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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a copolymer latex useful as a binder for paper coating compositions, which improves the surface strength of the coated paper, has a high water resistance, ink drying property and print gloss, has a good coating workability with an improved sticking inhibiting property and yields a coated paper which exerts the above-mentioned high printability at a wide range of printing speed. SOLUTION: The latex is obtained by emulsion-polymerizing a monomer comprising (a) from 20 to 80 wt.% aliphatic conjugated diene monomer, (b) from 0.1 to 10 wt.% ethylene unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and (c) from 10 to 79.9 wt.% other monomers copolymerizable with monomer (a) and monomer (b). This emulsion polymerization is carried out in the presence of diphenyl ethylene and/or nuclear substitution product thereof. The copolymer has at least one glass transition temperature within the range of from -100 to 60°C, and the difference ΔT between the lowest temperature T1 and the highest temperature T2 within the transition area in the thermogram obtained using the differential scanning calorimeter is 30°C or more preferably 35°C or more. COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composition which is used for coating electrophotographic printing paper, has good productivity, when coated at a high speed, and can give the coated electrophotographic printing paper having excellent image qualities, traveling property, and blistering resistance, when electrophotographs are printed. SOLUTION: This composition for coating the electrophotographic printing paper comprises a pigment and a binder. The pigment comprises (a) 50 to 90 pts.mass of an inorganic pigment comprising kaolin clay and/or calcium carbonate, (b) 10 to 50 pts.mass of a solid plastic pigment which contains 2 to 20 mass% of an aliphatic conjugated diene monomer and has a lowest film-forming temperature (MFT) of ≥50°C, and (c) 0 to 10 pts.mass of a hollow plastic pigment [(a)+(b)+(c)=100 pts.mass]. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a copolymer latex which can give coated paper having excellent surface strength, water resistance, ink dryability, print gloss and antitack properties, and exhibiting excellent operability in coating. SOLUTION: The copolymer latex is obtained by emulsion-polymerizing a mixture comprising (a) 20-80% by weight of aliphatic conjugated diene monomer, (b) 0.5-10% by weight of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer, and (c) 10-79.5% by weight of another monomer copolymerizable with monomers (a) and (b). The copolymer has one glass transition temperature in the range of -100 to 60°C, a range of the transition region of 20°C or above and satisfies following formula 1, -0.1≤(logE2-logE1)/(T2-T1)≤-0.01, wherein T1 is the temperature at the boundary between the glass region of the copolymer and its transition region, T2 is the temperature at the boundary between the transition region and a rubbery region, in which E1 and E2 are each the modulus of elasticity of the copolymer at temperature T1 and T2 respectively. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a copolymer latex capable of providing a coated paper having excellent printing suitability such as coating operability, surface strength, printed gloss and ink-drying properties. SOLUTION: The copolymer latex contains a core-shell type copolymer comprising 70-95 mass% core parts comprising a copolymer having the following structural units, and 30-5 mass% shell parts arranged around the core parts and comprising a copolymer having the following structural units, and having 70-150 nm average particle diameter: the core part: 45-70% structural unit derived from an aliphatic conjugated diene monomer, 30-55% structural unit derived from a vinyl cyanide monomer, 0-2% structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer, and 0-25% structural unit derived from other monomers; and the shell part: 50-95% structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl monomer, 5-20% structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and 0-45% structural units derived from other monomers. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a copolymer latex useful as a binder of a paper coating composition which emits less odor during the production of a coated paper, gives a less odorous coated paper, is excellent in printability such as coating operability, surface strength, print gloss, ink driability, surface smoothness, and gloss of unprinted paper, and can give a coated paper exhibiting the above printability over a wide range of a printing speed. SOLUTION: The copolymer latex is one obtained by emulsion-polymerizing a monomer mixture comprising 20-70 wt.% (a) 1,3-butadiene, 0.1-10 wt.% (b) ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and 20-79.9 wt.