Pressure sensitive adhesives and tapes having flame-retardant properties include a substrate layer and a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive disposed on the substrate layer. The pressure sensitive adhesive is a UV-cured composition of a curable composition. The curable composition includes a polymerizable (meth)acrylate-based mixture, a polymerizable aromatic (meth)acrylate oligomer, a liquid flame retarding agent, and at least one UV initiator. The UV-cured composition is an optically clear pressure sensitive adhesive with flame retarding properties.

The invention relates to a double-side printable label suitable for machine readable labelling of food containers and a method for manufacturing such label, wherein the label is arranged to comprise a base paper made of chemical pulp that separates the face and reverse sides, the face side comprising a layer of temperature sensitive coating which free of bisphenol A and suitable for direct thermal printing, the reverse side comprising a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive, which is suitable for flexographic printing with ultraviolet curable inks, and wherein the machine readability of the label is improved by means of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer thickness having effect on the static sensitivity of the temperature sensitive coating of the label.

Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet that can temporarily fix an adherend in a peelable manner, the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet being free from requiring the application of high-output laser light at the time of the peeling of the adherend and being capable of eliminating the need for a step of washing the adherend after the peeling. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet of the present invention includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing a UV absorber and an active energy ray-curable pressure-sensitive adhesive, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has a transmittance of 50% or less for light having a wavelength of 355 nm. In one embodiment, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness of 20 μm or less. In one embodiment, the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has a visible light transmittance of 50% or more.

The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, including a copolymer obtained by polymerizing (A) at least one of unsaturated compounds represented by the following formula (1) and (B) at least one selected from the group consisting of: an unsaturated carboxylic acid; and an unsaturated carboxylic acid ester compound except for the component (A), a method of producing the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and a re-peelable sheet:

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wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrocarbon group or acyl group having 8 to 36 carbon atoms, A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 each independently represent an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, L represents a group represented by the following general formula (2), “z” represents a number from 1 to 10, X represents a hydrogen atom or an ionic hydrophilic group, “m” represents a number from 0 to 100, and “n” represents a number from 0 to 100;

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wherein R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, “x” represents a number from 0 to 12, and “y” represents a number of 0 or 1.

Pressure sensitive adhesives that include hyperbranched silsesquioxane-core polymers are described. Also described are various methods for producing the noted polymers and pressure sensitive adhesives. In addition, a variety of articles including tapes utilizing the pressure sensitive adhesives are described.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a double-sided adhesive film which has a generally equal elongation in the XY (longitudinal and transverse) directions, more preferably in the thickness direction, while being prevented from the occurrence of adhesive protrusion or glue burr, and which has higher adhesive force and higher holding power in comparison to similar single-layer adhesive articles, while being applicable to a stretchable or flexible adherend. A double-sided adhesive film according to the present invention is a substrate-less double-sided adhesive film which is composed of a center layer that is formed of a resin adhesive, and adhesive layers that are superposed on the front surface and the back surface of the center layer, said adhesive layers being formed of a resin that is the same as or similar to the resin that constitutes the center layer, wherein the weight average molecular weight or the crosslinking degree of the resin that constitutes the center layer is higher than the weight average molecular weight or the crosslinking degree of the resin that constitutes the adhesive layers. This double-sided adhesive film is characterized in that the tolerance between the elongation in the longitudinal direction and the elongation in the transverse direction is ±20% or less relative to one of the elongations, more preferably, the elongation in the longitudinal direction and the elongation in the transverse direction are equal to each other.

An object of the present invention is to provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet enables a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer to be formed, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a low dielectric constant, is excellent in level difference conformability while maintaining adhesive strength and adhesion reliability at high temperatures, and suitable for laminating a metal mesh film and the like. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet of the present invention is a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing an acrylic polymer (A) and a hydrogenated polyolefinic resin (B) that exhibits liquid flowability at 25° C. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a dielectric constant at a frequency of 1 MHz of from 2.3 to 3.5. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has a 180° peel adhesive strength to a glass plate at a tensile speed of 300 mm/minute at 65° C. of 6 N/20 mm or more. In the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, the proportion of the 180° peel adhesive strength to a glass plate at a tensile speed of 300 mm/minute at 65° C. to the 180° peel adhesive strength to a glass plate at a tensile speed of 300 mm/minute at 25° C. (180° peel adhesive strength to a glass plate at a tensile speed of 300 mm/minute at 65° C./180° peel adhesive strength to a glass plate at a tensile speed of 300 mm/minute at 25° C.×100) is 30 or more.

An object of the present invention is to provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition that enables a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer to be formed, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a low dielectric constant, is excellent in level difference conformability and transparency while maintaining adhesive strength and adhesion reliability at high temperatures, and suitable for laminating a metal mesh film and the like. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present invention contains an acrylic polymer (A), a mixture of monomer components constituting the acrylic polymer (A) or a partially polymerized product of a mixture of monomer components constituting the acrylic polymer (A), and a hydrogenated polyolefinic resin (B) that exhibits liquid flowability at 25° C. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprises a branched-chain alkyl group having 10 to 24 carbon atoms as a monomer component. The hydrogenated polyolefinic resin (B) has a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1000 to 5000 and a polydispersity (Mw/Mn) of 2.0 or less. The hydrogenated polyolefinic resin (B) contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a hydrogenated polyolefin and a hydrogenated polyolefin polyol. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprises 3 to 35 parts by weight of the hydrogenated polyolefinic resin (B) based on 100 parts by weight of the acrylic polymer (A).

The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising at least one poly(meth)acrylate; and at least one acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, wherein
the at least one acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber is present at 1 to 49 wt %, based on the total weight of the pressure-sensitive adhesive. The invention further relates to the production of a pressure-sensitive adhesive of the invention and also to the use of the pressure-sensitive adhesive of the invention for the bonding of components of electronic devices or of components in automobiles. Lastly the present invention relates to an adhesive tape comprising at least one layer of a pressure-sensitive adhesive according to the present invention.

The invention relates to a surfactant comprising a grafted rosin ester which is a rosin ester grafted with a capped polyalkylene glycol, wherein the capped polyalkylene glycol is a polyalkylene glycol capped by an alkyl ether and an aqueous dispersion consisting of an aqueous phase and resin particles dispersed in the aqueous phase, wherein the dispersion comprises the surfactant according to the invention.