Abstract: A polyphenylene ether resin composition comprising a polyphenylene ether resin and a rubber modified resin, said rubber modified resin containing a discontinuous elastomeric rubber phase dispersed in a continuous resin phase comprising a copolymer of a vinyl cyanide compound and a vinyl aromatic compound or a mixture of a homopolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and a copolymer of a vinyl cyanide compound and a vinyl aromatic compound, said elastomeric rubber phase comprising a grafted elastomeric rubber which has a graft phase of a copolymer of vinyl cyanide compound and a vinyl aromatic compound and having a grafting degree of 35 to 300% by weight, the contents of vinyl cyanide compound in the graft phase and resin phase being 12 to 30% by weight and 3 to 10% by weight, respectively. The polyphenylene ether resin composition of the present invention is excellent in solvent resistance and colorability as well as impact strength.

Abstract: In a continuous bulk or solution polymerization process for producing rubber modified high-impact resins which comprises continuously feeding a raw material solution comprising a mixture of an aromatic vinyl monomer and a vinyl cyanide monomer and a rubber component dissolved in the mixture, together with a radical polymerization initiator, to a first reactor, polymerizing the raw material solution under high-shear agitation to a conversion required to transform the rubber component phase into dispersed particles, withdrawing the reaction mixture continuously from the first reactor at a rate corresponding to the feed rate of the raw material solution, and feeding the reaction mixture to a second or more reactors for further polymerization, rubber modified high-impact resins exhibiting excellent chemical resistance, thermal resistance and rigidity and having a good surface gloss can be produced by properly determining the weight ratio of the aromatic vinyl monomer to the vinyl cyanide monomer present in the ra

Abstract: A rubber composition having improved steam resistance comprising a nitrile group-containing hydrocarbon rubber having an iodine number of not more than 120, an organic peroxide vulcanizer and a crosslinking coagent, the amount of said crosslinking coagent being 8 to 30 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said rubber.

Abstract: An antistatic resinours composition comprising (A) graft copolymers prepared by emulsion polymerization of (a) monomer mixture consisting of (i) from 50 to 100 percents by weight of monomers having polyalkylene oxide chains and (ii) from 50 to 0 percents by weight of vinyl monomers in the presence of rubbers and (B) thermoplastic resins compatible with the graft copolymers, has permanent antistatic performances, superior mechanical properties and high flowability.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of rubber-modified thermoplastic compositions having high temperature stability includes the steps of dissolving a rubber polymer in a solvent selected from the group consisting of monovinyl aromatic monomers, olefinically unsaturated nitriles and mixtures thereof to form a feed solution, introducing the feed solution into a reactor capable of intimately mixing multiple immiscible phases, introducing into the reactor a separate liquid monomer feed stream containing monomers selected from the group consisting of unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydrides, olefinically unsaturated nitriles and mixtures thereof, heating the feed solution and feed stream under pressure to a temperature sufficient for polymerization to begin and intimately mixing and polymerizing the monomers around the rubber polymer in the reactor to form a thermoplastic resin composition.

Abstract: Improved impact modifier composition comprising elastomeric impact modifier polymer and dunkelsperser in a weight ratio of about 99.5/0.5 to 96/4 which is subject to substantially reduced gel formation in rigid thermoplastic matrix polymer formulations. Also disclosed are such formulations, as well as processes for preparing the improved impact modifier compositions.

Abstract: A branched styrene-butadiene copolymer and a pneumatic tire using the same as a tread base rubber are disclosed. This copolymer is produced by coupling an active styrene-butadiene copolymer anion, which is obtained by polymerizing styrene and butadiene in a hydrocarbon solvent in the presence of ether or a tertiary amine and an initiator of an organolithium compound, with a tin halide compound. In the copolymer, the ratio of branched copolymer connected with tin-butadienyl bond is at least 20% by weight, and the content of bound styrene is not less than 3% by weight but less than 25% by weight, and the content of vinyl bond in butadiene portion is not less than 30% but less than 50%.

Abstract: Graft polymers such as grafted polyacetylene and devices based on derivatives of these polymers are produced utilizing a specific process. The process includes the steps of polymerizing a monomer such as acetylene in the presence of a host polymer such as polyisoprene to produce a graft polymer. The use of a host polymer yields several desirable results. For example, when the graft polymerization is performed in the presence of a solvent for an appropriate host polymer, the entire graft polymer is solvated. The solvated graft polymer is then employable to produce films of polymers on a substrate which are in turn useful in structures such as devices.

