The invention relates to a method for preparing a sequenced copolymer comprising a first block (A) connected to a second block (B), said method comprising the following steps of monitored radical polymerisation: (E1) bringing into contact, typically in an aqueous medium: unsaturated ethylene monomers m.sub.A, selected in order to constitute the block (A); a source of free radicals; and an agent for monitoring the radical polymerisation; and then (E2) bringing into contact: the polymer obtained from step (E1); unsaturated ethylene monomers m.sub.B; a source of free radicals; and a polymer P.sup.0 which is not ethylenically unsaturated and supports labile hydrogens.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a sequenced copolymer comprising a first block (A) connected to a second block (B), said method comprising the following steps of monitored radical polymerisation: (E1) bringing into contact, typically in an aqueous medium: unsaturated ethylene monomers m.sub.A, selected in order to constitute the block (A); a source of free radicals; and an agent for monitoring the radical polymerisation; and then (E2) bringing into contact: the polymer obtained from step (E1); unsaturated ethylene monomers m.sub.B; a source of free radicals; and a polymer P.sup.0 which is not ethylenically unsaturated and supports labile hydrogens.

This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer.

This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer.

A method for making a coating composition by mixing one or more latex polymers and an aliphatic epoxy resin system having an epoxy equivalent weight less than 1000 and being distinct from the one or more latex polymers to provide an aqueous first component, and providing a second component having reactive groups that can react with the one or more epoxy resins. A mixture of the first and second components provides a film-forming curable coating composition that may be used on substrates including cement, cement fiberboard, wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, glass and composites.

A method for making a coating composition by mixing one or more latex polymers and an aliphatic epoxy resin system having an epoxy equivalent weight less than 1000 and being distinct from the one or more latex polymers to provide an aqueous first component, and providing a second component having reactive groups that can react with the one or more epoxy resins. A mixture of the first and second components provides a film-forming curable coating composition that may be used on substrates including cement, cement fiberboard, wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, glass and composites.

The invention aims to provide a cured film that is high in sensitivity, able to form a pattern having a small-tapered shape after a development step and after a heat curing step, helpful to depress the difference in the width of patterned openings between before and after the heat curing step, and high in light-shielding capability and also aims to provide a negative type photosensitive resin composition that serves for the production thereof. The negative type photosensitive resin composition includes an alkali-soluble resin (A), a radical polymerizable compound (B), a photo initiator (C1), and a black colorant (Da); the alkali-soluble resin (A) including a first resin (A1) containing one or more selected from the group consisting of polyimide (A1-1), polyimide precursor (A1-2), polybenzoxazole (A1-3), polybenzoxazole precursor (A1-4), and polysiloxane (A1-5); and the radical polymerizable compound (B) including one or more selected from the group consisting of a fluorene backbone-containing radical polymerizable compound (B1) and an indane backbone-containing radical polymerizable compound (B2).

A graft copolymer (C) having a main chain portion of a precursor polymer (A) and a graft portion from a polymer (B), wherein a core portion of the solid product comprises the main chain portion derived from (A), a shell portion comprises the graft portion derived from (B), and the solid product satisfies: Infrared absorption spectroscopic measurement of a section passing through a center (x) of the solid product, a point (z) on a surface where a distance between the center (x) and the surface is shortest, and a middle point (y) of a line connecting the center (x) and the point (z), absorbance (Abs) satisfies X<0.01, Y<0.01, and Z0.01, wherein X, Y, and Z represent values of Abs (key band of the polymer (B))/Abs (key band of the polymer (A)) at the center (x), the middle point (y) and the point (z).

A curable polymer latex composition obtainable by: (a) subjecting a monomer mixture comprising i. at least one conjugated diene; ii. at least one ethylenically unsaturated nitrile; iii. optionally at least one ethylenically unsaturated acid; iv. optionally at least one further ethylenically unsaturated compound different from any of the compounds (i)-(iii); to free-radical emulsion polymerization in an aqueous reaction medium to form a raw polymer latex; and (b) allowing the obtained raw latex to mature in the presence of at least one thiocarbonyl-functional compound, wherein the at least one thiocarbonyl-functional compound is present in an amount of at least 0.05 wt.-%, based on the total amount of monomers subjected to free-radical emulsion polymerization in step (a), and (c) optionally compounding the matured polymer latex with one or more cross-linking agent. Methods for making such curable polymer latex composition or rubber articles made therefrom, respectively.

A curable polymer latex composition obtainable by: (a) subjecting a monomer mixture comprising i. at least one conjugated diene; ii. at least one ethylenically unsaturated nitrile; iii. optionally at least one ethylenically unsaturated acid; iv. optionally at least one further ethylenically unsaturated compound different from any of the compounds (i)-(iii); to free-radical emulsion polymerization in an aqueous reaction medium to form a raw polymer latex; and (b) allowing the obtained raw latex to mature in the presence of at least one thiocarbonyl-functional compound, wherein the at least one thiocarbonyl-functional compound is present in an amount of at least 0.05 wt.-%, based on the total amount of monomers subjected to free-radical emulsion polymerization in step (a), and (c) optionally compounding the matured polymer latex with one or more cross-linking agent. Methods for making such curable polymer latex composition or rubber articles made therefrom, respectively.