Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.

Sekisui Specialty Chemicals America, LLC

Tokushima University

Sekisui Speciality Chemicals America, LLC

Yohei Nishimura

Yasunari Kusaka

Nami Nakajima

Toshio Tada

Katsunori Toyoshima

Koichi Ute

Hidehiro Yamaguchi

Miyuki Oshimura

Tomohiro Hirano

Juichi Fukatani

Richard Vicari

Tadahiko Yoshioka

Regan Pollock

Kaustubh Ghorpade

Joseba Inaki Iragorri

Tsutomu Ando

K Van Phung

Misaki Senoo

Risa Yamazaki

Ryo Kagitani

Junichi Niino

The present invention provides a vinyl alcohol-amino acid ester copolymer that is excellent in properties such as cell culture properties, biocompatibility, antibacterial properties, and solubility in organic solvents, and is applicable to the medical field, the biomaterial field, and the agricultural field (medical and life science fields). Provided is a vinyl alcohol-amino acid ester copolymer including a unit represented by the following formula (1) and a unit represented by the following formula (2): where, in the formula (2), Rrepresents a hydrocarbon group that may optionally have a substituent, Rand Reach independently represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, and Rand R, or Rand R, may optionally be bonded together to form a cyclic structure.

Vinyl alcohol-amino acid ester copolymer

A polyvinyl alcohol film comprising a vinyl alcohol-based polymer, wherein, when the polyvinyl alcohol film is measured by a solid echo method using pulse NMR at 80° C. for waveform separation of a free induction decay curve of 1H spin-spin relaxation into three curves derived from three components a component A, a component B, and a component C in order of short relaxation time, the component A has a resulting relaxation time of 0.0083 milliseconds or more and 0.0093 milliseconds or less, and a resulting component ratio of 10% or more and 35% or less.

Poly(vinyl alcohol) film and production method for polarizing film

A vinyl alcohol-based polymer according to one embodiment of the present invention has an integral value (e) of 0.8 to 20 in the case when a sum of the following integral value (a) to (e) is 100 in aH-NMR spectrum

Vinyl alcohol polymer and method for producing vinyl alcohol polymer

The present invention relates to a polyvinyl alcohol film comprising a vinyl alcohol-based polymer, wherein, when the polyvinyl alcohol film is measured by a solid echo method using pulse NMR at 60° C. for waveform separation of a free induction decay curve of 1H spin-spin relaxation into three curves derived from three components a component A, a component B, and a component C in order of short relaxation time, the component B has a resulting relaxation time of 0.03 milliseconds or more and 0.05 milliseconds or less, and a resulting component ratio of 30% or more and 50% or less. From the polyvinyl alcohol film according to the present invention, a polarizing film having good polarization performance can be manufactured without the occurrence of unevenness of dyeing.

The present invention relates to a polyvinyl alcohol film comprising a vinyl alcohol-based polymer, the polyvinyl alcohol film having an NMR signal intensity at 0.10 milliseconds of 78% or less of the initial intensity, when the polyvinyl alcohol film after immersing in water at 60° C. for 2 hours is measured as a measurement sample by a solid echo method using pulse NMR at 60° C. According to the polyvinyl alcohol film of the present invention, a polarizing film having good polarization performance, which is unlikely to decrease even under high humidity, can be manufactured.

A polyvinyl alcohol film comprises a vinyl alcohol-based polymer, wherein, when the polyvinyl alcohol film being measured by a solid echo method using pulse NMR at 60° C. for waveform separation of a free induction decay curve of 1H spin-spin relaxation into three curves derived from three components a component A, a component B, and a component C in order of short relaxation time, the component A has a resulting relaxation time of 0.0070 milliseconds or more and 0.0092 milliseconds or less, and a resulting component ratio of 20% or more and 50% or less.

The present invention provides a vinyl alcohol-vinyl acetate copolymer having excellent solubility and capable of providing a film having high flexibility, high mechanical strength, and high adhesion, and a method for producing a vinyl alcohol-vinyl acetate copolymer. Provided is a vinyl alcohol-vinyl acetate copolymer including a unit of vinyl alcohol and a unit of vinyl acetate, the vinyl alcohol-vinyl acetate copolymer having a triad unit chain ratio Tof 7.5 or less, where the triad unit chain ratio Tis obtained using the following formula (1): wherein the VOH content ratio represents the amount of the unit of vinyl alcohol, the Vac content ratio represents the amount of the unit of vinyl acetate, the OOO proportion represents the proportion of a triad OOO, and the AOO proportion represents the proportion of a triad AOO.

