Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Gary Robert Marchand

Kim Louis Walton

Raymond Lynn Laakso, Jr

Edmund M Carnahan

Colin Li Pi Shan

Jeffrey D Weinhold

Yushan Hu

Phillip Dene Hustad

Roger L Kuhlman

Yi Jin

Benjamin C Poon

Eddy I Garcia-Meitin

Colin LiPiShan

Yunwa Wilson Cheung

Pankaj Gupta

Patricia L Roberts

Mohamed Esseghir

Selim Yalvac

Jeffrey C Munro

Jeffrey Morris Cogen

Bharat Indu Chaudhary

Michael K Laughner

Deepak R Parikh

Walter Werner Schmiegel

Wenbin Liang

Steven Richard Oriani

Allan Walter Mclennaghan

Thomas W Karjala

Peter Anthony Fox

Carlos Gilberto Ortiz

Rajen M Patel

Brian W Walther

Mridula Babli Kapur

Pradeep Jain

H Craig Silvis

Yabin Sun

Sean W Ewart

Shaofu Wu

Kaoru Aou

Shrikant Dhodapkar

Cynthia L Rickey

Gangwei Sun

Carl N Iverson

Didem Oner-Deliormanli

Brian A Jazdzewski

Michael D Read

Alec Y Wang

Rogelio Gamboa

Xuming Chen

Kyle D Anderson

Angela N Taha

Anthony J Castelluccio

Brandon Fails

Lindsey A Clark

Larry S Green

Chris E Blaschke

Burcak Conley

Jeffrey J Dean

Jerzy Klosin

Shaoguang Feng

Philip P Fontaine

Morgan Mark Hughes

Chester J Kmiec

Rongjuan Cong

Xiaosong Wu

Ashish Batra

Lori L Kardos

Endre Szuromi

Suh Joon Han

Jozef Van Dun

Ronald J Weeks

Xiangyang Tai

Paul J Brigandi

Mark Thomas Berard

Kate R Brown

Jeffrey A Sims

Sandra Watson

Shuwen Peng

Suzanne M Guerra

Eva-Maria Kupsch

Russell P Barry

Xiaobing Yun

Arnis U Paeglis

Brian R Maurer

Sylvie Vervoort

Sharon Baker

Jerker B L Kjellqvist

Xiang Yang Tai

Sharon L Baker

Dean Lee

Robert F Wendel

Michael A De Graaf

Christopher I Gandy

A Willem Degroot

Arnaldo Lorenzo

Justin M Virgill

Larry Shayne Green

Jerker Bl Kjellqvist

Marlies Totte-Van T Westeinde

Lindsey Anne Miller

Semi-crystalline, thermoplastic polyolefin block copolymers comprising: (A) A first polyolefin A block comprising isotactic poly(1-butene) (iPB); (B) A polyolefin B block comprising an ethylene and/or alpha-olefin/1-butene copolymer or terpolymer; and (C) A second polyolefin A block comprising isotactic poly(1-butene) (iPB); the A and B blocks bonded to one another to form a block copolymer in which the first and second polyolefin A blocks are joined to and separated by the polyolefin B block. In one embodiment the polyolefin block copolymer is a BAB block copolymer.

Semi-crystalline thermoplastic block copolymers

A composition comprising from 10 wt % to 86 wt % of an ethylene component including at least one ethylene based polymer having an ethylene content of at least 50.0 wt %, a melt index from 0.1 g/10 min to 100.0 g/10 min, and a density from 0.935 g/cmto 0.965 g/cm; from 10 wt % to 86 wt % of a propylene component including at least one propylene based polymer having a propylene content of at least 50.0 wt % and a melt flow rate from 0.5 g/10 min to 200.0 g/10 min; from 2 wt % to 22 wt % of an octene component including at least one octene based polymer having an octene content of at least 80 wt %; and from 2 wt % to 20 wt % of a composite component including at least one selected from the group of a crystalline block composite and a specified block composite, derived from at least ethylene and an alpha-olefin.

Polyolefin blends including polyoctene with compatibilizer

Thermally conductive materials comprising an olefin block composite and a thermally conductive filler, where the thermally conductive filler is present in an amount sufficient to increase the thermal conductivity of the olefin block composite relative to the olefin block composite in its neat state. Such thermally conductive materials can be used in various articles of manufacture, such as a thermal interface material or a molded heat dissipation component.

Olefin block composite thermally conductive materials

A composition comprising from 10 wt % to 90 wt % of an ethylene component including at least one ethylene based polymer having an ethylene content of at least 50.0 wt %, a melt index from 0.1 g/10 min to 100.0 g/10 min, and a density from 0.935 g/cmto 0.965 g/cm; from 10 wt % to 90 wt % of a propylene component including at least one propylene based polymer having a propylene content of at least 50.0 wt % and a melt flow rate from 0.5 g/10 min to 200.0 g/10 min; and from 1 wt % to 20 wt % of a composite component including a specified block composite, derived from at least ethylene and an alpha-olefin.

Polyolefin blends including compatibilizer

The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment an adhesive composition is provided and includes

Hot melt adhesive composition

Disclosed herein is a multilayer film comprising two outer layers; where each outer layer comprises polyethylene; two tie layers; where each tie layer comprises a crystalline block composite; where each tie layer has a first face and a second face that are opposed to each other, and where the first face of each tie layer contacts at least one outer layer; and a core layer; where the core layer comprises a polypropylene; where the second face of each tie layer contacts the core layer. Disclosed herein is a method that includes coextruding the aforementioned multilayered film.

