Basf Se Corporation

Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Frank Schaefer

Dirk Kempfert

Frank Prissok

Karl Haeberle

Elmar Poeselt

Ruediger Krech

Guenter Scholz

Yasuyuki Suzuki

Maria Thomas

Christoph Bahr

Etsuhiro Yamamoto

Anja Oltmanns

Carsten Guenther

Oliver Steffen Henze

Ernst Minder

Bin Chen

Sirus Zarbakhsh

Ulrich Treuling

Zeljko Tomovic

Rajan Hollmann

Markus Bubolz

JianQiang Qu

Sebastian Richter

Maria Teresa Hechavarria Fonseca

Martin Vallo

Wei Zhuang

Torben Kaminsky

Henning Wettach

Harald Schulz

Markus Kraemer

Akira Nomura

Bin-Eric Chen

Fatemeh Ahmadnian

Heinrich Bollmann

Sven Lawrenz

Hilar Altenhofer

Karin Scheffer

Johannes Fischer

Michael Freese

Dai Watanabe

Kai Henke

Teruya Ohkuwa

Cornelia Hinrichs

Tien Kuan Lim

Gitta Egbers

Heinrich Niermann

Marcus Harald Bluemel

Michi Kondo

Torsten Neises

Tienkuan Lim

Lars Rehling

Patrick Drawe

Carsten Buschmann

Leander Verbelen

Viktor Fischer

Sinan Kurt

Andre Metzger

Jean Rochette

A thermoplastic polyurethane having a glass transition temperature of the soft phase of not more than −25° C. measured using DMA and a heating rate of 2K/min at 1 Hz under torsion based on DIN EN ISO 6721: 2016; maximum G″ can be obtained by a process at least including the reaction of a polyol composition including a polypropylene glycol, wherein the proportion of the secondary terminal OH groups based on the total number of terminal OH groups of the polypropylene glycol is in the range of more than 90%, with a polyisocyanate to obtain a polyol composition including a prepolymer and the reaction of the polyol composition including the prepolymer with a polyisocyanate composition including at least one polyisocyanate and at least one chain extender having a molecular weight <500 g/mol. The thermoplastic polyurethane may be used for producing injection molded products, extruded products, films, profiles and shaped articles.

Continuous production of a PPG-based TPU

A stretchable antistatic film can be formed in a production process using a specific thermoplastic polyurethane. The thermoplastic polyurethane is useful for the production of said film.

Antistatic stretch film

The present invention relates to thermoplastic polyurethanes obtainable or obtained by reacting at least a polyisocyanate composition comprising at least one polyisocyanate, at least one chain extender, and at least one polyol composition, wherein the polyol composition comprises at least one polyester polyol (P1) which is obtainable by reacting an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 2 to 12 carbon atoms and a mixture (M1) comprising propane-1,3-diol and a further diol (D1) having 2 to 12 carbon atoms, preferably butane-1,4-diol. The present invention also relates to a preparation process for such thermoplastic polyurethanes and also to the use of a thermoplastic polyurethane according to the invention or of a thermoplastic polyurethane obtainable or obtained by a process according to the invention for the production of extrusion products, films and shaped bodies or for the production of polymer compositions.

Thermoplastic polyurethane

The present invention relates to a thermoplastic polyurethane obtainable or obtained by converting a polyisocyanate composition, a one chain extender, and a polyol composition, wherein the polyol composition comprises a polyol (P1) which has a molecular weight Mw in the range from 500 to 2000 g/mol and has at least one aromatic polyester block (B1), wherein the hard segment content in the thermoplastic polyurethane is &#x3c;75%. The present invention further relates to a process for producing a shaped body comprising such a thermoplastic polyurethane, and to shaped bodies obtainable or obtained by a process of the invention.

