To provide: a solvent used for synthesizing a synthetic resin such as a polyimide resin and a polyurethane resin, the solvent capable of synthesizing a polymer having a high molecular weight in a short time, causing no clouding of a reaction solution during and after reaction, and having high transparency and storage stability; and a method for producing the synthetic resin using the solvent. A solvent (C) for resin synthesis, containing: 10 to 99.9999 mass % of an amide-based solvent (A); and 0.0001 to 5 mass % of a reaction accelerator (B), in which the reaction accelerator (B) is an aliphatic or aromatic tertiary amine compound having one or more tertiary amino groups in a molecule of the reaction accelerator (B).

Provided herein are crosslinked optical copolymers comprising a monomer derived from sorbitol, and a trifunctional linker. The crosslinked optical copolymers have a refractive index value greater than 1.5 and an Abbe value greater than 45. Also provided are methods for producing the provided crosslinked optical copolymers, and corrective lenses that include the provided crosslinked optical copolymers.

Nanoporous three-dimensional networks of polyurethane particles, e.g., polyurethane aerogels, and methods of preparation are presented herein. Such nanoporous networks may include polyurethane particles made up of linked polyisocyanate and polyol monomers. In some cases, greater than about 95% of the linkages between the polyisocyanate monomers and the polyol monomers are urethane linkages. To prepare such networks, a mixture including polyisocyanate monomers (e.g., diisocyanates, triisocyanates), polyol monomers (diols, triols), and a solvent is provided. The polyisocyanate and polyol monomers may be aliphatic or aromatic. A polyurethane catalyst is added to the mixture causing formation of linkages between the polyisocyanate monomers and the polyol monomers. Phase separation of particles from the reaction medium can be controlled to enable formation of polyurethane networks with desirable nanomorphologies, specific surface area, and mechanical properties. Various properties of such networks of polyurethane particles (e.g., strength, stiffness, flexibility, thermal conductivity) may be tailored depending on which monomers are provided in the reaction.

A fluorochemical composition that includes one or more fluorochemical urethane compounds, a method of treating a substrate (e.g., a method for imparting water and oil repellency and antisoiling characteristics to a substrate), and an article having a fluorochemical composition coating thereon.

A molding method for producing a screw drill stator using an elastomer material includes: S1. sequentially roughening, cleaning and drying an inner surface of the stator tube; mixing an adhesive and a diluent, coating the mixture obtained on the inner surface, and heating it for later use; S2, uniformly coating a mold release agent on a surface of a mandrel mold, and heating or drying it naturally for later use; S3. assembling the processed stator tube and the processed mandrel mold to obtain an assembled mold; S4. performing a vacuum defoaming under negative pressure on a mixture obtained by uniformly mixing a prepolymer of the elastomer material with a defoaming agent; S5. uniformly mixing the defoamed prepolymer of the elastomer material with a curing agent, and pouring the obtained mixture into the assembled mold, sealing and curing the poured assembled mold by hierarchical heating to obtain the stator.

A molding method for producing a screw drill stator using an elastomer material includes: S1. sequentially roughening, cleaning and drying an inner surface of the stator tube; mixing an adhesive and a diluent, coating the mixture obtained on the inner surface, and heating it for later use; S2, uniformly coating a mold release agent on a surface of a mandrel mold, and heating or drying it naturally for later use; S3. assembling the processed stator tube and the processed mandrel mold to obtain an assembled mold; S4. performing a vacuum defoaming under negative pressure on a mixture obtained by uniformly mixing a prepolymer of the elastomer material with a defoaming agent; S5. uniformly mixing the defoamed prepolymer of the elastomer material with a curing agent, and pouring the obtained mixture into the assembled mold, sealing and curing the poured assembled mold by hierarchical heating to obtain the stator.

A resin composition contains: (a) a resin which constitutes a polymer having a structure represented by any one of the following general formulae (1) to (3) below and/or a copolymer having the structure; and (b) a basic compound, ##STR00001##
wherein R.sup.1 is a C.sub.4-C.sub.30 organic group, R.sup.2 is a divalent C.sub.4-C.sub.30 organic group, X is a sulfonic group, hydroxy group, or carboxy group, p is 1 to 4, and n is 2 to 100,000; ##STR00002##
wherein R.sup.3 is a C.sub.4-C.sub.30 organic group, R.sup.4 is a divalent C.sub.4-C.sub.30 organic group, Y is a sulfonic group, hydroxy group, or carboxy group, q is 1 to 4, and m is 2 to 100,000; ##STR00003##
wherein R.sup.5 represents a C.sub.4-C.sub.30 organic group, R.sup.6 is a divalent C.sub.4-C.sub.30 organic group, Z is a sulfonic group, hydroxy group, or carboxy group, r is 1 to 4, and l is 2 to 100,000.

The present inventions concerns compositions for producing thermoset polyurethanes, comprising polyisocyanates and polyols selected from a list consisting of allicyclic, aromatic compounds and branched polyesters. The films obtained from these compositions exhibit a high transparency, high thermal stability and good chemical resistance, and a method to produce the same. The said polyurethane films can be widely used in electronics industry where high transparency, high thermal resistance and good chemical resistance are the main requirements. Particularly, these films can be used as the substrates for conductive coatings and barrier coatings. These functionally coated films are particularly useful in applications such as touch panels or photo-voltaic cells.

The present invention provides polyurethanes including a reaction product of components including: (a) an isocyanate functional urethane prepolymer comprising a reaction product of components including: (i) about 1 equivalent of at least one polyisocyanate; and (ii) about 0.1 to about 0.5 equivalents of at least one diol having 2 to 18 carbon atoms; and (b) about 0.05 to about 0.9 equivalents of at least one branched polyol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms and at least 3 hydroxyl groups; and (c) up to about 0.9 equivalents of at least one polyol different from branched polyol (b) and having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, wherein the reaction product components are essentially free of polyester polyol and polyether polyol; compositions, coatings and articles made therefrom and methods of making the same.

A problem addressed by the present invention is to provide a resin out of which a heat-resistant non-woven fabric having a fine fiber diameter can be made by an electrospinning method. A main object of the present invention is to provide a resin, including a structure(s) represented by at least one selected from the group consisting of the following general formulae (1) to (3), wherein an end of the main-chain of the resin has at least one selected from alkyl groups having 10 or more carbon atoms and fluoroalkyl groups having 4 or more carbon atoms;

##STR00001##

(wherein, in the general formula (1), X independently represents a single bond or NR.sup.3; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represent a C.sub.4-C.sub.30 bivalent organic group; R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1-C.sub.10 monovalent organic group; in the general formula (2), R.sup.4 represents a C.sub.4-C.sub.30 bivalent organic group; R.sup.5 represents a C.sub.4-C.sub.30 tetravalent organic group; in the general formula (3), R.sup.6 represents a C.sub.4-C.sub.30 bivalent organic group; R.sup.7 represents a C.sub.4-C.sub.30 trivalent organic group; l, m, and n are each an integer of 0 or greater with the proviso that l+m+n=10 or greater; and wherein the structures represented by the general formulae (1) to (3) do not necessarily need to be consecutively present.)