Compositions of matter having among other desirable characteristics strong adhesive properties to various substrates, these compositions comprising blends of a graft copolymer of a high density polyethylene and at least one unsaturated fused ring carboxylic acid anhydride blended with a polyethylene resin of one or more homopolymers of ethylene, copolymers of ethylene and an alpha-olefin or any or all of these.

Compositions of matter having among other desirable characteristics strong adhesive properties to various substrates comprising blends of a graft copolymer of a high density polyethylene and at least one unsaturated, fused ring, carboxylic acid anhydride and this blended with one or more resin copolymers of ethylene and an ethylenically unsaturated ester.

Polyphosphazene blends and foams thereof are described. The blends comprise of at least one polyphosphazene copolymer having a Young's Modulus of up to about 5.times.10.sup.8 dynes/cm.sup.2 and at least one polyphosphazene homopolymer or copolymer having a Young's Modulus of at least about 5.times.10.sup.8 dynes/cm.sup.2. The copolymers used to prepare the blends comprise randomly repeating units represented by the formulas ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and are h...

Polyphosphazene blends and foams thereof are described. The blends comprise of at least one polyphosphazene copolymer having a Young's Modulus of up to about 5.times.10.sup.8 dynes/cm.sup.2 and at least one polyphosphazene homopolymer or copolymer having a Young's Modulus of at least about 5.times.10.sup.8 dynes/cm.sup.2. The copolymers used to prepare the blends comprise randomly repeating units represented by the formulas ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and are h...

A polyolefin-containing adhesive blend comprising: (A) 1 to 30 parts by weight of a graft copolymer having a polyolefin backbone grafted with 0.001 to 30% by weight of at least one polymerisable ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivative thereof, (B) 70 to 99 parts by weight of a polyolefin provided that at least 5 parts by weight of (B) is (C) a polyethylene having a density of less than 930 kgm.sup.-3 wherein the graft copolymer (A) has been reacted with a compound(D) which has at...

A miscible fuel blend composition consisting of a diesel fuel oil and a C.sub.3 (excluding n-propanol) - C.sub.22 organic alcohol.

Polymers containing a high percentage of vinyl alcohol units may be blended with copolymers of alkyl methacrylates and unsaturated organic acids and processed into sheet, film, fiber and other objects which exhibit an useful balance of barrier and strength properties.

Polymer blends of at least one polar polymer are prepared by admixture with a poly(vinyl alcohol) and a (meth)acrylate copolymer also containing vinyl amide and/or unsaturated acid units. The ternary compositions have attractive processing and performance properties.

A photoinitiator blend, containing a) at least one monoacylphosphine oxide of formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 denotes C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl; C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.9 phenylalkyl, phenyl, naphthyl, biphenyl, all substituted by halogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy; phenyl, naphthyl or biphenylyl, all mono- or poly-substituted by halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl and/or C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkoxy; or a monovalent N--, O--, or S--containing 5-membered or...

Multi-phase blends of VDF-based polymers are provided which are useful in a variety of applications such as wire and cable, pipe and liner applications, and rotational molding.