The present invention provides a stereolithography resin useful for producing black-colored objects, the resin comprising: (a) an unpigmented base stereolithography resin; and (b) a pigment blend, the pigment blend consisting essentially of: (i) a CMY blend; and (ii) black pigment. Methods of making a black-colored object and objects so produced are also provided.

An embodiment includes a polymer composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer that: (a) is bonded to iodine, (b) includes a vinyl group, and (c) includes urethane linkages Other embodiments are described herein.

A method for deblocking a blocked isocyanate is described herein. The method includes contacting a blocked isocyanate and a halide ion source under conditions effective to provide a deblocked isocyanate. A method of making a polyurethane is also disclosed. The method of making a polyurethane includes combining a blocked isocyanate, a polyol, and a halide ion source in the presence of solvent and under conditions effective to provide the polyurethane.

A foaming thermoplastic polyurethane resin is a reaction product of a polyisocyanate component containing a bis(isocyanatomethyl)cyclohexane and a polyol component. In a peak of chromatogram obtained by measurement of the foaming thermoplastic polyurethane resin with gel permeation chromatography, the area of a high molecular weight component having a weight average molecular weight of 400,000 or more with respect to the total area of the peak is 25% or more and 60% or less.

A stretchable film includes, in a stacked form: a polyurethane film containing a repeating unit having a fluorine atom; and a polyurethane film containing a repeating unit having a silicon atom. At least one surface of the stretchable film is made of the polyurethane film containing a repeating unit having a fluorine atom. Thus, provided are: a stretchable film having excellent stretchability and strength, with the film surface having excellent water repellency; and a method for forming the stretchable film.

A method for producing a polyurethane resin includes a reaction step of obtaining a primary product by reacting a polyisocyanate component containing a bis(isocyanatomethyl)cyclohexane with a polyol component containing a low molecular weight polyol having a number average molecular weight of 400 or less and a high molecular weight polyol having an average molecular weight of 2500 or more and 4000 or less under the presence of a bismuth catalyst, and a heat treatment step of heat treating the primary product to obtain a polyurethane resin. The bismuth catalyst content in the polyurethane resin is 0.1 ppm or more and 1000 ppm or less, and the heat treatment conditions in the heat treatment step are 50 C. or more and 100 C. or less and three days or more and ten days or less.

The present invention relates to a novel polyol or polythiol having three or more functional groups, a preparation method there for, and an optical body manufactured therefrom. Especially, the present invention relates to a poly(thio)urethane-based resin and an optical body, such as lenses, manufactured using the resin, wherein the poly(thio)urethane-based resin is prepared by obtaining a novel polyol and then combining a polythiol, which is prepared from the obtained polyol, with a polyiso(thio)cyanate.

The present disclosure is drawn to reactive polyurethane dispersions. In one example, a reactive polyurethane dispersion can include a polymer strand having a polymer backbone that has two ends terminating at a first capping unit and a second capping unit. The polymer backbone can include polymerized monomers including a reactive diol and a diisocyanate. The reactive diol can be an acrylate-containing diol, a methacrylate-containing diol, an acrylamide-containing diol, a methacrylamide-containing diol, or combination thereof. The first capping unit can be an acrylamide-containing monoalcohol or methacrylamide-containing monoalcohol reacted with an isocyanate group of the diisocyanate. The second capping unit can be an ionic stabilizing group.

A polymerizable composition of the present invention includes a polymerization reactive compound (A), and an internal release agent (B) including a polyether-modified silicone compound (b1) represented by General Formula (1) and a polyether-modified silicone compound (b2) represented by General Formula (2), in which the polymerization reactive compound (A) is one or more compounds selected from a polyiso(thio) cyanate compound, a poly(thio) epoxy compound, a polyoxetanyl compound, a polythietanyl compound, an alkyne compound, a poly(thi)ol compound, a polyamine compound, an acid anhydride, or a polycarboxylic acid compound.

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The invention relates to compositions comprising a fiber material and a specific thermoplastic binder. The thermoplastic binder comprises at least one thermoplastic polyurethane polymer, wherein said thermoplastic polyurethane polymer comprises a reaction product of (i) at least one semi-crystalline polyester polyol, and (ii) at least one polyisocyanate. The molar ratio of the NCO groups of said polyisocyanate (ii) to the sum of OH groups of said polyester polyol (i) is less than 1.00:1 and the thermoplastic polyurethane polymer has (a) a melting enthalpy of at least 20 J/g, (b) a melting point (T.sub.m) of >70 C., and (c) an average number molecular weight (M.sub.n) of 5,000 to 80,000 g/mol. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a fiber-reinforced composite comprising a cured thermosetting polyurethane polymer matrix reinforced by the composition according to the present invention. Moreover, a method for the manufacture of the fiber-reinforced composite according to the present invention and use of the composition or the fiber-reinforced composite in railway vehicles, automotive vehicles, aircraft vehicles, boats, space vehicles, motorbikes, bicycles, sporting goods, helmets, functional clothing, shoes, construction parts in bridges and buildings or wind turbine blades are described.