Vinyl alcohol-vinyl acetate copolymer

Dispersing agents useful in a suspension polymerization process may be formed based on polyvinyl alcohols and processes discloses herein. The dispersing agent may include, for example: a polyvinyl alcohol having a degree of hydrolysis in the range from 60 to 80 mol %; an absorbance of not less than 0.3 measured at a wavelength of 320 nm with respect to a 0.1 wt % aqueous solution of the polyvinyl alcohol; a block character of remaining ester groups in the range from 0.4 to 0.5; and a cloud point in the range from 35&#xb0; C. to 50&#xb0; C. measured with respect to a 1 wt % aqueous solution of the polyvinyl alcohol. Carbonyl groups are theorized to be present along the polymer chain, which may be quantified by 1-H NMR spectra peaks.

PVOH dispersant for VCM polymerization

The polyvinyl alcohol according to the present invention to be used as a dispersant for suspension polymerization for polyvinyl chloride has a degree of saponification of 60 to 80 mol %, a block character of 0.4 to 0.6, an integration value defined by the following (a) of 0.04 to 0.1 and an integration value defined by the following (b) of 0.01 to 0.2 in aH-NMR spectrum, and a 0.1% by mass aqueous solution of the polyvinyl alcohol has a UV absorbance at a wavelength of 320 nm of 0.18 or more and less than 0.3.

Polyvinyl alcohol used as dispersing agents for polyvinyl chloride suspension polymerization, dispersing agents comprising the polyvinyl alcohol, and method for producing polyvinyl chloride using the polyvinyl alcohol

A water soluble polyvinyl alcohol copolymer having a diad syndiotacticity of greater than about 60% and less than about 70%. In some embodiments, the water soluble polyvinyl alcohol copolymer is soluble in water at a concentration of at least 1 wt % at a temperature of less than 100&#xb0; C. In other embodiments, the composition is soluble in water at a concentration of at least 5 wt % at a temperature in the range from about 90&#xb0; C. to less than 100&#xb0; C. The high solubility of the high syndiotactic poly vinyl alcohols disclosed herein may provide various advantages as described herein, including ease of processing and decreased use of harmful solvents.

Water soluble high syndiotactic polyvinyl alcohol

It is an object of the invention to provide a separation method of an adherend capable of easily and reliably separating an adherend stuck using an adhesive, a method for recovering an electronic part from an electronic part laminate, and a separation method of laminate glass. The invention provides a separation method of an adherend, which is a method of separating an adherend stuck by using an adhesive, and comprises the steps of: air-tightly sealing the adherend together with a fluid being a gas at a normal temperature and normal pressure in a pressure resistant container, making the inside of the pressure resistant container in a high pressure state, and releasing the pressure of the inside of the pressure resistant container.

Method for releasing adhered article

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of producing a polyvinyl acetal resin by which a polyvinyl acetal resin having a high acetalization degree can be produced even in a solid catalyst system, a polyvinyl butyral resin produced by the above-mentioned production method of a polyvinyl acetal resin, and a method of producing an esterified polyvinyl alcohol resin by which the esterification can be performed at high efficiency even in a solid catalyst system. The present invention is a method of producing a polyvinyl acetal resin, wherein a solution or a suspension containing a polyvinyl alcohol resin and a carbonyl compound is pressurized in the presence of a solid catalyst.

Process for producing polyvinyl acetal resin, polyvinyl butyral resin, and process for producing esterified polyvinyl alcohol resin

It is an object of the invention to provide a method for producing a modified polymer compound and a production apparatus of a modified polymer capable of producing a modified polymer compound with a high purity in a short time, and such a modified polymer compound. The invention provides a method for producing a modified polymer compound, which comprises chemically modifying a polymer compound in a supercritical fluid or a high temperature and high pressure fluid, said modified polymer compound being composed of monomer units obtainable by chemically modifying part of or all of monomer units composed of the polymer compound before modification reaction.

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