A method for preparing a super absorbent polymer and a superabsorbent polymer prepared from the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method includes mixing super absorbent polymer particles, water and an additive form a hydrated super absorbent polymer, wherein the super absorbent polymer particles comprise a base polymer powder including a cross-linked polymer polymerized from a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer having an acidic group of which at least a part is neutralized, and a surface cross-linked layer formed on the base polymer powder, wherein the surface cross-linked layer is formed by further cross-linking the cross-linked polymer, and wherein the additive including a polyoxyalkylene aliphatic hydrocarbon ether carboxylic acid. The method can appropriately control the water content of the super absorbent polymer by water-addition or the like to suppress crushing or the like during transfer, and also can suppress deterioration of physical properties.

A security device (100, 600, 700, 1000, 1050) includes arrangements of image icons (110a, 110b, 615, 715, 1020), arrangements of refractive image icon focusing elements (120, 605, 705, 1010) and a sealing layer (125, 600, 1005), wherein the arrangements of refractive image icon focusing elements is disposed above the arrangements of image icons such that a portion of the arrangements of refractive image icon focusing elements projects a synthetic image, such that the arrangements of refractive image icon focusing elements contact the sealing layer along a non-planar boundary. Further, at least one of the arrangements of refractive image icon focusing elements and the sealing layer comprises an organic resin mixture having a first refractive index, and at least one of the arrangements of refractive image icon focusing elements and the sealing layer comprises a low-refractive index material, the low-refractive index material having a second refractive index.

A security device (100, 900) includes an arrangement of image icon focusing elements (120, 605, 705), wherein each image icon focusing element of the arrangement of image icon focusing elements is associated with a focal path. The device further includes an image icon layer with one or more image icons (110a, 909) associated with a first characteristic color and one or more image icons (110b, 911) associated with a second characteristic color, and one or more regions between image icons comprising a volume of substantially colorless material. At a first viewing angle, a color is visible through each image icon focusing element, and the color visible through each image icon focusing element at the first viewing angle is based on one or more of the first characteristic color, the second characteristic color, or the substantially colorless material.

Disclosed are a multifunctional cement hydration heat control material and a manufacturing method therefor. The cement hydration heat control material in is a comb polymer having three side chain structures, the three side chain structures are respectively a carboxyl group, a sugar alcohol group, and a polyether structure, and the main chain of the polymer is a carbon chain structure formed by free-radical polymerization of a double bond in a double bond compound monomer. The multifunctional cement hydration heat control material can achieve integration of cement hydration heat control performance, water reduction performance, and shrinkage reduction performance in a same molecule, can achieve control focusing on a performance by means of structural adjustment, does not need multi-component compounding during use, and is more convenient. The control material is non-toxic and water-soluble, can be made to have an appropriate concentration, and is convenient to use.

Disclosed are a multifunctional cement hydration heat control material and a manufacturing method therefor. The cement hydration heat control material in is a comb polymer having three side chain structures, the three side chain structures are respectively a carboxyl group, a sugar alcohol group, and a polyether structure, and the main chain of the polymer is a carbon chain structure formed by free-radical polymerization of a double bond in a double bond compound monomer. The multifunctional cement hydration heat control material can achieve integration of cement hydration heat control performance, water reduction performance, and shrinkage reduction performance in a same molecule, can achieve control focusing on a performance by means of structural adjustment, does not need multi-component compounding during use, and is more convenient. The control material is non-toxic and water-soluble, can be made to have an appropriate concentration, and is convenient to use.

The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a super absorbent polymer that can appropriately control the water content of the super absorbent polymer by hydration or the like to suppress crushing or the like during transfer, and also can suppress deterioration of physical properties, such as production of giant particles and nonuniformity of water content during hydration step.

A photocurable hydrophilic polymer, coating composition and hydrophilic lubricating coating based on the same are provided. The photocurable polymer is formed by copolymerization of a polymerizable photosensitive monomer and a hydrophilic monomer. The photosensitive monomer comprises: 1) units containing a photosensitive structure; 2) units containing a tertiary amine co-initiator structure; and 3) units containing and unsaturated bond. The units containing the photosensitive structure are at least connected with the units containing the tertiary amine co-initiator structure through —OC(═O)—, and the units containing the unsaturated bond structure are connected with the units containing the photosensitive structure through the units containing the tertiary amine co-initiator structure. The photocurable hydrophilic polymer has a high photocurable efficiency, a simple preparation process, a high production efficiency, less environmental pollution, and hardly any cross-linking. By curing the coating composition, a hydrophilic coating with high firmness, high lubricity, excellent biosafety and compatibility can be obtained.

Disclosed here is a method for making a three-dimensional micro-architected aerogel, comprising: (a) curing a reaction mixture comprising a co-sol-gel material (e.g., graphene oxide (GO)) and at least one catalyst to obtain a crosslinked co-sol-gel (e.g., GO hydrogel); (b) providing a photoresin comprising a solvent, a photoinitiator, a crosslinkable polymer precursor, and a dispersion of the crosslinked co-sol-gel (e.g., GO hydrogel); (c) curing the photoresin using projection microstereolithography layer-by-layer to produce a wet gel having a pre-designed three-dimensional structure; (d) drying the wet gel to produce a dry gel; and (e) pyrolyzing the dry gel to produce a three-dimensional micro-architected aerogel (e.g., graphene aerogel). Also disclosed is a photoresin for projection microstereolithography, comprising a solvent, a photoinitiator, a crosslinkable polymer precursor, and a dispersion of a crosslinked co-sol-gel.

Described herein are methods of stereolithographically printing intraocular devices, in particular intraocular lenses, as well as stereolithographic compositions for use therein. The stereolithography composition may comprise: a photoinitiator; a mono-functional aryl acrylate monomer, wherein the acrylate group of the monofunctional aryl acrylate monomer is of the formula —0—(C═0)—CH═CH.sub.2; and a multifunctional methacrylate or acrylate cross-linker, wherein the monofunctional aryl acrylate monomer is present in the composition in a greater amount than the multifunctional methacrylate or acrylate cross-linker.

An anionic hydrogel based on poly(acrylic acid)-co-poly(oligoethylene glycol monoacrylate) (PAA-co-POEGA) for protein delivery and method of making the same.