ABS compositions and process for preparing same
US4559386A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 6, 1984 |
| Grant date | Dec 17, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 6, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC08F279/04
- WIPO fieldMacromolecular chemistry, polymers
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
An intermediate for use in a polyblend consisting essentially of a copolymer of monoalkenyl aromatic monomer such as styrene and a ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer such as acrylonitrile surface grafted onto rubber which is dispersed in a matrix copolymer of the graft copolymer monomers, the dispersed phase being monomodal in particle size distribution and the weight percent of surface-grafted nitrile monomer being less by at least 2% than the weight percent nitrile monomer in the matrix. This intermediate with mismatched nitrile monomer can be blended with another rubber graft copolymer of different particle size dispersed in ungrafted matrix which contains matched nitrile monomer in the surface graft and matrix to provide a polyblend having properties at least equivalent to those obtained by blending two rubber graft copolymers of different particle size dispersed in a matrix which each contain matched nitrile monomer levels in the surface graft and matrix. The mismatched intermediate is prepared by continuous mass polymerization.
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