Rohm Gmbh

Ernst Heil

Peter J Arndt

Werner Siol

Franz Wenzel

Walter Schellhaas

Ulrich Terbrack

Uwe Numrich

Norbert Suetterlin

Thomas Rhein

Wilhelm Wopker

Willi Tilch

Barbara Geppart

A clear impact resistant molding compound which does not become cloudy under either the influence of heat or moisture or on weathering and is composed according to the invention of:

Acrylic molding compositions

A method for making a thermoplastically processable polymer by emulsion polymerizing at least 80 percent by weight of methyl methacrylate monomer with up to 20 percent by weight of at least one other monomer in an aqueous phase at a temperature from 0.degree. C. to 100.degree. C. in the presence of a polymerization initiator and a chain transfer agent in a molar ratio from 1:2 to 1:100,000, said chain transfer agent being from 0.01 to 5 percent by weight of said monomers, and then separating said polymer and said aqueous phase.

Polymethyl methacrylate molding compounds

What are disclosed are a continuous emulsion polymerization method for making an aqueous dispersion of an impact resistant resin, adaptable to use as a component of impact resistant polymethacrylate forming masses, by first emulsion polymerizing a first monomer component onto core particles of a seed latex until a degree of polymerization of said monomers from 80 to 95 percent is attained, whereby an intermediate product comprising said core particles covered with a rubbery polymer phase is obtained, and then emulsion polymerizing a second monomer component onto the particles of said intermediate product to form a shell of harder polymer on the particles of said intermediate product, and impact resistant resin products made by this method.

Impact resistant resins and method for making the same

An emulsion polymer comprising a hard nonelastomeric core, an elastomeric intermediate stage produced in the presence of the core and essentially composed of an acrylic ester and a crosslinking monomer which contains three or more acrylic or methacrylic groups in the molecule, and a hard nonelastomeric final stage produced in the presence of the elastomeric intermediate stage and crosslinked therewith, said polymer being useful as an impact strength modifying agent which, in admixture with a thermoplastic polymethyl methacrylate molding compound for example, yields molded articles exhibiting reduced susceptibility to stress whitening and improved impact strength.

Emulsion polymers for modifying impact strength

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Ernst Heil