Graft copolymers and blends thereof with polyolefins

Details Graft copolymers and blends thereof with polyolefins Graft copolymers and blends thereof with polyolefins

1989-03-01

1990-09-18

Bleutge, John C.

Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser

Synthetic resins

Mixing of two or more solid polymers; mixing of solid...

525309, C08F25502, C08F26702

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049579746

ABSTRACT:
A novel graft copolymer capable of imparting to a polyolefin when blended therewith high tensile modulus and high sag resistance without increasing melt viscosity, and a method of making the same. The graft copolymer is a polyolefin having a relatively high weight-average molecular weight methacrylate polymer grafted thereto. The graft copolymer is formed by dissolving or swelling a non-polar polyolefin in an inert hydrocarbon solvent, heating to dissolve the polyolefin, and while stirring the mixture, adding a methacrylate monomer, together with an initiator to produce a constant, low concentration of radicals, to form a graft copolymer with a high molecular weight polymer chain covalently bonded or grafted to the polyolefin backbone. The graft copolymer can be separated from the solvent, isolated by volatilizing the solvent, for example in a devolatilizing extruder, and extruded into a desired shape such as a sheet, tube or the like. This graft copolymer can be blended with a polyolefin matrix. The blend exhibits improved physical properties in the melt, upon cooling, and in the solid state, and is useful in cast and oriented films, solid extruded rod and profile, foamed rod, profile and sheet, blown bottles and the like. The graft copolymer further improves compatibility in a wide range of polymer blends.

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patent: 4595726 (1986-06-01), Klosiewicz

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