Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.

Polyplastics Co., Ltd.

Topas Advanced Polymers Gmbh

Hiroshi Hiraike

Takeharu Morita

Hiroyuki Katayama

Takahiko Sawada

Masahiro Ishii

Hiroji Fukui

Yasunari Kusaka

Fumiyuki Ozawa

Shoji Nozato

Wilfried Hatke

Takeshi Wakiya

Hajime Serizawa

Nami Nakajima

Nobuhiro Goto

Kenji Yamauchi

Yasuharu Nagai

Isao Higuchi

Hiroshi Yoshitani

Hiroyuki Kanai

Kazuyuki Yahara

Shintaro Moriguchi

Katsunori Toyoshima

Koji Yachi

Anne-Meike Schauwienold

Kiyomi Uenomachi

Masahiro Asuka

Yuuki Hoshiyama

Jiamo Guo

Masafumi Nakatani

Tatsuo Taniguchi

Katsutoshi Nagai

Kazunari Yagi

Udo Manfred Stehling

Matthias Bruch

Hiroko Miyazaki

Takahiro Nomura

Ayaha Oguri

Izumi Okamura

Yasuo Oosato

Atsushi Handa

A shock-absorbing sheet comprises a foamed resin layer having a thickness of 200 &#x3bc;m or less, a void ratio (P) of a plane directional cross section at a thickness of 0.1 T, a void ratio (P) of a plane directional cross section at a thickness of 0.5 T, and a void ratio (P) of a plane directional cross section at a thickness of 0.9 T from one surface of the foamed resin layer each ranging from 10 to 70 area %; and the standard deviation (P&#x3c3;) for an average void ratio found from the void ratio (P), the void ratio (P) and the void ratio (P) ranging from 1.0 to 20.

Shock-absorbing sheet

The present invention provides a sealing material for a solar cell that seals a solar cell element of a solar cell in a short time in the production of a solar cell module, thereby enabling efficient production of solar cell modules. The sealing material for a solar cell of the present invention has a feature of containing 100 parts by weight of a modified butene-based resin that is produced by graft-modifying a butene-ethylene copolymer having a butene content of 1 to 25% by weight with maleic anhydride and has a total content of the maleic anhydride of 0.1 to 3% by weight, and 0.1 to 15 parts by weight of a silane compound having an epoxy group.

Sealing material for solar cell, protective sheet for solar cell, and process for production of solar cell module

It is an object of the present invention to provide a binder resin which, when used in an inorganic fine particle-dispersed paste composition, leaves little amount of residual carbon after sintering and can be degreased even under low temperature conditions. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a vehicle composition and an inorganic fine particle-dispersed paste composition, which are obtained by using the binder resin. The binder resin of the present invention is for use in an inorganic fine particle-dispersed paste composition containing inorganic fine particles. The binder resin contains from 5 to 55% by weight of a segment derived from methyl methacrylate, from 30 to 80% by weight of a segment derived from isobutyl methacrylate, and from 5 to 20% by weight of a segment derived from polyoxyalkylene ether monomethacrylate.

Binder resin, vehicle composition, and paste composition having inorganic microparticle dispersed therein

A novel cycloolefin copolymer that can be employed in the production of molding with fewer defects, for example, fewer gel particles (fish eyes). There is provided a cycloolefin copolymer comprising 80 to 20 mol % of repeating units derived from an &#x3b1;-olefin monomer and 20 to 80 mol % of repeating units derived from at least one cycloolefin monomer selected from the group consisting of monomer of the general formula (I), monomer of the general formula (II), monomer of the general formula (III), monomer of the general formula (IV) and monomer of the general formula (V), wherein with respect to the repeating units derived from cycloolefin monomer, the proportion thereof being present in the form of dimer (Rd) is 50 mol % or below and the proportion thereof being present in the form of trimer (Rt) 5 mol % or above.

Cycloolefin copolymer

The present invention relates to a zero-valent transition metal complex which can be used as a starting material for producing a catalyst usable for producing a polyolefin by ring-opening metathesis polymerization of an olefin and an epothilone by ring-closing metathesis reaction, and a method for efficiently producing, at low cost, an organometallic compound useful as a catalyst, using the zero-valent transition metal complex as a starting material. Provided is a method for producing a zero-valent transition metal complex (C), which comprises reacting a divalent transition metal complex (A) with an olefin (B), the complex (A) being selected from the group consisting of a divalent ruthenium complex (A) and a divalent osmium complex (A), thereby obtaining a zero-valent transition metal complex (C), wherein the reaction is conducted under reducing conditions and after the reaction, the resultant crude product is extracted at high temperature using a saturated hydrocarbon as an extracting solvent. Also provided is a method for producing an organometallic compound, which comprises reacting the metal complex (C) with a specific compound (D) and a neutral ligand (E) in one step.

Zero-valent transition metal complex and method for producing an organometallic compound using the same as a starting material

It is an object of the invention to provide coated particles excellent in the reliability of connection. The invention provides coated particles each comprising a metal-surfaced particle as a core and resulting from a partial surface modification of that core particle with an organic compound via a functional group (A) capable of binding to a metal.

Coated particles

A method for synthesizing an organometallic compound, which is usefully utilized as a catalyst for manufacturing polyolefins by ring-opening metathesis polymerization of an olefin having strain in a molecule such as dicyclopentadiene or synthesizing epothilones by ring-dosing metathesis reaction, by an efficient and low cost synthesis method using a starting material which is easily available due to relatively simple chemical structure, and further without any possibility of coexistence of a vinylhetero compound or a vinyl compound exchanged which tends to accompany as an impurity in the system in conventional methods, characterized by reacting a starting material comprising a zero-valent transition metal complex (A) or a polyvalent transition metal complex (A'), a compound (B) or (B&#x2032;) shown by the following general formula (1) or (4), respectively, and a neutral ligand (C) or (C&#x2032;), in one step under non-reducing condition or reducing condition.RYCRX&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)RYCRX&#x2003;&#x2003;(4)

Process for synthesis of organometallic compounds

A melt-moldable, thermoplastic norbornene resin composition characterized by being obtained by compounding (A) a base polymer comprising a thermoplastic norbornene resin with (B) an olefin compound having a number-average molecular weight of 200 to 10,000 and a softening point of 70 to 170&#xb0; C.; and a molded article or optical film obtained by melt-molding or extrusion-molding the thermoplastic norbornene resin composition.

Melt-moldable thermoplastic norbornene resin composition and molded article and optical film both comprising the same

It is an object of the present invention to provide a polymerizable composition and a cured resin composition, linear expansion coefficients of which are significantly improved without impairment of the excellent properties such as heat resistance, mechanical strength and the like of norbornene-based resins. The present invention is a polymerizable composition, which comprises a polymerizable substance containing a norbornene-based monomer or oligomer as a main component, a metathesis polymerization catalyst and silica powder, the weight content of the silica powder being larger than the weight content of the polymerizable substance.

Polymerizable composition and cured resin composition

The present invention provides an organometallic compound represented by the general formula (1) or (2), process for producing the same, metathesis reaction catalyst containing the same, polymerization process using the same catalyst and polymer produced by the same polymerization process:

ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND HAVING HIGH METATHESIS ACTIVITY AND METHOD FOR PREPARATION THEREOF, METHATHESIS REACTION CATALYST COMPRISING THE COMPOUND, METHOD OF POLYMERIZATION USING THE CATALYST, AND POLYMER PRODUCED BY THE METHOD OF POLYMERIZATION

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Hiroshi Hiraike