Abstract: There is disclosed a method for grafting C-nitro compounds onto preformed polymers. In the method a hindered C-nitro compound containing at least one polymerizable unsaturated group is reacted with a polymer in the presence of free radicals to thereby graft the C-nitro compound onto the polymer. The process has the advantages of being convenient, economical and applicable to conventional polymer processing steps. In a preferred embodiment, polymer stabilizing additives are prepared by the process in the form of masterbatches of polymer containing high concentrations of C-nitro compounds grafted thereon.

Abstract: A liquid jet recording head comprising a cured product of an active energy-ray-curing resin composition as at least a part of its constitution, said composition comprises:(A) a graft copolymerized polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or less which comprises a trunk chain composed mainly of structural units derived from at least one monomer (hereinafter referred to as "monomer (a)") selected from the group consisting of alkyl methacrylates, acrylonitrile and stylene and has graft chains having structural units derived from at least one monomer (hereinafter referred to as "Monomer (b)") selected from the group consisting of the monomers represented by the following formula x and other monomers presented by the formula y: ##STR1## (B) a linear polymer having a number average molecular weight of 50,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 350,000 or less and having a glass transition temperature of 60.degree. C.

Abstract: Thermoplastic moulding compounds containingA. 5 to 99 parts by weight of aromatic, high deflection temperature poly(ether sulphone),B. 5 to 95 parts by weight of alpha-methylstyrene polymer andC. 1 to 95 parts by weight of graft polymer of resin-forming monomers on a rubber,a process for their production and their use for the production of mouldings.

Abstract: An improved active energy ray-curing resin composition comprising (i) a graft copolymerized polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or less: (ii) a linear polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 350,000 or less and having a glass transition temperature of 60.degree. C. or more: (iii) a half-esterificated epoxy resin: and (iv) a polymerization initiator capable of generating a Lewis acid by irradiation of an active energy ray. The resin composition can be desirably cured with an active energy ray such as ultraviolet ray or electron beam and it is capable of being laminated in a desired pattern on a copper-coated laminate for use as a printed board or on a plate of metal, glass, ceramics or plastic.

Abstract: An improved active energy ray-curing resin composition comprising (i) a graft copolymerized polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or less: (ii) a linear polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 350,000 or less and having a glass transition temperature of 60.degree. C. or more: (iii) a half-esterificated epoxy resin: (iv) a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated bond: and (v) a polymerization initiator capable of generating a Lewis acid by irradiation of an active energy ray.The resin composition can be desirably cured with an active energy ray such as ultraviolet ray or electron beam and it is capable of being laminated in a desired pattern on a copper-coated laminate for use as a printed board or on a plate of metal, glass, ceramics or plastic.

Abstract: An improved active energy ray-curing resin composition comprising (i) a graft copolymerized polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or less: (ii) a linear polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 350,000 or less and having a glass transition temperature of 60.degree. C. or more: (iii) an epoxy resin containing at least one compound having one or more epoxy groups in one molecule, (iv) a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated bond and (v) a polymerization initiator capable of generating a Lewis acid by irradiation of an active energy ray. The resin composition can be desirably cured with an active energy ray such as ultraviolet ray or electron beam and it is capable of being laminated in a desired pattern on a copper-coated laminate for use as a printed board or on a plate of metal, glass, ceramics or plastic.

Abstract: An improved active energy ray-curing resin composition comprising (i) a graft copolymerized polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or less; (ii) a linear polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 350,000 or less and having a glass transition temperature of 60.degree. C. or more: (iii) an epoxy resin containing at least one compound having one or more epoxy groups in one molecule: and (iv) a polymerization initiator capable of generating a Lewis acid by irradiation of an active energy ray. The resin composition can be desirably cured with an active energy ray such as ultraviolet ray or electron beam and it is capable of being laminated in a desired pattern on a copper-coated laminate for use as a printed board or on a plate of metal, glass, ceramics or plastic.

