Abstract: The invention provides functionalized block composites and crystalline block composites. In particular, the invention provides a functionalized olefin-based polymer formed from at least (A) and (B): (A) a crystalline block composite comprising: a block copolymer comprising a propylene-based crystalline block and crystalline ethylene-based block; a propylene-based crystalline polymer; and, a crystalline ethylene-based polymer; and (B) at least one functionalization agent or a functionalized olefin-based polymer formed from at least (A) and (B): (A) a crystalline block composite comprising: a block copolymer comprising a propylene-based crystalline block and crystalline ethylene-based block; a propylene-based crystalline polymer; and, a crystalline ethylene-based polymer; and (B) at least one functionalization agent.

Abstract: An injection-molded shell of a dosage form of good quality is producible by a) providing a composition comprising i) from 25 to 90 weight percent of ethylcellulose, ii) from 7.5 to 60 weight percent of a polysaccharide or polysaccharide derivative being different from ethylcellulose, and iii) from 2.5 to 50 weight percent of at least one component being different from polysaccharides and polysaccharide derivatives, based on the total weight of the composition, with the proviso that the composition comprises zero or not more than 10 weight percent of gelatin and zero or not more than 10 weight percent of a polymer comprising homo- or copolymerized acrylic acid, homo- or copolymerized methacrylic acid, a homo- or copolymerized acrylate or a homo- or copolymerized methacrylate, and b) subjecting the composition to shearing and heat to plasticize the composition and injection-molding the plasticized composition into a three-dimensional shell of a dosage form.

Abstract: Abstract: A coating composition comprising a) a cellulose ether, and b) a water-dispersible starch which has, when measured as a 15 wt.-% dispersion in water at 25° C., a number average particle size of from 0.01 to 2 micrometers and a viscosity of not more than 2000 mPa·s, wherein the weight ratio between the cellulose ether and the water-dispersible starch is from 1:2 to 20:1, is useful for efficiently coating dosage forms with a low moisture permeability.

Abstract: The present invention provides continuous methods of making ready to use aqueous soy binders comprising extruding in a twin screw extruder wet non-water soluble soy flour in grind phase mixing and, downstream, including further a polycarboxy emulsion copolymer in distributive phase mixing, wherein in the aqueous binders the amount of soy flour solids ranges from 51 to 95 wt. %, based on the total weight of binder solids. The present invention provides continuous and simple methods for providing aqueous binders wherein the soy flour has a sieve particle size ranging from 5 to 44 ?m. Making soy flours of such a particle size enables soy flour binder compositions useful as binders for non-wovens, such as mineral fiber or glass mats.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, the present disclosure provides for a process for preparing a dispersion of starch particles in an aqueous liquid. In one or more embodiments, the process includes introducing a feed starch and the aqueous liquid into a rotor stator mixer, maintaining the feed starch and the aqueous liquid in the rotor stator mixer at a temperature ranging from a gelation temperature to less than a solubilization temperature, and shearing the feed starch into starch particles with the rotor stator mixer to form the dispersion of starch particles in the aqueous liquid. In one or more embodiments, the starch particles produced by this process have an average particle size diameter of no larger than 2 micrometers and the dispersion has 20 to 65 weight percent of the starch particles based on a total weight of the dispersion.

Abstract: A composition comprising at least the following components: (A) a first composition comprising the following: i) a first interpolymer comprising, in polymerized form, ethylene, an ?-olefin, and a nonconjugated polyene; ii) a second interpolymer comprising, in polymerized form, ethylene, an ?-olefin and a nonconjugated polyene; and wherein the first composition has an MWD less than, or equal to, 3.5, a Mooney Viscosity (ML (1+4 @125° C.)) greater than, or equal to, 80, and an [(ML(1+4 @125° C.))/Mw(conv)]*1000 greater than 0.429 mole/g; (B) a thermoplastic polymer; and (C) a vulcanization agent is provided. A crosslinked composition made by heating one or more of the inventive compositions is also provided. Articles made from one or more of the inventive compositions are also provided.

Abstract: The instant invention is an adhesion promoter system, and method of producing the same. The adhesion promoter system comprises an aqueous dispersion comprising the melt kneading product of: (a) at least 60 percent by weight of a base polymer, based on the total weight of the solid content, wherein said base polymer comprises a propylene/ethylene copolymer composition, wherein said propylene/ethylene copolymer has a crystallinity in the range of from 1 percent by weight to 30 percent by weight, a heat of fusion in the range of from 2 Joules/gram to 50 Joules/gram), and a DSC melting point in the range of 25° C. to 110° C.; (b) from 0.

