Abstract: The use of macromonomers which have a glass transition temperature of at least 20° C., have at least one oligomeric and/or polymeric structural unit which is incompatible with polyacrylates, and have at least one polymerizable double bond in the form of a vinyl, acrylate and/or methacrylate unit as comonomers in the preparation of oriented polyacrylate pressure sensitive adhesives.

Abstract: A pressure sensitively adhesive polyacrylate according to a composition known per se, characterized by crosslinked and functionalized polymer particles which on the basis of their chemical nature are suitable for assisting a crosslinking reaction of the pressure sensitive adhesive.

Abstract: An initiator system for radical polymerization, which comprises a combination of compounds of the formulae:

Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive. Provision is made for this pressure-sensitive adhesive to comprise (a) a first layer of a first polyacrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive containing at least 50% by weight, based on the first polyacrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive, of an acrylic and/or methacrylic ester of the formula CH2?CH(R1)(COOR2); (b) a second layer comprising (b1) a polyacrylate containing at least 50% by weight, based on the polyacrylate, of an acrylic and/or methacrylic ester of the formula CH2?CH(R1)(COOR2, and (b2) at least 15% by weight, based on the second layer, of chalk; and (c) a third layer of a second polyacrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive containing at least 50% by weight, based on the second polyacrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive, of an acrylic and/or methacrylic ester of the formula CH2?CH(R1)(COOR2) in each formula R1 is H or CH3 and R2 is an alkyl chain having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing acrylic hotmelt pressure-sensitive adhesives. Provision is made here for this process to comprise the steps of (a) providing a pressure-sensitive adhesive polyacrylate and a difunctional or polyfunctional reactive resin, the pressure-sensitive adhesive polyacrylate having at least one functional group which enables it to react with the difunctional or polyfunctional reactive resin; (b) preparing a mixture comprising the pressure-sensitive adhesive polyacrylate and the difunctional or polyfunctional reactive resin by mixing the pressure-sensitive adhesive polyacrylate in the melt with the difunctional or polyfunctional reactive resin; (c) coating the mixture onto a backing material; and (d) thermally curing the mixture on the backing material.

Abstract: In a continuous two-stage process for preparing solvent-free polyacrylate hotmelt pressure sensitive adhesives which is gentle on the polymer and redeploys the solvent used in the process the following steps are carried out: polymerizing a self-adhesive pressure sensitive adhesive in solution, the solvent having a low vapor pressure; continuously mixing the polymer solution with antioxidants and preheating the mixture under superatmospheric pressure without boiling it; concentrating the polymer solution to a residual solvent content of less than 0.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition based on (co)polymers of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid and/or derivatives thereof which has an at least two-phase domain structure and also an outgassing level of less than 10 ?g/g, based on the weight of the composition, when measured by the tesa method.

Abstract: Polyacrylates obtainable by thermal crosslinking of a polymer mixture comprising the following components: a) a polyacrylate copolymer of the following monomers a1) acrylates and/or methacrylates of the following formula CH2?CH(R1)(COOR2), ?where R2?H or CH3 and R2 is an alkyl chain with 1-20 carbon atoms, at 65-99% by weight, based on a), a2) olefinically unsaturated monomers containing functional groups, at 0-15% by weight, based on a), a3) acrylates and/or methacrylates whose alcohol component contains tert-butoxycarbonyl (BOC) and/or hydroxyl groups, at 1-20% by weight, based on a), at 80-99.8% by weight, based on the polymer mixture, b) a polymerization regulating photoinitiator at 0.1-15% by weight, based on the polymer mixture, c) difunctional isocyanate and/or difunctional epoxide at 0.1-5% by weight, based on the polymer mixture.

Abstract: Repeated use of an adhesive-film laminate for bonds which can be redetached without residue by pulling on the laminate in the direction of the bond plane, the laminate employed comprising a) an elastic support with a resilience of at least 50% b) coated on at least one side with a solvent or hot-melt pressure-sensitive acrylate adhesive or dispersion pressure-sensitive acrylate adhesive.

Abstract: Process for preparing UV crosslinkable acrylic pressure sensitive adhesives, which comprises reacting polyacrylates in the melt with UV-photoactive substances in a hotmelt process in a polymer-analogous reaction, the UV-photoactive substances being able to absorb radiation energy and transfer it to a reaction system.

Abstract: A process for crosslinking polyacrylate compositions, wherein, by selective irradiation of the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition with electron beams, the polymer is cured only in certain structures and, as a result, structured pressure-sensitive adhesive compositions can be prepared.

Abstract: A process for preparing polyacrylates, characterized in that the monomer mixture for preparing the polyacrylates is composed of at least 70% by weight of at least one acrylic monomer of the general formula where R1 is H or CH3 and R2 is H or an alkyl chain having 1-20 carbon atoms, the monomers are polymerized in the presence of at least one free-radical initiator by free-radical polymerization with at least one thioester as polymerization regulator, the average molecular weight of the polyacrylates is in the range from 250,000 g/mol to 1,000,000 g/mol, and the molecular weight distribution of the polyacrylates, Mw/Mn, is <4.