Abstract: An improved active energy ray-curing resin composition comprising (i) a graft copolymerized polymer with a trunk chain containing dicyclopentenyl derivative group which has a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or less: (ii) a linear polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 350,000 or less and having a glass transition temperature of 60.degree. C. or more: (iii) a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated bond: and (iv) a photopolymerization initiator capable of generating free radicals with irradiation of an active energy ray. The resin composition can be desirably cured with an active energy ray such as ultraviolet ray or electron beam and it is capable of being laminated in a desired pattern on a copper-coated laminate for use as a printed board or on a plate of metal, glass, ceramics or plastic.

Abstract: An improved active energy ray-curing resin composition comprising (i) a graft copolymerized polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or less: (ii) a linear polymer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and a weight average molecular weight of 350,000 or less and having a glass transition temperature of 60.degree. C. or more: (iii) an esterified polyurethane obtained from oligoesterdiol or from oligoesterdiol and dihydric isocyanate which has a molecular chain terminal end being esterificated with acrylic acid: and (iv) a photopolymerization initiator.The resin composition can be desirably cured with an active energy ray such as ultraviolet ray or electron beam and it is capable of being laminated in a desired pattern on a copper-coated laminate for use as a printed board or on a plate of metal, glass, ceramics or plastic.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition comprising:(a) a polyolefin resin in an amount of 20-95% by weight,(b) a polyphenylene ether resin in an amount of 80-5% by weight,(c) a partially hydrogenated alkenyl aromatic compound-isoprene block copolymer in an amount of 3-45 parts by weight based on totally 100 parts by weight of the components (a) and (b), and(d) an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer elastomer modified by grafting thereon a graft monomer such as an unsaturated monocarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, a styrene compound, or an unsaturated epoxy compound or an .alpha.-olefin-alkyl (meth)acrylate copolymer such as a copolymer of an .alpha.-olefin of 2-6 carbon atoms and an alkyl (meth)acrylate having an alkyl group of 1-8 carbon atoms in an amount of 3-45 parts by weight based on totally 100 parts by weight of the components (a) and (b).

Abstract: A process for producing an .alpha.-alkyl-substituted aromatic vinyl copolymer constituted of 60 to 85 parts by weight of the .alpha.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there are provided an adhesive resin composition comprising(A) 95-50% by weight of an ethylene/.alpha.-olefin copolymer having a density of 0.850-0.900 g/cm.sup.3 and the ethylene content of 75-95 mol %.(B) 5-50% by weight of a copolymer of ethylene and a radical polymerizable polar unsaturated monomer, said copolymer having the radical polymerizable polar unsaturated monomer content of 5-40% by weight, and(C) 1.0-30 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the sum of the above-mentioned (A)+(B), of a graft-modified polyethylene, a part or whole of said polythylene has been graft-modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or its derivative, and a laminate using this adhesive resin composition.

Abstract: A water swellable resin composition comprises a water swellable resin and a medium such as a plasticizer, solvent, resin or resin solution. The resin is an alkali metal salt and/or hydrophilic amine salt of a copolymer of hydrophobic polymer chains having an .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically-unsaturated group at end thereof and a monomer composed principally of (meth)acrylic acid.

Abstract: A composition consisting essentially of a polyvinylidene fluoride polymer or copolymer having distributed substantially uniformly therethrough elastomeric particles, said elastomer being capable of absorbing hydrocarbons and fixing them in the composition and being present in an amount sufficient to increase the elongation and flexibility of the composition in the presence of hydrocarbons and shaped articles made therefrom.

Abstract: A polymer blend comprises a high nitrile copolymer and a compatible thermoplastic polymer or copolymer containing polar groups, formed from monomers selected from the group consisting of alkylacrylamides, aliphatic and cyclic methacrylates, unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydrides, vinyl pyrrolidones, heterocyclic ring compounds containing two hetero atoms, lactones and phosphorus-containing monomers that form highly crystalline polymers. Such blends can be used to form films and membranes having improved thermal, mechanical and optical properties.

