摘要:
To provide an amorphous thermoplastic resin and a film or sheet each having high transparency and high heat resistance and a UV-absorbing ability, which can be used in various optical materials which needs to have excellent optical characteristics and well-balanced mechanical strength, molding processability, and surface hardness. An amorphous thermoplastic resin including a UV-absorbing monomer unit and having a glass transition temperature of 120° C. or more, in which the amorphous thermoplastic resin has a light transmittance of 80% or more at 500 nm and a light transmittance of less than 30% at 380 nm.
摘要:
The low birefringent material of the present invention is, for example, an acrylic copolymer including a lactone ring structure which can provide a positive retardation and a structural unit which can provide a negative retardation, the acrylic copolymer satisfying following conditions that: (A) the copolymer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 100° C. or higher; (B) a film comprising the copolymer has a total light transmittance of 85% or higher; and (C) a retardation per 100 μm of thickness in an in-plane direction of the film is 10 nm or lower, and a difference between a retardation per 100 μm of thickness in an in-plane direction of the film after the film is drawn by 1.5 times and a retardation per 100 μm of thickness in an in-plane direction of the film before the film is drawn is 20 nm or lower. The low birefringent material of the present invention has excellent transparency and heat resistance, also has other desired properties including mechanical strength and forming processability, has low coloration properties when no nitrogen atom is contained, and particularly has high optical isotropy.
摘要:
Provided are: a polarizer protective film, which is allowed to express excellent UV-absorbing ability by using a UV-absorbing monomer as a raw material, has excellent heat resistance and excellent optical transparency, and has much less coloring and foaming; a polarizing plate with less defects in an outer appearance, using the polarizer protective film; and an image display apparatus of high quality, using the polarizing plate. The polarizer protective film of the present invention has a light transmittance at 380 nm in a thickness of 80 μm of 30% or less, and is obtained by molding a forming material that contains a resin component containing as a main component a (meth)acrylic resin obtained by polymerizing a monomer composition containing a UV-absorbing monomer and a (meth)acrylic monomer by extrusion molding.
摘要:
To provide a high concentration solution of a vinylpyrrolidone polymer having a low K value, which can be used in various applications such as medical applications and applications where coloring is problematic. A monomer component essentially containing N-vinylpyrrolidone, hydrogen peroxide, and ammonia are sequentially added to a copper catalyst-containing aqueous solvent and polymerized at 55 to 90° C., and the ammonia is used in an amount of 0.1 to 0.37% by weight based on the N-vinylpyrrolidone. As a result, a 40 to 60% by weight solution of a vinylpyrrolidone polymer having a K value of 60 or less, wherein the solution has: an N-vinylpyrrolidone content of 10 ppm or less relative to the vinylpyrrolidone polymer; an alkanol concentration of 100 ppm or less; and an ignition residue of 0.1% by weight or less, and a 50% by weight solution of the vinylpyrrolidone polymer has a hue (APHA) according to JIS-K3331 of 280 or less.
摘要:
The present invention provides: a vinylpyrrolidone polymer which exhibits good heat resistance and storage stability; a composition containing the vinylpyrrolidone polymer; a stabilization process for the vinylpyrrolidone polymer, and a preservation process for a vinylpyrrolidone polymer by which: even when the vinylpyrrolidone polymer is preserved for a long time or at high temperature, the physical properties such as molecular weight (K value) of the vinylpyrrolidone polymer can be prevented from changing, therefore the vinylpyrrolidone polymer can stably be preserved. To enhance the heat resistance and the storage stability, a vinylpyrrolidone polymer is mixed with a certain amount of antioxidant, and the oxygen concentration is suppressed to not higher than 50,000 ppm in a gas phase that contacts with the vinylpyrrolidone polymer when preserving.
摘要:
To provide a vinylpyrrolidone/vinyl acetate copolymer which is extremely reduced in thermal yellowing and is usable even at high temperatures and which can dissolve in water to give a transparent solution. The vinylpyrrolidone/vinyl acetate copolymer of the present invention has a residual vinylpyrrolidone content of 100 ppm or less relative to a solid content of the copolymer. A 5% by weight aqueous solution of the copolymer has an NTU value of 4.0 or less. A 50% aqueous solution of the copolymer has a Hazen color number (APHA) according to JIS-K3331 of 350 or less, the Hazen color number being measured by the following accelerated test.
摘要:
The present invention provides an innovative N-vinylamide polymer with decreased contents of impurities and suppressed coloration, a higher K-value, and preferably usable in a variety of fields such as cosmetic and pharmaceutical products, and to provide a production method of the polymer. An N-vinylamide polymer comprising an N-vinylamide monomer unit, wherein the N-vinylamide polymer has K-value of 60 or higher, a content of hydrolysis products of N-vinylamide monomer of 0.02% by weight or less, a content of ashes of 0.1% by weight or less, and hue of 10% aqueous solution of 10 or less measured according to JIS K0071.
摘要:
The present invention provides: a cyclic imino ether group containing polymer with an extremely reduced amount of residual cyclic imino ether group containing monomer; and a production process therefor. The cyclic imino ether group containing polymer is obtained by a process including the step of polymerizing a monomer component including a cyclic imino ether group containing monomer, and contains a cyclic imino ether group containing monomer unit in the ratio of not less than 0.1 mol %, wherein the amount of the cyclic imino ether group containing monomer remaining in the polymer is not more than 15 ppm. The production process for a cyclic imino ether group containing polymer comprises the steps of: radical-polymerizing a monomer component including a cyclic imino ether group containing monomer to obtain a cyclic imino ether group containing polymer; devolatilizing the resultant polymer by vacuum heating treatment to remove volatile components from the polymer; and adding a compound, reactable with the cyclic imino ether group, to the polymer in the devolatilizing step.
摘要:
There is provided a vinylpyrrolidone-based copolymer having as essential components N-vinylpyrrolidone and hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate, which gives a favorable crosslinked coating film, and a method for production by which the copolymer is easily obtained.A vinylpyrrolidone-based copolymer of the present invention contains a constitutional unit derived from N-vinylpyrrolidone and a constitutional unit derived from hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate at a specific ratio, in which a K value according to Fikentscher is 12 or more, water insoluble matter is 0.5% by mass (on the basis of solid content) or less, and each content of iron, nickel, chromium, sodium and calcium is 500 ppb (on the basis of mass: the same hereinafter) or less, or electrical conductivity of a 10% by mass-aqueous solution of the vinylpyrrolidone-based copolymer is 35 μS/cm or less.
摘要:
The present invention provides a vinylpyrrolidone (co)polymer excellent in the color tone and the thermal yellowing resistance despite its low molecular weight. The vinylpyrrolidone (co)polymer, according to the present invention, is a vinylpyrrolidone (co)polymer which has a Hazen value of not more than 30 in the form of 5% aqueous solution and a K value of not more than 60 and is obtained by a process including the step of polymerizing a polymerizable monomer component with an azo compound initiator and/or an organic peroxide initiator, wherein the polymerizable monomer component includes N-vinylpyrrolidone, and wherein the azo compound initiator has a chemical structure as shown by —C(CH3)2—N═N—C(CH3)2—, and wherein the organic peroxide initiator is soluble in water or ethyl alcohol of 25° C. in an amount of not smaller than 3 weight %.