Abstract: An impact-resistant thermoplastic molding material, containing polystyrene as the matrix, and, dispersed therein, two elastomeric polymers or copolymers I and II composed entirely or predominantly of 1,3-dienes and containing particles of different mean size, namely, in I, particles from 0.2 to 0.6 .mu.m in size and having capsule particle morphology, and, in II, particles from 2 to 8 .mu.m in size, having cell particle or coil particle morphology.

Abstract: An oil resistant rubber hose having an internal layer made of a vulcanized rubber composition of, or composed mainly of, partially hydrogenated unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene copolymer rubber in which at least 50% of the conjugated diene units is hydrogenated. This rubber hose is superior in resistance to deteriorated gasoline and low temperature, and is suitable for the automobile fuel line.

Abstract: A primer composition for use in the bonding of asphalts comprising the reaction product of an elastomer and a terpene resin. The primer composition of this invention can be used in the treatment of substrates to which asphalts are bonded to improve the bonding relationship between the substrate and the asphalt, such as in road-paving applications, roofing applications and the like.

Abstract: A process for the impact modification of a plastic with a rubber polymer to form a thermoplastic resin in a reactor extruder is provided. The process includes the steps of dissolving a rubber polymer in a solvent selected from the group consisting of ethylenically unsaturated monomers and non-polymerizable organic compounds to form a feed solution, introducing the feed solution into the feed section of a twin screw reactor extruder, introducing a separate feed stream containing a material in sufficient amount to precipitate the rubber polymer, heating the feed solution and feed stream under pressure to a temperature sufficient for polymerization to begin, polymerizing the monomers with the rubber polymer in the reactor extruder to form a thermoplastic resin and extruding the thermoplastic resin through a die. A novel ABS thermoplastic resin is also provided having a uniform distribution of rubber particles dispersed within the plastic phase of the resin, the rubber particles ranging in size of from about 0.

Abstract: Organo siloxanes which, in conjunction with organic peroxides, serve as vulcanizing or crosslinking agents for polymers, prepared by reacting a fatty alcohol, water and methylvinyldichlorosilane or a mixture of methylvinyldichlorosilane and dimethyldichlorosilane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of impact resistant thermoplastic molding materials wherein potassium salts of saturated or unsaturated fatty acids with 10 to 30 carbon atoms are used as emulsifier.

Abstract: An oil-resistant rubber composition comprising 98 to 50 parts by weight of (1) a partially hydrogenated unsaturated nitrile/conjugated diene copolymer rubber in which at least 50% of units derived from the conjugated diene are hydrogenated, and 2 to 50 parts by weight of (2) a liquid copolymer having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 10,000 obtained by copolymerizing 10 to 80% by weight of a conjugated diene, 10 to 70% by weight of an unsaturated nitrile and 0 to 20% by weight of a vinyl monomer copolymerizable with these monomers, the total amount of the components (1) and (2) being 100 parts by weight.

Abstract: A nitrile based resin produced by graft polymerizing in the presence of a rubber, a first group of monomers in a first polymerization step, then a second group of monomers in a second polymerization step, and then a third group of monomers in a third polymerization step; wherein the resin comprises (A) 5 to 25 parts by weight of the rubber and (B) 75 to 95 parts by weight of (I) 5 to 40 weight percent of the product of the first polymerization step comprising .lambda.

Abstract: A process for the impact modification of a plastic with a rubbery polymer to form a thermoplastic resin in a reactor extruder is provided. The process includes the steps of dissolving a rubbery polymer in at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer to form a feed solution, introducing the feed solution into the feed section of a twin screw reactor extruder, heating the feed solution under pressure to a temperature sufficient for polymerization to begin, shearing the feed solution until the solids content formed is equal to at least about twice the rubber content in the feed solution so as to produce a phase inversion product wherein discrete particles of rubber become encapsulated in a continuous phase of plastic polymer formed from the ethylenically unsaturated monomer, thereafter reacting the phase inversion product until at least about 70 weight percent of the feed solution has been converted to a thermoplastic resin, and extruding the said thermoplastic resin through a die.

Abstract: A non-bleeding, predispersed composition useful for dispersing a peroxide vulcanizing agent or coagent into a rubber or plastic stock is disclosed which comprises (A) from about 20 to about 70 percent by weight of a peroxide vulcanizing agent or coagent, and (B) a multi-stage graft copolymer comprising (1) from about 70 to about 90 percent by weight of a hard portion made by graft polymerizing (a) a monomer or monomers selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl methacrylates, styrene, and mixtures thereof, and (b) a small but effective amount of a cross-linking agent for said monomer or monomers, in any order onto (2) from about 10 to about 30 percent by weight of a rubbery portion comprising a polymer or copolymer made by polymerizing (a) a monomer selected from the group consisting of butadiene and lower alkyl acrylates or (b) a mixture of monomers selected from the group consisting of styrene and butadiene, and acrylonitrile and butadiene.