Abstract: A composition comprising,(a) 1 to 99 parts by weight of a specific hydrogenated product of a block copolymer having at least one polymer block composed mainly of a vinyl aromatic compound and at least one polymer block composed mainly of a conjugated diene compound, a modified product which comprises said product modified with an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, or a mixture of said product and said modified product, wherein the content of the vinyl aromatic compound prior to hydrogenation is 5 to 95% by weight and a content of vinyl linkages [V] prior to hydrogenation which originated from the conjugated diene compound is 10 to 80%, said product satisfying the following conditions;(1) the hydrogenated ratio [A] of the total of aliphatic double bonds which originated from the conjugated diene compound is not lower than 5% and lower than 50%, and[B]/[V].sup.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyvinyl chloride plastisol composition characterized by containing a specified epoxy resin, a blocked isocyanate and, if necessary, a latent curing agent for an epoxy resin as tackifiers. This plastisol composition is excellent in storage stability and can strongly adhere to various metals and various undercoate of metals (such as electro-deposit) by baking even at a relatively low temperature to give a coating which is free from blowing and exhibits excellent adhesion after the immersion in hot water or the heating. Therefore, the composition is useful as a body sealer or undercoat for an automotive body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising three major components as follows:(a) at least one polyolefin modified by a chemically reactive functional group such as a carboxylic acid or its derivatives including anhydride, acid chloride, isocyanate, oxazoline, epoxide, amine and hydroxide;(b) at least one other polymer prepared from one or more of the following: ethylene, propylene, butylene, isobutylene, octene-1, 4 methyl pentene-1, hexene-1 or mixtures; and(c) at least one olefinic elastomer, including elastomeric ethylene-propylene copolymers, elastomeric ethylene-propylene terpolymers, polyisoprene, polyisobutylene, ethylene-propylene copoloymer rubber, polybutadiene, natural rubber, elastomeric polyesters, polyurethane elastomers, polyamide elastomers and mixtures.

Abstract: A film prepared from a compatibilized resin blend comprising an olefin polymer, a polymer of a vinyl aromatic monomer and a compatibilizing amount of a graft copolymer of a vinyl aromatic monomer and an EPDM rubber exhibits improved properties making it highly desirable in such end uses as grocery and trash bags.

Abstract: A multilayer interpolymer material of an elastomeric inner phase polymerized from (a) 50-99.9 parts of at least one among: conjugated dienes and alkyl and aralkyl acrylates, (b) 0-49.9 parts of at least one copolymerizable monomer, (c) 0.05-8 parts of at least one crosslinking monomer, and (d) 0.05-6 parts of at least one grafting monomer, and a nonelastomeric outer phase, polymerized from (a) 50-99.9 parts by weight of at least one among: alkyl methacrylates, vinyl aromatic hydrocarbons and unsaturated nitriles, (b) 0.1-50 parts of at least one copolymerizable monomer, and (c) 0-5 parts of at least one chain-limiting agent, the parts being given by weight, it being possible for the said polymer to comprise a nonelastomeric or else elastomeric core phase without grafting and crosslinking monomers. Two populations of particles of mean diameter of approximately 40-150 nm and approximately 160-500 nm respectively are mixed in given ratios. This improves the impact strength of the resultant matrices.

Abstract: A process for preparing modified diene polymer rubbers having an increased impact resilience and a reduced hardness at low temperatures and useful as rubber materials for automobile tires and other industries which comprises producing an alkali metal-containing conjugated diene polymer, and reacting the alkali metal-containing polymer with a modifier selected from the group consisting of a nitroalkyl acrylate of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently an alkyl group and n is an integer, and a nitroamino compound of the formula: ##STR2## wherein R.sup.3 to R.sup.6 are independently an alkyl group, and m is an integer, said alkali metal-containing diene polymer being prepared by a living anionic polymerization using an alkali metal-based catalyst or by an addition reaction of a diene polymer having conjugated diene units and an alkali metal-based catalyst in a hydrocarbon solvent.