Hard transparent thermoplastic polyurethane

The present invention relates to a process for producing a thermoplastic polyurethane, comprising the provision of a composition Z(W) comprising at least one carbodiimide selected from the group consisting of monomeric aliphatic carbodiimides, oligomeric aliphatic carbodiimides, polymeric aliphatic carbodiimides, monomeric aromatic carbodiimides, oligomeric aromatic carbodiimides and polymeric aromatic carbodiimides, and at least one ester selected from the group consisting of citric acid esters, acetyl citric acid esters, phthalic acid esters, benzoic acid esters, adipic acid esters, hydrogenated phthalic acid esters and phosphoric acid esters; and the subsequent addition of the composition Z(W) to a thermoplastic polyurethane or a reaction mixture for producing a thermoplastic polyurethane. Further, the present invention relates to a thermoplastic polyurethane obtainable or obtained by a process according to the invention and to the use of the composition Z(W) as plasticizer for thermoplastic polyurethanes. The present invention also relates to moldings comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane according to the invention.

Stabilized plasticizers for thermoplastic polyurethane

The invention relates to a composition comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane, where the thermoplastic polyurethane has been prepared from a) a diisocyanate, b) a polyol comprising a polyol A and a polyol B and c) a chain extender, optionally with the aid of catalysts and optionally further comprising additives and/or auxiliaries, and a salt and/or an ionic liquid, preferably an ionic liquid, is comprised in the composition and the polyol A comprises ethoxy and propoxy groups and the polyol B comprises butoxy groups.

Conductive thermoplastic polyurethane

This invention is directed to a thermoplastic polyurethanes composition comprising polyether-based thermoplastic polyurethane and 1,2-cyclohexane dicarboxylic acid ester and preparation processes thereof. The thermoplastic polyurethane composition has a good mold release behavior in injection molding without undesirably significant shrinkage and surface blooming of final product.

Thermoplastic polyurethanes composition and preparation processes thereof

A process for purifying a polycarbodiimide comprising (a) providing a mixture comprising a polycarbodiimide and a carbodiimidization catalyst; (b) separating carbodiimidization catalyst from the polycarbodiimide by subjecting the mixture according to (a) to a first distillation, (c) adding an entrainer to the first bottom product obtained from (b) to obtain a mixture; (d) further separating carbodiimidization catalyst from the polycarbodiimide by subjecting the mixture obtained from (c) to a second distillation.

Process for the purification of a polycarbodiimide

A process for producing a polycarbodiimide, comprising polymerizing a diisocyanate in the presence of a carbodiimidization catalyst in a reaction vessel in liquid phase at a temperature in the range of from 20 to 250&#xb0; C., at a pressure in the range of from 20 to 800 mbar and in the presence of at least one inert gas, wherein the at least one inert gas is introduced into the liquid phase in the reaction vessel with a flow rate in the range of from 0.1 x/h to 100 x/h, x being the volume of the reaction vessel.

Process for producing polycarbodiimide

The invention refers to a thermoplastic polyurethane produced from at least an organic diisocyanate and a compound which is reactive toward isocyanates, wherein the polyurethane comprises the ester of a tricarboxylic acid with at least one alcohol and wherein all acid groups of the tricarboxylic acid are esterified with an alcohol. The invention further refers to a process for producing the respective polyurethane, products comprising this thermoplastic polyurethane and the use of the ester of a tricarboxylic acid as plasticizer in thermoplastic polyurethanes.

Soft thermoplastic polyurethane based on the ester of a tricarboxylic acid

The present invention relates to antistatic, thermoplastic polyurethane comprising ethylmethylimidazole ethyl sulfate, to a process for production of antistatic, thermoplastic polyurethane comprising ethylmethylimidazole ethyl sulfate, and to the use of ethylmethylimidazole ethyl sulfate for the production of antistatic, thermoplastic polyurethane.

Thermoplastic polyurethane with antistatic properties

A process for the preparation of thermoplastic polyurethane by reacting (a) isocyanates with (b) compounds reactive toward isocyanates and having a molecular weight (M) of from 500 to 10 000 g/mol and (c) chain extenders having a molecular weight of from 50 to 499 g/mol, if appropriate in the presence of (d) catalysts and/or (e) conventional additives, wherein the chain extender mixture consisting of a main chain extender (c1) and one or more co-chain extenders (c2) is used and the thermoplastic polyurethane prepared has a rigid phase fraction of greater than 0.40, the rigid phase fraction being defined by the following formula: 

Thermoplastic polyurethanes

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