Abstract: A process for polymerizing a styrene monomer or a styrene monomer having a rubber-like polymer dissolved therein by using, as the catalyst, an organic peroxide of the formula ##STR1## where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different radicals selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl radicals of from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and phenyl. Preferably, the polymerization is continuously carried out by bulk or solution polymerization while the reaction mixture present in the polymerization zone is kept in such a mixed state as to make it substantially homogeneous.

Abstract: Copolymers or graft copolymers of from 5 to 95% by weight of .alpha.-olefins corresponding to the following general formula (A): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents alkyl having from 1 to 16 carbon atoms or phenyl; and from 5 to 95% by weight of straight-chain, branch-chain or crosslinked 1,4-polyenes, and a process for the preparation of such polymers, wherein one or more .alpha.-olefins (A) are reacted with a solid catalytic complex based on TiCl.sub.3 and aluminum compounds corresponding to the following general formula (C):Al R.sup.2.sub.n X.sub.3-n (C)wherein R.sup.2 represents C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl; X represents halogen, preferably chlorine; and 0<n.ltoreq.3; in the presence of a solution of polyene (B) in an inert solvent or in the presence of a gel of polyene (B) swelled in an inert solvent, and the final linkage between component (A) and component (B) is produced at the end of polymerization by the addition of a dihalogen aluminum alkylene corresponding to the following general formula (D):X.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing terpolymer polyblends having high gloss and ductility in formed articles, wherein, rubber particles in an aqueous latex are reacted with an alkenyl aromatic, alkenyl nitrile and alkyl acrylate monomer formulation such that said rubber particles become grafted with at least a portion of said monomers while said monomers form a matrix terpolymer phase of said monomers followed by separating said matrix phase terpolymer and said grafted rubber particles from said latex as a terpolymer polyblend. The invention also relates to a composition of said process.

Abstract: A process for preparing polybutadiene having a 1,2-configuration content of 5-40% and a cis-1,4-configuration content of 60% or more, which comprises polymerizing 1,3-butadiene in the presence of a catalyst consisting of:(A) a cobalt compound,(B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of:(i) a trialkylaluminum,(ii) a reaction product of a trialkylaluminum and an alcohol or water,(iii) a mixture of a trialkylaluminum and a dialkylaluminum halide,(iv) a dialkylaluminum hydride, and(v) an organolithium compound, and(C) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of phenyl isothiocyanate and carbon disulfide, in a hydrocarbon or halogenated hydrocarbon solution of a high cis-1,4-polybutadiene obtained by polymerizing 1,3-butadiene with a catalyst consisting of:(D) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of the organocarboxylates of nickel and organic complex compounds of nickel,(E) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of boron trifluoride, boron tr

Abstract: A continuous solution polymerization process for polymerizing conjugated dienes alone or with a copolymerizable monovinylarene in the presence of a gel inhibitor employing a first stirred reactor in series with a following plug-flow tube reactor.

Abstract: Lithium metal-terminated polymers of one or more alkadienes and of one or more monoalkenyl arenes are coupled by reaction with a mixture of two different coupling agents having different functionality.

Abstract: Compatibilized polymer blends are described comprising a blend of olefin polymer, nitrile rubber, and a compatibilizing amount of block copolymer comprising nitrile rubber compatibilizing segments and olefin polymer compatibilizing segments.

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: Residual acrylonitrile dissolved in acrylonitrile copolymers and/or water in which acrylonitrile polymers are polymerized or processed such as a latex thereof or from acrylonitrile processes can be substantially reduced by adding to polymer-water mixtures for example, after at least 90% of the monomers have been polymerized, additional catalyst and an amount of comonomer in excess of the amount of free acrylonitrile present.

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: A process for preparing styrenic resins is disclosed which comprises the steps of:(a) adding monomer material selected from the group consisting of monomers and monomer mixtures being capable of forming a rubbery polymer by polymerization and preferably comprising an acrylic acid ester to a polymeric matrix comprising a polymer of a styrenic compound;(b) contacting the polymeric matrix and the monomer material under conditions in which said monomer is absorbed by said polymeric matrix; and(c) polymerizing said monomer material with formation of a rubbery polymer partly grafted on the polymeric matrix.The resulting styrenic resin exhibits good impact strength and gloss.

Abstract: Rubber-modified terpolymers of from 50 to 83% of a monoalkenyl aromatic monomer, from 15 to 30% of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride, from 2 to 20% of an unsaturated nitrile are described which are useful as molding compositions.