Abstract: A heat and impact resistant composition comprising:(A) 5-89 parts by weight of a graft polymer prepared by graft polymerizing 30-75 parts by weight of a mixture of 30-80% of an aromatic vinyl monomer, 10-50% of an N-substituted maleimide monomer, 10-45% of a vinyl cyanide monomer and 0-30% of another copolymerizable vinyl monomer onto 25-70 parts by weight of a diene rubber (a);(B) 10-90 parts by weight of a copolymer obtained by polymerizing a mixture of 30-80% of an aromatic vinyl monomer, 10-50% of an N-substituted maleimide monomer, 10-40% of a vinyl cyanide monomer and 0-30% of another copolymerizable vinyl monomer, or (B') an imido group--containing adduct of a copolymer obtained by reacting a primary amine and/or ammonia with a copolymer obtained by polymerizing a mixture of 30-80% of an aromatic vinyl monomer, 5-50% of an alpha, beta-unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride monomer and 0-40% of another copolymerizable vinyl monomer;(C) 1-45 parts be weight of a graft polymer made by graft polymerizing

Abstract: A moldable, putty-like adhesive mass is disclosed comprising a blend of (1) an acrylate terpolymer adhesive containing a hydrophilic macromolecular moiety and (2) a reinforcing material which is a carbonylamido group containing polymer. The adhesive blends are moisture vapor permeable and non-water swellable. They are useful in many medical applications.

Abstract: A laminated structure comprising a plurality of polymeric layers at least two of said polymeric layers bonded together with an adhesive composition comprising a modified olefin polymer and at least one selectively hydrogenated block copolymer having at least one block which is predominantly a monoalkenyl aromatic hydrocarbon polymer block and at least one block which is a hydrogenated conjugated diolefin polymeric block. The adhesive composition used in the laminated structure significantly improves compatibility of the various polymeric layers thereby enabling the laminated structure or any excess thereof to be used in recycle as well as various molding applications.

Abstract: This invention provides hardenable compositions useful as construction media for a wide range of applications. Particular utility is found in the dental and medical arts where such compositions are highly suitable for the formation and construction of denture base, denture baseplates, denture liners, denture repair, custom trays, veneering for crowns and bridgework, artificial teeth, veneers and repair for natural teeth, and tooth restorative fillings. Such materials having improved impact strengths and elastic moduli when hardened are disclosed which include rubber-modified polymer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an antistatic thermoplastic resin composition which comprises a thermoplastic resin and a minor amount of an antistatic property-imparting material which is a polymer comprising 20 to 100 weight % of units of a monomer having a quaternary ammonium base represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen or methyl, R.sub.2 through R.sub.4 represent hydrogen or (C1-9) alkyl, which may have a substituent, n is a number of 1 to 10, and X.sup.- represents a monovalent acid group or a corresponding equivalent of an acid, and up to 80 weight % of units of a copolymerizable vinyl or vinylidene monomer.

Abstract: Thermoplastic moulding compositions consisting ofI. 75 to 99.5% by weight of a polymer ofA. 0 to 95% by weight, 95% or less by weight; of a graft copolymer prepared by grafting polymerization ofA.1 5 to 95% by weight of a mixture ofA.1.1 50 to 95% by weight of styrene, .alpha.-methylstyrene, nuclear-substituted styrene, methyl methacrylate or mixtures thereof andA.1.2 50 to 5% by weight of (meth)acrylonitrile, methyl methacrylate, maleic anhydride, N-substituted maleimide or mixtures thereof onA.2 95 to 5% by weight of a rubber with a glass transition temperature Tg or <0.degree.C., andB. 100 to 5% by weight of a thermoplastic polymer ofB.1 95 to 50% by weight of styrene, .alpha.-methylstyrene, nuclear-substituted styrene or methyl methacrylate or mixtures thereof andB.2 5 to 50% by weight of (meth)acrylonitrile, methyl methacrylate, maleic anhydride, N-substituted maleimide or mixtures thereof andII. 25 to 0.5% by weight of a hydrogenated nitrile rubber.

