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| 8088877 | Photo or electron beam curable compositions A curable composition and a process for using the curable composition within a grating-coupled waveguide (GCW) sensor are disclosed. The composition can be used for facile replication of optical components, specifically those used in a label-independent detection sy... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7649066 | Method of obtaining block copolymers and uses thereof in adhesive compositions The present invention describes linear or star block copolymers, their process of preparation and their use in adhesive compositions, in particular as pressure-sensitive adhesive. The copolymers of the invention are prepared by controlled radical polymerization by n... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7572874 | Processes based on atom (or group) transfer radical polymerization and novel (co)polymers having useful structures and properties Improved processes for atom (or group) transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and novel polymers have been developed and are described. In certain embodiments, novel copolymers comprising a least one polymeric branch or polymeric block with a predominantly alternati... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7504466 | High solids preparation of crosslinked polymer particles A process for preparing crosslinked polymer particles at high solids levels (i.e., >40 wt %). Also provided is a method for predicting whether a selection of reaction conditions for preparing crosslinked polymer particles will exhibit a potential for forming a gel a... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7438978 | Transparent conductive film, transparent conductive plate, and touch panel A touch panel having excellent durability, in which depression is scarcely generated on the surface of the touch panel by pushing the surface with a pen, and a transparent conductive film and plate useful in the touch panel are provided. The transparent conductive f... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439314 | Catalysts for olefin polymerization Transition metal complexes of selected monoanionic phosphine ligands, which also contain a selected Group 15 or 16 (IUPAC) element and which are coordinated to a Group 3 to 11 (IUPAC) transition metal or a lanthanide metal, are polymerization catalysts for the (co)p... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7405263 | Polymer for water treatment A description is given of (meth)acrylic acid copolymers comprising methacrylic acid units and units based on isopropanol, the polymer being functionalized with aminoalkylsulfonic acid. In addition, a description is given of a process for the preparation thereof and ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7385019 | Polymer solutions with shear reversible properties Water-based fluids that can viscosify under shear or can produce a gel or form a gel under shear are obtained by dissolving polymers in an aqueous phase. These polymers comprise three types of functional groups: non-ionic functional groups that are hydrosoluble at t... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7378216 | Resist material and pattern formation method A resist material has a base polymer containing a compound including a copolymer of a first unit represented by a general formula of the following Chemical Formula 1 and a second unit represented by a general formula of the following Chemical Formula 2: | 05/27/2008 |
| 7344768 | Active energy ray curable composition for coating optical disk and optical disk The present invention relates to an active energy ray curable composition for coating optical disc, comprising a urethane (meth)acrylate compound having at least one amide group in the molecule, an ethylenically unsaturated compound other than the urethane (meth)acr... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341771 | Active energy ray curable composition for coating optical disk and optical disk The present invention relates to an active energy ray curable composition for coating optical disc, comprising a urethane (meth)acrylate compound having at least one amide group in the molecule, an ethylenically unsaturated compound other than the urethane (meth)acr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341784 | Light management film and its preparation and use A light management film includes a first layer with a thermoplastic resin and a particular phosphonium sulfonate salt, and a second layer formed from a curable composition and having a refractive index of at least 1.5. The light management film exhibits reduced stat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7335703 | Polyolefin graft copolymer prepared in the presence of coordination polymerization catalyst based on late transition metal complex and method for making the same A novel polyolefin graft copolymer prepared by graft-copolymerizing an olefin monomer with a (meth)acryl macromonomer or an isobutylene macromonomer in the presence of a coordination polymerization catalyst based on a late transition metal complex and a method for m... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7326762 | Copolymer having reactive silicon-containing group and organic-inorganic hybrid polymeric material Disclosed is a copolymer comprising a polyethylene segment which is a main chain; a reactive silicon-containing group which is a side group of the polyethylene segment; and a polycondensation segment bonded to the polyethylene segment, which is a part of the main ch... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323232 | Resin composition for spacer, spacer, and liquid crystal display device To provide a resin composition for spacer useful for the formation of a pixel-patterned spacer on a substrate in a liquid crystal display device, a spacer using the composition, and a liquid crystal display device that can display high-quality images, a resin compos... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323527 | Process for macroporous acrylic resins A method for producing a macroporous acrylic resin in an aqueous suspension from a C1-C4 alkyl acrylate, an organic solvent and a crosslinker. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317062 | Copolymers, preparation thereof and use as wetting agents and dispersants The invention relates to copolymers, suitable as wetting agents and dispersants, obtainable by copolymerizing (a) 1 to 80 mol % of at least one ethylenically unsaturated 1,2-dicarboxylic acid derivative, (b) 2 to 80 mol % of at least one unsaturated monocarboxylic a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7309736 | Acrylic block copolymer and thermoplastic resin composition The present invention provides a novel acrylic block copolymer rich in flexibility and excellent in mechanical strength, moldability, oil resistance, heat resistance, thermal decomposition resistance, weather resistance, and compression set, and further rich in reac... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304114 | Processes for preparing tougheners for thermoset compositions Liquid rubbers that are ordinarily immiscible in liquid thermoset resins can be made miscible by the addition of at least one non-functional aromatic end-group to the polymer chains of such liquid rubber compositions. Such addition may be initiated by high-temperatu... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7288613 | N-alkoxy-4,4-dioxy-polyalkyl-piperidine compounds, their corresponding N-oxides and controlled radical polymerization therewith The present invention relates to selected 1-alkoxy-2,2,6,6 tetramethyl piperidine, 1-alkoxy-2,2 diethyl-6,6 dimethyl piperidine and 1-alkoxy-2,6 diethyl-2,3,6 dimethyl piperidine derivatives which are substituted in the 4 position by two oxygen atoms forming an open... