A method for exposing a substrate to water under superatmospheric pressure at a temperature of at least 70 C. includes (a) applying a reaction mixture to a substrate, which reaction mixture has an isocyanate index of at least 10 and includes an aromatic polyisocyanate component, a polyol component having a polyol with a hydroxyl equivalent weight of at least 500, and a catalyst component having an isocyanate trimerization catalyst, and at least partially curing the reaction mixture to form a polyisocyanurate or polyurethane-isocyanurate polymer having a glass transition temperature of at least 80 C., and (b) exposing the substrate and the polyisocyanurate or polyurethane-isocyanurate polymer to water under superatmospheric pressure at a temperature of at least 70 C.

This application discloses a white-light hyperbranched conjugated polymer, a method for preparing the same and its use. The polymer uses a red phosphorescent Ir(III) complex as a core and polyfluorene derivative blue fluorescent materials as a framework which either contains or does not contain carbazole derivatives, and the white light hyperbranched polymers realize white-light emission by adjusting the content of the red phosphorescent Ir(III) complex connected using the complementation of blue and red color. The electroluminescent spectrum of the conjugated polymer in the present application covers the whole visible light emission area and is close to the pure white light emission, by which the conjugated polymer could be used as a material used in light-emitting layer to prepare the organic electroluminescent devices.

Disclosed is a polybenzoxazime precursor and a method of preparing the same. The polybenzoxazime precursor is used to prepare a hardened material having improved thermal characteristics, having high thermal and flame-retardant characteristics while maintaining its excellent electrical characteristics, or having high thermal and electrical characteristics, thus being available for use in a copper clad laminate, a semiconductor encapsulate, a printed circuit board, an adhesive, a paint, and a mold.

The present invention is a polymer composition comprising a hydrogenated crystalline cycloolefin ring-opening polymer (A) that comprises a repeating unit derived from a polycyclic norbornene-based monomer that includes three or more rings, 5 to 100 parts by weight of a glass filler (B) based on 100 parts by weight of the hydrogenated crystalline cycloolefin ring-opening polymer (A), and 5 to 20 parts of a metal oxide (C) based on 100 parts by weight of the hydrogenated crystalline cycloolefin ring-opening polymer (A), and a formed article. The polymer composition according to the present invention exhibits excellent electrical properties (low dielectric loss tangent), excellent adhesion to plating, and excellent reflow heat resistance, and can maintain strength even when subjected to high-temperature/high-humidity conditions.

This invention relates to a polybenzoxazine precursor and a method of preparing the same, and more particularly, to a polybenzoxazine precursor which includes benzoxazine obtained by reacting a phenol novolak resin with an aldehyde compound and allylamine and diaminodiphenylmethane as an amine compound, and to a method of preparing the same. The polybenzoxazine precursor may serve to prepare a hardened material having excellent thermal and electrical characteristics and dimensional stability. Accordingly, the polybenzoxazine precursor may be available for use in a copper clad laminate, a semiconductor encapsulant, a printed circuit board, an adhesive, a paint, and a mold.

Aspects of the present disclosure generally describe polyarylether ketones and methods of use. In some aspects, a composition includes one or more polymers of formulae (I), (II), or (III):

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Provided is a rubber composition for a tire containing a rubber component including 15 to 55 wt % of an end modified group-containing cycloolefin ring-opening polymer having a glass transition temperature of 120 to 90 C. and 45 to 85 wt % of an end modified group-containing solution polymerized conjugated diene polymer having a glass transition temperature of 60 to 10 C. and having an aromatic vinyl monomer unit content ratio of more than 30 wt % and 50 wt % or less, a silica, and a silane coupling agent including a monosulfide group and/or a thiol group, wherein the content of the silica with respect to 100 parts by weight of the rubber component is 30 to 200 parts by weight, and the content of the silane coupling agent including a monosulfide group and/or a thiol group with respect to 100 parts by weight of the silica is 0.3 to 20 parts by weight.

The invention relates to aqueous compositions comprising a) at least one polymer PALK in the form of dispersed polymer particles, wherein the polymer PALK is obtainable by ring-opening metathesis polymerization of at least one cyclic olefin monomer, and b) at least one polymer P2 in the form of dispersed polymer particles, wherein the polymer P2 comprises no olefinically unsaturated CC-bond and has repeating units bearing at least one polar group.

The aqueous compositions are suitable in particular for producing sheetings and barrier coatings having a very good barrier action toward gases, such as air, oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, and in particular toward oxygen and oxygenous gases, such as air. The sheetings and coatings also have very good mechanical properties, in particular a high elongation at break coupled with good tear strength.

Aspects of the present disclosure generally describe polyarylether ketones and methods of use. In some aspects, a composition includes one or more polymers of formula (IV):

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Provided is a methacrylic resin shaped product having high heat resistance, highly controlled birefringence, and excellent color tone and transparency. The methacrylic resin shaped product comprises a methacrylic resin or a composition containing the methacrylic resin. The methacrylic resin includes a structural unit (B) having a cyclic structure including at least one structural unit selected from the group consisting of an N-substituted maleimide structural unit (B-1) and a lactone ring structural unit (B-2) in a main chain, and has a glass transition temperature of higher than 120 C. and not higher than 160 C. Methanol-soluble content in the methacrylic resin is 5 mass % or less relative to 100 mass %, in total, of the methanol-soluble content and methanol-insoluble content. Yellowness index (YI) measured with respect to a 20 w/v % chloroform solution of the methanol-insoluble content using a 10 cm optical path length cell is 0 to 7.