disulfide linkages.

Abstract: A room temperature crosslinkable polymer system comprising an anhydride containing polymer and an oxyalkylene amine and a polymer electrolyte derived therefrom are prepared and employed as ion conducting materials for batteries such as lithium ion battery, solar cells and electrochromic devices is disclosed.

Abstract: Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include fibers, methods of making fibers, structures (e.g., textile articles), and carpets.

Abstract: The main object of the invention is to provide a compound that can be used as a sensitizing dye of a dye-sensitized solar cell, which can realize outstanding endurance and photovoltaic conversion efficiency. 1. A compound shown by the following general formula (1) is therefore provided: (wherein, in the formula (1), Y is a hydroxyl group or an amino group; E1 is N or CH; L is a hydrogen atom or a photosensitizing group; R is a group having one of the basic units D shown by the following general formula (D), or a group having a branched structure wherein a structural unit is repeatedly bonded via a peptide linkage, this structural unit being 1-100 of the basic units D and 1-100 of the basic units G shown by the following general formula (G). The photosensitizing group is bonded to 50% or more of the nitrogen atoms among the nitrogen atoms which do not constitute the peptide linkage of this group, hydrogen atoms being bonded to the remaining nitrogen atoms).

Abstract: The invention relates to a polyamide moulding compound containing 70 to 99.5% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polyamide and 0.5 to 30% by weight of at least one polyamide oligomer with linear or branched chain structure with a number average molar mass of 800 to 5000 g/mol with basic end groups which are at least partially NH2 end groups, and carboxyl end groups, one of these end groups being present in excess and the concentration of the end group present in excess being at most 300 mmol/kg.

Abstract: A hydrophobic polymer well suited for applications such as general purpose coatings, ship coatings, fibers and sheets. The present invention is particularly well suited for making breathable, yet waterproof clothing.

Abstract: Hydroxypolyamides, hydroxypolyamide products, and post-hydroxypolyamides are disclosed as gel forming agents. Hydroxypolyamides and post-hydroxypolyamides are prepared from known methods. Hydroxypolyamide products are produced from a modified polymerization procedure which utilizes strong base for deprotonation of ammonium salts from the esterification of stoichiometrically equivalent polyacid:polyamine salts. The hydroxypolyamide products are capable of gel formation at lower concentrations than hydroxypolyamides and post-hydroxypolyamides from the known methods of preparation, and are therefore superior gel forming agents.

Abstract: A copolymer of Formula I —[Rf-Q-OC(O)NHC(CH3)2C6H4C(CH3)CH2—]x?[CH2C(R)(COOH)—]y—??(I) wherein Rf is a straight or branched perfluoroalkyl group having from about 2 to about 8 carbon atoms, or a mixture thereof, which is optionally interrupted by at least one oxygen atom, Q is alkylene of 1 to about 15 carbon atoms, hydroxyalkylene of from about 2 to about 15 carbon atoms, —O(CnH2n)—, —(CH2CF2)m(CH2)n—, —OCHFCF2(CH2)n—, —CONR1(CnH2n)—, —(CnH2n)OCONR1(CnH2n)—, (—CONR1CH2)2CH—, —SO2N(R1)(CnH2n)—, or —(CnH2n)SO2N(R1)(CnH2n)—, each R1 is independently H or alkyl of 1 to about 4 carbon atoms, each n is independently 1 to about 15, each m is independently 1 to about 4, and R is H or CH3, x is a positive integer, and y is a positive integer, and a method of its use for imparting soil resistance to substrates while imparting minimal water repellency is disclosed.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for an optical film of the present invention comprises 100 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylic polymer comprising 45 to 99.99% by weight of an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer unit and 0.01 to 2% by weight of a tertiary amino group-containing monomer unit; and 0.01 to 2 parts by weight of a peroxide as a crosslinking agent. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition can form an pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that has satisfactory reworkability such that optical films can be easily peeled from liquid crystal panels with no adhesive residue and also has satisfactory processability such that it can be worked without pressure-sensitive adhesive fouling or dropout.

Abstract: An antimicrobial composition.

Abstract: Multi-armed, monofunctional, and hydrolytically stable polymers are described having the structure wherein Z is a moiety that can be activated for attachment to biologically active molecules such as proteins and wherein P and Q represent linkage fragments that join polymer arms polya and polyb, respectively, to central carbon atom, C, by hydrolytically stable linkages in the absence of aromatic rings in the linkage fragments. R typically is hydrogen or methyl, but can be a linkage fragment that includes another polymer arm. A specific example is an mPEG disubstituted lysine having the structure where mPEGa and mPEGb have the structure CH3O—(CH2CH2O)nCH2CH2— wherein n may be the same or different for polya- and polyb- and can be from 1 to about 1,150 to provide molecular weights of from about 100 to 100,000.

