Abstract:
A method for increasing the rate of polymerization of 2-octyl cyanoacrylate, or the rate of copolymerization of 2-octyl cyanoacrylate and a tri-telechelic star polymer comprising polyisobutylene terminated with cyanoacrylate groups (Ø(PIB-CA)3) to form a co-network, is provided. The method comprise initiating the polymerization of 2-octyl cyanoacrylate, or the copolymerization of 2-octyl cyanoacrylate and a tri-telechelic star polymer comprising polyisobutylene terminated with cyanoacrylate groups (Ø(PIB-CA)3) to form the co-network, with an initiator selected from the group consisting of cyclic tertiary aliphatic amines optionally dissolved in a non-aqueous solvent. The cyclic tertiary aliphatic amines are selected from the group consisting of azabicyclo[2.2.2]-octane (ABCO), and 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]-octane (DABCO).
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for production of an expandable polyethylene resin particle having a foaming agent impregnated therein, which comprises polymerizing a styrene monomer or a monomer mixture containing a styrene monomer onto a nuclear particle comprising an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and a linear low-density polyethylene.
Abstract:
An electrostrictive polymer actuator comprises an electrostrictive polymer with a tailorable Poisson's ratio. The electrostrictive polymer is electroded on its upper and lower surfaces and bonded to an upper material layer. The assembly is rolled tightly and capped at its ends. In a membrane structure having a membrane, a supporting frame and a plurality of threads connecting the membrane to the frame, an actuator can be integrated into one or more of the plurality of threads. The electrostrictive polymer actuator displaces along its longitudinal axis, thereby affecting movement of the membrane surface.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a rubber mixture containing a carboxylated nitrile rubber, a metal salt of an acrylate, a liquid acrylate, a silane, optionally together with further additives, to a process for the production thereof and to use for moldings of all kinds, in particular roll coverings.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide cationic hollow crosslinked polymer particles that maintain a cationic property over a wide pH range, has adequate strength, and is favorable for use in filled paper, pigments for coating paper, additives for paints, fillers for resins, rubbers, and the like. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing the abovementioned cationic hollow crosslinked polymer particles with excellent characteristics in a stable manner. The hollow crosslinked polymer particles of the present invention are characterized in that (I) the zeta potential as measured in an aqueous medium of pH 2 to 9 is in the range of null5 to null100 mV, (II) the volume hollowness is in the range of 1 to 80%, and (III) the average particle diameter is in the range of 0.03 to 10 nullm. This hollow crosslinked polymer particles are produced by a method that (a) 1 to 99.99 weight % of a crosslinking monomer, (b) 0.01 to 15 weight % of a cationic monomer, and (c) 0 to 98.99 weight % of a copolymerizable monomer that is non-crosslinking and nonionic (the total amount of the monomers being 100 weight %) are polymerized under the presence of polymer particles that are swellable by at least one of the above monomers. This hollow crosslinked cationic polymer particles are utilized for paint composition, cationic electrodeposition paint composition, resin composition, filled paper, paper coating composition, and coated paper, and the like.
Abstract:
Mass-continuous process for the production of vinylaromatic polymers which comprises feeding a reaction mixture containing at least one vinylaromatic monomer to at least one tubular reactor of the PFR type and operating with a recycling ratio, referring to the recycling flow-rate/feeding flow-rate, of less than 4.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process for the radical homo-or copolymerization of acrylonitrile with one or more copolymerizable monomers under reaction conditions such that the monomers are present predominantly in a gaseous form of an adsorbed form and polymerization of the monomers, which are presumably adsorbed, takes place in the solid phase (solvent-free polymerization) and results in pulverulent PAN-(co)polymers. The process is preferably carried out in the presence of small quantities of a mediator substance such as dimethylformamide which does not alter the pulverulent consistency of the PAN-polymers but leads considerably more rapidly and with much improved yields to freshly formed polyacrylonitrile polymers.
Abstract:
A non-woven product is prepared in which a fiber or fabric is bound by a binder containing an aqueous copolymer emulsion which contains a first polymer network which is intertwined on a molecular scale with a second polymer network.
Abstract:
Residual acrylonitrile dissolved in acrylonitrile copolymers and/or water in which acrylonitrile polymers are polymerized or processed such as a latex thereof or from acrylonitrile processes can be substantially reduced by adding to polymer-water mixtures for example, after at least 90% of the monomers have been polymerized, additional catalyst and an amount of comonomer in excess of the amount of free acrylonitrile present.
Abstract:
Impact-resistant polymers, which have low permeability to gases and vapors, are prepared by polymerizing methacrylonitrile with styrene to at least about 70% conversion and then introducing into the polymerization reaction medium a conjugated diene monomer, such as butadiene-1,3 and optionally styrene or methacrylonitrile, and completing the polymerization reaction.