Abstract:
Provided is a process for manufacturing a resin composite material having high mechanical strength. The process comprises the steps of: preparing a resin composition comprising a carbon material having a graphene structure, a solvent, and a thermoplastic resin; applying a shearing force to a solid of the resin composition so that the total shearing strain, which is a product of shear rate (s-1) and shear time (s), is 80000 or more either at a temperature lower than the melting point of the thermoplastic resin when the thermoplastic resin is crystalline or at a temperature in the vicinity of Tg of the thermoplastic resin when the thermoplastic resin is amorphous; and kneading the resin composition at a temperature equal to or higher than the boiling point of the solvent to obtain the resin composite material.
Abstract:
Ophthalmic device molds made from at least one water-soluble vinyl alcohol copolymer, ophthalmic devices such as ocular inserts and contact lenses and including silicone hydrogel devices formed using these molds, packaged ophthalmic devices present in a solution comprising the at least one water-soluble vinyl alcohol copolymer, and related methods are described. The methods of manufacturing ophthalmic devices can use wet demolding processes, or wet delensing processes or both wet demolding and wet delensing processes involving dissolving the molds in water or an aqueous solution.
Abstract:
A protective coating which is removable with a removing agent comprising a strong base, which protective coating comprises a pigment, a weak base and a binder, the binder being a polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000-100,000 and an acid value of 40-250. A protective agent and a method for forming the protective coating.
Abstract:
Ophthalmic device molds made from at least one water-soluble vinyl alcohol copolymer, ophthalmic devices such as ocular inserts and contact lenses and including silicone hydrogel devices formed using these molds, packaged ophthalmic devices present in a solution comprising the at least one water-soluble vinyl alcohol copolymer, and related methods are described. The methods of manufacturing ophthalmic devices can use wet demolding processes, or wet delensing processes or both wet demolding and wet delensing processes involving dissolving the molds in water or an aqueous solution.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for producing an aqueous dispersion, which includes using ammonia (B) to neutralize and disperse an ethylene/methacrylic acid copolymer (A) in an aqueous medium in the presence of monohydric alcohol (C) containing 3 or more carbon atoms. The process allows for dispersion with ammonia and production of a low viscosity aqueous dispersion with better dispersibility and higher uniformity of the dispersed particles than a conventional process with ammonia neutralization.
Abstract:
Dispersions of polymer particles according to the invention comprise at least two separate maxima of the particle size distribution, wherein the two maxima are in the range from 13 to 50 nm and from 90 to 150 nm, respectively, and the ratio of the small particles to the large particles is 10/90 to 40/60.