Actinic radiation-curable compositions containing polythiols and urethane/urea-containing polyalkenyl prepolymers that can be used for aerospace coatings and sealants. The coatings can be applied to surfaces and rapidly cured.

The present invention provides a polyurethane coating composition comprising a fluorosurfactant, a silane adhesion promoter, and a silane modified polyisocyanate, wherein the composition has excellent substrate wet-out and adhesion under direct wet-on-hot and cold spray applications. The coating composition is particularly well suited to use with polyurethane pultrusion composites.

A polymerizable composition which can suppress generation of turbidity, optical distortion, and striae in a transparent resin obtained therefrom, a transparent resin obtained from the polymerizable composition, an optical material containing the transparent resin, a plastic lens containing the optical material, and a method for manufacturing the transparent resin. The present disclosure is a polymerizable composition containing a polythiol compound having at least three mercapto groups and a polyiso(thio)cyanate compound. The polyiso(thio)cyanate compound contains only a polyiso(thio)cyanate compound having no aromatic ring, and a thiol equivalent ratio which is a measured value of a thiol equivalent of the polythiol compound with respect to a theoretical value of the thiol equivalent is 0.900 or more and less than 1.000.

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.

Actinic radiation-curable compositions containing polythiols and urethane/urea-containing polyalkenyl prepolymers that can be used for aerospace coatings and sealants. The coatings can be applied to surfaces and rapidly cured.

Disclosed herein is a polyurethane resin containing, as copolymerization components, a polycarbonate polyol (A), an organic diisocyanate (B) and a chain extender (C), wherein the polycarbonate polyol (A) contains a specific structure in an amount of 60 mol % or more and a glass transition temperature of the polyurethane resin is 50? C. or higher. The polyurethane resin has excellent heat resistance and satisfactory adhesive property to various substrates, and is usable as an adhesive composition.

A fiber-reinforced resin sheet includes a fiber assembly including a reinforcing fiber; and a thermoplastic polyurethane resin impregnated in at least one surface of the fiber assembly. The thermoplastic polyurethane resin contains a reaction product of a polyol component and a polyisocyanate component including a monocyclic alicyclic polyisocyanate.

A process for producing an episulfide compound for an optical material of the present invention includes a step of chlorinating glycerin to obtain dichloropropanol; a step of epoxidizing the dichloropropanol to obtain epichlorohydrin; a step of reacting the epichlorohydrin with a sulfating agent to obtain a bis(chlorohydrin) (di)sulfide compound thought a thiol compound; a step of epoxidizing the bis(chlorohydrin) (di)sulfide compound under basic conditions to obtain an epoxy compound; and a step of reacting the epoxy compound with a sulfating agent to obtain an episulfide compound represented by following General Formula (1): ##STR00001## wherein, in the formula, n represents 0 or 1.

A pinene-derived diisocyanate compound, a process for forming a pinene-derived diisocyanate compound, and an article of manufacture containing a polyurethane polymer are disclosed. The process for forming the pinene-derived diisocyanate compound includes oxidizing the pinene to form a pinene-derived ketone compound, converting the pinene-derived ketone compound to a diamine compound in subsequent reaction steps, and reacting the diamine compound with phosgene to form the pinene-derived diisocyanate compound. The polyurethane polymer is synthesized in a reaction between a pinene-derived diisocyanate compound and a polyol.

The present invention provides a polyurethane coating composition comprising a fluorosurfactant, a silane adhesion promoter, and a silane modified polyisocyanate, wherein the composition has excellent substrate wet-out and adhesion under direct wet-on-hot and cold spray applications. The coating composition is particularly well suited to use with polyurethane pultrusion composites.