Provided is an aqueous composition comprising dispersed particles that comprise a polyurethane, wherein said polyurethane is a reaction product of a group of reactants (GR1), wherein GR1 comprises one or more aromatic polyisocyanates and, a polyol component, wherein said polyol component comprises (a) 50% to 99% by weight, based on the weight of said polyol component, one or more polyester polyols, (b) 0.1% to 10% by weight, based on the weight of said polyol component, one or more diols having a hydrophilic side chain, and (c) 0.9% to 40% by weight, based on the weight of said polyol component, one or more polyols different from (a) and (b). Also provided is a method of bonding a metal foil to a polymer film using such an aqueous composition.

A radiation curable polyurethane resin includes an ionic group, a polyalkylene oxide in a side chain thereof, and a (meth)acrylate or (meth)acrylamide having a hydroxyl functional group. The polyurethane resin is obtainable by reacting a polyester polyol, a polyether diol, a polyol containing an ionic group, a (meth)acrylate or (meth)acrylamide having a hydroxyl functional group, and a polyisocyanate. The polyester polyol is obtained by reacting a polycarboxylic acid and a polyol. The radiation curable polyurethane resin can be used as binder in an aqueous ink jet ink.

A photoresponsive polyurethane including a hard segment, a soft segment, and a photoresponsive group that is selected from a coumarin group or a coumarin derivative and an alkoxyphencyl group or an alkoxyphencyl.

A photoresponsive polyurethane including a hard segment, a soft segment, and a photoresponsive group that is selected from a coumarin group or a coumarin derivative and an alkoxyphencyl group or an alkoxyphencyl.

Caprolactam-derived solvents for use as processing solvents and/or coalescing agents for polyurethane dispersions (PUDs). The caprolactam-derived solvents are suitable for processing solvents and coalescing agents in PUDs created through traditional PUD manufacturing processes or as coalescing agents in PUDs created through solvent-free PUD manufacturing processes. Blends of more than one caprolactam-derived solvent may be used as the processing solvent and/or coalescing agent.

Provided herein are curable compositions for use in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing crosslinked polymers using said curable compositions, crosslinked polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the crosslinked polymers.

The invention relates to the use of an aqueous dispersion containing at least one polyurethane-polyurea polymer formed from (a) at least one difunctional polyester polyol having a number-average molecular weight of 400 to 5000 g/mol, (b) at least one difunctional polyol component having a number-average molecular weight of 762 to 399 g/mol, c) at least one diisocyanate and (d) at least one chain extender optionally having at least one ionic group, for the bonding of at least two substrates by application of the aqueous dispersion to at least one of the substrates to be bonded, subsequent drying of the dispersion present on the at least one substrate in order to obtain at least one adhesive layer, and contacting of the at least one adhesive layer with a further substrate or with an adhesive layer present on a further substrate at a pressure of from 0.1 to 5 bar(a) and a temperature of less than 40° C., wherein the polyurethane-polyurea polymer after the drying has a glass transition temperature Tg of from −65 to 10° C. and a melting point of from 40 to 80° C., to a corresponding process for joining at least two substrates, and to an adhesive composite obtained in this way and comprising at least two substrates and an adhesive layer present between every two substrates.

The invention relates to a method for producing a thermoplastic polyurethane (G) using a reactive extrusion process, having the steps of: a) mixing a polyisocyanate stream (A) and a polyol stream (B) in a first mixing device (7) such that a mixture stream (C) is obtained, the mass flow rates of the polyisocyanate stream (A) and the polyol stream (B) being set such that the isocyanate index in the mixture stream (C) ranges from 55 to 85, b) introducing the mixture stream (C) into a circulating stream (D) which is conducted in a circular flow, the monomers of the polyisocyanates stream (A) and the polyol stream (B) in the circulating stream (D) being further reacted into OH-functional pre-polymers, c) separating a sub-stream from the circulating stream (D) as a prepolymer stream (E) and introducing same into an extruder (18), d) introducing an isocyanate feed stream (F) into the extruder (18) downstream of the introduction point of the prepolymer stream (E) in the extruder working direction, wherein the introduction process is carried out such that the OH-functional prepolymers contained in the prepolymer stream (E) and the polyisocyanate contained in the isocyanate feed stream (F) are in an isocyanate index of 85 to 120, and e) reacting the prepolymer stream (E) with the isocyanate feed stream (F) in the extruder (18), thereby obtaining the thermoplastic polyurethane (G) as the extrudate.

A method for producing an object comprises the step of producing the object by means of an additive manufacturing process from a construction material. The construction material comprises a first polyurethane polymer which has: a weight percentage ratio of O to N of ≥2 to ≤2.5, determined by elementary analysis; a weight percentage ratio of N to C of ≥0.1 to ≤0.25, determined by elementary analysis; a full-width at half maximum of the melting peak of ≤20 K, determined by dynamic differential scanning calorimetry DSC (2.sup.nd heating at heating rate 20 k/min); and a difference between the melting temperature and the recrystallisation temperature of ≥5 K and ≤100 K, determined by dynamic differential scanning calorimetry DSC (2.sup.nd heating) at a heating and cooling rate of 20 K/min.

A medical tubing contains a thermoplastic polyurethane.