Abstract: Molding compositions are prepared from blends of (A) thermoplastic polynorbornene nitrile polymers; (B) styrene/maleic anhydride polymers; (C) at least one of the polymers selected from the group consisting of ABS polymers, MBS polymers, and styrene/acrylonitrile polymers. Component B, the styrene/maleic anhydride polymer may optionally contain a termonomer such as methylmethacrylate or acrylonitrile and a rubber component.

Abstract: Compositions of matter having properties that make them strong adhesives to various substrates and especially for adhering polypropylene and polyethylene to various polar substrates. These compositions comprise blends of a graft copolymer of a polyethylene backbone grafted with at least one grafting monomer comprising one or more of polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids of the anhydrides of such acids blended with a blending resin that is a mixture of one or more high density polyethylenes, one or more linear low density polyethylenes and one or more polypropylenes. The disclosure also includes composite structures comprising one or more substrates and a blend of the above as the adhesive in contact with the substrate or substrates and the method of preparing these composite structures.

Abstract: A graft copolymer is obtained by graft-polmerizing a vinyl or vinylidene monomer onto a rubber trunk polymer which comprises a polyalkylene oxide monomer comprising 4 to 500 alkylene oxide groups together with an ethylenic unsaturation, and a conjugated diene and/or an alkyl acrylate.This graft copolymer alone or in a mixture thereof with another thermoplastic resin, because of the presence of the polyalkylene oxide monomer unit incorporated in the rubber trunk polymer, provides a resin composition possessing excellent antistatic property, which, practically, is not lowered by washing.

Abstract: A high solids acrylic dispersion lacquer coating composition having an acrylic polymer binder content of about 25-45% by weight in a nonaqueous medium; wherein the acrylic polymer is a blend of(1) Polymer A of methyl methacrylate and a polymerized monomer of allyl methacrylate, alkyl amino alkyl methacrylate or mixtures thereof;(2) Copolymer B of methyl methacrylate and an alkyl acrylate having 6-12 carbon atoms in the alkyl group; and(3) A graft copolymer of Polymer A which forms a backbone of the graft copolymer and Copolymer B attached to the backbone which forms side chains of the graft copolymer; andwhereinthe nonaqueous medium is a blend of(a) an aliphatic solvent which at 25.degree. C. is a nonsolvent for Polymer A and a solvent for Copolymer B; and(b) a coalescing solvent for the binder;the composition is useful as an exterior finish for automobiles and trucks.

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 crosslink-effecting of) the SP/TE 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: A laminated multilayer structure composed of a grafted high-density polyethylene resin layer directly attached to a layer of a resin selected from the group consisting of polyamide resins, polyester resins saponified copolymers of ethylene and vinyl acetate, or to a metal layer; characterized in that said grafted high-density polyethylene resin layer is composed of(a) 97 to 50 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the resins (a) and (b) combined, of a high-density polyethylene resin having a density of 0.945 to 0.970 g/cm.sup.3 and being grafted with an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid or its functional derivative, with or without a high-density polyethylene resin having a density of 0.945 to 0.970 g/cm.sup.3,(b) 3 to 50 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the resins (a) and (b) combined, of an ethylene/4-methyl-1-pentene copolymer having an ethylene content of 93 to 99.9 mole % and a melt index at 190.degree. C. of 0.1 to 10 g/10 min.

Abstract: A transparent resin composition comprising (1) 6 to 100% by weight of a nitrile graft copolymer comprising a rubber trunk polymer and a branch polymer grafted thereon, which has been obtained by graft-polymerizing onto the rubber trunk polymer a monomer mixture containing an unsaturated nitrile and a monomer copolymerizable therewith, and (2) 0 to 94% by weight of a random copolymer of an unsaturated nitrile and a monomer copolymerizable therewith, the resin components of the resin composition other than the rubber trunk polymer constituting a matrix resin, wherein(a) said rubber trunk polymer has a glass transition temperature of not higher than 0.degree. C. and constitutes 4 to 25% by weight of the resin composition,(b) the unsaturated nitrile constitutes 25 to 90% by weight of the matrix resin in the resin composition,(c) the difference in the refractive indexes between the rubber trunk polymer and the matrix resin is not more than 0.

