A binder comprising the products of a carbohydrate reactant and polyamine is disclosed. The binder is useful for consolidating loosely assembled matter, such as fibers. Uncured fibrous products comprising fibers in contact with a carbohydrate reactant and a polyamine are also disclosed. The binder composition may be cured to yield a fibrous product comprising fibers bound by a cross-linked polymer. Further disclosed are methods for binding fibers with the carbohydrate reactant and polyamine based binder.

The disclosed technology provides a vitrimeric poly(diketoenamine) network comprising: a plurality of multifunctional triketone dimers; a plurality of multifunctional amine species containing primary or secondary amine groups, but no tertiary amine groups; and optionally, one or more amine-reactive groups. The disclosed technology also provides a method of making a vitrimeric polymer network, comprising: obtaining multifunctional triketone dimers; obtaining a multifunctional imine compound, with imine groups blocking amine groups; mixing the multifunctional triketone dimers with the multifunctional imine compound, thereby forming a polymer precursor mixture; applying the polymer precursor mixture onto a substrate; and allowing the multifunctional imine compound to undergo hydrolysis with water, unblocking the amine functional groups and generating a multifunctional amine compound. The multifunctional amine compound reacts with the multifunctional triketone dimers to form a vitrimeric polymer network. The vitrimeric polymer network may be depolymerized back to monomers, which may be repolymerized in a closed-loop system.

The disclosed technology provides a vitrimeric poly(diketoenamine) network comprising: a plurality of multifunctional triketone dimers; a plurality of multifunctional amine species containing primary or secondary amine groups, but no tertiary amine groups; and optionally, one or more amine-reactive groups. The disclosed technology also provides a method of making a vitrimeric polymer network, comprising: obtaining multifunctional triketone dimers; obtaining a multifunctional imine compound, with imine groups blocking amine groups; mixing the multifunctional triketone dimers with the multifunctional imine compound, thereby forming a polymer precursor mixture; applying the polymer precursor mixture onto a substrate; and allowing the multifunctional imine compound to undergo hydrolysis with water, unblocking the amine functional groups and generating a multifunctional amine compound. The multifunctional amine compound reacts with the multifunctional triketone dimers to form a vitrimeric polymer network. The vitrimeric polymer network may be depolymerized back to monomers, which may be repolymerized in a closed-loop system.

A system, composition, and method of producing a heat resistant and higher toughness plastic material that results in enhanced Polydiketoenamines (PDK) materials. Such systems, compositions, and/or methods may include combination of a triketone and a plasticizer with other enhancing materials such as in one variation a heat resistant difunctional or trifunctional polyamine that forms dynamic covalent bonds with the triketone, or in another variation a diamine that acts as a chain extender and a triamine that acts as a cross-linking agent.

A system, composition, and method of producing a heat resistant and higher toughness plastic material that results in enhanced Polydiketoenamines (PDK) materials. Such systems, compositions, and/or methods may include combination of a triketone and a plasticizer with other enhancing materials such as in one variation a heat resistant difunctional or trifunctional polyamine that forms dynamic covalent bonds with the triketone, or in another variation a diamine that acts as a chain extender and a triamine that acts as a cross-linking agent.

The present invention relates to, a curable photochromic composition that includes: (a) a photochromic compound; (b) a hydrazide functional material having at least two hydrazide groups that are reactive with carbonyl groups selected from ketone groups and aldehyde groups; (c) a first carbonyl-functional component including a (meth)acrylate polymer having at least two carbonyl groups that are reactive with hydrazide groups; and (d) at least one of, (d1) a second carbonyl-functional component having at least one carbonyl group that is reactive with hydrazide groups, and/or (d2) a non-reactive component. The non-reactive component is free of functional groups that are reactive with the hydrazide functional material, the first carbonyl-functional component, and the second carbonyl-functional component. The present invention also relates to an article that includes: a substrate; and a photochromic layer over at least one surface of the substrate, where the photochromic layer is formed from the curable photochromic composition of the present invention.

A resin composition contains a resin that includes a monomer unit derived from (A) an acetoacetic acid ester compound including two or more acetoacetic acid ester groups in a molecule and a monomer unit derived from (B) an amine compound including two or more primary amino groups in a molecule, and that has a three-dimensional crosslinked structure in which an acetoacetic acid ester group of the (A) acetoacetic acid ester compound and a primary amino group of the (B) amine compound are condensation bonded.

A method for extracting a metal species from a solution is described, where the metal species comprises a rare earth element, Th, or U. The method involves the use of poly(caffeic acid) as a sorbent material. The poly(caffeic acid) may be crosslinked with a diamine crosslinker such as ethylenediamine.