Abstract: Metallized polymers are made by melting the metal and polymer together. The products have improved impact resistance and electrical and thermal conductivity. They can also be used for electromagnetic interference shielding.

Abstract: Metallized polymers are made by melting the metal and polymer together. The products have improved impact resistance and electrical and thermal conductivity. They can also be used for electromagnetic interference shielding.

Abstract: A degradable composition is made from a polymer of a mono olefin having 2--3 carbon atoms or styrene and an additive comprising (1) a derivative of an organic compound of a metal which has at least two valence states and (2) a benzoyl derivative of an organic compound or a triazole.

Abstract: Low molecular weight ethylene homo and copolymer waxes are prepared by using a combination of (1) incremental addition of free radical catalyst (2) at high temperatures up to 150.degree. C. and (3) high pressures up to 3000 psi. Preferably molten aliphatic waxes are used as the solvent.

Abstract: A steam sterilizable copolymer is prepared from 60 to 50% by weight of alpha methyl styrene and 40 to 50% by weight of methyl methacrylate. The copolymer is useful to make the barrel of syringe which is clear, water-white and shows no distortion upon steam sterilization for at least 20 minutes at 250.degree. F.

Abstract: Graft interpolymers comprised of a polyolefin backbone polymer prepared from at least one .alpha.-olefin of two to four carbon atoms onto which is graft copolymerized a mixture of ethylene and carbon monoxide are disclosed.

Abstract: High melting ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymers are prepared by copolymerizing ethylene and carbon monoxide at relatively low temperatures and pressures using a peroxy dicarbonate catalyst. The preferred catalysts are dicyclohexylperoxydicarbonate and dicetylperoxydicarbonate.

Abstract: High melting ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymers are prepared by copolymerizing ethylene and carbon monoxide at relatively low temperatures and pressures using a peroxy ester of an organic acid having a ten hour half-life temperature of about 60.degree. C. or less, when determined in a 0.2 M solution in benzene, as catalyst. The preferred catalyst is t-butyl peroxypivalate. The reaction is preferably carried out in the presence of dioxane as solvent and t-butyl peroxypivalate as catalyst.

Abstract: Low molecular weight ethylene homo and copolymer waxes are prepared at pressures below 1000 psi and at temperatures below 120.degree. C. using free radical catalysts having 10-hour half-lifes at not over 60.degree. C.

Abstract: Films and containers are made from polymers of propylene such as polypropylene which contains a small amount of stabilizer whereby the rapid degradation rate of polypropylene can be controlled so that it will degrade after predetermined exposure to sunlight. This renders such products especially suited for agricultural mulch films, where they need not be removed after a growing season, and for throw-away containers where they will decompose in garbage dumps or if discarded as litter. The thermal history of the polymer will also affect its degradation rate.The rate is measured in terms of thermally adjusted Langley units (TALU) since it has been found that the ambient temperature affects decomposition as well as the Langley units of solar radiation exposure.

Abstract: A degradable composition is made from a polymer of a mono olefin having 2-3 carbon atoms or styrene and an additive comprising (1) a derivative of an organic compound of a metal which has at least two valence states and (2) a benzoyl derivative of an organic compound or a triazole.

Abstract: Ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymer compositions are stabilized against thermal degradation by the incorporation therein of an organic polythiol compound.

Abstract: Ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymer compositions are stabilized against thermal degradation by the incorporation therein of dihydrogen alkali or alkaline earth metal phosphoric acid salts.

Abstract: An improved method of preparing ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymers using organic peroxide catalysts comprising carrying out the polymerization in the presence of a small amount of potassium dihydrogen phosphate.

Abstract: Ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymer compositions are stabilized against thermal degradation by the incorporation therein of organic epoxy-containing compounds.