Abstract: In the process of melting a blend of nitrile polymer and lubricous additive with a screw-plasticizing unit, the improvement which involves having an absorptive anti-slip agent such as rubber crumb in admixture with the blend when charging the plasticator to minimize feeding problems.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion lacquer composition of a binder in an aqueous medium; the binder is comprised of(1) a dispersed Polymer A of methyl methacrylate that can contain small amounts of adhesion promoting monomers such as diethyl amino ethyl methacrylate and other monomers that lower the glass transition temperature of the poolmer such as butyl methacrylate or butyl acrylate;(2) a dispersant Polymer B of methyl methacrylate, optionally, styrene, an alkyl acrylate or an alkyl methacrylate and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid; and(3) a graft copolymer of the dispersed Polymer A and the dispersant Polymer B; andThe composition contains sufficient base such as amine or ammonium hydroxide to provide a pH of about 7-9 and usually contains conventional plasticizers, pigments and other additives as are used in aqueous coating compositions.The composition is used an an exterior finish for automobile and truck bodies.

Abstract: Polymers containing imide units and a process of imidizing acrylic polymers to any desired degree of imidization without the use of added water or solvent.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions are disclosed which comprise an intimate admixture of (a) a copolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and an .alpha., .beta.-unsaturated cyclic anhydride, including rubber-modified copolymers thereof, and (b) impact modifiers comprising graft copolymers, copolyesters, and rubber-modified homopolymers. Optionally, the compositions can also include a polyphenylene ether resin and further, optionally, a normally liquid polybutadiene oligomer. Mixing (a) with a polyphenylene ether leads to a compatible composition, markedly improved in heat deflection temperature.

Abstract: An alkyl acrylate copolymer comprises 60 to 99.5 wt. % of a C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 alkyl acrylate component, 0.1 to 10 wt. % of a polyfunctional monomer component having one or more conjugated double bond and one or more non-conjugated double bond and 0 to 35 wt. % of a comonomer component. A thermoplastic resin composition comprises 97 to 70 wt. parts of a rigid thermoplastic resin and 3 to 30 wt. parts of the alkyl acrylate copolymer.

Abstract: A thermoplastic composition characterized by high impact strength and flex-resistance, based on a graft copolymer of resin-forming monomer (e.g., styrene-acrylonitrile) on EPDM type of rubber (especially a terpolymer of ethylene, propylene and 5-ethylidene-2-norbornene) having a Mooney viscosity of at least 55 ML-4 at 257.degree. F. and an iodine number of at least 15.

Abstract: A composition having improved adhesion to polar solid materials which comprises(A) 99 to 70 parts by weight of a modified crystalline polyolefin having grafted thereto a monomer selected from the group consisting of unsaturated carboxylic acids and their anhydrides, esters, amides imides and metal salts, said crystalline polyolefin having a degree of crystallinity measured by an X-ray analysis, of at least 25% and containing the grafting monomer in an amount of 0.0001 to 3% by weight based on the total amount of the crystalline polyolefin and the grafting monomer; and(B) 1 to 30 parts by weight of a hydrocarbon elastomer.

Abstract: Graft copolymers of low molecular weight aliphatic conjugated diolefin polymers of high 1,2 vinyl content with acrylic monomers including certain acrylamide monomers grafted thereon provide alkaline resistant primer compositions that may be formulated into water base and solvent base compositions. The primer compositions may contain additional aliphatic conjugated diolefin polymer, hydroxy silicones, and crosslinking agent for increased solids content and improved properties.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a plastics material adaptable to biomedical uses, the surface of which material at least partially consists of a graft copolymer having a hydrocarbon main chain and side chains grafted thereon, said side chains being polymers comprising at least one vinyl monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid esters of the formulaCF.sub.3 --(CF.sub.2).sub.x --(CH.sub.2).sub.y --O--CO--CH.dbd.CH.sub.2,where x is an integer from 3 to 16 and y is an integer from 1 to 12, vinylene carbonate, N-vinyl alkylamides of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different and each is hydrogen or alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Polymer compositions which have accelerated rates of degradation on exposure to ultraviolet radiation, e.g. direct sunlight in an outdoor environment, comprise a blend of a major proportion of a normal, standard synthetic polymer, e.g. polyethylene, and a minor proportion of a graft or block copolymer of a ketone group containing monomer, e.g. methyl vinyl ketone, graft or block copolymerized onto a backbone polymer e.g. of polyethylene. The composition can be molded, extruded and otherwise fabricated in the normal way to produce disposable, photodegradable plastic articles such as containers, wrapping films and the like.

Abstract: Thermoplastic moulding compounds of1. 10-95% by weight of an aromatic polycarbonate in which at least 50% of the linear chains comprise recurrent structural units of the formula ##STR1## in which R represents C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl and X represents a single bond, --O--, --CO--, --SO.sub.2 --, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkylene, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkylidene, C.sub.5 -C.sub.15 cycloalkylene, C.sub.5 -C.sub.15 cycloalkylidene or ##STR2## 2. 5-90% by weight of a thermoplastic resin and/or 3. 5-90% BY WEIGHT OF RUBBER WHICH MAY BE MODIFIED.