Abstract: A process for preparing polyacrylic hotmelt pressure sensitive adhesives, which comprises the following steps: (a) compounding an acrylic hotmelt pressure sensitive adhesive containing at least one functional group X, having a solvent content of not more than 0.5% by weight and a molecular mass MW of from 100,000 to 2,000,000 g/mol, with at least one chemical substance R—Y containing at least one functional group Y, said at least one functional group X and said at least one functional group Y being chosen such that they are capable of undergoing a coupling reaction with one another, (b) treating the compound in a reactor with a mixing apparatus at a specific drive energy of not more than 0.09 kWh/kg and at a temperature of from 80 to 200° C., (c) transferring the self-adhesive composition thus treated to a downstream coating unit, and applying it from the melt to a backing material.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive based on block copolymers, said block copolymers having at least one unit composed of three successive polymer blocks comprising alternating polymer blocks P(A) and P(B), wherein P(A) has a softening temperature of from −80° C. to 0° C., and is comprised of at least one acrylic or methacrylic acid derivative of the general formula CH2═CH(RI)(COORII)  (I)  and at least one acrylated monomer of the general formula CH2═CH(RIII)(COORIV)  (II), and P(B) represents a homopolymer or copolymer block having a softening temperature of from 20° C. to 175° C., and the polymer blocks P(A) and P(B) are not homogeneously miscible with each other.

Abstract: A polyacrylate pressure sensitive adhesive, having an average molecular weight Mw (weight average) of from 100 000 to 600 000 g/mol a polydispersity of not more than 3.0 copolymerized photoinitiator units, and a process for preparing a UV-crosslinkable polyacrylate pressure sensitive adhesive having a polydispersity of not more 3.0, comprising a radical polymerization process for preparing a polymer from a monomer mixture, the monomer mixture to be polymerized comprising copolymerizable photoinitiators, the polymerization process being regulated by the presence of at least one chemical compound comprising the unit in which X is S, O or N as polymerization regulator.

Abstract: Crosslinked polyacrylates obtained by crosslinking, induced by means of UV radiation, of a polymer mixture comprising a) polyacrylate copolymers of the following monomers a1) acrylic acid and/or acrylic esters of the following formula CH2═CH(R1)(COOR2), where R1═H or CH3 and R2 is an alkyl chain having 1-20 carbon atoms, at 70-99% by weight, based on component (a), a2) olefinically unsaturated monomers containing functional groups, at 0-15% by weight, based on component (a), a3) tert-butyl acrylate, at 1-15% by weight, based on component (a), and b) a photocationic initiator at 0.01-25% by weight, based on the overall polymer mixture.

Abstract: A ceramic green body made up of at least two ceramic green sheets that are glued together with a liquid adhesive is described. Further, a method of manufacturing a ceramic green body of this type is described, the surface of a first ceramic green sheet initially being provided at least in sections and at least on one side with the liquid adhesive, and the first ceramic green sheet being subsequently glued to a second ceramic green sheet. Finally, it is proposed to manufacture a ceramic body using this ceramic green body, which may be used, for example, in planar, ceramic exhaust gas sensors, or in ceramic multilayer hybrids as circuit carriers. To this end, after being glued, the ceramic green body is subjected to a heat treatment, during which the polymer matrix of the ceramic green sheets is first at least largely thermally decomposed and/or evaporated, and the body that remains is subsequently sintered.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive based on block copolymers, said block copolymers having at least one unit composed of three successive polymer blocks, said three successive polymer blocks being chosen in alternation from the group of the polymer blocks P(A) and P(B), wherein P(A) represents a homopolymer or copolymer block obtainable from a component A which is composed of at least two monomers A1, A2, the polymer block P(A) having a softening temperature of from −80° C. to 0° C.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive based on block copolymers which have at least one unit composed of a series of three alternating polymer blocks P(A) and P(B), wherein P(A) represents a homopolymer or copolymer block formed from a component A which itself comprises at least one acrylated macromonomer of general formula CH2═CH(RI)(COORII)  (I) in which RI′=H or CH3 and R″ is an aliphatic linear, branched or cyclic, unsubstituted or substituted, saturated or unsaturated, alkyl radical having more than 30 carbon atoms, and the average molecular weight Mn of said at least one macromonomer being between 492 g/mol and 30 000 g/mol, P(B) represents a homopolymer or copolymer block formed from a monomeric component B which itself comprises at least one monomer B1, the polymer block P(B) having a softening temperature of from −80° C. to +20° C., and the polymer blocks P(A) being immiscible with the polymer blocks P(B).

Abstract: A method of reducing the flow viscosity of a polyacrylate composition, which comprises adding a) to a polyacrylate, a polyacrylate copolymer, a polyacrylate mixture or a mixture of polyacrylates and polyacrylate copolymers having an average molecular weight of more than 500000 g/mol b) a polyacrylate, a polyacrylate copolymer, a polyacrylate mixture or a mixture of polyacrylates and polyacrylate copolymers having an average molecular weight of less than 500000 g/mol, component (b) possessing functional groups crosslinkable by UV irradiation.