Abstract: The present invention teaches a composition which provides gas, flavor, and aroma barrier to substrates, where the composition is formed by mixing an ethylenically unsaturated acid and a polyamine, wherein said polyamine optionally has a crosslinker reacted therein, and wherein said polyamine has four or more A, B, or C units, where: A is an —R2—N(R1)2 unit, B is an —R1—N(R2—)2 unit, and C is an (—R2)3N— unit, where: R1 is independently selected from hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, arylalkyl, and alkylaryl, and R2 is independently selected from the group consisting of: linear or branched alkylene groups or substituted alkylene groups having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and arylene groups or substituted arylene groups having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms. The composition is coated on a substrate then optionally treated to initiate a free radical reaction.

Abstract: The invention is a composition made by mixing a multifunctional acrylate with an aminofunctional silane and an ethylenically unsaturated acid to form a reaction product, optionally dissolved in a solvent, characterized in that the multifunctional acrylate has a molecular weight of from about 100 to about 3000. The composition can be coated on a substrate, then optionally exposed to moisture and treated to initiate a free radical reaction. The invention can be applied to a variety of substrates used in packaging applications. The reaction mixture can further be cured by heating in the presence of moisture. The free radical reaction can be initiated by electron beam irradiation, ultraviolet radiation, gamma radiation, and/or heat and chemical free radical initiators.

Abstract: A composition which provides gas, flavor, and aroma barrier to substrates, where the composition is formed by mixing an ethylenically unsaturated acid, a bis-silane and a polyamine.

Abstract: The invention is a laminate structure made by coating at least one side of a substrate with a laminating adhesive, bringing a coated side of said substrate into contact with a second substrate to form a multi-layer film, and treating said multi-layer film with a free radical initiator, wherein said laminating adhesive is the reaction product of a multifunctional acrylate, an aminofunctional silane, and an ethylenically unsaturated acid, optionally dissolved in a solvent, wherein the multifunctional acrylate has a molecular weight of from 100 to 3000.

Abstract: A process for treating a surface of a substrate to improve the oxygen, carbon dioxide, flavor and odor gas barrier properties of the substrate with an organic acid having at least two acid substituents selected from the group consisting of a polybasic carboxylic acid, a polymer of an unsaturated carboxylic acid and a co-polymer of an unsaturated carboxylic acid, by applying the acid on to the substrate to form a layer, and exposing the layer to moisture. A variety of other types of additives may be included in the coating applied to the substrate with the acid including compounds of the formula RaX3−aSi(CH2)nY, a condensation catalyst, a solvent, and/or a filler.

Abstract: A method of laminating two substrates by coating at least one side of a substrate with a laminating adhesive, bringing a coated side of the substrate into contact with a second substrate to form a three layer film, and treating the three layer film with a free radical initiator. The laminating adhesive is formed by mixing an ethylenically unsaturated acid, a bis-silane and a polyamine, and the polyamine optionally can have a crosslinker reacted therein.

Abstract: A process of preparing an oxygen barrier coating using a compound of the general formula RaX3−aSi—Z—SiX3−aRa wherein Z is R′NH(R′NH)pR′, each R is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and a hydrocarbon group, each X is selected from the group consisting of an alkoxy group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, an oxime group or an acyloxy group, each R′ is a divalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; a is from 0 to 3 and p is 0 or 1. The invention further comprises compositions incorporating the above compound. Coatings prepared may be used in packaging applications as a top coat, or a primer for further coatings.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of laminating two substrates by coating at least one side of a substrate with a laminating adhesive, bringing a coated side of said substrate into contact with a second substrate to form a three layer film, and treating said three layer film with a free radical initiator, wherein said laminating adhesive is formed by mixing an ethylenically unsaturated acid and a polyamine.

Abstract: A novel magnetic colloid composition containing a polar ester carrier liquid, magnetic particles, and an acid terminated poly (12-hydroxystearic acid) dispersant of the Formula I: ##STR1## where "R" is selected from the group consisting of alkyls, aralkyls, and aryls, substituted or unsubstituted, and "n" is an integer from 0 to 4, or mixtures thereof where "R" and "n" may be the same or different.