% (c) other monomers copolymerizable with monomers (a) and (b), wherein the concentration of the 4-vinylcyclohexene remaining in the copolymer latex is at most 100 ppm based on the solids of the copolymer latex. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a copolymer latex for paper coating, capable of providing the coated paper having extremely improved adhesive strength, and excellent in coated paper properties such as the gloss of print, and in operability of coating, such as redispersibility, mechanical stability and stickiness-preventing properties, and further to provide a method for producing the copolymer latex and to obtain a composition for paper coating. SOLUTION: This copolymer latex for paper coating contains >=31% components detected at the time earlier than the elution time corresponding to 1,000,000 molecular weight expressed in terms of a polystyrene in the molecular weight distribution measured by a gel permeation chromatography(GPC). The weight average molecular weight of the components detected at the time later than the elution time corresponding to 1,000,000 molecular weight expressed in terms of the polystyrene is 30,000-400,000, and the content of components therein insoluble in toluene is >=31 wt.%.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a copolymer latex for obtaining a compsn. for paper coating which has bond strength and blister resistance which are excellent and balanced with each other, which has excellent print gloss and which is free from sticking at the time of paper coating, and a compsn. for paper coating thereof. SOLUTION: This copolymer latex comprisies (a) 10-60 wt.% of an aliph. conjugated diene monomer unit, (b) 0.15-10 wt.% of an amide group-contg. ethylenically unsatd. monomer unit, (c) 0.1-3 wt.% of an ethylenically unsatd. carboxylic acid monomer unit and (d) 27-89 wt.% of another monomer unit copolymerizable with these, and the wt. ratio of the component (b) to the component (c) is 1.5 or more, and the amt. of a toluene-insol. portion of the copolymer obtd. by coagulating the latex with an alcohol at a regulated pH of 8 followed by drying minus the amt. of a toluene-insol. portion measured in the same way at a regulated pH of 2, is not more than 30 wt.%.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a copolymer latex which can give coated paper having markedly improved surface strength, excellent water resistance, ink dryability, and print gloss, having excellent printability over a wide range of printing speed, and exhibiting excellent operability in coating because of improved antitack properties. SOLUTION: There is provided a copolymer latex obtained by emulsion- polymerizing a mixture comprising (a) 20-80 wt.% aliphatic conjugated diene monomer, (b) 0.5-10 wt.% ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer, and (c) 10-79.5 wt.% another monomer copolymerizable with monomers (a) and (b), wherein the copolymer has one glass transition temperature in the range of -100 to 60 deg.C, a range of the transition region of 20 deg.C or above and satisfies the following formula: -0.1
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain both a copolymer latex, improved in high-speed coating suitability and high-speed fluidity when used especially in a composition for coating paper, excellent in mechanical stability and properties for preventing stickiness and excellent in coated paper performances such as adhesive strength, printing gloss and rigidity, and a composition for coating paper using the copolymer latex. SOLUTION: This copolymer latex obtained by carrying out the emulsion copolymerization of a monomer mixture comprising (a) 20-80wt.% aliphatic conjugated diene-based monomer, (b) 0.5-8wt.% water-soluble ethylenic monomer and (c) 20-79.5wt.% other vinylic monomers using (d) a water-soluble polymerization initiator [with the proviso that the total amount of the components (a), (b) and (c) is 100wt.%]. The product of the amount (wt.%) used of the component (b) based on the total monomer and the amount (wt.%) used of the component (d) based on the total monomer is within the range of 0.1-8. The average particle diameter is 50-150nm. A composition for coating paper comprises the copolymer latex.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light-diffusing pressure-sensitive adhesive composition capable of forming a light-diffusing pressure-sensitive adhesive layer causing no gas expansion and the like, having pressure-sensitive adhesive performance with good durability, excellent in balance of light transmittance and diffusive properties and having antistatic properties. SOLUTION: The light-diffusing pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes an aqueous emulsion containing polymer particles (A-1) comprising acrylic copolymer (A), organic particulates (B), a curing agent (C) curing the acrylic copolymer (A) and a quaternary ammonium compound (D). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT