Water dispersible polyamides having carboxylic acid groups are disclosed. These are made by reacting polycarboxyl is acids or anhydrides thereof with amine containing monomer or an amide terminated polyamide under reaction conditions such that a few of the carboxylic acid groups are residual and can promote dispersion in water. These polyamides after dispersion can be chain extended to higher molecular weight polymers or can be terminally functionalized with reactive groups such as isocyanate, epoxy, vinyl, acetoacetonate, or silanol groups. Composites and hybrids of these polyamides with vinyl polymers are also disclosed and claimed.

A water dispersion of gel particles, in which the gel particles having a polymerizable group, having a three-dimensional crosslinked structure including at least one bond selected from a urethane bond and a urea bond, and including at least a photopolymerization initiator and a resin are dispersed in water, a method of producing the water dispersion, and an image forming method using the water dispersion.

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a composition comprising colloidal lignin particles and an epoxy compound.

An electrode binder of a lithium ion secondary battery comprising an aqueous dispersion of: (a) a polyvinylidene binder; (b) a (meth)acrylic polymer dispersant; (c) a crosslinking agent comprising an aminoplast and/or a polycarbodiimide; and (d) an organic diluent. The (meth)acrylic polymer dispersant is prepared from a mixture of monomers comprising one or more carboxylic acid group-containing (meth)acrylic monomers and one or more hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomers, and carboxylic acid groups on the (meth)acrylic polymer dispersant are at least partially neutralized with a base. The binder can be used in the assembly of electrodes of lithium ion secondary batteries.

An aqueous dispersion along with methods for producing and uses for the same. Where the aqueous dispersion includes crosslinkable reactive silicone organic copolymers of ethylenically unsaturated monomers and of ethylenically functionalized silicone polymers and is obtainable by means of radically initiated miniemulsion polymerization in an aqueous medium.

Provided is a dispersion of composite particles in an aqueous medium, wherein the composite particles comprise (I) a crosslinked polyolefin core, and (II) a full or partial shell comprising polymerized units of one of more vinyl monomers.

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.

One-component heat-activatable polyurethane water-based adhesive composition, which comprises, with respect to the total weight of the adhesive composition: —from 12% to 50%, by weight of dry matter, of an aqueous dispersion of a polyurethane (A) comprising alkoxysilyl pending and/or terminal groups, and —from 0.5% to 5% by weight of a glycidoxy substituted alkoxysilane compound (B) with a glycidoxy functionality of at least 2.

It could be helpful to provide a thermoplastic elastomer excellent in transparency, etc., while having mechanical properties such as high heat resistance, strength, and flexibility. The thermoplastic elastomer of this disclosure primarily comprises a copolymer including a block structural unit derived from a polymer (A) that contains a polyphenylene ether and has a glass transition temperature of 120° C. or more, and a block structural unit derived from a polymer (B) that primarily contains a diene rubber and has a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or less.

Finely divided, cationic, aqueous polymer dispersions, method for the production thereof, and the use thereof The present invention relates to a finely divided, cationic, aqueous polymer dispersion which is obtainable by emulsion polymerisation of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in a continuous phase containing an aqueous liquid in which the emulsion polymerisation is carried out, in the presence of polymerisation initiators, of a combination of monomers comprising (a) from 0 to less than 60% by weight of at least one optionally substituted styrene, (b) from greater than 0 to 80% of at least one C.sub.1-C.sub.12-alkyl acrylate and/or at least one C.sub.1-C.sub.12-alkyl methacrylate, (c) from 0 to 10% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising at least one acid group, (d) from 5 to 20% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising a cationic group, and (e) from 0 to 50% by weight of at least one non-ionic ethylenically unsaturated monomer differing from (a), (b), (c), and (d), the sum of (a)+(b)+(c)+(d)+(e) being 100% by weight, and the aqueous liquid contains from 0 to 4% by weight based on the weight of the combination of monomers of at least one emulsifier, in which the emulsion polymerisation is carried out optionally in the presence of at least one terpene containing compound. Also claimed is a process or preparing the finely divided, cationic, aqueous polymer dispersion and the use of the finely divided, cationic, aqueous polymer dispersion for sizing paper, board and cardboard.