Abstract:
An object of the invention is, in producing a cast molded article by crosslinking a water-dispersed urethane prepolymer with a polyamine compound, providing a method for producing a cast molded article made of a polyurethane porous substance in which a cured reactant has good demolding properties and a cast molded article with a fine structure can be easily produced, and a cast molded article having a fine structure with high dimensional accuracy. The cast molded article of this invention is produced by reacting polyol, a chain length regulator, isocyanate and 0.1 through 4 wt % of a hydrophilic chain length regulator to one another, allowing a resultant urethane prepolymer having a terminal isocyanate group to be mixed with and dispersed in water, mixing a resultant water-dispersed urethane prepolymer with 1,4-diaminobutane and injecting a resultant mixture into a die for crosslinkage, and demolding a resultant cured reactant and removing moisture from the cured reactant.
Abstract:
The present invention is core-shell polymer particles comprising a common binder polymer for the core and the shell wherein the core has a porosity and the shell is non-porous The particles have a porosity from 10 to 70 percent.
Abstract:
A foaming composition is provided, which includes water, pulp, alginic ester, and a surfactant. A preferable example of the alginic ester is propylene glycol alginate. The alginic ester may be mixed therein at a mixing amount ranging from 5 parts by weight to 15 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the pulp.
Abstract:
A silicone rubber sponge emulsion composition comprising (A) (a) a liquid diorganopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups per molecule, or a paste-like mixture of (a) a liquid diorganopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups per molecule and (d) a reinforcing filler, (b) an organopolysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule, and (c) a platinum catalyst, (B) an aqueous solution of a water-soluble polymer, and (C) an emulsifying agent; its production; and production of silicone rubber sponge, wherein silicone rubber sponge is obtained by curing the composition into a molding and heating the molding.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the production of alginate-containing porous or sponge-like moulded articles, and to the moulded articles obtainable thereby and their use.
Abstract:
A substantially closed-cell silicone elastomer porous body includes cells with diameters of 50 μm or less, which occupy 50% or more of all the cells, and has a closed cell rate of 60% or more.
Abstract:
The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels.
Abstract:
Nanoporous polymer foams, obtainable by curing microemulsions. The microemulsion comprises an aqueous reactive resin phase, a suitable amphiphile and an oil phase, and the reactive components may be subjected to a polycondensation. In a subsequent drying operation, the thus obtained gel particles are freed of the fluid components.
Abstract:
A method for the preparation of high strength air-dried organic aerogels. The method involves the sol-gel polymerization of organic gel precursors, such as resorcinol with formaldehyde (RF) in aqueous solvents with R/C ratios greater than about 1000 and R/F ratios less than about 1:2.1. Using a procedure analogous to the preparation of resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) aerogeis, this approach generates wet gels that can be air dried at ambient temperatures and pressures. The method significantly reduces the time and/or energy required to produce a dried aerogel compared to conventional methods using either supercritical solvent extraction. The air dried gel exhibits typically less than 5% shrinkage.
Abstract:
A graft-modified organic porous material comprising an organic porous material of 1-50 ml/g total pore volume having such an open cell structure that mesopores of 0.01-1000 μm radius are present within walls between macropores communicating with each other and, provided on the surface of the organic porous material, grafted polymer chains, characterized in that the density of polymer chains is at least 0.1 polymer chain per nm2 of surface of organic porous material. Thus, there are provided a graft-modified organic porous material wherein polymer chains have been introduced at high density in surface portion of organic porous material and a process for producing the same.