Multilayered polyolefin films, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same

The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment a composition is provided and includes: (A) a carboxylic-functionalized ethylene/a-olefin interpolymer having (i) a density from 0.855 g/cc to 0.895 g/cc; and (ii) a melt viscosity, at 177&#xb0; C., less than, or equal to, 50,000 mPa&#xb7;s; and (B) a propylene-based interpolymer having (i) a density from 0.870 g/cc to 0.890 g/cc; and (ii) a melt viscosity, at 177&#xb0; C., less than, or equal to, 50,000 mPa&#xb7;s.

Adhesive composition

The invention provides functionalized block composites and crystalline block composites. In particular, the invention provides a functionalized olefin-based polymer formed from at least (A) and (B): (A) a crystalline block composite comprising: a block copolymer comprising a propylene-based crystalline block and crystalline ethylene-based block; a propylene-based crystalline polymer; and, a crystalline ethylene-based polymer; and (B) at least one functionalization agent or a functionalized olefin-based polymer formed from at least (A) and (B): (A) a crystalline block composite comprising: a block copolymer comprising a propylene-based crystalline block and crystalline ethylene-based block; a propylene-based crystalline polymer; and, a crystalline ethylene-based polymer; and (B) at least one functionalization agent.

Functionalized block composite and crystalline block composite compositions

A thermoplastic vulcanizate composition includes (A) greater than 15 wt % of a block composite that has (i) an ethylene/alpha-olefin/diene interpolymer in which the alpha-olefin is an alpha olefin monomer having from 3 to 10 carbon atoms and the diene is a diene monomer having from 2 to 25 carbon atoms, (ii) a propylene based polymer, and (iii) a block copolymer comprising a soft block and a hard block in which the soft block has the same composition as the ethylene/alpha-olefin/diene polymer and the hard block has the same composition as the propylene based polymer; and (B) a remainder of a curative system and optionally at least one of a vulcanizable elastomer, a thermoplastic polyolefin, and an oil.

Thermoplastic vulcanizate including a block composite

A hot melt adhesive composition includes (A) 10-95 wt % of a random or homogeneous propylene-based interpolymer having: (i) a comonomer content of at least one of C2 and C4-10 a-olefin of 7 wt % to 49 wt % based on the total weight of the propylene-based interpolymer, (ii) an MWD of 4 or less, (iii) a density of 0.90 g/cc or less, and (iv) a Brookfield viscosity of less than 50,000 centipoise, (B) 1-60 wt % of a crystalline block composite comprising: (1) a crystalline ethylene based polymer; (2) a crystalline alpha-olefin based polymer derived from at least one of a C3-10 a-olefin; and (3) a block copolymer comprising 10-90 wt % of a crystalline ethylene block comprising greater than 90 mol % units derived from ethylene and comprising 10-90 wt % of a crystalline alpha-olefin block comprising greater than 90 mol % units derived from at least one of a C3-10 a-olefin, (C) Optionally, from greater than zero to 70 wt % tackifier, and (D) Optionally, from greater than zero to 40 wt % of at least one selected from the group of a wax and an oil.

Hot melt adhesive composition including a crystalline block composite

Embodiments of the invention provide a reinforced polypropylene comprising a multi-modal molecular weight distribution elastomer and a block composite.

Reinforced polypropylene composition

A hot melt adhesive (HMA) composition includes (A) from 1-60 wt % of a block composite compatibilizer comprising (i) a hard polymer that includes propylene, (ii) a soft polymer that includes ethylene, and (iii) a block copolymer having a soft block and a hard block, the hard block of the block copolymer having the same composition as the hard polymer of the block composite compatibilizer and the soft block of the block copolymer having the same composition as the soft polymer of the block composite compatibilizer; (B) from 1-70 wt % of a tackifier; (C) from 1-40 wt % of at least one selected from the group of a wax and an oil; and (D) Optionally, from greater than zero to 97 wt % of a polymer component that includes an ethylene-based polymer and/or a propylene-based polymer.

Hot melt adhesive composition including a block composite compatibilizer

A power cable comprising: (A) a conductor, (B) an insulation layer, and (C) a semiconductor layer comprising in weight percent based on the weight of the semiconductor layer: (1) 49-98% of a crosslinked olefin block copolymer (OBC) having a density less than (&#x3c;) 0.9 grams per cubic centimeter (g/cm), a melt index greater than (&#x3e;) 1, and comprising in weight percent based on the weight of the OBC: (a) 35-80% soft segment that comprises 5-50 mole percent (mol %) of units derived from a monomer comprising 3 to 30 carbon atoms; and (b) 20-65% hard segment that comprises 0.2-3.5 mol % of units derived from a monomer comprising 3 to 30 carbon atoms; (2) 2-51% conductive filler, the insulation layer and semiconductor layer in contact with one another, is degassed by a process comprising the step of exposing the cable to a temperature of at least 80&#xb0; C. for a period of time of at least 24 hours.

Process for degassing crosslinked power cables

The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment an adhesive composition is provided and includes A) a propylene based plastomer or elastomer (PBPE) comprising up to 10 wt % units derived from ethylene and having (i) a Koenig B-value less than 1.0; (ii) a total unsaturation per mole of propylene from 0.01% to 0.03%; (iii) a density from 0.870 g/cc to 0.890 g/cc; (iv) a melt viscosity at 177&#xb0; C. from 800 mPa&#xb7;s to 11,000 mPa&#xb7;s; and (v) a weight average molecular weight from 20,000 to 50,000 g/mol; B) a tackifier; and C) a wax.

Improved reaction processes comprise reacting a mixture to form a product comprising a metal alkyl, metal oxide, or mixture thereof and then passing said product to a post-reactor heat exchanger. The improvement comprises one or more of the following:

Processes to control fouling and improve compositions

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