Mineral wool insulation products are provided. The mineral wool insulation includes a plurality of mineral wool fibers and a wax emulsion applied to the mineral wool fibers. The wax emulsion imparts excellent water resistance and thermal performance properties to the mineral wool insulation.

In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a film, which may be oriented, cast, or blown, that includes a core layer having a first side and a second side, wherein the core layer comprises hydrocarbon resin and polypropylene. Further, the film may include a first tie layer on the first side, wherein the first tie layer consists of polypropylene and about 5% or less of additives with exclusion of hydrocarbon resin (“HCR”), wherein the polypropylene is standard-crystalline polypropylene, high-crystalline polypropylene, or a mixture thereof, but preferably, it is a majority of high-crystalline polypropylene. Further still, the film may include a first skin layer on the first tie layer, and, also a coating on the first skin layer, wherein the coating comprises acrylic or acetate polymers or combinations thereof. The film maintains a minimum seal temperature of 300 g in.sup.−1 seal strength as compared to the film without any HCR.

Superabsorbent polymer material comprising cross-linked polyacrylic acid and salts thereof. The superabsorbent polymer material further comprising at least 3.0 weight-%, based on the total weight of the superabsorbent polymer material, of soluble polyacrylic acid polymers. A method for making such superabsorbent polymer materials is also disclosed.

A gas barrier laminate including a resin substrate, a first coating layer containing a carboxylic acid polymer; and a second coating layer containing a polyvalent metal compound and a resin, laminated in this order; a ratio of a thickness of the second coating layer to the first coating layer in the range of 1.0 or more and 4.0 or less; and the second coating layer satisfies at least one of the following: (condition 1) a haze of the second coating layer is 8% or less; (condition 2) a surface roughness Ra of the second coating layer is ½ or less of the thickness of the second coating layer; and (condition 3) the number of concave portions having a diameter of 1.5 μm or more per unit area on a surface of the second coating layer opposite to the first coating layer is 2/0.01 mm.sup.2 or less.

Disclosed is the water-absorbent resin particles including a crosslinked polymer having a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof, in which a proportion of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof is 70 to 100 mol % with respect to a total amount of monomer units in the crosslinked polymer, and a dissolved content is 10% by mass or more and 40% by mass or less, and a dissolved content when the water-absorbent resin particles are pulverized so that a median particle size is 80 to 165 μm is 15% by mass or more and 40% by mass or less, where the dissolved contents are measured by a specific method.

The present invention provides polymer blends that can be used in a multilayer structure and to multilayer structures comprising one or more layers formed from such blends. In one aspect, a polymer blend comprises an ionomer of a copolymer comprising ethylene and at least one of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid having a melt index (I.sub.2) of 1 to 60 g/10 minutes, wherein the total amount of ionomer comprises 50 to 99 weight percent of the blend based on the total weight of the blend, and a polyolefin having a density of 0.870 g/cm.sup.3 or more and having a melt index (I.sub.2) of 20 g/10 minutes or less, wherein the polyolefin comprises 1 to 50 weight percent of the blend based on the total weight of the blend, wherein the polymer blend meets the following equation: 3.5<2.76−60*I.sub.2(PO)+308*RVR+0.023*A<4.5 wherein I.sub.2(PO) is the melt index (I.sub.2) of the polyolefin, RVR is the relative viscosity ratio of the polyolefin to the ionomer (I.sub.2(PO)/I.sub.2(ionomer)), and A is the weight percent of ionomer in the polymer blend based on the total weight of the blend.

A barrier laminate film (100) of the present invention includes: a base material layer (101), a stress relaxation layer (102), an inorganic material layer (103), and a barrier resin layer (104) in this order. The barrier resin layer (104) includes an amide cross-linked compound of a polycarboxylic acid and a polyamine, and the stress relaxation layer (102) includes a polyurethane-based resin having an aromatic ring structure in a main chain.

Described are a self-healing composition, and a preparation method for and an application of the composition. The composition is of a core-shell structure; the core contains a hydrogenated styrenic thermoplastic elastomer polymer and an inorganic filler; the shell contains a hydrophilic polymer; the composition has a density of 1.2-2 g/cm.sup.3, a water contact angle of no more than 90°, and a diesel oil and/or natural gas absorption expansion ratio of 5-15 times. By coating the hydrogenated styrenic thermoplastic elastomer and the inorganic filler with the hydrophilic (surface polarized) polymer, a core-shell structure is formed. When the composition is used for well cementing in an oil/gas field, the composition has a density and compatibility matching cement mortar and thus can form a uniform and stable cement slurry for well cementing in the oil/gas field, and has excellent oil/gas absorption expansion performance and thus can expand after absorbing oil/gas to perform self-healing.

There is provided a packaging material comprising a fibre based substrate and a gas barrier layer based on a polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH), wherein said gas barrier layer comprises an interpolymer complex forming agent (IPCFA), which IPCFA is a water-soluble polymer exhibiting functional groups capable of forming hydrogen bonds with —OH groups of the PVOH. Said PVOH has a weight average molecular weight (M.sub.w) measured according to ASTM D4001-13 in the range of about 80 kg/mol to 135 kg/mol, the proportion of said IPCFA to PVOH in said gas barrier layer is in the range of 0.5 to 7.0% (w/w) and said packaging material has an oxygen permeability (OP) below 14 ml μm/m.sup.2 day atm, which OP is obtained by multiplying the oxygen transmission rate (OTR) of the packaging material measured according to ASTM F1927-7 at a relative humidity (RH) of 80% and 23° C. by the thickness of the gas barrier layer.

Aqueous binder compositions for binding fibers comprise a vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer of 60 to 94% by weight vinyl acetate, 5 to 30% by weight ethylene and 0 to 20% by weight of further ethylenically unsaturated comonomers copolymerizable therewith, polymerized in the presence of polyvinyl alcohol in aqueous medium, wherein the polymerization is carried out in the presence of a copolymer B) containing 20 to 50% by weight of monomer units derived from ethylenically unsaturated carboxamides, 20 to 50% by weight of monomer units derived from ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acids, and 20 to 50% by weight of monomer units derived from ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids or anhydrides thereof.