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285615 | Particulate water-absorbent resin composition An object of the present invention is to provide a particulate water-absorbent resin composition which is so excellent that: the absorption ability in an initial short time is secured in some degree, and further, the absorption capacity lastingly increases over a lo... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7264866 | Laminate film The object of the present invention is to provide a laminated film excellent in light resistance, scratch resistance, transparency, dimensional stability and adhesion to a hard coating layer. The present invention is a laminated film comprising a base material layer... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7244796 | Polymer composition Branched polymers are prepared by mixing together monofunctional vinylic monomer with from 0.3 to 100% w/w of polyfunctional vinylic monomer and from 0.0001 to 50% w/w of chain transfer agent and thereafter reacting the mixture to form a polymer. The resulting branc... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7238761 | Multifunctional biocompatible hydrophilic gel and the method of gel manufacture Multifunctional biocompatible hydrophilic gel contains, in % (w/w), acrylamide—1.95-8.0, methacrylamide—0.54-3.0, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate—0.003-0.4, N,N′-methylene-bis-acrylamide—0.006-0.6 and water—q.s. to 100. The hydrophilic gel is produced by co-... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7217377 | Photochromic optical waveguides and method for the preparation thereof An optical waveguide based on a photochromic diarylethene polymer dispersed in a polymeric matrix, and a method for preparing such waveguide is disclosed. ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7202310 | Polymers, processes for producing the same, and curable compositions produced therefrom An alkenyl- or crosslinkable silyl-terminated vinyl polymer is provided. Such a functional group is introduced into its terminus at a high ratio, not via sulfur atoms. Those polymers can be prepared by polymerizing a vinyl monomer for obtaining a halogen-terminated ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7189303 | Initiator systems and adhesive compositions made therewith Initiator systems of the present invention include both a complexed initiator and a carboxylic acid decomplexer. For example, dicarboxylic acid decomplexer, carboxylic acid ester decomplexers, and monocarboxylic acid decomplexers (preferably those comprising an alky... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183368 | Negative-working photoresist composition Disclosed is a chemical-amplification negative-working photoresist composition used for photolithographic patterning in the manufacture of semiconductor devices suitable for patterning light-exposure to ArF excimer laser beams and capable of giving a high-resolution... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7175832 | Aqueous dispersions of crystalline polymers and uses Aqueous dispersions of crystalline polymers based on hydrophobic monomers, preferably on a mixture of hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers which contains a crosslinking monomer, particularly side chain crystalline (SCC) polymers. The dispersions are useful for provi... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7166661 | Organic-inorganic composite material and laminate, optical waveguide and light transmission structure comprising the same An organic-inorganic composite material is formed by polycondensating a metal alkoxide through hydrolysis until the unreacted metal alkoxide is reduced to 3 vol. % or less, and mixing it with an organic polymer. The composite material has a light transmittance of at... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7160965 | Cyclopentadienyl-containing low-valent early transition metal olefin polymerization catalysts A catalyst system useful to polymerize and co-polymerize polar and non-polar olefin monomers is formed by in situ reduction with a reducing agent of a catalyst precursor comprising {Cp*MRR′n}+{A}− wherein Cp* ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7160970 | Process for manufacturing polymers The present invention is directed to methods for preparing multi-functional emulsion polymers. ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7157537 | α-Halogenated acid esters with polyvalent alcohols as atom transfer radical polymerization initiators The invention relates to α-halocarboxylic acid esters of polyhydric, at least trihydric, alcohols, which can be used as initiators for ATRP. Using those initiators it is possible to prepare block copolymers having branched structures. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157542 | Copolymer having reactive silicon-containing group and organic-inorganic hybrid polymeric material Disclosed is a copolymer comprising a polyethylene segment which is a main chain; a reactive silicon-containing group which is a side group of the polyethylene segment; and a polycondensation segment bonded to the polyethylene segment, which is a part of the main ch... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153581 | Extrudable, low-migration organic silicone copolymers of high transparency, their preparation and use The invention provides organic silicone copolymers based on a) from 30 to 99% by weight of a vinylaromatic, (meth)acrylic ester, vinyl ester, olefin, diene, and/or vinyl halide monomer, and b) from 1 to 70% by weig... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7144931 | Method of manufacturing polymer particles A method of manufacturing polymer particles capable of increasing the easiness of handling of powder when the powder is collected and preventing the powder from adhering to the wall surface of a dryer and the outlet of the dryer from being clogged with the powder by... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7132460 | Active energy ray curable composition for coating optical disk and optical disk The present invention relates to an active energy ray curable composition for coating optical disc, comprising a urethane (meth)acrylate compound having at least one amide group in the molecule, an ethylenically unsaturated compound other than the urethane (meth)acr... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7125938 | Atom or group transfer radical polymerization A polymerization process comprising initiating a first polymerization of monomers using an initiator functionalized with an ATRP initiating site, wherein the first polymerization is selected from the group of cationic polymerization, anionic polymerization, conventi... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7125939 | Olefin polymerization with polymer bound single-site catalysts Disclosed is a process for polymerizing olefins. The process comprises polymerizing one or more olefins with a single-site catalyst in two or more polymerization stages. The catalyst comprises a transition metal complex, an activator, and a hydroxyl functional polym... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7109282 | Catalytic polymerization process This invention relates to a process for controlling the architecture of copolymers of at least two unsaturated monomers, made by free-radical polymerization in the presence of a cobalt-containing chain transfer agent, including the control of molecular weight, degre... | 09/19/2006 |
