Abstract: A cross-linked or at least partially cross-linked thermoplastic elastomeric composition formed of from 10 to 90 percent of a first polymeric material comprised of ethylene, &agr;-olefin and optionally a non-conjugated diene, and 90 to 10 percent of a second olefin polymeric material, wherein at least one of the first or second polymeric materials is at least partially the product of a metallocene polymerization reaction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 1997
Date of Patent:
July 31, 2001
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
Inventors:
Maria Dolores Ellul, Donald Ross Hazelton, Charles Cozewith, Aspy Keki Mehta
Abstract: A process is provided for producing a low molecular weight isoolefin polymer by contacting at conversion conditions a higher molecular weight saturated isoolefin polymer, for example, polyisobutylene or a copolymer of a C.sub.4 to C.sub.7 isoolefin and a para-alkylstyrene, in the melt phase, with an initiator, such as an oxygen-containing gas, an organic peroxide or an azo compound.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 9, 1993
Date of Patent:
July 18, 1995
Assignee:
Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.
Inventors:
Donald A. White, Lawrence W. Flatley, Richard C. Yeh, Raymond F. Murphy
Abstract: A copolymer having a substantially homogeneous composition distribution, said copolymer comprising the direct reaction product of an isoolefin and para-alkylstrene.
Abstract: A copolymer having a substantially homogeneous composition distribution, said copolymer comprising the direct reaction product of an isoolefin and para-alkylstyrene.
Abstract: A process is provided for producing a low molecular weight isoolefin polymer by contacting at conversion conditions a higher molecular weight saturated isoolefin polymer, for example, polyisobutylene or a copolymer of a C.sub.4 to C.sub.7 isoolefin and a para-alkylstyrene, in the melt phase, with an initiator, such as an oxygen-containing gas, an organic peroxide or an azo compound.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 25, 1993
Date of Patent:
November 16, 1993
Inventors:
Donald A. White, Lawrence W. Flatley, Richard C. Yeh, Raymond F. Murphy