Method of producing super soft PAU core-shell copolymer dispersions is a solvent free process. The products have characteristics of both polyurethane and polyacrylate including being non-sticky, having a feeling of touching a peach when touching it by the hand, and having improved adhesion, tensile strength, and toughness.

The present invention is to provide a cell culture substrate including a block polymer including a segment having a lower critical solution temperature and a hydrophobic segment, the cell culture substrate further including an adhesive matrix, in which the adhesive matrix is an extracellular matrix and/or an adhesive synthetic matrix. Furthermore, the invention is to provide a cell culture substrate in which the extracellular matrix is at least one selected from laminin, fibronectin, vitronectin, cadherin, and fragments thereof, and/or the adhesive synthetic matrix is poly[2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl dimethyl-(3-sulfopropyl) ammonium hydroxide] or an oligopeptide-carrying polymer.

Provided arm biocompatible polymer compositions, and methods of printing such polymer compositions using a fused deposition modelling printer to form a solid scaffold. In particular, the disclosed compositions may include a thermoresponsive polymer, and the printed scaffold may be used as a sacrificial template providing a three-dimensional vascular structure upon temperature-dependent disintegration. The present compositions and methods may be particularly useful for engineering thick tissues.

A polymer for a gel polymer electrolyte, a gel polymer electrolyte and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a polymer for the gel polymer electrolyte includes a copolymer having a main chain and a first side chain and a second side chain bonded to the main chain, wherein the main chain contains a fluoropolymer, wherein the first side chain contains a siloxane group and the second side chain contains an acrylic polymer. The polymer improves stability of a gel polymer electrolyte and a lithium secondary battery including the same.

The present invention provides chemical mechanical (CMP) polishing pads for polishing a substrate chosen from a semiconductor substrate comprising the CMP polishing pad and having one or more endpoint detection windows which is the cured product of a reaction mixture of a linear cycloaliphatic urethane macromonomer having two (meth)acrylate endgroups bound via cycloaliphatic dicarbamate esters to a polyether, polycarbonate or polyester chain having an average molecular weight of from 450 to 2,000, or an cycloaliphatic urethane oligomer thereof, and an aliphatic initiator, wherein the total isocyanate content in the urethane macromonomer ranges from 3.3 to 10 wt. %, and, further wherein, the composition comprises less than 5 wt. % of unreacted (meth)acrylate monomer and is substantially free of unreacted isocyanate. Regardless of their hardness or lack thereof, the endpoint detection windows provide excellent durability when wet.

Provided herein are methods of forming solid-state ionically conductive composite materials that include particles of an inorganic phase in a matrix of an organic phase. The methods involve forming the composite materials from a precursor that is polymerized in-situ after being mixed with the particles. The polymerization occurs under applied pressure that causes particle-to-particle contact. In some embodiments, once polymerized, the applied pressure may be removed with the particles immobilized by the polymer matrix. In some implementations, the organic phase includes a cross-linked polymer network. Also provided are solid-state ionically conductive composite materials and batteries and other devices that incorporate them. In some embodiments, solid-state electrolytes including the ionically conductive solid-state composites are provided. In some embodiments, electrodes including the ionically conductive solid-state composites are provided.

Described herein are alkoxylated polymers suitable for use in primers, inks or coating compositions. The alkoxylated polymers derive from a polyalkylene glycol polymer or copolymer backbone having one or more alkoxylated sites in a non-reactive form and at least one reactive terminal end, and one or more polyfunctional monomers or oligomers having two or more functional polar groups with an active hydrogen, or mixtures thereof, wherein the alkoxylated polymer is polymerized in a one step process. Primers, inks or coating compositions are further described.

The present invention relates to a segmented block copolymer composition based on diblock and/or triblock copolymers of vinyl aromatic monomer and hydrogenated butadiene blocks and thermoplastic polyurethane blocks which are linearly bonded by N or O atoms, and its procedure of obtainment based on reactive extrusion. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a thermoplastic composition, a laminate structure and a polyurethane foam, with improved properties, comprising the segmented block copolymer composition.

The present invention relates to a polycarbonate resin composition for a light guide plate and an optical molded article using the same. The polycarbonate resin composition according to the present invention is excellent in transmittance and color tone uniformity required as the light guide plate, and also is excellent in processability and thus can be usefully used as a material of the light guide plate.

A method of production of a conjugated diene rubber including a first step of polymerizing a monomer containing a conjugated diene compound in an inert solvent using a polymerization initiator so as to obtain a conjugated diene polymer chain having an active end, a second step of reacting polyorganosiloxane represented by the following general formula (1) with the conjugated diene polymer chain having an active end by adding the polyorganosiloxane in an amount of 1 mole or more, when converted to the number of repeating units of the siloxane structure (SiO) in the polyorganosiloxane, with respect to 1 mole of the polymerization initiator used in the first step, and a third step of reacting a compound represented by the following general formula (2) with the conjugated diene polymer chain with which polyorganosiloxane was reacted obtained in the second step.

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