The present disclosure provides a non-hydrocarbyl-based alcohol initiated polyetheramine. In particular, the polyetheramine of the present disclosure is produced from a tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol-based initiator which is alkoxylated and then reductively aminated. The polyetheramine of the present disclosure may be used in a variety of applications, such as a raw material in the synthesis of a dispersant for use in an aqueous pigment dispersion.

A flexible encapsulating material, a method for preparing the flexible encapsulating material, and an encapsulating method using the flexible encapsulating material are provided. The flexible encapsulating material includes an epoxy resin represented by a Formula (1), a curing agent, and a curing accelerator and optionally includes a coupling agent, wherein based on 100 parts by weight of a total usage amount of the epoxy resin (A), the curing agent (B), and the curing accelerator (C), a usage amount of the epoxy resin (A) is 85 parts by weight or more, and based on 100 parts by weight of the usage amount of the epoxy resin (A), a usage amount of the coupling agent (D) is 0 to 5 parts by weight. ##STR00001##

An article of manufacture. The article of manufacture includes a ring-opened lactide copolymer. The ring-opened lactide copolymer is formed in a process that includes reacting a functionalized lactide monomer with a BPA-derived monomer. The reaction forms a lactide copolymer, which is reacted to form the ring-opened lactide copolymer.

A polyalkylene glycol-based compound may have formula (1):

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wherein R.sup.1 is a monovalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 42 ring carbon atoms; R.sup.2 is a monovalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 42 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom; R.sup.3 is a divalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; and m is a number in a range of from 1 to 40.

The present disclosure provides a non-hydrocarbyl-based alcohol initiated polyetheramine. In particular, the polyetheramine of the present disclosure is produced from a tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol-based initiator which is alkoxylated and then reductively aminated. The polyetheramine of the present disclosure may be used in a variety of applications, such as a raw material in the synthesis of a dispersant for use in an aqueous pigment dispersion.

Provided is a surfactant composition having the capability of not only imparting excellent polymerization stability, but also imparting excellent mechanical stability to the aqueous resin dispersion to be obtained through emulsion polymerization, even when the amount of the surfactant composition used is small.

The surfactant composition includes a surfactant (A) and an anionic surfactant (B) having no radical polymerizable substituent, where the surfactant (A) is a compound represented by a general formula (I)

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(in which D represents a polymerizable unsaturated group; R.sup.1 represents a group having an aromatic ring; ml is 1 to 2, m2 is 1 to 2, and a sum of numbers m1 and m2 is 2 to 3; A represents an alkylene group or a substituted alkylene group having a carbon number of 2 to 4; n is an average number of moles of alkylene oxide added and is 1 to 1000; and X represents an anionic hydrophilic group) and the surfactant (B) contains a polyoxyalkylene group which has a repeating number of an oxyalkylene unit of 1 to 10.

The invention relates to a composition that contains a binary mixture of bisphenol F and propoxylated bisphenol F. The aim of the invention is to provide aromatic polyols for preparing polyurethane-based and polyisocyanurate-based polymers, which ensure good handling from a technical point of view and good miscibility with the isocyanate component and render the end product flameproof. For this purpose, the invention devises a composition, which contains a binary mixture of ethoxylated bisphenol F and propoxylated bisphenol F in a weight ratio of 20:80 to 80:20.

Disclosed herein is the de novo synthesis of phosphorylated polyethylene glycol compounds with three defined ABA (hydrophilic/-phobic/-philic) structures: ABA-PEG10k-Pi10, ABA-PEG16k-Pi14, and ABA-PEG20k-Pi20 and linear polymer PEG20k-Pi20 absent of hydrophobic block. The disclosure also provides materials and methods for treating or reducing the risk or likelihood of developing, anastomotic leak or other microbe-mediated disorders by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a plasminogen inhibitor such as tranexamic acid and/or a phosphate-loaded polymer.

This invention provides a polymer, which is preferably a polyether polymer. The polymer may be used in coating compositions. Containers and other articles comprising the polymer and methods of making such containers and other articles are also provided. The invention further provides compositions including the polymer (e.g., powder coatings), which have utility in a variety of coating end uses, including, for example, valve and pipe coatings.

Alkoxylates according to the following formula (I)

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are described, wherein X is selected from ethoxy and mixtures of ethoxy and propoxy groups, T is selected from the group consisting of H, C.sub.1-C.sub.4 alkyl, SO.sub.3.sup.−, CH.sub.2—COO.sup.−, sulfosuccinate and PO.sub.3.sup.2−, R1, R2 and R4 are H, CO—NR8R3 or COO—[X.sub.1].sub.v—R3, whereby two of the substituents R1, R2 and R4 are H and the third of these substituents is CO—NR8R3 or COO—[X.sub.1].sub.v—R3, R8 is H or a linear or branched alkyl group with 1 to 4 C-atoms, R3 is a linear or branched saturated alkyl group with 6 to 30 carbon atoms, a linear or branched mono- or polyunsaturated alkenyl group with 6 to 30 carbon atoms, an aryl group with 6 to 10 carbon atoms, a group (CH.sub.2CH.sub.2O).sub.maryl, wherein the aryl group comprises 6 to 10 carbon atoms and m, on a molar average, is a number from 1 to 100, or an aryl-substituted linear or branched C.sub.1-C.sub.3 alkyl group wherein the aryl group comprises 6 to 10 carbon atoms, but in the case, that R1 and R4 are H and R2 is COOR3, R3 can only be an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or a group (CH.sub.2CH.sub.2O).sub.maryl as defined above, X.sub.1 is selected from ethoxy and mixtures of ethoxy and propoxy groups, u on a molar average, is a number of from 3 to 100, and v on a molar average, is a number of from 0 to 20.

The compounds of formula (I) may advantageously be used as anti-redeposition agents in laundry applications.