Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Aliphatic Copolyester Resin

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 11 -- Yasuteru Kajikawa of Himeji, Japan, has developed an aliphatic polyesters.

An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "In the present invention, there are obtained aliphatic polyesters having a controlled thermal decomposing property, hydrolizability, and biodegradability, in which OH terminals and COOR terminals are decreased to 50% and 30%, respectively, through a ring-opening polymerization of a lactone and lactide by a mono alcohol having a high boiling point or a metal alkoxide, or by further decreasing both terminals through combining produced polymer terminals with a diisocyanate and, from a composition ...

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