The present invention provides: a reaction injection molding liquid mixture comprising a norbornene-based monomer, a metathesis polymerization catalyst that includes tungsten as a center metal, an activator, and an ether compound represented by a formula (1), wherein R.sup.1 to R.sup.4 are independently an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, the reaction injection molding liquid mixture comprising the activator and the ether compound in a molar ratio (ether compound/activator) of 0.7/1 to 30/1; a method for producing a reaction injection molded product comprising a reaction injection molding step that includes subjecting the reaction injection molding liquid mixture according to any one of claims 1 to 4 to bulk polymerization inside a mold; a reaction injection molded product obtained using the method for producing a reaction injection molded product. Consequently, the present invention provides: a reaction injection molding liquid mixture that makes it possible to obtain a reaction injection molded product that has an excellent surface (surface state) and exhibits excellent strength while preventing a situation in which the resin remains on the surface of the mold when the resin is removed from the mold, a method for producing a reaction injection molded product using the same, and a reaction injection molded product obtained using the method.

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A graft copolymer can include, in its backbone, at least one segment having repeating units obtainable by ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of an optionally substituted cycloalkene, and at least one segment comprising repeating units obtainable by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of a (meth)acrylate. The corresponding graft copolymer is highly suitable for use as an oil additive in internal combustion engines, in particular, in combustion engines which are operated for longer periods of time at substantially constant operating temperatures.

Disclosed herein is a multilayer coating system present on a substrate and including at least two coating layers L1 and L2 different from one another, namely a first coating layer L1 applied over at least a portion of the substrate, and a second topcoat layer L2 applied over the first coating layer L1, where the topcoat layer L2 is formed from a coating composition including at least one block copolymer containing a backbone and at least two blocks B1 and B2 and side chains S1 and S2 including different polymeric moieties M1 and M2. Also disclosed herein are a method of preparing said multilayer coating system, a coated substrate obtainable therefrom, and a method of using a coating composition including the block copolymer for improving, in particular for increasing, the chromaticity of the multilayer coating system.

Provided is a vessel having reduced non-specific adsorption of protein to an inner wall surface of an accommodating member. The vessel includes an accommodating member obtained through shaping of a shaping material that contains a resin. An inner wall surface of the accommodating member has a zeta-potential at pH 7.0 of less than ?40.0 mV and a dispersion term component of surface free energy of less than 24.5 mJ/m.sup.2.

Hydrocarbonbackbone polymers with pendant quaternary ammonium groups and methods of making and using same. A polymer can be made by a ring-opening polymerization of quaternary ammonium bearing monomer(s), and, optionally, non-quaternary ammonium bearing monomer(s). A film including a polymer can be used as an anion exchange membrane in a device, such as, for example, a battery, a fuel cell, or the like.

Methods for fabricating three-dimensional objects by 3D-inkjet printing technology are provided. The methods utilize curable materials that polymerize via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) in combination with toughening agents for fabricating the object. Systems suitable for performing these methods and kits containing modeling material formulations usable in the methods are also provided.

A ring-opened copolymer including structural units derived from a norbornene compound having a specific structure and structural units derived from a monocyclic olefin, wherein the proportion of the structural units derived from a norbornene compound is 25 to 90 wt % and the proportion of the structural units derived from a monocyclic olefin is 10 to 75 wt % relative to the total repeating structural units in the ring-opened copolymer, the weight average molecular weight of the ring-opened copolymer is 100,000 to 1,000,000, and the cis/trans ratio of the ring-opened copolymer is 0/100 to 50/50.

Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass an organoruthenium compound of the formula I: (I) wherein X, Y, L.sub.1, L.sub.2, L.sub.3, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined herein. Also disclosed herein are the use of organoruthenium compound of the formula I as (pre)catalysts for the olefin metathesis reactions, as well as to the process for carrying out the olefin metathesis reaction.

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Disclosed herein is a multilayer coating system present on a substrate and including at least three coating layers L1, L2 and L3 different from one another, namely a first pigmented coating layer L1 applied over at least a portion of the substrate, a second coating layer L2 applied over the first pigmented coating layer L1, and a third coating layer L3 applied over the second coating layer L2, where the second coating layer L2 is formed from a coating composition including at least one block copolymer containing a backbone and at least two blocks B1 and B2 and side chains S1 and S2 including different polymeric moieties M1 and M2. Also disclosed herein are a method of preparing said multilayer coating system, a coated substrate obtainable therefrom, and a method of using a coating composition including the block copolymer for improving the chromaticity of the multilayer coating system.

Hydrocarbon polymer having two 2-oxo-1,3-dioxolane-4-carboxylate end groups of formula (I):

##STR00001## F.sup.1 has formula (IIa) and F.sup.2 has formula (IIb):

##STR00002## in which g and d, which are identical or different, represent an integer equal to 1, 2 or 3; R.sup.1 to R.sup.12 represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical of 1 to 22 carbon atoms; x and y are integers such that the sum x+y is 0 to 2; R.sup.13 is an oxygen or sulphur atom or a divalent CH.sub.2 radical; n1, n2, m, p1 and p2 are an integer or equal to 0 and such that the molecular weight Mn of the polymer of formula (I) is between 400 and 100 000 g/mol, a process for the preparation of the polymer by ring-opening metathesis polymerization, and use as adhesive in mixture with an amino compound having at least two amine groups.