Abstract: This invention embraces a method of controlling the impermeability of an organic polymer film to gases such as oxygen, aroma, flavor and fragrance and the like to produce gas impermeable organic polymer films by coating with a mixture of a siloxane monomer with carboxylic acid in an alcohol solvent and evaporating the solvent to complete the formation of Si--O--Si bonds; and then polymerizing and grafting the coating, preferably by electron beam radiation, to the polymer film. Improved coated polymer films and formulation products therefor are also provided.

Abstract: A method of imubing polymer films as of polyethylene and polypropylene with gas, aroma, fragrance, flavor, grease and oil impermable surface characteristics involving coating the film with appropriate silane compounds and cross-linking the same while providing physical adsorption adherence to the film, and in sufficient coating micron thickness to produce gas and related barrier characteristics; with chemical grafting, including by eb techniques, further providing improved bonding. Preferred barrier-coated polymer films with reduced haze and clarity are formed by such method. The method is also useful to increase the barrier properties of organo-polymer films that already possess initial barrier characteristics.

Abstract: A method of imbuing polymer films as of polyethylene and polypropylene with gas, aroma, fragrance, flavor, grease and oil impermeable surface characteristics involving coating the film with appropriate silane compounds and cross-linking the same while providing physical adsorption adherence to the film, and in sufficient coating micron thickness to produce gas and related barrier characteristics; with chemical grafting, including by eb techniques, further providing improved bonding. Preferred barrier-coated polymer films with reduced haze and clarity are formed by such method.

Abstract: A superparamagnetic fluid having a non-polar hydrocarbon oil carrier liquid and coated magnetic particles coated with at least one acid selected from the group consisting of an organic acid containing only carbon and hydrogen atoms in the chain connected to the carboxyl group, wherein the chain contains at least 19 carbon atoms, and an amino acid acylated with a fatty acid, provided that said organic and amino acids are branched, unsaturated, or both.A method of making a superparamagnetic fluid, including providing an aqueous suspension of coated magnetic particles coated with at least one acid selected from the group consisting of an organic acid containing only carbon and hydrogen atoms in the chain connected to the carboxyl group, wherein the chain contains at least 19 carbon atoms, and an amino acid acylated with a fatty acid, provided that said orgaic and amino acids are branched, unsaturated, or both.

Abstract: A process is described for modifying the surface of polymers such as polyolefins and the like to improve the wetability by barrier and other coatings and to enhance interlayer adhesion by graft polymerization through initiation by electron-beam radiation, optionally with an added electron energy acceptor.

Abstract: Superparamagnetic liquids comprising:(A) magnetic particles in stable colloidal suspension; (B) an A-X-B dispersant wherein A is derived from a non-ionic surface active agent, B is a carboxylic acid group and X is a connecting group between A and B; and (C) a carrier liquid which is a thermodynamically good solvent for A but which does not form a stable superparamagnetic liquid with magnetic particles coated only with oleic acid.

Abstract: Super paramagnetic fluids having improved thermal and oxidative stability and processes for making super paramagnetic fluids having improved thermal and oxidative stability.

Abstract: A process is described for modifying the surface of polymers such as polyolefins and the like to improve the wetability by barrier and other coatings and to enhance interlayer adhesion by graft polymerization through initiation by electron-beam radiation, optionally with an added electron energy acceptor.

Abstract: Super paramagnetic fluids having improved thermal and oxidative stability and processes for making super paramagnetic fluids having improved thermal and oxidative stability.

Abstract: Super paramagnetic fluids having improved thermal and oxidative stability and processes for making super paramagnetic fluids having improved thermal and oxidative stability.

Abstract: A stable liquid composition which comprises a colloidal dispersion of finely-divided, magnetic particles in a liquid polar carrier and a dispersing amount of a surfactant, which surfactant comprises a phosphoric acid ester of a long-chain alcohol, the alcohol compatible with the polar carrier, to provide a stable ferrofluid composition.