A IS A RADICAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF -H, -CH3, AND -C6H5; R IS AN ALKYL GROUP CONTAINING ONE TO EIGHTEEN CARBON ATOMS AND N IS AN INTEGER IN THE RANGE OF 40 TO 70 INCLUSIVE,
ARE CONVERTED TO THE CORRESPONDING LINEAR POLYCARBONATE RESINS CONTAINING A LARGE NUMBER OF PENDANT HYDROXYL GROUPS ONLY BY REDUCTION OF THE ESTER GROUP WITH DIBORANE (B2H4). THE HYDROXYL GROUPS THUS PRODUCED IN THE POLYCARBONATE MOLECULAR CHAIN ARE USEFUL AS GRAFTING AND CROSS-LINKING SITES FOR FURTHER REACTION WITH ORGANIC AND ORGANIC-INORGANIC MOIETIES TO PROVIDE MODIFIED POLYCARBONATES WITH ENHANCED PHYSICAL PROPERTIES.
Abstract:
A transparent polycarbonate resin article, such as an automobile windshield, is prepared having a three-layer, scratch resistant film (about 1 mil in thickness) on a surface thereof. The film contains three layers as formed; an inner layer of a suitable hydroxylated polycarbonate resin, an intermediate layer of silica and poly(vinyl butyral), and an outer layer of silica and poly(vinyl alcohol). The three layers are formed sequentially by wetting a surface of the polycarbonate body with a solution of the specific material in the first layer, evaporating the solvent to form a thin residual solid coating, and repeating this process with respect to the materials specified for the other two layers until the three-layer film is completed.
Abstract:
A composite optical element is disclosed having a synthetic resin substrate and an abrasion resistant surface coating of barium titanate. A polycarbonate resin substrate and an R.F. vacuum sputtered barium titanate protective surface coating provides a particularly tough and abrasion resistant optical element such as a window or windshield.