Abstract: The instant invention is an adhesion promoter system, and method of producing the same. The adhesion promoter system according to the present invention comprises an aqueous dispersion comprising the melt kneading product of: (a) at least 60 percent by weight of a first functionalized polyolefin, based on the total weight of the solid content; (b) optionally from 0.5 to less than 40 percent by weight of a second functionalized polyolefin, based on the total weight of the solid content, wherein said second functionalized polyolefin comprises homopolymers of propylene or copolymers of propylene with hexene, octene and/or other like alpha-olefins, the homopolymers or copolymers having a single unsaturation, a terminal succinic anhydride moiety, and additional succinic anhydride substitutions on the polypropylene backbone, where the succinic anhydride substitution ranges from about 5 to about 45 weight percent of second functionalized polyolefin; (c) from 0.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a dispersion of starch in an hydroxylic liquid, the process comprising introducing a feed starch and an hydroxylic liquid to an extruder, and applying shear forces in the extruder to the starch and the liquid under conditions sufficient to prepare a stable dispersion of starch particles in the hydroxylic liquid.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, the present disclosure provides for a process for preparing a dispersion of starch particles in an aqueous liquid. In one or more embodiments, the process includes introducing a feed starch and the aqueous liquid into a rotor stator mixer, maintaining the feed starch and the aqueous liquid in the rotor stator mixer at a temperature ranging from a gelation temperature to less than a solubilization temperature, and shearing the feed starch into starch particles with the rotor stator mixer to form the dispersion of starch particles in the aqueous liquid. In one or more embodiments, the starch particles produced by this process have an average particle size diameter of no larger than 2 micrometers and the dispersion has 20 to 65 weight percent of the starch particles based on a total weight of the dispersion.

Abstract: A mono-layer or multi-layer film wherein at least one of the layers has a thickness of at least 0.125 mm is produced from a melt-extruded polymer composition comprising a) a water-soluble polymer, b) an active ingredient and c) an adjuvant selected from the group consisting of mono- and disaccharides, sugar alcohols, low molecular weight water soluble polymers, and salts of cross-linked carboxymethylcellulose, with the proviso that the adjuvant c) is different from the water-soluble polymer a).

Abstract: A melt-extruded film is produced by a process which comprises the steps of blending a) a water-soluble polymer, b) an active ingredient, and c) optional additives and subjecting the blend to melt-extrusion to produce an extruded melt and drawing the extruded melt at a draw-down ratio of from 1.5 to 20 to a film of a thickness of at least 0.04 mm.

Abstract: High amounts of active ingredients, such as drugs, can be incorporated into a multilayer melt-extruded film which comprises i) one or more active ingredient layers produced from a melt-extruded polymer composition comprising a) a water-soluble polymer and b) an active ingredient; and ii) one or more removable protective layers which leave the active ingredient layer(s) substantially intact upon removal of the protective layer(s).

Abstract: A biologically active composition comprising an ethylcellulose, a polyethylene oxide and a biologically active ingredient, wherein the amount of ethylcellulose is at least about (15) percent, based on the total weight of the composition, can be used in melt-extrusion processes to produce pharmaceutical dosage forms.

Abstract: The invention relates to polymers derived from macrocyclic oligomers containing organo clay fillers comprising a) a polymer derived from a macrocyclic oligomer; b) clay platelets; and c) the residue of one or more onium compounds having at least one ligand with a C5 or greater carbon chain and at least one ligand containing one or more functional groups having one or more active hydrogen atoms wherein the functional group is reactive with the macrocyclic oligomer and/or functional groups formed when the macrocyclic oligomer decyclizes wherein a portion of one or more of the onium compounds is ironically bound to the clay platelet and covalently bonded to the polymers derived from macrocyclic oligomers. The invention also relates to processes for preparing such compositions. Furthermore, the invention relates to articles prepared from organoclay filled polymer compositions.

Abstract: The invention includes a process for providing a coupled propylene polymer foam. The invention also includes any composition comprising a product formed by the process of the invention and any article formed from such a composition.

Abstract: Thermoformable films that contain a blend and/or composite structure containing an ethylene/vinyl or vinylidene aromatic polymer or an alpha-olefin/vinyl or vinylidene aromatic polymer, such as an ethylene/styrene interpolymer, a vinyl or vinylidene aromatic homo- or copolymer, such as polystyrene, and, optionally, an alpha-olefin homo- or copolymer serve as effective carrier layers for heat transfer foils.

Abstract: Thermoformable films that contain a blend and/or composite structure containing an ethylene/vinyl or vinylidene aromatic polymer or an alpha-olefin/vinyl or vinylidene aromatic polymer, such as an ethylene/styrene interpolymer, a vinyl or vinylidene aromatic homo- or copolymer, such as polystyrene, and, optionally, an alpha-olefin homo- or copolymer serve as effective carrier layers for heat transfer foils.