Provided herein is a solvent-based pressure sensitive adhesive comprising a polymer comprising a vinyl acetate monomer, an acrylic ester monomer, and a monomer having hydroxyl or amine functionality. The adhesive also comprise a crosslinker. The coated and dried adhesive has outgassing of less than 2000 ng/cm.sup.2, even when applied to an electronic device that is operated at elevated temperature.

Described herein is an absorbent article. The absorbent article includes an assembly of components and an adhesive composition joining at least two of the assembly of components together. The adhesive composition includes from about 50 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of one or more copolymers and a blend of one or more heterophase copolymers. The one or more copolymers include from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of monomer units selected from ethylene. 1-butene, and mixtures thereof. The one or more copolymers also include from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of propene monomer units. The adhesive composition is free of polyisobutylene and has a viscosity of from about 2,000 mPa.Math.s to about 11,500 mPa.Math.s at 150° C.

Non-sensitizing pressure sensitive adhesives which are useful in medical applications and other uses where an adhesive is in contact with skin are obtained by energy-curing compositions containing one or more acrylate-functionalized compounds and possibly other components which are selected such that the cured adhesive passes an in vitro cytotoxicity test in accordance with ISO 10993-5 (2009).

Described herein is a reworkable optically clear adhesive composition comprising: a hot melt adhesive present in an amount of at least about 40 wt. %; a pressure sensitive adhesive present in an amount of at 5 least about 10 wt. %; and titanium dioxide nanoparticles present in an amount of up to about 5 wt. %; wherein the weight percentage of each component is based on the total weight of solids of the adhesive composition. Also described herein is a display for an electronic device comprising the reworkable optically clear adhesive composition and a method of producing the display for an 10 electronic device.

An adhesive film and a display member, the adhesive film being formed of an adhesive composition that includes a monomer mixture comprising a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate and a comonomer, wherein the adhesive film has a recovery rate of about 40% to about 99%, the recovery rate being determined according to Method A as described herein, and wherein the adhesive film has a bubble generation area of about 0%, the bubble generation area being determined according to Method B as described herein.

To provide a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having high flexing resistance that does not suffer flexure and exfoliation in a flexing test that is closer to the actual use environment. A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having no substrate, containing a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing a (meth)acrylate ester (co)polymer (A), and having a glass transition temperature (Tg) defined by a Tan δ peak temperature of dynamic viscoelasticity in a range of −50° C. to −20° C., a storage elastic modulus G′ at a frequency of 1 Hz and a temperature 100° C. in a range of 2.0×10.sup.3 to 3.0×10.sup.4 Pa, and a thickness of 10 μm or more and 150 μm or less.

Film constructions are disclosed that remove well from both new and aged substrates, initially and over the long term, without compromising the other possible required properties of film construction, including but not limited to, digital printability, cold temperature adhesion, durability, and conformability. Methods of protecting a surface are also disclosed.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a transfer sheet capable of providing hard coat properties and excellent weather resistance to a resin molded article such as organic glass. The transfer sheet has, in order, a base material film for mold release, a hard coat layer, a primer layer, and an adhesive layer. The weather resistance and adhesiveness of the hard coat layer and the primer layer are improved and hard coat properties and excellent weather resistance can be provided to a resin molded article being the transfer object, as a result of: the hard coat layer being formed from a cured product of a resin composition including a curable resin; and the primer layer being formed from a binder resin including a polyurethane having a mass-average molecular weight of 40,000-100,000 and including 1-30% by mass of an acrylic component.

An adhesive tape can reduce percussive sounds or friction sounds, can prevent contamination of a covered article due to contamination by dirt or dust or intrusion by water or oil, has durability against puncture or friction, and easily bends after binding a covered article. The adhesive tape having a substrate including 100 parts by mass of a polyvinyl chloride and, with respect to the 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl chloride, 10-100 parts by mass of an elastomer and 10-100 parts by mass of a plasticizer, wherein the elastomer includes an acrylonitrile monomer unit and at least one monomer unit selected from the group made of a chloroprene monomer unit, a butadiene monomer unit, and an isoprene monomer unit and the adhesive tape has an attenuation value of 2 dB or greater in an acoustic absorption test.

Disclosed herein is a method of making polymerizable bio-based monomers containing one phenolic hydroxyl group which has been derivatized to provide at least one polymerizable functional group which is an ethylenically unsaturated functional group (such as a [meth]acrylate group), where the precursors of the polymerizable bio-based monomers are derived from raw lignin-containing biomass. Also disclosed herein are bio-based copolymers prepared from such bio-based monomers and a co-monomer, and methods of making and using such bio-based copolymers. In particular, the bio-based copolymers can be used as pressure sensitive adhesives, binders, and polymer electrolytes.