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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8076432 | Phosphonic compounds and methods of use thereof Described herein are methods for producing phosphonic compounds and compounds thereof. Stable compositions of unsaturated phosphonic acid monomers are also described. Additionally, the synthesis and use of new polymers produced from phosphonic acid monomers are pres... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7442724 | Dispersants for preparing aqueous pigment pastes The invention relates to the use of copolymers with styrene-oxide-based, vinyl-functionalized polyethers for preparing aqueous pigment preparations. ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7384989 | Coating material, method for production and use thereof for production of adhesive, corrosion-resistant coatings A liquid coating material in the form of a water-in-oil dispersion which is curable with actinic radiation, is substantially or completely free from organic solvents and has a pH | 06/10/2008 |
| 7300700 | Cationic microspheres and method of making cationic microspheres An adhesive composition that incorporates cationic microspheres and a fluidizing medium effective for supporting application of the adhesive composition to a substrate. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7288615 | Modified dental prosthesis Phosphate-containing co-polymers useful for making denture bases, denture liners and tissue conditioners with phosphate anion-charged surfaces are disclosed. The phosphate anions enable the denture bases, denture liners and tissue conditioners to adsorb cationic ant... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7179531 | Polymer particles having select pendant groups and composition prepared therefrom Polymer particles having select functional or absorbing groups are provided. The polymer particles are useful for preparing organic-inorganic composite particles that are suitable for providing dried coatings with improved hiding. Aqueous compositions containing the... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7150319 | Method for reducing or completely eliminating water influx in an underground formation, and crosslinkable copolymers for implementing said method A method for reducing or completely eliminating water influx in an oil or natural gas borehole includes introducing in the borehole an aqueous solution of a copolymer comprising: A) 40–98 wt. % of structural units of formula (I), wherein: R1 is hydrogen... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7101945 | Phosphorus-containing polymers for optical signal transducers The invention relates to a phosphorus-containing polymer for coating dielectric materials, to processes for its preparation and to its use, as well as to an optical signal transducer having a coating of the polymer and to its use. ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7060327 | Corrosion protective methacrylate adhesives for galvanized steel and other metals Compositions for bonding galvanized surfaces are disclosed. The compositions include either (i) a first part that includes at least one (meth)acrylate component in combination with a free radical inhibitor component and a phosphate ester component and a second part ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7022164 | Filters employing porous strongly acidic polymers A clean, high efficiency, low pressure drop, adsorptive filter material that is porous and includes an acidic functional group. The filter can include, for example, a non-woven filter composite has a porous sulfonated divinyl benzene styrene copolymer beads having s... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6936647 | Bead polymerizates containing halogen-free phosphourus compounds The present invention relates to novel crosslinked bead polymers having an average particle size of 1 to 1000 μm containing specific, halogen-free phosphorus compounds including triphenyl phosphate as the halogen-free phosphorus compound, and to a process for the p... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6841639 | Polymer solutions Copolymers of zwitterionic monomer, especially 2-methacryloyloxyethyl-2′-trimethylammoniumethyl phosphate inner salt, and hydrophobic comonomer, especially dodecylmethacrylate, are made in a monomer starved polymerization process in which solutions of monomers are... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6835790 | (Meth) acrylic copolymer and its production process There are disclosed a (meth)acrylic copolymer and its production process, wherein the (meth)acrylic copolymer has the good chelating ability and dispersibility and is excellent both in the calcium-ion-binding ability and the gelation resistance in combination, and f... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6767979 | Crosslinked polymers and refractive devices formed therefrom A polymer is formed of ethylenically unsaturated monomers including a zwitterionic monomer, an aromatic monomer and a cross-linking monomer. Preferably the crosslinking monomer includes at least one a group containing compound and at least one aliphatic group contai... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6710149 | Hydrolysis-stable and polymerizable acrylophosphonic acid Hydrolysis-stable and polymerizable acrylophosphonic acid with the general formula (I) which is particularly suitable as a component of dental materials is disclosed. ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6696534 | Random copolymer compositions Fluoropolymers consisting of alternating perfluorocyclobutane and aryl ether linkages possess suitable properties for optical waveguides and other devices using refractive properties of the polymers. Perfluorocyclobutane (PFCB) polymers having aryl groups... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6680346 | Phosphorus atom-containing fluorinated cation exchange membrane and proton conduction type fuel cell using the same A phosphorus atom-containing fluorinated cation exchange membrane substantially constituted with the following repeating units (A) and (B), and a proton conduction type fuel cell using the membrane as a solid polymeric electrolyte are provided. One embodi... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6673883 | Polymers containing zwitterionic monomers A cross-linkable polymer formed from monomer including a) a hydroxyl-group containing monomer of the formula I ##STR1## in which R26 is hydrogen or a C1-4 -alkyl group; A1 is --O-- or --NR27 -- where R27 | 01/06/2004 |
