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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8124705 | Macro-diacrylates and macro-polacrylates The invention relates to covalent polymer networks composed of macro-diacrylates and polyacrylates having shape memory properties and that can be used in medical technology. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7279505 | Radiation-curable prepolymers 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... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7262250 | Scorch-retardant composition The present invention relates to the prevention of scorching before crosslinking of a thermoplastic and/or elastomeric composition with peroxides or azo compounds. This is achieved by using a family of specific nitroxides as additive. ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262252 | Nonlinear optical materials comprising fluorine-containing polymer There is provided a fluorine-containing resin composition which is used for nonlinear optical material and comprises (I) a fluorine-containing prepolymer and (II) an organic compound exhibiting a second- or higher-order nonlinear optical effect, in which the fluorin... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7214752 | Homopolymers which exhibit a high level of photo-inducable birefringence Homopolymers suitable for storage of information provided optically are disclosed. The are formed from monomers which contain groupings which are at least trinuclear, which are capable of absorbing the electromagnetic radiation of ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 6995192 | Radiation-curable prepolymers 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... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6937804 | Non-linear photonic switch and method of making the same A photonic switch according to the present invention may be formed using one of a selected group of non-linear optical materials. Each of the materials within this group has a refractive index that demonstrates a substantial peak as a function of wavelength, where t... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6875833 | Monomers and homopolymers, having high photoinduceable double refraction, prepared therefrom 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 anisom... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6833421 | Compound 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 ... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6784267 | Polymers containing hyperbranched monomers A water-soluble, cationic polymer comprising from about 1 to about 65 mole percent of one or more cationic monomers, from about 99 to about 35 mole percent of one or more nonionic monomers and from about 1 to about 1000 ppm, based on the total monomer content, of on... | 08/31/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6649722 | Contact lens This invention is directed to ophthalmic materials and ophthalmic lenses that are a co-polymerization product of a (a) hydrophilic monomer with (b) a tris(siloxy)silyl group-containing monomer, (c) a wide variety of hydrophobic monomers (both aliphatic an... | 11/18/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6630557 | Tertiary amine methacrylate-based macromonomers and polymers 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 CH... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6599678 | Organic anti-reflective coating polymer, anti-reflective coating composition comprising the same and method of preparation thereof An organic anti-reflective polymer having the following Formula 1, its preparation method, an anti-reflective coating composition comprising the said organic anti-reflective polymer and a preparation method of an anti-reflective coating made therefrom. Th... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6582883 | Organic anti-reflective coating polymer, anti-reflective coating composition and methods of preparation thereof An organic anti-reflective polymer having the following Formula 1, its preparation method, an anti-reflective coating composition comprising the said organic anti-reflective polymer and a preparation method of an anti-reflective coating made therefrom. Th... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6579956 | Method for producing a polymer by coordination polymerization A method for producing a polymer by coordination polymerization, comprising the steps of (a) reacting an unsaturated polar monomer having a functional group releasing a proton or a salt of the unsaturated polar monomer, with a masking agent comprising a h... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6559261 | Polymer production A method for producing a polymeric material, said method comprising subjecting a starting material which includes two multiple bonds which are activated so that they will take part in a polymerisation reaction and wherein the multiple bonds are sufficient... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6548613 | Organic anti-reflective coating polymer and preparation thereof The present invention provides a polymer that can be used as an anti-refelctive coating (ARC) polymer, an ARC composition comprising the same, methods for producing the same, and methods for using the same. The polymer of the present invention is particul... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6538090 | Organic anti-reflective polymer and method for manufacturing thereof Polymers are disclosed having the following formula 1 or 2: ##STR1## Polymers of the present invention can be used as an ARC material useful for submicrolithography processes using 248 nm KrF, 193 nm ArF and 157 nm F2 lasers. The polymers conta... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6489423 | Organic anti-reflective polymer and method for manufacturing thereof Polymers are disclosed having the following formula 1 or 2: ##STR1## Polymers of the present invention can be used as an ARC material useful for submicrolithography processes using 248 nm KrF, 193 nm ArF and 157 nm F2 lasers. The polymers conta... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6486283 | Organic anti-reflective coating polymer, anti-reflective coating composition methods of preparation thereof An organic anti-reflective polymer having the following Formula 1, its preparation method, an anti-reflective coating composition comprising the said organic anti-reflective polymer and a preparation method of an anti-reflective coating made therefrom. Th... