HYDROGENATED STYRENE POLYMER, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND MOLDED OBJECT OBTAINED THEREFROM

摘要

The present invention relates to a hydrogenated styrene polymer that has excellent transparency, can be used suitably for an optical application such as an optical disk substrate, has stability and transparency in a hot and humid environment, and has excellent heat resistance; and a process for producing same; etc. The hydrogenated styrene polymer of the present invention has a hydrogenated polymerized styrene unit content of at least 70 wt %, a content of fine particulate foreign matter having a particle size of 0.2 mu m or more and less than 0.5 mu m of at most 1 x 10<6> per g of the hydrogenated styrene polymer, and a phosphorus atom content of at most 0.01 parts by weight in 100 parts by weight of the hydrogenated styrene polymer. Furthermore, the process for producing a hydrogenated styrene polymer of the present invention includes steps of filtering, with a filter having a pore size of 0.3 mu m or less, a hydrogenated styrene polymer having a hydrogenated polymerized styrene unit content of at least 70 wt %, at a temperature at which the solution viscosity thereof is at most 10 Pa.sec (100 poise) at a shear rate of 1 (1/s), and then removing a solvent from the filtrate thus obtained.