Amoco Corporation

Standard Oil Company (Indiana)

Bp Corporation North America Inc.

The University of Texas System

Aristech Chemical Corporation

Cook Composites & Polymers Co.

David P Sinclair

Wassily W Poppe

Gary T Brooks

Yu-Tsai Chen

Edward E Paschke

Paul J Cahill

Raymond T Behrends, Jr

James M Tibbitt

George E Rotter

Donald E Rubis

Douglas E Fjare

Wen-Feng Liu

Joel Albert Richardson

M Jamal El-Hibri

David A Wargowski

Paul A Sanchez

Larry W Autry

Harold R Edwards, Jr

Kathy J Thrash

Terre L VanKirk

John T Hoback

Monolayer packages comprised of an oxygen scavenging composition suitable for direct contact with package contents and recycle with other polyester bottles are disclosed. The oxygen scavenging composition is comprised of a modified copolymer which is comprised of predominantly polyester segments and an oxygen scavenging amount of oxygen scavenging segments. The polyester segments comprise segments derived from typical bottling and packaging polyesters such as PET and PEN. Use of these oxygen scavenging copolymers in bottles provides a clear and rigid monolayer bottle similar in appearance to unmodified polyester bottles. In a series of preferred embodiments, bottles fabricated with the oxygen scavenging copolymers of this invention are over 99 wt % PET and contain less than 50 ppb of extractable components.

Oxygen scavenging monolayer bottles

Compositions for forming polymeric layers useful in the manufacture printed wiring boards and other electrical interconnecting devices are disclosed. The compositions typically are processable in aqueous base and can be made photosensitive with the addition of a positive acting photosensitive compound. The compositions are particularly useful in the manufacture of laminable films used to make printed wiring boards. Multilayer printed wiring boards made using such films, and methods for making and using the films and boards, also are disclosed.

Photoimageable compositions and films for printed wiring board manufacture

A method for improving the processability of a crystalline polyphthalamide having high heat deflection temperature when filled with glass fibers by compounding with an amount of a polyarylene sulfide sufficient to reduce melt viscosity.

Method for improving the processabilty of polyphthalamides

Polymer blends comprise a crystalline polyphthalamide component having high heat deflection temperature when filled with glass fibers and a polyarylene sulfide component.

Polyamide-polyarlene sulfide blends

The invention relates to polyester-polyurethane hybrid resins containing halogenated aromatic polycarboxylate moieties to obtain flame retardance without significantly affect the preparation, processing and physical properties of the hybrid resins.

Flame retardant polyester-polyurethane hybrid resin compositions

Water blown, thermosetting unsaturated polyester-polyurethane hybrid foam compositions are formed by the reaction of an A side composition and a B side composition. The A side composition comprises a polyfunctional isocyanate compound and a free radical initiator. The B side composition comprises a mixture of: (i) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer solution having dissolved therein about 30-90 weight percent of a polyester polyol having at least one ethylenically unsaturated group per molecule which has predominantly hydroxyl end groups; (ii) an amine compound having two or more primary or secondary amine groups in an amount effective to react with the A side composition to form small urea domains finely dispersed within a continuous polyester-polyurethane hybrid phase; and (iii) about 25 to about 150 equivalents water based on 100 equivalents of active hydrogen in the B side. When the A and B side compositions are reacted, the composition will have a ratio of active NCO groups of the isocyanate to active NH groups of the amine compound of between about 10:1 and about 50:1. and an isocyanate index, NCO:(NH+OH+COOH+HOH), of between about 0.5 and about 2.0.

Unsaturated polyester-polyurethane hybrid resin foam compositions

Amorphous polyamide compositions are provided which are transparent and have improved glass transition and thermal decomposition temperatures. The polyamide compositions of the present invention can be prepared as the polymeric condensation product of a diamine component comprising neopentyldiamine, and a diacid component comprising an aromatic dicarboxylic acid.

Amorphous polyamide composition from neopentyl diamine

Improved polyphthalamide compositions, particularly for injection molding applications, comprise a polyphthalamide component with at least two recurring units selected from terephthalamide, isophthalamide and adipamide units and having high heat deflection temperature when filled with glass fibers; reinforcing fibers; and effective amounts of particulate talc. Molded articles prepared from such compositions exhibit excellent mechanical and thermal properties, including high heat deflection temperature, even when molded using molds heated below Tg of the polyphthalamide component, often facilitating molding using steam or hot water-heated molds.

Fiber-filled polyphthalamide composition

Amorphous polyamide from neopentyl diamine

Novel crystalline polyamides having high heat deflection temperatures when filled are prepared from aliphatic diamines and either mixtures of terephthalic acid and adipic acid or mixtures of terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid and adipic acid. The mole ratio of aliphatic diamine to terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid, and adipic acid is in the range of about 100:65-95:25-0:35-5. The polyamides can be filled with about 10 to about 60 parts by weight of a filler. The mechanical properties of these polyamides are largely unaffected by absorbed water.

Crystalline polyamide composition from dicarboxylic acid mixture and

High molecular weight linear aromatic amorphous copolymers comprising copolymers of p- , m-hydroxymethylbenzoic acid and mixtures thereof and a polyamide are prepared in ratios of 1:20 to 20:1. The resulting polymers have an inherent viscosity of at least 0.4 dl/g in a 60/40 phenol/tetrachloroethane solvent at 30.degree. C., good molding properties and improved hydrophylic properties as compared with nylon-6.

Copolymers of hydroxymethylbenzoic acid and lactam

Polymerization process for the solution or bulk polymerization of chlorocyclophosphazenes using sulfamic acid compounds or derivatives of sulfamic acid as catalyst. Poly(aryloxyphosphazene) resulting therefrom can be controlled as to molecular weight, and molecular weight distribution.

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Winfield, IL, United States of America

David P Sinclair