Abstract: A conjugated diene series rubber composition comprises, as a rubber component, (a) 20.about.100% by weight of a particular conjugated diene polymer and (b) a diene polymer rubber except for the polymer (a) and is excellent in the processability at unvulcanized state and the rebound resilience, strengths at rupture and wear resistance at vulcanized state.

Abstract: A thermoplastic pelletizable polymer composition comprising an oligomer or degraded polyolefin and an olefinic elastomer. Optionally, the composition can also include a polyolefin thermoplastic polymer. The composition, when converted to a film or fabric meets the criteria or drapability, low hardness on the Shore A scale, high melt flow and reprocessability.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of maleimide copolymers by emulsion polymerization of an aromatic vinyl monomer, a vinyl cyanide monomer and a maleimide monomer in specific proportions wherein the polymerization is carried out by charging not less than a specific proportion of the aromatic vinyl monomer and optionally not more than a specific proportion of the vinyl cyanide monomer into the polymerization system before initiation of the polymerization; adding, continuously or dividedly, a mixture composed of the total amount of the maleimide monomer and the remainder of the other monomers to the polymerization system after initiation of the polymerization; maintaining the pH of the aqueous phase of the polymerization system in the range of 3 to 9 at the initiation of said polymerization; and using a redox catalyst containing an oil-soluble organic peroxide.

Abstract: A modified polyolefin resin and a composition containing therein such modified polyolefin, having excellent adhesive property and heat-sealing property at the time of high speed forming operations, the modified polyolefin resin consisting essentially of: a copolymer of ethylene and .alpha.-olefin having 4 or more carbon atoms, the copolymer having a density in a range of from 0.890 to 0.910 g/cm.sup.3, a ratio of a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) to a number-average molecular weight (Mn) of Mw/Mn=2 to 15, and a product of a melt tension (g) and a melt-index (g/10 min.) of a molten resin measured at 160.degree. C. of 4 or below; and unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivatives thereof grafted on the ethylene type copolymer at a ratio of from 0.01 to 3% by weight.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition obtainable by blending 100 parts by weight of a mixture consisting of(A) 75 to 40% by weight of a propylene polymer,(B) 20 to 40% by weight of an ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymer, and(C) 5 to 30% by weight of a graft copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an aromatic vinyl compound and a polar vinyl compound in the presence of an ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymerwith(D) 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid, an anhydride thereof or a mixture of the two, and(E) 0.01 to 0.3 part by weight of an organic radical-generating agent,and then subjecting the resulting blend to thermal treatment. Said composition has not only a high bending modulus inherently possessed by polypropylene resins but also remarkably improved coating property. Accordingly, the composition is useful as interior and exterior trim parts of automobiles and exterior trim parts of motorcycles.

Abstract: Rubber modified styrene-acrylonitrile polymers (ABS) having three different types of rubber particles. One type is small, usually emulsion-produced particle. The second is a large emulsion-produced particle. The third is a large, mass-produced particle. Such compositions exhibit good combinations of toughness and gloss.

Abstract: A process for preparing a thermoplastic resin composition capable of giving delustered articles which comprises blending (A) 10 to 30 parts by weight of a graft-copolymer and (B) 90 to 70 parts by weight of a copolymer, the total amount of the components (A) and (B) being 100 parts by weight;said graft-copolymer (A) being prepared by adding a nonionic or cationic polymer coagulant to (1) 70 to 95 parts by weight of diene rubber having a diene content of more than 50% by weight to give a coagulated diene rubber, and then graft-polymerizing (2) 30 to 5 parts by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting a vinyl aromatic monomer, a vinyl cyanide and a methacrylic acid ester onto the coagulated diene rubber, the total amount of the components (1) and (2) being 100 parts by weight; said polymer (B) being prepared by polymerizing at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of an aromatic vinyl monomer, a vinyl cyanide, an acrylic acid ester and a methacrylic acid ester.