Abstract: The toughness of thermoplastic polyesters can essentially be improved by addition of a new type of graft polymers which contain one grafting site for about 400 to 2000 carbon atoms, the average molecular weight M.sub.w of the graft branches being from 2000 to 40,000.

Abstract: A hardenable composition comprises (1) an acrylate and/or methacrylate monomer; (2) diisopropylbenzene dihydroperoxide as a hardener and a hardening accelerator.

Abstract: Large quantities of reclaimed tire rubber can be incorporated into plastics material without seriously impairing its impact strength by a method which comprises the steps of swelling the reclaimed tire rubber with a quantity of monomer which is insufficient to saturate the reclaimed tire rubber and polymerizing the swollen mass.The method is effective despite the multiplicity of additives such as extenders, antioxidants and lubricants present in the reclaimed tire rubber.The preferred monomer is styrene.In certain cases the plastics material can be electroplated after suitable chemical treatment.

Abstract: Syntactic foam compositions are manufactured by heat-curing, in the presence of a free radical generator, a mixture comprising a resin and hollow spheres; the resin consists of(a) 10 to 100% of polybutadiene with 20-95% 1,2 units, 5-60% thereof being in a carbocyclic cyclized form, its number average molecular weight being at most 100,000;(b) 0 to 90% of polybutadiene with 40-98% 1, 2 units and 2-60% 1, 4 units, its number average molecular weight being at most 100,000; and(c) 0 to 90% of a polymerizable liquid vinyl monomer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a composition comprising a polybutadiene rubber containing a polymer obtained by block or graft polymerization of cis-1,4-polybutadiene with syndiotactic (syn)-1,2-polybutadiene, alone or blended with the other diene rubber, said syn-1,2-polybutadiene being crystallized and in a short fiber-like shape, and a breaking resistance characteristic and reinforcement characteristic being considerably improved by specifying the diameter and length of said short fiber, which is suitable for various parts of tire or industrial materials, and further relates to a composition of said polybutadiene rubber to which a carbon black is added for preferably used as a chafer or tread of tire, and still further relates to said composition to which a carbon black and an antioxidant are added for preferably used as a rubber blend composition for side wall.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing terpolymer polyblends having low gloss in extruded profiles wherein rubber particles contained in an aqueous latex are grafted with alkenyl aromatic, alkenyl nitrile and conjugated diolefin monomers to form a grafted rubber phase dispersed in a matrix phase of said monomers, at least a portion of said rubber particles becoming associated with said terpolymers as a gel fraction in said polyblend reducing the gloss of formed polyblend articles. The invention also relates to a composition prepared by said process.

Abstract: Nitrile polymer solids having good stability against loss of impact strength and resin yellowing are recovered from latex with minimal or no use of stabilizers in a screw extruder.

Abstract: This invention concerns a method of polymerizing high acrylonitrile resins in the presence of polymerized copolymers or terpolymers to produce thermoplastic products susceptible to molding and processing operations and having high impact strength and high heat distortion temperatures.

Abstract: The use of a sequential and controlled addition of monomers during grafting to produce grafted elastomers results in blends of the grafted elastomer and a resinuous copolymer which have superior optical properties.

Abstract: An improved vinyl halide or vinyl halide copolymer containing up to 50 percent of a copolymer can be obtained by polymerizing in contact with an aliphatic hydrocarbon olefin homopolymer, copolymer or terpolymer in a process of bulk polymerizing comprising single stage or two-stage bulk polymerization wherein high speed agitation is used during the first stage and low speed agitation is used in the second stage. By polymerizing in the presence of the olefin polymer or copolymer, reduced particle size, reduced lump formation, and lower melt viscosity and improved impact strength can be obtained in the resin product. Small amounts of the olefin polymer or copolymer are effective in providing particle size control, reducing lump formation and eliminating scale build-up. Larger amounts of olefin polymer increase impact strength, reduce melt viscosity and provide excellent mold release properties in the final product.

Abstract: An improved vinyl halide or vinyl halide copolymer containing up to 50 percent of a comonomer can be obtained by polymerizing in contact with an aliphatic hydrocarbon olefin homopolymer, copolymer or terpolymer in a process of bulk polymerization comprising single stage or two-stage bulk polymerization wherein high speed agitation is used during the first stage and low speed agitation is used in the second stage. By polymerizing in the presence of the olefin polymer or copolymer, reduced particle size, reduced lump formation, and lower melt viscosity and improved impact strength can be obtained in the resin product. Small amounts of the olefin polymer or copolymer are effective in providing particle size control, reducing lump formation and eliminating scale build-up. Larger amounts of olefin polymer increase impact strength, reduce melt viscosity and provide excellent mold release properties in the final product.