Abstract:
A process for forming a polyamide-polyolefin copolymer comprising combining a vinyl or vinylidene terminated polyolefin with a linker to form a polyolefin-linker composition; combining the polyolefin-linker composition with a polyamide to form a polyamide-polyolefin copolymer. The linker can be a glycidyl-siloxane compound or a poly(arylene ether) copolymer.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method to stabilize a poly(arylene ether) comprising combining a neat or diluted poly(arylene ether) with a vinyl or vinylidene-terminated polyolefin at a temperature of at least 80° C. to form heated reaction components; combining a Brφnsted acid or Lewis acid with the heated reaction components; and isolating a polyolefin-poly(arylene ether) copolymer composition.
Abstract:
A process for making a branched cyclic olefin copolymer (bCOC), and the bCOC therefrom, comprising combining at a temperature within a range from 60° C. to 140° C. a catalyst precursor and an activator with a feed comprising ethylene and at least one cyclic olefin; where the catalyst precursor is selected from the group consisting of CS-symmetric Group 4 metallocenes comprising any two ligands selected from cyclopentadienyl and ligands isolobal to the cyclopentadienyl group. The resulting bCOC is desirably semi-crystalline and useful in such articles as tubing, thermoformed and foamed articles.
Abstract:
A process for forming a polyamide-polyolefin copolymer comprising combining a vinyl or vinylidene terminated polyolefin with a linker to form a polyolefin-linker composition; combining the polyolefin-linker composition with a polyamide to form a polyamide-polyolefin copolymer. The linker can be a glycidyl-siloxane compound or a poly(arylene ether) copolymer.
Abstract:
Described is a silane functionalized polyolefin and a method of forming the composition, the composition comprising compounds having the following structure: wherein R2, R3, and R4 are independently selected from hydrogen, C1 to C10 linear alkyls, C6 to C14 aryls, C7 to C20 alkylaryls, and substituted versions thereof; n has a value within the range from 20 to 2000; m has a value within the range from 1 to 10 or 20; R is selected from hydrogen or C1 to C10 alkyls; and fa and fb are residual functional moieties selected from carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorous, silicon, and boron, where any remaining valences are bound to a group selected from hydrogen, C1 to C10 linear alkyls, C6 to C14 aryls, C7 to C20 alkylaryls, and substituted versions thereof.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process to produce a functionalized polymer comprising: a) contacting an iodine modified aromatic polymer with an oxidizing agent to obtain an iodonium salt of the aromatic polymer; b) contacting the iodonium salt of the aromatic polymer with a polymer having internal or terminal unsaturation(s); and c) obtaining a functionalized polymer from the polymer having internal or terminal unsaturation(s) wherein the functionalized polymer has an Mn less than the Mn of the polymer having internal or terminal unsaturation(s) and the functionalized polymer has an acid number higher than the acid number of the polymer having internal or terminal unsaturation(s).