Abstract: A rubber blend is produced by masticating a mixture of monoolefin copolymer rubber and high-diene hydrocarbon rubber while dynamically vulcanizing the monoolefin copolymer rubber. The blend is then further treated to vulcanize the high-diene hydrocarbon rubber portion. The resulting vulcanized blend has improved properties.

Abstract: A graft product of from 40 to 99.8 parts by weight of styrene, .alpha.-methyl styrene, p-methyl styrene, vinyl toluene, methyl methacrylate or mixtures thereof, from 20 to 0.1 part by weight of a vinyl-group-containing, preferably heterocyclic nitrogen base, from 20 to 0.1 part by weight of a mono- or di-acid containing a polymerizable double bond and from 0 to 49 parts by weight of acrylonitrile on a particulate rubber having an average particle diameter (d.sub.50) of from 0.05 to 20.0 .mu.m and a glass temperature of .ltoreq.10.degree. C., the total rubber content amounting to between 5 and 80% by weight.

Abstract: Several important features and characteristics, particularly and pronouncedly environmental stress crack resistance (i.e., "ESCR") as well as other desirable physical properties of blends or intimate admixtures, known as "polyblends" and usually made by melt-blending, of various styrene polymers (i.e., "SP's"), notably homopolystyrene (i.e., "PS"), and thermoplastic elastomers (i.e., "TE's") are significantly and in emphasized measure enhanced by thorough incorporation in (and simultaneous or subsequent heat action-initiating and cross-link-effecting of) the styrene polymer-thermoplastic elastomer polyblend in low level concentration(s) of a thermally-activatable, organic peroxide in combination with any one (or even a mixture) of an optimizing cross-linking supplement provided in effectively reactive amounts of, for illustration, either a styrene (or the like alkenyl aromatic) monomer or a reagent that is reactive towards alkenes (such as certain dithiols, amino-derivatives, etc.

Abstract: The invention relates to moulding materials which have a mat surface and are based on neutral and acid graft polymers.

Abstract: Thermoplastic, high-impact moulding compositions of (A) 5 to 80 parts by weight of a graft product of 70 to 30% by weight of a mixture of an aromatic vinyl compound and acrylonitrile and/or methacrylonitrile on 30 to 70% by weight of a rubber having a glass transition temperature of below -10.degree. as the graft base and (B) 20 to 95 parts by weight of a terpolymer of styrene and/or .alpha.-methylstyrene, p-methylstyrene and acrylonitrile and/or methacrylonitrile, the terpolymer having been produced by mass polymerization.

Abstract: A method for reducing the molecular weight of a polyglutarimide polymer having a molecular weight of 50,000 or higher, is disclosed. This is accomplished by the following steps:(a) dissolving the polyglutarimide polymer in a solvent which is transparent to ultraviolet radiation;(b) exposing the polyglutarimide solution to ultraviolet radiation for a sufficient time to reduce the molecular weight of the polyglutarimide; and(c) re-isolating the resin by precipitating the resin in an organic solution. A process for preparing a coatable photoresist composition wherein the molecular weight of a polyglutarimide resin may be reduced to a desired weight for a specific use is also taught.

Abstract: The invention relates to polymer mixtures with a mat surface, based on graft polymers with acid functions and thermoplastic resins with basic functions.

Abstract: Crosslinked, preferably acrylic, preferably melamine crosslinked, polymer particles formed by reactions comprising free radical addition polymerization of:(a) between about 0.5 and about 20 weight percent each of first and second monomers, each bearing functionality capable of crosslinking reaction with the other, wherein (i) either both additionally are ethylenically unsaturated monomers or (ii) the first monomer additionally is ethylenically unsaturated and the second monomer bears multiple crosslinking functionality and no ethylenic unsaturation; and(b) between about 60 and about 99 weight percent of at least one other monoethylenically unsaturated monomer;in the presence of (I) an organic liquid which is a solvent for the polymerizable monomers, but a non-solvent for the resultant polymer, and (II) polymeric dispersion stabilizer bearing one long chain non-polar hydrocarbon molecule and one vinyl unsaturation.