Abstract: The use of alkoxylates and nitrogen containing detergents in a fuel additive composition to prevent intake valve sticking and reduce intake valve deposits.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a class of membrane active polymers useful for cellular delivery of compounds. Conjugation of the described membrane active polymers to targeting, anti-opsonization, and anti-aggregation agents provides polymers suitable for in vivo delivery. The use of multiple reversible linkages connecting component parts provides for physiologically responsive activity modulation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a crosslinking composition comprising and organic acid and a compound having the structure of Formula I: A?—NRA—RD where A? is a moiety derived from the group consisting of triazines, linear or cyclic ureas, cyanuric acid, substituted cyanuric acids, linear or cyclic amides, glycolurils, hydantoins, linear or cyclic carbamates and mixtures thereof, or a moiety comprising the structure: where RA is RD, hydrogen, an alkyl of 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or taken together with A? forms a cyclic compound; RD is —CHRCORB, wherein RB is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, aralkyl or an alkaryl having from 1 to about 24 carbon atoms and RC is an alkyl, halogenated alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, halogenated aralkyl, alkoxyalkyl or an alkaryl having from 1 to about 24 carbon atoms; A is a moiety derived from the group consisting of linear or cyclic ureas, cyanuric acid, substituted cyanuric acids, linear or cyclic amides, glycolurils, hydantoins, linear or cyclic carbamates and mixtures thereof; B is a residue of

Abstract: Provided are methods for dissolving polyamides under ambient conditions and for forming polyamide nanofibers by electrospinning. Also provided are methods for incorporating nanoparticles, including nanotubes, into such nanofibers.

Abstract: A contrast dye for preparing a lithographic printing plate includes at least one A, D, and B group wherein A represents a phosphorous containing group capable of reacting with the surface of a lithographic receiver; D represents a chromophore group absorbing light between 400 nm and 700 nm; and B represents an aliphatic group of at least 6 carbon atoms. A lithographic printing plate includes such a contrast dye.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aminophosphonate mid functional co-polymer, or oligomer thereof, a method for its manufacture and a number of applications for it. The aminophosphonate co-polymer is of the formula (I): (A)a-[PO(OX)CR?2NR(R?NR)mCR?2—]nPO(OX)-(A)b; wherein: X is hydrogen or any suitable cation; each of the R groups, which may be the same or different, and each of the R? groups, which may be the same or different, is hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl or alkoxyalkyl group of 1-20 carbon atoms each of which may be optionally substituted once or more than once, R? is an alkane group, substituted alkane group or heterocyclic group; and wherein A is derived from any suitable monomer, a and b are the same and each is an integer from 1 to 1000 or a and b are different and one is zero or an integer from 1 to 1000 and the other is an integer from 1 to 1000, m is zero or from 1 to 100, and n is zero or from 1 to 100.

Abstract: Water-soluble sulfo group containing copolymers use as stabilizers, rheology modifiers and water retention agents in aqueous building materials based on hydraulic binders, such as cement, lime, gypsum and anhydrite, and in water-based painting and coating systems are described. Processes of preparing the copolymers and methods of using them are also described.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel organometallic complexes as catalysts for the reaction of compounds with isocyanate and hydroxyl functional groups to form urethane and/or polyurethane and the process employing such catalysts. More particularly, the present invention is directed to novel complexes of zinc(II) with substituted amidines. These novel catalysts are useful for the production of urethanes and polyurethanes which are important in many industrial applications.

Abstract: A process for synthesizing formulations for polyimides suitable for use in high-temperature composites in which all reactions other than chain-extension have already taken place prior to making a composite is described, wherein the resulting oligomers comprise a backbone and at least one difunctional endcap. The resulting resin systems have only the single step of endcap-to-endcap reactions during composite processing. Prior to the initiation temperature of these endcap-to-endcap reactions, the resins are stable affording the composite manufacturer a very large processing window.

Abstract: Vesicles for delivery of active macromolecules, such as oligoaminoacids, oligonucleotides, microRNA, siRNA, dsRNA, single stranded oligonucleotides, DNA, peptide nucleic acids, peptides, proteins, and some synthetic organic drugs which are made from amphiphilic segmented copolymers where one segment contains the active macromolecule. In one preferred embodiment, the active macromolecule is contained in the hydrophilic C segment of an amphiphilic ABC segmented copolymer.

Abstract: There is provided a quinoxaline-containing compound represented by the following formula (I); wherein Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent aromatic group; and R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group.

