Abstract:
A composition includes a polyrotaxane (A) which includes cyclodextrin as a ring molecule and polyethylene glycol as a linear molecule, and in which a blocking group is arranged at both ends of the linear molecule; a block copolymer (B) including polysiloxane; and a polymer (C) including no polysiloxane.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), in particular a polyurethane-based thermoplastic elastomer (TPU), that has exceptional elongation, strength, and wear resistance, and in particular has exceptional wear resistance. The present invention provides: a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing A) a thermoplastic urethane elastomer composition having A1) at least one polyol selected from the group consisting of polyether polyols, polyesterpolyols, and polycarbonate polyols, A2) a diisocyanate, and A3) a chain extender, and B) polyrotaxane formed by arranging blocking groups, at both ends of pseudo-polyrotaxane formed by inclusion of the openings of cyclic molecules in a shape skewered by linear molecules, so that the cyclic molecules are not eliminated; and a thermoplastic elastomer derived from this composition.
Abstract:
The present invention aims to provide a method for producing a polyrotaxane which enables industrially advantageous production of a polyrotaxane with a high inclusion rate.The present invention relates to a method for producing a polyrotaxane that includes a cyclodextrin; a compound having a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (1), and threading through a cavity of the cyclodextrin in a skewered manner to be included in the cyclodextrin; and capping groups individually placed at each end of a molecule of the compound having a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (1) to prevent the cyclodextrin from separating, the method comprising: a step 1 of mixing the compound having a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (1) and the cyclodextrin in an aqueous medium to prepare an aqueous dispersion of pseudopolyrotaxan particles in which the compound having a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (1) is included in a cavity of a cyclodextrin molecule in a skewered manner; and a step 2 of mixing a triazine compound represented by the formula (2), a compound having at least one tertiary amino group, the aqueous dispersion of pseudopolyrotaxane particles prepared in the step 1, and a capping agent to introduce capping groups individually at each end of a molecule of the compound having a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (1) in the pseudopolyrotaxane particles, wherein, in the formula (2), R1 and R2 are each independently a C1-C4 alkyl group or a C6-C8 aryl group, and X represents a halogen atom.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a photocured product having both excellent toughness and high strength, and also provides a photocurable composition for forming said photocured product. The present invention provides a photocurable composition comprising: A. a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer, wherein the glass transition temperature of a polymer formed from only said monomer is 20° C. or higher; B. a polyrotaxane obtained by respectively placing blocking groups at both ends of a pseudo-polyrotaxane, which is obtained by threading a linear molecule through the hole of a cyclic molecule, so as not to release the cyclic molecule, wherein the cyclic molecule has a (meth)acrylic group; and C. a photopolymerization initiator. The present invention also provides a photocured product formed from said composition.
Abstract:
A composition includes a polyrotaxane (A) which includes cyclodextrin as a ring molecule and polyethylene glycol as a linear molecule, and in which a blocking group is arranged at both ends of the linear molecule; a block copolymer (B) including polysiloxane; and a polymer (C) including no polysiloxane.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a material of high toughness that could not have been provided by an epoxy resin alone. The present invention provides a crosslinking composition having (A) one or more polyrotaxanes in which end-capping groups which prevent dissociation of the linear group are situated at both ends of a pseudo-polyrotaxane formed by inclusion of a linear molecule in the opening of a cyclic molecule by being threaded therethrough, the polyrotaxane having on the cyclic molecule a functional group that is capable of reacting with the oxirane group and/or the oxetane group, the functional group being one or more selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acid groups, carboxylate groups, primary amine groups, secondary amino groups, tertiary amino groups, phenol groups, the oxirane group, and the oxetane group, and (B) a compound having two or more oxirane groups and/or oxetane groups; and a crosslinked product employing the composition.
Abstract:
The invention provides an industrially advantageous method for the production of hydroxyalkylated polyrotaxanes. The method of producing hydroxyalkylated polyrotaxane includes reacting a polyrotaxane with a cyclic ether represented by Formula (1) in the presence of water and an organic base, wherein the polyrotaxane includes hydroxyl group-containing cyclic molecules, a linear molecule threaded through the cyclic molecules to form a clathrate, and blocking groups at both ends of the linear molecule to prevent the separation of the cyclic molecules from the linear molecule.
Abstract:
A material comprising crosslinked polyrotaxanes which exhibits desired viscoelasticity, particularly stress-strain characteristics with a wide low-stress region, in spite of being free from solvent; and a process for production of the same. The material comprises a first polyrotaxane bearing first cyclic molecules and a second polyrotaxane bearing second cyclic molecules, and the first and second polyrotaxanes are crosslinked via the first and second cyclic molecules. The material is free from solvent and exhibits a stress of 2.0 MPa or below at 50% strain.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a polyrotaxane having high durability and in particular, high hydrolysis resistance, and a method for producing said polyrotaxane. The present invention provides a polyrotaxane obtained by disposing blocking groups on both ends of a pseudopolyrotaxane so that an annular molecule cannot be displaced, said pseudopolyrotaxane being obtained by forming a clathrate by piercing the opening of the cyclic molecule with a linear molecule, said polyrotaxane being characterized in that the cyclic molecule has a substituent represented by formula I (in formula I, R1 represents a group such as —CH3 and —CH2—CH3, R2 represents H or a group such as —CH3, and n is the apparent degree of polymerization of a polyalkylene oxide chain or a derivative thereof added to the cyclic molecule, the value of n being 1.1 to 10.0).
Abstract:
The present invention provides a material of high toughness that could not have been provided by an epoxy resin alone. The present invention provides a crosslinking composition having (A) one or more polyrotaxanes in which end-capping groups which prevent dissociation of the linear group are situated at both ends of a pseudo-polyrotaxane formed by inclusion of a linear molecule in the opening of a cyclic molecule by being threaded therethrough, the polyrotaxane having on the cyclic molecule a functional group that is capable of reacting with the oxirane group and/or the oxetane group, the functional group being one or more selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acid groups, carboxylate groups, primary amine groups, secondary amino groups, tertiary amino groups, phenol groups, the oxirane group, and the oxetane group, and (B) a compound having two or more oxirane groups and/or oxetane groups; and a crosslinked product employing the composition.