Abstract: Polymer alloys having a mat surface constituting a mixture of grafted rubbers, the graft superstrate containing an acidic monomer in one part of the mixture and a basic monomer in the other part.

Abstract: Improved stable crosslinked dispersion which is further stabilized with butylated melamine formaldehyde resin. The dispersion to which the improvement of the invention applies is formed by addition polymerization of selected monomers in the presence of an organic liquid which is a solvent for the monomers, but a non-solvent for the polymer and a polymeric dispersion stabilizer having solvated and non-solvated segments.

Abstract: The impact resistance of resin compositions consisting of a thermoplastic polymer, particularly a homopolymer or copolymer of vinyl chloride can be improved by an impact additive of the graft copolymer type. The graft copolymer impact additive consists of a backbone composed of a statistical copolymer of butadiene or isoprene, an alkyl acrylate of a C.sub.2 to C.sub.12 alkyl, and optionally a polyfunctional cross-linking agent, onto which are grafted the chains of a statistical copolymer of an alkyl methacrylate of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl, particularly methyl methacrylate, and an alkyl acrylate of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.8 alkyl, particularly ethyl acrylate. The backbone of the graft copolymer impact additive comprises 0.5-35% by weight butadiene or isoprene, and up to 10 mole % of the cross-linking agent, while the graft chains of the graft copolymer comprise 5 to 50 mole % of the alkyl acrylate of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.

Abstract: The addition of styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer to acrylic core-shell thermoplastic elastomers reduces mold shrinkage and improves surface hardness. The compositions are useful as moldable and extrudable rubber goods.

Abstract: Graft polymers are prepared by reacting an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomer with a polymer of an olefin of 2 to about 8 carbon atoms in a process wherein the olefin polymer is substantially insoluble in the monomer but is capable of absorbing the monomer. In a preferred aspect, a vinyl halide polyolefin graft polymer is produced by reacting a solid polyolefin particle with a vinyl halide monomer in which the polyolefin is substantially insoluble, but is capable of absorbing the monomer. The solid particles can be contacted with the monomer in one step or in stages. When the stage-wise reaction is contined until the proportion of polyolefin in the polymer product is about 2 to about 20 weight percent, the resulting product can be formed to a transparent or translucent article.

Abstract: Crosslinked, preferably acrylic, preferably melamine crosslinked, polymer particles formed by reactions comprising free radical addition polymerization of:(a) between about 0.5 and about 20 weight percent each of first and second monomers, each bearing functionally capable of crosslinking reaction with the other and additionally wherein the first monomer is ethylenically unsaturated and the second monomer bears multiple crosslinking functionality and no ethylenic unsaturation,(b) between about 60 and about 99 weight percent of at least one other monoethylenically unsaturated monomer;in the presence of (I) an organic liquid which is a solvent for the polymerizable monomers, but a non-solvent for the resultant polymer, and (II) polymeric dispersion stabilizer wherein the precursor of the first segment of the stabilizer comprises a long chain hydrocarbon molecule having only one reactive group per molecule, preferably being a carboxyl group.

Abstract: Crosslinked, preferably acrylic, polymer particles characterized in that the particles formed by free radical addition polymerization of:(a) between about 0.8 and about 20 weight percent each of first and second ethylenically saturated monomers each bearing functionality capable of crosslinking reaction with the other; and(b) between about 98.

Abstract: Composites of matter having properties that make them strong adhesives to various substrates, especially to polar substrates. These adhesive blends comprise medium density polyethylene, linear low density polyethylene and a high density polyethylene grafted with or containing in its main chain unsaturated or saturated carboxylic acids or derivatives. The disclosure also includes composite structures having one or more substrates with the adhesive blend adhered thereto and to methods of making these composites.