Polymers are disclosed that incorporate portions of secondary or tertiary polyamide segments connected with polyisocyanates. These polymers have enhanced matting properties. The enhanced matting properties are from creating an inherently matt surface from the polymer without the use of any separate fine particle size matting additives. Conventional matting agents such as fine particle size silica usually results in loss of physical properties such as haze development and porosity in the coating from the matting agent. Composites and hybrids of these polymers and other polyamides, polyurethane with vinyl polymers (acrylates) are also disclosed and claimed.

Provided is a manufacturing method for efficiently manufacturing a thermoplastic resin composite containing a thermoplastic resin and a fiber by pultrusion.

In the manufacturing method according to an embodiment, fibers 10 are continuously impregnated with a thermoplastic resin-forming composition containing an active hydrogen component and a diisocyanate component, after impregnation, the fibers 10 are caused to pass through a heat-molding unit 30 to perform polymerization of a thermoplastic resin and molding of a thermoplastic resin composite 12, and the thermoplastic resin composite 12 is continuously pulled out from the heat-molding unit 30. In the method, a heating temperature of the heat-molding unit 30 is set to be lower than a glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin, so that the thermoplastic resin of the thermoplastic resin composite 12 pulled out from the heat-molding unit 30 is in a glassy state.

Minimum Federal Safety Standards for corrosion control on buried oil & gas pipelines stipulate that metallic pipes should be properly coated and have impressed-current cathodic protection (ICCP) systems in place to control the electrical potential field around a protected pipe. In certain examples described herein, electrically-conductive composites can be used and provide intrinsically-safe materials without the dielectric shielding issues of existing materials used with pipelines. As reacted by customary spray applications, the nanocomposite foams described herein are directly compatible with ICCP functionality wherever foam contacts the metallic pipe. Various compositions and their use with underground and/or above ground pipelines are described.

Described herein are processes for producing cold-flexible polyurethane insulation, in which (a) polyisocyanates are mixed with (b) compounds having groups which are reactive to isocyanates, (c) blowing agents, (d) catalysts, (e) plasticizers and optionally (f) further additives to give a reaction mixture and the mixture is applied to a surface and cured to form insulation. Also described herein is a polyurethane insulation obtainable by a process described herein.

Modified lignin products, processes for making them, and their use to produce rigid polyurethane or polyisocyanurate foams are disclosed. The processes comprise heating a lignin source with a nitrogen source and a starved concentration of a C.sub.1-C.sub.5 aldehyde to give a reaction mixture comprising a Mannich condensation product, neutralizing the reaction mixture, and isolating the modified lignin product. The process is performed at a mass ratio of lignin source to nitrogen source within the range of 1:1 to 1:5 and at a molar ratio of nitrogen source to C.sub.1-C.sub.5 aldehyde within the range of 3.5:1 to 1:1. Polyol blends and performance additives that contain the modified lignin products are described. Rigid foams that process well and incorporate up to 60 wt. %, based on the amount of polyol component, of the modified lignin contribute to excellent flame retardancy and low-temperature R-value performance.

A thermoset non-isocyanate polyurethane foam (NIPU) composition includes a reaction product of a polycyclic carbonate, a polyamine; and a foaming ingredient including a carbonate-based chemical foaming agent. The reaction product is configured to form a urethane bond. The polycyclic carbonate and the polyamine can be bio-derived. A process for making the NIPU foam includes the steps of: (a) selecting a polycyclic carbonate and a polyamine; (b) mixing the polycyclic carbonate and the polyamine to form a reactant product including a partially cured gel matrix; (c) adding a foaming ingredient comprising a blowing agent including a carbonate; (d) curing the mixture to form the NIPU foam. Optionally, a first catalyst can be added to step (b); and additional foaming ingredients selected from the group consisting of an accelerant, a surfactant, and a combination thereof can be added prior to step (d).

The present invention relates to a process for producing polyurethanes, preferably polyurethane foams, by reaction of compounds containing isocyanate-reactive hydrogen atoms with di- and/or polyisocyanates in the presence of one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of:

NCCHR.sup.1CONR.sup.12X(I),

NCCHR.sup.2CONR.sup.3-aryl(II),

NCCHR.sup.4CO.sub.2H(III),

[NCCHR.sup.5CO.sub.2].sub.mY.sup.m+(IV), wherein X represents NR.sup.6R.sup.7, OR.sup.8, CONR.sup.9R.sup.10 or COOR.sup.11, R.sup.1 to R.sup.12 each independently of one another represent H, an optionally substituted C.sub.1-C.sub.8 alkyl group or an optionally substituted aryl group, Y represents a monovalent or divalent cation and m represents 1 or 2.

The present invention further relates to the polyurethanes obtainable from this process, and to the use of such polyurethanes, for example in the interior of automobiles.

This invention pertains to high selectivity poly(imide-urethane) membrane and a method of making the same. This invention also pertains to applications of the high selectivity poly(imide-urethane) membranes not only for a variety of gas separations such as separations of carbon dioxide/methane, hydrogen/methane, helium/methane, oxygen/nitrogen, carbon dioxide/nitrogen, olefin/paraffin, iso/normal paraffins, xylenes, polar molecules such as water, hydrogen sulfide and ammonia/mixtures with methane, nitrogen, or hydrogen and other light gases separations, but also for liquid separations such as pervaporation and desalination.

A functionalized polyurethane polymer is provided, the polymer defined by the formula

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where each R is independently derived from a diisocyanate, where each R represents the soft segment of the polymer, where n is the number of repeat units within the soft segment of the polymer, where m is the number of repeating mer units in the polymer, where each E is a pendant-functionalized amide unit chain extender, wherein the nitrogen atom of the amide group is part of the polymer backbone. A method for preparing the polymer is also provided.

The present invention relates to a method of preparing a polyurethane elastomer, said method comprising the step of reacting at least one isocyanate composition (ZI) and one polyol composition (ZP) comprising a poly--caprolactone polyol and an -hydro--hydroxy-poly(oxytetramethylene) polyol to obtain an isocyanate-functional prepolymer and the step of reacting the prepolymer obtained as per step (i) with at least one chain extender (KV). The present invention further relates to a polyurethane elastomer obtained or obtainable according to a method of the invention and also to the method of using a polyurethane elastomer according to the invention or a polyurethane elastomer obtained or obtainable according to a method of the invention in the manufacture of a shaped article, especially a damping element, a shock absorber or a stop buffer or part of a shoe or of a shoe sole, for example part of an insert sole or of a midsole.