Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Tetsuya Sawano

Hisashi Tada

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Osamu Kawai

Yoshinobu Shiraishi

Hideyuki Sugamoto

Hiroki Nakamura

Shigeru Sakai

A copolymer excellent in vibration-damping property, flame retardancy and transparency, composed of from 20 to 100% by weight of a phosphate monomer (a) unit of the following general formula (1), from 0 to 80% by weight of a (meth)acrylate monomer (b) unit, and from 0 to 30% by weight of the other monomer (c) unit copolymerizable with them; a vibration-damping material 2 and a vibration-damping part composed of this copolymer; and a copolymer composition are disclosed:R=a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R,R=hydrogen atom; from Cto Calkyl group or alkyl ether group, or aryl group; A=from Cto Calkylene group or poly-oxyalkylene group.

Copolymer, vibration damper, vibration-damping part, and copolymer composition

A coating agent comprising 50 to 99 parts by weight of a monomer or monomer mixture (M) composed of 50 to 100% by weight of a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate monomer (m-1) having two or more (meth)acryloyloxy groups and 0 to 50% by weight of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer (m-2), and 1 to 50 parts by weight of colloidal silica, wherein the colloidal silica contains colloidal silica in a narrow and long form having an average diameter of 5 to 20 nm and an average length of 40 to 300 nm in an amount of 5 to 100% by weight based on the total colloidal silica weight; and a resin molded article having a coated layer obtained by hardening this coating agent, are disclosed. This colloidal silica-containing coating agent is excellent in appearance, hardness, abrasion resistance, weather resistance, adhesion with a substrate, no need of a solvent, and the like.

Coating agent, and resin molded article having coated layer

The present invention provides expandable plastics having a molecular weight of 50,000 to 500,000 which comprises the following structural units (I), (II) and (III) giving a foam having heat resistance and fine structure by heating, the molar ratio of (I+II) to (III) being 1 to 0.6-1.5 and the proportion of (I) being 5 to 50 wt. % of the total components: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. When the copolymer, the expandable plastics, of the present invention is used, white foams having a very fine texture are obtained without using special foaming agents, and besides the heat resistance of the foams is high and the amount of water absorbed thereby is little. The foams of the present invention, therefore, can be used in a wide range as soundproofing materials and heat insulators for which the conventional foams cannot be used because of their low heat resistance, and substitutes for honeycomb structures used in airplanes.

Expandable plastics and their foams

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Toyama, Japan

Tetsuya Sawano