Abstract: The present invention provides copolymers that facilitate nucleic acid analysis, compositions that comprise such copolymers, and methods for making or using such copolymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel comb polymers which bear poly-C2-C4-alkylene ether side chains A and functional groups B which at a pH of >12 are present in the form of anionic groups on a carbon backbone and also the salts of such comb polymers. The invention also relates to the use of these comb polymers as additives in preparations comprising a mineral binder.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to biocompatible components useful for forming compositions for use as medical/surgical synthetic adhesives and sealants. Biocompatible components of the present disclosure may include a multifunctional amine or multifunctional polyol core, with isocyanate and/or polyalkylene oxide arms, which may optionally be capped with electrophilic or nucleophilic groups. These biocompatible components may, in embodiments, be combined with optional cross linkers to form adhesive and/or sealant compositions.

Abstract: The invention provides novel polymer matrices and methods for preparing polymer matrices, as well as methods for purifying caustic feed streams using membranes that comprise polysulfonamide matrices.

Abstract: A fabricated article (e.g., jacketed or insulated wire or cable) is prepared by a process comprising the steps of: applying a coating of a moisture-curable composition onto a wire or cable; and reacting the moisture-curable composition with water, wherein the moisture-curable composition comprises at least one resin having hydrolysable reactive silane groups and a tin catalyst characterized by the tin having a +4 oxidation state and a bis(alkoxide) ligand. The product of the process includes a wire or cable comprising a jacket, wherein the jacket comprises at least one poly olefin resin having hydrolysable reactive silane groups and a tin catalyst, the tin catalyst having a bis(alkoxide) ligand and characterized by the tin having a +4 oxidation state.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel biocompatible macromonomers, hydrogels, methods of synthesis and methods of use thereof. The biocompatible hydrogels of the present invention are prepared using native chemical ligation (NCL), in which a thioester readily reacts with a N-terminal thiol (cysteine) through transesterification and rearrangement to form an amide bond through a five-member ring intermediate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the polymerization of one or more methacrylate and/or methacrylic monomers, for the synthesis of methacrylate or methacrylic polymers or of exclusively methacrylic and/or methacrylate copolymers, comprising a step of bringing said monomer(s) into contact with one at least of the compounds of formula (I) and (II) below: in which: R1 and R2 may represent a phenyl group, R3 and R4 may together form an ?N-phenyl group, Z represents a group of formula —CR8R9R10, in which R8 and R9 may represent methyl groups and R10 may represent a —COO-phenyl group.

Abstract: A coating system for application to a porous substrate such as wood is disclosed. The coating system comprises a color-imparting stain or toner and a UV-curable clear coat. The stain and/or toner contains an aldimine or a ketimine that improves the adhesion of the coating system to the substrate.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a process for carrying out equilibrium reactions continuously.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to membrane active polymers useful for cellular delivery of compounds. Described are polyconjugates systems that incorporate targeting, anti-opsonization, anti-aggregation, and transfection activities into small biocompatible in vivo delivery conjugates. The use of reversible modification provides for physiologically responsive activity modulation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aminomethyl polystyrene resin wherein aminomethyl group is grafted only on the surface of polystyrene resin, and a preparation process for the same. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a process for preparing aminomethyl polystyrene resin wherein aminomethyl group is grafted only on the surface of polystyrene resin, which comprises a step for grafting amidomethyl group to surface of polystyrene resin and a step for hydrolysis of the amidomethyl group grafted on the surface of polystyrene resin.

Abstract: To provide an amino group-containing water-soluble copolymer having a high chelating performance and clay dispersancy and a method of producing the amino-group containing water-soluble copolymer efficiently and with high productivity. A water-soluble polymer containing an amino group-containing monomer unit, wherein the water-soluble polymer has a molecular weight distribution of 12 or less, and a method of producing the water-soluble polymer according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the method comprises a step of polymerizing an amino group-containing allyl monomer using an initiator containing a heavy metal ion and sulfurous acid (sulfite), hydrogensulfite or hydrogen peroxide.

Abstract: A paper adhesive composition includes a cationic non-crosslinked acidified solution of a polyamidoamine with the repeating units wherein n?1; m=1 or 2; X?m is chloride, bromide, iodide, sulfate, bisulfate, nitrate, oxalate, alkyl carboxylate, aryl carboxylate, hydrogen phosphate, dihydrogen phosphate, alkyl sulfonate, aryl sulfonate, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing anions; R1 is a divalent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, or araliphatic group having from 1 to 24 carbon atoms; R2 is hydrogen or a monovalent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, or araliphatic group having from 1 to 24 carbon atoms; and R3 is a divalent hydrocarbon radical derived from a dibasic carboxylic acid.