| 6660785 | Self-adhesive polymerizable monomer and dental/medical compositions therefrom The synthesis of self-adhesive polymerizabe monomers and their application as a water containing and a water free self-adhesive dental/medical composite is described. The dental/medical composite comprises a self-adhesive polymerizabe monomer, a polymeriz... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6649718 | Surface active agent composition and emulsifying agent composition for aqueous resin dispersion A surface active agent composition is prepared including: a polymerizable monomer surface active agent and a polymerizable dimer surface active agent represented by the following chemical formula. In the following chemical formula, R1 s each ar... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6613856 | Bifunctional polymers Novel polymers are provided having phosphonated and sulphonated substituent groups such that the polymer is multifunctional in its use. Optional amide substituents are used to reduce electrostatic charge density or for hydrogen bonding. An advantage of th... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6608120 | Diallylamine monomers and network polymers obtained therefrom Compounds of the formula: ##STR1## having two double bonds which are activated so that they will take part in a polymerization reaction, the double bonds being sufficiently close together to ensure that cyclopolymerization will preferentially occur. ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6559258 | Poly (phosphonoarylacetylene) and chiral sensor comprising the same A water-soluble polymer which has higher sensitivity and is responsive to the chirality of a wide range of optically active isomers. It is a poly(phosphonoarylacetylene) represented by the following formula (I) or a salt thereof, ##STR1## (Wherein Ar... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6551580 | Phosphonylated derivatives of aliphatic heterochain and acrylate polymers and applications thereof A variety of phosphonylated heterochain polymers are disclosed, including, most preferably, phosphonylated polymethyl methacrylate. For each polymeric composition the phosphorous atom of a phosphorous-containing functional group is covalently bonded to a ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6545102 | Polymer-supported photosensitizers Improved polymer-immobilized photosensitizer are disclosed as well as methods of preparing and using them. The polymer-immobilized photosensitizers comprise a cross-linked polymer backbone, a plurality of cationic ammonium or phosphonium groups covalently... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6528603 | Phosphonate copolymer and methods of use The present invention provides novel organic copolymers comprising alternating functional groups, wherein one functional group is phosphonate. In one embodiment, the copolymers comprise alternating phosphonate and N-substituted succinimide functional grou... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6503992 | Phosphorous-containing monomers and flame retardant high impact monovinylidene aromatic polymer compositions derived therefrom Disclosed are cyclic phosphate esters of fumarate- or maleic acids suitable for use as a comonomer, capable of being copolymerized with a monovinylidene aromatic compounds to impart flame resistant properties to the resultant copolymers.... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6465397 | Synthetic crosslinked copolymer solutions and direct injection to subterranean oil and gas formations What is disclosed is the preparation and use of synthetic water soluble copolymers useful in modifying the water permeability characteristics of subterranean hydrocarbon producing formations. The copolymers are in the form of dilute, pumpable, homogeneous... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6410671 | Zwitterion derivative and application to aqueous suspension properties The present invention relates to more or less substituted acrylamide or acrylate and zwitterion monomer hydrosoluble copolymers. The polymers have the general structure as follows: ##STR1## X and X' comprise a N+ --R1 --Z-... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6395259 | Phosphonylated derivatives of aliphatic heterochain and acrylate erpolyms and applications thereof A variety of phosphonylated heterochain polymers are disclosed, including, most preferably, phosphonylated polymethyl methacrylate. For each polymeric composition the phosphorous atom of a phosphorous-containing functional group is covalently bonded to a ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6387982 | Self etching adhesive primer composition and polymerizable surfactants The invention provides a self etching adhesive dental primer composition, a method of use of the primer composition and a product formed from the primer. The dental product is formed from the primer composition which includes water, surfactant and polymer... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6380349 | Golf equipment and compositions comprising sulfonated, carboxylated, or phosphonated ionomers The present invention relates to golf equipment, such as golf shoes, golf clubs, golf gloves, or portions thereof, formed from compositions comprising a sulfonated, carboxylated, or phosphonated acid moieties, or a mixture thereof. The preferred ionomer c... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6350839 | Hydrolysis-stable and polymerizable acrylophosphonic acid monoesters Hydrolysis-stable and polymerizable acrylophosphonic acid monoesters with the general formula (I) ##STR1## which are particularly suitable as a component of dental materials are disclosed.... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6297335 | Crosslinked, hydrophilic, highly swellable hydrogels, production thereof and use thereof The hydrogels are based on polymerized monomers or on graft polymers and each have a Pressure Absorbency Index | 10/02/2001 |
| 6291618 | Phosphazene azide coupling agents and their use in rheology modification of polymers The present invention relates to cyclic phosphazene azides and their use in a process for producing a rheology modified polymer which comprises contacting a polymer with a cyclic phosphazene azide at a temperature which is at least the decomposition tempe... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6264839 | Phosphonomethylated polyvinylamines and preparation and use thereof Phosphonomethylated poly-vinylamines which contain as characteristic structural elements units of the formula ##STR1## where R1 is hydrogen, C1 -C6 -alkyl or ##STR2## and X is hydrogen, an alkali metal, ammonium or one equ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6261538 | Series of water-insoluble polymeric quaternary phosphonium salt used for bactericides Disclosed is a series of the water-insoluble polymeric quaternary phosphonium salt-type bactericides, which consists of as active bactericidal components an amino quaternary phosphonium salt, a quaternary ammonium group-containing quaternary phosphonium s... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6214957 | Solubilizers, emulsifiers and dispersants Solubilizers, emulsifiers and dispersing agents having the effects of moisturizing the skin when used as washing agents and having the character of elevating the concentration of a material to be solubilized, emulsified or dispersed in solvents including ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6204324 | Method for producing aqueous solution of polymer having phosphorylcholine groups A method for producing an aqueous solution of a polymer having a phosphorylcholine group in which a polymerizable composition containing a polymerizable monomer having the phosphorylcholine group represented by the formula (1) is polymerized in the presen... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6197905 | Process for producing polymers or oligomers of controlled molecular weight and end group functionalities A process for the production of polymers by free radical polymerization, characterized in that there is added to the polymerization system one or more compounds of general formula (A), where R1 is a group capable of activating the vinylic carbo... | 03/06/2001 |
