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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8106129 | Method for the production of (meth) acrylate-based ABA triblock copolymers The invention relates to a method for producing meth)acrylate-based ABA triblock copolymers in which the A blocks are amine-functionalized. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7417092 | End-capped polymer chains and products thereof Methods are described herein for converting carbocationically terminated polymers to anionically terminated polymers. These methods comprise: (a) providing a carbocationically terminated polymeric moiety; (b) reacting the carbocationically terminated polymeric moiet... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7217769 | Medical device with plasma cross-linked hydrophilic coating A medical device with a hydrophilic and lubricious coating, wherein the coating includes a hydrophilic polymeric unit layer deposited on the medical device and cross-linked with a plasma deposited double bond monomer. The hydrophilic polymeric unit can include ethyl... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7135529 | Golf ball comprising saturated rubber/ionomer block copolymers The invention provides golf balls with a core and with one or more layers, preferably cover layers, formed of a saturated rubber/ionomer block copolymer comprising one or more neutral thermoplastic polymer blocks and one or more ionomeric blocks. The saturated rubbe... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7115699 | Sulfonated polymer having nitrile-containing hydrophobic block and solid polymer electrolyte Provided are a sulfonated polymer capable of high hot water resistance even if it has an increased amount of the sulfonic groups introduced therein, and a solid polymer electrolyte containing the sulfonated polymer that has high proton conductivity and excellent gen... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7067586 | Methods of making ABA-type block copolymers having a random block of hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers Block copolymers are prepared by living-type or semi-living type free radical polymerization, with said copolymers having at least one random block comprised of at least one hydrophobic monomer and at least one hydrophilic monomer. The selection of hydrophobic and h... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7041735 | Vinyl chloride polymer composition The present invention provides a vinyl chloride polymer composition which comprises (i) a vinyl chloride polymer (a) and (ii) a block copolymer (b) having a polymer block (I) comprising of a block copolymer, which may be hydrogenated, of an aromatic vinyl compound p... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6930151 | Star block copolymers comprising polyisobutylene-B-polyacrylonitrile arms radiating from an aromatic core Block copolymers and star polymers having copolymer arms of PIB-PAN have been synthesized via living carbocationic polymerization and atom transfer radical polymerization in a methylene chloride/cyclohexanone solvent system. ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6841623 | Low molecular weight nitrile rubber The present invention relates to nitrile rubber polymers having lower molecular weights and narrower molecular weight distributions than those known in the art. The present invention also relates to a process for the manufacture of said nitrile rubber and the use of... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6828385 | Process for crosslinking carboxylated nitrile rubber, hydrogenating carboxylated nitrile rubber, the crosslinked rubber and its' uses A process has now been discovered that permits the simultaneous crosslinking and derivation of an, optionally hydrogenated, polymer whose backbone is composed of a conjugated diene, an unsaturated nitrile and an unsaturated carboxylic acid in the presence of a coupl... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6767968 | ABA-type block copolymers having a random block of hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers and methods of making same Block copolymers are prepared by living-type or semi-living type free radical polymerization, with said copolymers having at least one random block comprised of at least one hydrophobic monomer and at least one hydrophilic monomer. The selection of hydrophobic and h... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6765069 | Plasma cross-linked hydrophilic coating A method for making a hydrophilic and lubricious coating, the coating so made and a medical device including such coating, wherein the coating includes a hydrophilic polymeric unit layer cross-linked with a plasma deposited double bond monomer. The hydrophilic polym... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6750298 | Surfactant copolymers based on methylidene malonate The invention generally concerns a novel family of biocompatible surfactant copolymers having a wide range of uses, in particular in pharmaceutics and for synthesizing substances in dispersed state and for surface treatment of materials or biomaterials. Said copolym... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6713564 | Star block copolymer A novel star block copolymer which can be made to have a high molecular weight and gives a solution having a lower viscosity than solutions of linear polymers having the same molecular weight as the copolymer and which is expected to be used as a resist material; an... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6586530 | Low surface tension (meth) acrylate containing block copolymer prepared by controlled radical polymerization A block copolymer including a block of residues of a low surface tension (meth)acrylate monomer; a block of residues of a monomer free of hydroxyl group and amine group residues; and, optionally, a third block of residues of a monomer free of hydroxyl gro... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6506837 | Gelled aqueous composition comprising a block copolymer containing at least one water-soluble block and one hydrophobic block The invention relates to a gelling aqueous composition comprising block copolymers containing at least one water-soluble block and at least one block predominantly hydrophobic in nature, and forming a viscoelastic gel.... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6495618 | Graft copolymer with an amide functional group as a pigment dispersant A polymer dispersant for pigments based on a graft copolymer wherein the graft copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of at least 3000 and has 10 to 90% by weight of a polymeric backbone and 90 to 10% by weight of macromonomer side chains attache... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6451902 | Nitrile polymer vulcanizate and process for the production thereof A nitrite polymer vulcanizate having improved hot air aging characteristics is described. The nitrile polymer vulcanizate may be produced admixing a composition comprising: (i) a nitrite polymer; (ii) a filler; (iii) an additive selected from the group co... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6413306 | Pigment dispersions containing ABC-block polymer dispersant A pigment dispersion useful for forming coating compositions containing dispersed pigment, a non-aqueous carrier liquid and an ABC-block polymer dispersant (binder); wherein the ABC block polymer has a number average molecular weight of about 5,000-20,000... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6359081 | Block copolymer with condensation or vinyl polymer, functions imparting, and lower cohesive E segments A functional block copolymer useful as a compatibilizing agent for a blend of a condensation polymer and vinyl polymer comprises segments of a condensation polymer and a vinyl polymer derived from a reactive functional group-containing monomer or a functi... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6288173 | Block copolymers Block copolymers containing at least two blocks are provided and comprise: (a) a first block containing residues of at least one first ethylenically unsaturated radically polymerizable monomer that is free of hydroxy functionality, e.g., 2-ethylhexyl meth... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6271308 | Block copolymers The present invention relates to a stable polymer composition comprising a first polymer and a second polymer, which second polymer is not compatible with the first polymer, and an amount of a copolymer comprising at least one block of a polyalkadiene and... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6136200 | Treatment for paint and lacquer waste water A composition for the detackification and clarification of acid and alkaline paint and lacquer waste waters and paint spray booth wastes, comprising: an inorganic-organic and/or organic adduct alloy polymer composition having the formula: A.multidot.B | 10/24/2000 |
| 6127453 | Ink jet ink An ink jet ink composition comprising from about 0.5% to about 30% by weight of a pigment, a carrier and a hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide dispersant in a ratio of dispersant:pigment from about 0.1:1 to about 5:1.... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6111025 | Block copolymer surfactants prepared by stabilized free-radical polymerization A block copolymer of a hydrophobic block of one or more hydrophobic monomers and a hydrophilic block of one or more hydrophilic monomers is prepared by polymerizing a hydrophobic monomer to prepare the hydrophobic block, using a free radical polymerizatio... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5981655 | Process for preparing TPU molding compositions A process for the continuous production of a thermoplastic molding composition containing a mixture of a TPU and a thermoplastic (co)polymer is disclosed. The process comprises (i) introducing into an extruder via a first feed point component I) with at l... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5948879 | Maleimide-based copolymer and resin composition comprising the same A maleimide-based copolymer containing maleimide monomer units (a-1), aromatic vinyl monomer units (a-2) and other vinyl monomer units (a-3), wherein, (I) the content of residual maleimide monomer in the copolymer is 0.1% by weight or less, and the conten... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5668219 | Cationic block polymer agglomeration agents for mineral bearing ores A process for the percolation leaching of minerals from a mineral-beating ore comprises agglomerating the mineral-bearing ore with an agglomerating agent of a cationic block copolymer having a polymeric segment and a block containing an ammonium cation op... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5534174 | Graft copolymer comprising a star-shaped polymer and an n-allyl amide Graft copolymers of a star-shaped polymer and an N-allyl amide manifest dispersant and viscosity index-improving properties.... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5475061 | Process for producing styrenic copolymer There are disclosed a styrenic copolymer which comprises at least one structural unit represented by the general formula (I) ##STR1## and a structural unit represented by the general formula (II) ##STR2## or a structural unit represented by the ... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5391626 | Styrenic block copolymer and process for producing same There are disclosed a styrenic block copolymer having a reduced viscosity of 0.01 to 20 dl/g (0.05 g/l in 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene at 135° C.) which comprises highly syndiotactic styrenic-polymer segments and 10-4 to 10 mol % of heteroatom-conta... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5368744 | Methods for treating wastewater A method for the flocculation of wastewater comprising a block copolymer having the formula: ##STR1## wherein E is a polymeric segment obtained from the polymerization of hydrophobic monomers, x when present is a nonionic monomer, y is a cationi... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5314962 | ABA type block copolymers An acrylate is polymerized by the photo-decomposition of ##STR1## to make a polymeric intermediate containing dithiocarbamate groups at both its ends, and a hard polymer-forming monomer is polymerized by the photo-decomposition of this dithiocarbamat... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5294352 | Compositions for the detackification of paint spray booth water and waste water A composition for the detackification and clarification of acid and alkaline paint and lacquer waste waters and paint spray booth wastes, comprising: an inorganic-organic and/or organic adduct alloy polymer composition having the formula: A.multidot.B | 03/15/1994 |
| 5234604 | Water soluble block copolymers and methods of use therof A composition and method of use thereof for the treatment of wastewater comprising a block copolymer having the formula: ##STR1## wherein E is a polymeric segment obtained from the polymerization of hydrophobic monomers, x when present is a nonionic ... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5219945 | ABC triblock methacrylate polymers This application discloses linear methacrylic ABC triblock polymers in which the composition of each of the three blocks is different and wherein at least one of the blocks is hydrophobic and at least one of the blocks is hydrophilic.... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5182331 | Water soluble block copolymers and methods of use thereof A composition and method of use thereof for the treatment of wastewater comprising a block copolymer having the formula: ##STR1## wherein E is a polymeric segment obtained from the polymerization of hydrophobic monomers, x when present is a nonionic ... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5180760 | Anti-fogging resin film-forming composition An anti-fogging resin film-forming composition, comprising a block or graft copolymer and a surfactant, each of which block and graft copolymers consists of a hydrophilic polymer segment and a hydrophobic polymer segment having specifically limited monome... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5112920 | Amine containing monomers Ethylenically unsaturated diamine or triamines, a process for their polymerization and polymeric products. The resulting polymers have unique properties as chelants for metal ions.... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5081191 | Functionalized polymers prepared by anionic polymerization Novel polymers prepared by anionic polymerization techniques containing phenol, silyl ether, aminophenyl functionality or carboxylic acid or ester.... | 01/14/1992 |
