A thermal insulating phenolic foam and method of manufacture thereof is provided. A phenolic foam is formed by foaming and curing a phenolic resin composition that comprises a phenolic resin, an acid catalyst, a blowing agent comprising a hydrocarbon having 6 carbon atoms or less, and an alkoxy alcohol. The resulting foam has low thermal conductivity and has excellent long term thermal stability.

This invention relates to a preparation for a polyurethane foam and a polymer polyol preparation for a polyurethane foam, each of which exhibits high coloration and discoloration inhibition properties over a long period of time when stored, and to a composition for a polyurethane foam, which is excellent in storage stability and is preferable as a resin premix. The composition comprises (i) at least one polyol, (ii) a compound having a PN bond, (iii) an antioxidant having a hydroxyphenyl group, (iv) at least an acid and/or its salt, (v) a catalyst for polyurethane foam production and (vi) a blowing agent.

An inventive electrically conductive rubber composition contains: a rubber component including SBR and/or NBR, and 20 to 30 parts by mass of epichlorohydrin rubber based on 100 parts by mass of the overall rubber component; a crosslinking component; a foaming component; and a potassium salt of an anion having a fluoro group and a sulfonyl group in its molecule, the potassium salt being present in a proportion of not less than 0.01 part by mass and not greater than 1 part by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the overall rubber component. An inventive transfer roller (1) includes a roller body (2) formed from the electrically conductive rubber composition.

This invention provides flame retardant compositions comprised of or formed from components comprising a sulfur-containing compound and at least one isocyanate-reactive brominated flame retardant.

Provided are a photon up-conversion film, which is capable, of high-efficiency up-conversion even in air and even when low-intensity light is used, and a simple method of producing the film. The photon up-conversion film according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a matrix including a resin; and a pore portion, wherein the photon up-conversion film includes at least a sensitizing component capable of absorbing light in a first wavelength region ?1, and a light-emitting component capable of radiating light in a second wavelength region ?2 including wavelengths shorter than those of the first wavelength region ?1, and wherein the sensitizing component and the light-emitting component are present at an interface between the matrix and the pore portion.

The present invention provides a phase transition material fluid and a proppant formed therefrom, wherein the components for preparing the phase transition material fluid comprise in percentages by mass: a supramolecular building block 10 to 60 wt %, a supramolecular functional unit 20 to 50 wt %, a dispersant 0.1 to 2 wt %, an inorganic co-builder 0.1 to 1 wt %, an initiator 0.1 to 1 wt %, the balance being a solvent. The supramolecular building block comprises a melamine-based substance and/or a triazine-based substance; the supramolecular functional unit comprises a dicyclopentadiene resin; and the dispersant includes a hydroxyl-bearing polysaccharide substance and a surfactant. After the phase transition material fluid enters the reservoir, it may form a solid substance to prop the fracture under the action of supramolecular chemistry and physics.

Provided are a foam molded body capable of improving damping properties and sound insulation properties of a panel and realizing weight reduction of a panel, a dam rubber, a complex of a dam rubber and a panel, and a method for increasing a sound transmission loss.

The present invention is concerned with a foam molded body of a resin composition containing a block copolymer (I) which is a block copolymer having a polymer block (A) composed mainly of a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and other polymer block (B), exhibits a peak top temperature of tan , as measured under a condition of a thickness of a test piece of 1 mm, a strain amount of 0.1%, a frequency of 1 Hz, a measurement temperature of 70 to 70 C., and a temperature rise rate of 3 C./min in conformity with JIS K7244-10 (2005), of 50 to 50 C., and has a peak top molecular weight determined in terms of standard polystyrene by gel permeation chromatography of 30,000 to 500,000; at least one olefin-based polymer (II) selected from the group consisting of an ethylene-propylene-diene copolymer rubber, an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, and a polyethylene-based resin; a crosslinking agent (III); and a foaming agent (IV).

A foam rubber molded produce obtained by molding a rubber composition containing 100 parts by mass of ethylene--olefin-nonconjugated diene copolymer, 4 to 30 parts by mass of amorphous 4-methyl-1-pentene copolymer, 2 to 8 parts by mass of blowing agent, and a sulfur-based vulcanizing agent, and having a Mooney viscosity after kneading (ML1+4, 100 C.) of 54 or less. A specific gravity is 0.3 to 0.8, a compression set is less than 27%, and a foam state is an interconnected cell.

This provides a flexible, porous, dissolvable solid sheet article having large pores on its top surface as well as a method of making the same.

The present invention relates to a process for the production of polyurethanes where (a) polyisocyanate, (b) polymeric compounds having groups reactive toward isocyanates, (c) catalysts, (d) sulfur-carbon compounds selected from the group consisting of sulfinic acid derivatives of the general formula (I) ##STR00001##
and/or sulfonic acid derivatives according to the general formula (II) ##STR00002##
where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 can be identical or different and are respectively any desired substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon moiety, with the proviso that the carbon atom bonded to the sulfur atom is an aliphatic carbon atom, and optionally (e) blowing agent, (f) chain extender and/or crosslinking agent, and (g) auxiliaries and/or additives are mixed to give a reaction mixture, and the reaction mixture is allowed to complete a reaction to give the polyurethane. The present invention further relates to polyurethanes produced by this process and to the use of these polyurethanes in the interior of means of transport.