Abstract: Comblike, surfactant polymers for changing the surface properties of biomaterials are provided. Such surfactant polymers comprise a polymeric backbone of repeating monomeric units having functional groups for coupling with side chains, a plurality of hydrophobic side chains linked to the backbone via the functional groups, and a plurality of hydrophilic side chains linked to said backbone via the functional groups. Medical devices coated with the surfactant polymers are also provided. The surfactant polymers may be used to decrease the thrombogenic properties, encapsulation, and bacterial colonization of medical devices.

Abstract: Polyamidoamine (PAE) resins are prepared from polyamidoamine made with excess amine, which are reacted with a specifically defined amount of difunctional crosslinker. The amount of difunctional crosslinker used is based on the polyamidoamine amine number and reduced specific viscosity (RSV). The PAE resin is prepared by first synthesizing a polyamidoamine from a polyamine and a polycarboxylic acid or polycarboxylic acid derivative, wherein the polyamine is present in a molar excess, said molar excess being from about 1.02 to 2.00, then reacting the polyamidoamine with difunctional crosslinker, wherein the weight % of difunctional crosslinker to polyamidoamine solids is no more than about 0.308(amine number/RSV)—9.18 or 385(amine number/RSV)—5.20, wherein the amine number is expressed as the milliequivalents of amine per gram of polyamidoamine solids and the RSV is the reduced specific viscosity measured at 2% concentration in 1 M NH4Cl expressed in deciliters per gram.

Abstract: Norbornene-based biocidal polymers having primary, secondary or tertiary amine or phosphine end groups, the parent monomers, processes for preparing the monomers and polymers, and their use.

Abstract: Methods for efficient preparation of drug-polymer (or oligomer) conjugates which are useful in the preparation of particles, including microparticles and nanoparticles, for delivery of the drug in vivo for therapeutic applications. The invention additionally provides certain drug-polymer and drug-oligomer conjugates which are useful in the preparation of particles for delivery of the drug in vivo. The invention also provides nanoparticles of this invention prepared by nanoprecipitation using drug-polymer/oligomer conjugates of the invention. The drug conjugates are formed during polymerization of the polymer or oligomer in which the drug is employed as an initiator of the polymerization of the monomers which form the polymer and/or oligomer. More specifically, the drug conjugates are formed by ring-opening polymerization of cyclic monomers in the presence of an appropriate ring-opening polymerization catalyst and the initiator (the drug).

Abstract: In part, the present invention relates to a compound or polymer comprising a non-protein-binding moiety and at least one protein-binding group. The present invention relates to a method of screening compounds or polymers for the property of inhibiting protein aggregation in solution, a method of preparing a compound or polymer having the property of protein aggregation inhibition in solution, a method of classifying a compound or polymer as either inhibitory of protein aggregation in solution or not inhibitory of protein aggregation in solution, and to a method of determining the preferential binding coefficient, ?XP, of an additive in a protein solution. The present invention also relates to a method of suppressing or preventing aggregation of a protein in solution, a method of decreasing the toxicological risk associated with administering a protein to a mammal in need thereof, and a method of facilitating native folding of a recombinant protein in solution.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a solution of a thermoplastic polymer such as a polyester resin and/or a solution of a depolymerization product of a thermoplastic polymer by efficiently dissolving the thermoplastic polymer and/or the depolymerization product of the thermoplastic polymer. The method of producing a solution of a thermoplastic polymer and/or a solution of a depolymerization product of a thermoplastic polymer, which includes supplying a thermoplastic polymer, in a melted state, from a raw material supply port to an interior of a reactor, discharging the polymer through holes of a perforated plate, and then bringing the polymer into contact with a solvent vapor while flowing down along the surface of a support disposed inside the reactor.

Abstract: Nitric Oxide (NO)-releasing polymers useful as implantable medical devices and coatings therefore are provided. Specifically the implantable medical devices and/or coatings comprise NO-releasing biodegradable polymers derived from [1,4]oxazepan-7-one and its derivatives. The medical devices and coatings of the present invention can also be used for in situ controlled release delivery of additional bioactive agents and are useful for treating or preventing medical conditions such as restenosis, aneurysms and vulnerable plaque.

Abstract: Disclosed are wholly aromatic polyamide filament and a method of manufacturing the same, characterized in that, in a process of preparing wholly aromatic polyamide polymer, a multiple tubular feed pipe for polymeric monomer and polymerization solvent with specific construction of adjacent inner paths 11a and outer paths 11b which are alternately arranged one another is used to feed either aromatic diacid chloride A or aromatic diamine dissolved in the polymerization solvent B into a polymerization reactor 20 through corresponding one among the inner and outer paths 11a and 11b. The present invention is effective to progress uniform and homogeneous polymerization over all of area of a polymerization reactor 20 leading to reduction of deviation in degree of polymerization, since polymeric monomers are miscible and react together very well immediately after putting the monomers into the reactor 20.