General Electric Company

Other

Barbara E McGrath

Gary Charles Davis

Kevin M Snow

Qiang Zhou

James A Matrunich

Conor J Twomey

Alexander Lobovsky

Compositions and methods are directed to a sheath core fiber with a core and a sheath that comprises a fluoropolymer. Contemplated sheath materials include PVDF, ECTFE, and ETFE, and may have an apparent shear viscosity equal to or less than the apparent shear viscosity of the core material. Especially contemplated sheaths have a weight of 30% or less of the weight of the fiber. Preferred fibers are spun in a spin pack having a sheath material conduit with a ratio of open volume to sheath material mass flow of less than 0.75 for a fiber with a 30 wt % sheath, of less than 1.15 for a fiber with a 20 wt % sheath, and of less than 2.30 for a fiber with a 10 wt % sheath

High-strength chemically resistant thin sheath fibers and methods of manufacture

Flame retardant graft organopolysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymers are provided which can be made by effecting addition between a silicon-hydride siloxane and an aliphatically unsaturated substituted bisphenol followed by phosgenation of the resulting adduct. Alternatively, direct addition of the silicon-hydride siloxane onto an aliphatically unsaturated substituted polycarbonate backbone also can be effected.

Flame retardant organopolysiloxane-polycarbonate graft copolymers

Phenol-organopolysiloxane chainstoppers are phosgenated in combination with a bisphenol to make flame retardant organopolysiloxane-polycarbonate triblock copolymers. The phenol-organopolysiloxane chainstoppers can be made by effecting addition between an aliphatically unsaturated phenol and a silicon-hydride organopolysiloxane.

Flame retardant organopolysiloxane-polycarbonate triblock copolymers

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Barbara E McGrath