To provide a protein adsorption preventing agent having an excellent film forming property and excellent water solubility, capable of easily coating various substrates, and having an excellent protein adsorption preventing property, and also to provide a protein adsorption preventing film using the protein adsorption preventing agent and a medical tool including the protein adsorption preventing film. A protein adsorption preventing agent containing an aqueous solvent and a polymer having at least a structural unit (A) represented by the following formula (1) (wherein R.sup.1 represents a methyl group or an ethyl group and n represents an integer of 1 to 10), and further containing a hydrophobic group, a protein adsorption preventing film using the protein adsorption preventing agent, and a medical tool including the protein adsorption preventing film.

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Compounds and compositions are provided which are useful in additive printing, particularly additive printing techniques such as stereolithography (SLA) wherein a macromer is photopolymerized to form a manufactured article. Representative compounds comprise a polyaxial central core (CC) and 2-4 arms of the formula (A)-(B) or (B)-(A) extending from the central core, where at least one of the arms comprise a light-reactive functional group (Q) and (A) is the free-radical polymerization product from monomers selected from trimethylene carbonate (T) and ε-caprolactone (C), while (B) is the free-radical polymerization product from monomers selected from glycolide, lactide and p-dioxanone.

Compounds and compositions are provided which are useful in additive printing, particularly additive printing techniques such as stereolithography (SLA) wherein a macromer is photopolymerized to form a manufactured article. Representative compounds comprise a polyaxial central core (CC) and 2-4 arms of the formula (A)-(B) or (B)-(A) extending from the central core, where at least one of the arms comprise a light-reactive functional group (Q) and (A) is the free-radical polymerization product from monomers selected from trimethylene carbonate (T) and ε-caprolactone (C), while (B) is the free-radical polymerization product from monomers selected from glycolide, lactide and p-dioxanone.

Provided is a resin which is excellent in terms of solubility in common solvents, crosslinking temperature, time required for crosslinking, solvent resistance (cracking resistance), breakdown voltage, leakage current, solvent wettability, and planarity in cases where the resin is formed into a thin film. A resin which comprises repeating units represented by formula (1) and formula (2), and wherein the repeating unit represented by formula (2) is contained in an amount of 20% by mole or more relative to the total amount of the repeating units represented by formula (1) and formula (2).

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Provided is a resin which is excellent in terms of solubility in common solvents, crosslinking temperature, time required for crosslinking, solvent resistance (cracking resistance), breakdown voltage, leakage current, solvent wettability, and planarity in cases where the resin is formed into a thin film. A resin which comprises repeating units represented by formula (1) and formula (2), and wherein the repeating unit represented by formula (2) is contained in an amount of 20% by mole or more relative to the total amount of the repeating units represented by formula (1) and formula (2).

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The present invention relates to a method of producing a polymer including: polymerizing a compound represented by the following formula (3); or copolymerizing the compound represented by the following formula (3) with a compound (6) having a reactive carbon-carbon double bond and differing from the compound represented by the following formula (3), in a presence of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formula (1) and compounds represented by the following formula (2).

The present invention relates to a method of producing a polymer including: polymerizing a compound represented by the following formula (3); or copolymerizing the compound represented by the following formula (3) with a compound (6) having a reactive carbon-carbon double bond and differing from the compound represented by the following formula (3), in a presence of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formula (1) and compounds represented by the following formula (2).

A polymer electrolyte is provided, which includes a polymer including an ethylene oxide unit; and a lithium salt, wherein the terminal of the polymer is substituted with one to four functional groups selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen compound functional group and phosphorus compound functional group, and the terminal of the polymer and the one to four functional groups are linked by one selected from the group consisting of a C2 to C20 alkylene linker, a C2 to C20 ether linker, and a C2 to C20 amine linker. A method for preparing the same is also provided.

A polymer electrolyte is provided, which includes a polymer including an ethylene oxide unit; and a lithium salt, wherein the terminal of the polymer is substituted with one to four functional groups selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen compound functional group and phosphorus compound functional group, and the terminal of the polymer and the one to four functional groups are linked by one selected from the group consisting of a C2 to C20 alkylene linker, a C2 to C20 ether linker, and a C2 to C20 amine linker. A method for preparing the same is also provided.

A pneumatic object is provided with an elastomer layer which is gastight to inflation gases, said elastomer layer comprising, as predominant elastomer, a thermoplastic elastomer in the form of a block copolymer which comprises: (a) an elastomeric block comprising at least units derived from isobutylene, and having a glass transition temperature of less than or equal to 20 C., and (b) one or more thermoplastic blocks, the thermoplastic block(s) each comprising at least one first block consisting of units derived from at least one polymerizable monomer and at least one second block, said second block(s) being a random copolymer consisting of units derived from -methylstyrene and of units derived from -pinene. A process for rendering a pneumatic object gastight to inflation gases is also disclosed.