The present invention has for its object to provide a polymer available upon coupling of polymers of radical-polymerizable olefin monomer or monomers and a process for producing said polymer. The present invention is concerned with a method for effecting polymer-polymer coupling in the living radical polymerization of a radical-polymerizable olefin monomer which comprises adding a compound having at least two sparingly radical-polymerizable alkenyl groups during or after polymerization.

The invention concerns the coloration of hot melt polymer by direct injection of a dye into a stream of the polymer after or in a late stage of polymerisation e.g., before feed to a spinning machine. Separate pressure-balanced continuous flow metering pumps respectively feed melted undyed polymer and melted concentrated-colour-dyed polymer to a mixer and the pumps are controlled to run in a speed relationship adjustable for colour and colour constancy. A three stage gear pump is preferably used ...

A device for providing an electromechanical response includes two polymeric webs bonded to each other along their lengths. At least one polymeric web is activated upon application thereto of an electric field and exhibits electrostriction by rotation of polar graft moieties within the polymeric web. In one embodiment, one of the two polymeric webs in an active web upon application thereto of the electric field, and the other polymeric web is a non-active web upon application thereto of the elect...

A silicone compound, either alone or in combination with a photoacid generator, is added to a branched polysilane compound. According to this constitution, highly reliable polymer material and polymer film can be realized which have excellent stability of refractive index against heat and high transparency and, when the photoacid generator is contained, can cause a change in refractive index upon exposure to ultraviolet light with high sensitivity and high resolution.

An aromatic polymer comprises divalent aromatic units linked through oxygen, characterized in that some at least of those units are or contain aromatic rings free of electron-withdrawing groups and in that at least one of such rings carries at least one nitrogen radical linked to a nuclear carbon atom by a nitrogen-carbon bond. Preferably it consists to the extent of at least 75 mol percent by the repeating units: alone or in combination with where Ph is paraphenylene; Ph' is phenylene, at least...

A polymer composition comprising (1) a polyether polyol which is a product obtained by the free radical addition of a fluoro-olefin of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein Y represents F or fluoroalkyl and Z represents Cl or F(CF.sub.2)m-- wherein m is an integer from 0 to 10 or Y and Z together form a (CH.sub.2)p--chain wherein p represents an integer from 2 to 4, to a polytetramethylene gylcol having a molecular weight in the range 162 to 5000 and (2) at least one acrylic polymer. The composi...

There is provided a polymer alloy composition comprising: A. a silicone or organic polymer reactive with an unsaturated radical; B. a silicone or organic polymer that is not reactive with an unsaturated radical; and C. a compatibilizer having at least one functional group that is reactive with component (B) yet not reactive with component (A) and also having at least one unsaturated functional group.

Provided herein a polymer composition which comprises from 50 to 85 parts by weight of an ethylene-type ionomer resin (A), from 10 to 39 parts by weight of a partially crosslinked olefin-type thermoplastic elastomer (B) and from 1 to 15 parts by weight of an ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymer rubber (C). The proposed composition is excellent in scratch resistance, adhesion to metals, resistance to heat deformation, flexibility, antibleeding property of mineral oil softener contained and low surface...

Improved printing with polymers is achieved by interposing a liquid layer conforming to rough substrate surfaces and possibly exhibiting different characteristics from an outer surface polymer layer. This is particularly advantageous in printed wiring board (PWB) manufacture requiring solder mask coating. Thus, a two layer composite polymer coating is provided. One inner adhesive photopolymer layer is applied to the PWB in the liquid state, displacing air from PWB surface. The outer layer of the...

A polymer composition comprises a polymer blend comprising a polyester and a polycarbonate or another polymer blend comprising alpha-methylstyrene-modified ABS resin and at least one polymer selected from a polycarbonate, a saturated polyester, polyphenylene ether, a polyamide and a polyacetal and an organic phosphite compound having the formula (I): ##STR1## in which R is an alkyl having 1 to 9 carbon atoms.