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6451947 | High energy density capacitors and compounds for use in their preparation A high energy density capacitor comprising an organic polymeric dielectric material having a dielectric constant of at least about 7; wherein the organic polymeric dielectric material comprises polymerized alkyl (alpha-substituted)acrylate monomers having... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6423799 | Photo-addressable substrates and photo-addressable side-group polymers with highly inducible double refraction Disclosed is an extremely rapidly photo-addressable storage media from inherently slow photo-addressable polymers by irradiating a substrate over a large area with a light source suitable for conventional inscription so that an optical anisotropy, i.e. a ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6391984 | Polymerization process A staged method of forming vinyl (e.g. acrylate) copolymer by solution polymerization which involves a) charging up to 90% of at least two vinyl monomers of the vinyl copolymer to a first stage reaction zone, b) polymerizing the at least two vinyl monomer... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6388039 | Organic anti-reflective polymer and method for manufacturing thereof Polymers are disclosed having the following formula 1 or 2: ##STR1## ##STR2## Polymers of the present invention can be used as an ARC material useful for submicrolithography processes using 248 nm KrF, 193 nm ArF and 157 nm F2 lasers. The ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6310159 | Low foaming paper surface sizing composition The present invention refers to a paper surface sizing composition comprising a copolymer having: a) structural units derived from ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbons; structural units derived from monomers selected from esters of ethylenically unsaturated ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6184324 | High energy density capacitors and compounds for use in their preparation A high energy density capacitor comprising an organic polymeric dielectric material having a dielectric constant of at least about 7; wherein the organic polymeric dielectric material comprises polymerized alkyl (alpha-substituted)acrylate monomers having... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6177485 | Polymers derived from unsaturated surfactants for use in ink-jet inks The properties of ink-jet inks containing a colorant (pigment, macromolecular chromophore, or dye) are improved by adding thereto an additive, specifically, one or more polymers derived from unsaturated surfactants. The unsaturated surfactant(s) has at le... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6143849 | Synthesis of acrylate and alkyl acrylate monomers and polymers of chelators Multifunctional chelating groups are covalently bound to acrylate or methylate monomers. These monomers are polymerized. The resulting polymers are highly substituted with chelating groups and are useful for removing metals from fluids such as liquid hyd... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5962520 | Hydrolytically unstable, biocompatible polymer A hydrolytically unstable, biocompatible polymer capable of carrying and releasing a pharmaceutical compound when introduced into physiological media. In a preferred embodiment, the polymer contains ester linkages that are susceptible to hydrolytic degrad... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5889131 | Itaconate copolymer exhibiting second-order nonlinear optical properties A side-chain type second-order nonlinear optical polymer compound having a repeating unit as represented in general structure (I), --(--MO--)m --(--ITCN--NLO--)n --, wherein the sum of m and n is from 5 to 10000 and m and n satisfy m... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5847022 | Radiation curable resin composition and method therefor The present invention provides a radiation curable resin composition and method of production therefor; the present composition has wide applications as an ink, coating or the like, is dilutable in water or an organic solvent, and forms a coating which ha... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5696223 | Copolymerizable oxime ethers Oxime ethers of the general formula I ##STR1## where the variables have the following meanings: R1, R2 independently of one another hydrogen, C1 -C20 -alkyl, C4 -C10 -cycloalkyl, C | 12/09/1997 |
| 5693744 | Amorphus polyamides having second order nonlinear optical property, and method for preparing them An amorphous polyamide represented by the formula(2) ##STR1## in which each R is at least one alkylene radical having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R' is an electron acceptor group represented by the formula(3), ##STR2## wherein Y is --C.tbd.N, --NO | 12/02/1997 |
| 5688906 | Highly efficient nonlinear optical polyimides A method for forming a polyamic acid having nonlinear optical (NLO) or pre-NLO side chains, which method includes the steps of: (1) providing a bis-(aromatic dicarboxylic acid anhydride) containing at least one NLO or pre-NLO side chain having the structure re... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5663262 | Compound containing an oxamic acid group, a process for producing the compound, and a resin composition containing the compound The present invention relates to compounds containing an oxamic acid group, which show high reactivity and have stability for water and are used as paints, adhesives, and plastic materials etc. in the form of a reaction material or a resin. Since into the... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5641846 | Side-group polymers, and their use for optical components Side-group polymers whose permanently shape-anisotropic side groups carry lateral substituents are particularly suitable, owing to their excellent properties, for optical components which can be employed, in particular, in optical data storage and transfe... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5635576 | Crosslinkable material which may be used in opto-electronics, process for producing this material, and monomer allowing this material to be obtained The invention relates to a crosslinkable material containing a polymer onto which chromophores are laterally grafted, characterized in that each chromophore is within a polymer unit which corresponds to the following formula (I): ##STR1## in whi... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5633225 | Detergent compositions inhibiting dye transfer The present invention relates to a dye transfer inhibiting detergent composition comprising a) 0.0001% to 10% by weight of a dye transfer inhibitor having a ratio of amine to amine N-oxide of from about 2:3 to about 1:1,000,000 selected from the group con... | 05/27/1997 |
