Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Rohm & Haas Electronic Materials LLC

The Dow Chemical Company

Rohm and Haas Company

Jeffrey D Weinhold

Phillip Dene Hustad

Edmund M Carnahan

Kim Louis Walton

Gary Robert Marchand

Peter Trefonas, Iii

David T Gillespie

Eddy I Garcia-Meitin

James C Stevens

Yunwa Wilson Cheung

Roger L Kuhlman

Colin Li Pi Shan

Daniel D VanderLende

Benjamin C Poon

Valeriy V Ginzburg

Sylvie Y Desjardins

Mingqi Li

Thomas Oswald

Bharat Indu Chaudhary

Yi Jin

Colin LiPiShan

Mehmet Demirors

Jerzy Klosin

Rajen M Patel

William J Harris

Pankaj Gupta

Patricia L Roberts

Alexander W DeGroot

Shih-Wei Chang

Rahul Sharma

Jieqian Zhang

Xinyu Gu

Xuming Chen

Daniel D Vanderlende

Mridula Babli Kapur

Philip P Fontaine

Yijian Lin

Andy Cheng Chang

Ashish Batra

Jill M Martin

James L Cooper

Sanjib Biswas

Ronald J Weeks

Didem Oner-Deliormanli

C Damien Rodowski

Alexander Willem deGroot

Thomas W Karjala

Fabricio Arteaga Larios

Jozef J I Van Dun

Sylvie Vervoort

Pavan K Valavala

Megan E Donaldson

Akanksha Garg

Yinglong Chen

Yang Yang

Thomas I Butler

Joseph C Neuman

Jong-Young Lee

Charles J Rand

Xiaoyong Li

A Willem Degroot

Eddy Garcia-Meitin

Thomas T Oswald

Pavan Kumar Valavala

Ryan J Depuit

Disclosed is a curly fiber having a fiber centroid and comprising a first region having a first centroid and a second region wherein the first region comprises an ethylene/alpha olefin interpolymer composition in an amount of at least 75 weight percent based on total weight of the first region and wherein the ethylene/alpha olefin interpolymer composition is characterized by a low temperature peak and a high temperature peak on an elution profile via improved comonomer composition distribution (ICCD) procedure, and a full width at half maximum of the high temperature peak is less than 6.0° C. and the second region is a material comprising a polymer which is different from the ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer of the first region and wherein the regions are arranged such that at least one of the first centroid and the second centroid is not the same as the fiber centroid.

Crimped multi-component fibers

The present disclosure provides a multilayer film. The multilayer film includes at least two layers including a sealant layer and a second layer in contact with the sealant layer. The sealant layer contains (A) a first ethylene-based polymer having a density from 0.900 g/cc to 0.925 g/cc and a melt index from 0.5 g/10 min to 30 g/10 min; and (B) a polyethylene-polydimethylsiloxane block copolymer having a weight average molecular weight from 1,000 g/mol to 10,000 g/mol. The second layer contains a second ethylene-based polymer.

Multilayer films and laminates containing slip agents

The present disclosure provides a composition containing a polymeric blend. The polymeric blend contains (A) from 50 wt % to 90 wt % of a first ethylene-based polymer having a density from 0.895 g/cc to 0.905 g/cc; and a melt index from 0.1 g/10 min to 50 g/10 min; (B) from 8 wt % to 48 wt % of a second ethylene-based polymer having a density from 0.935 g/cc to 0.967 g/cc; and a melt index from 0.1 g/10 min to 180 g/10 min; and from 0.01 wt % to 2.0 wt % of a slip agent, based on the total weight of the polymeric blend. The polymeric blend has (i) an overall density from 0.900 g/cc to 0.925 g/cc; and (ii) a coefficient of friction (COF) after aging for 1 week at 60&#xb0; C. from 0.001 to 0.400. The present disclosure also provides a multilayer film with a first layer containing the composition.

Low coefficient of friction ethylene-based compositions

Disclosed herein is an article comprising a substrate; upon which is disposed a composition comprising: a first block copolymer that comprises a first block and a second block; where the first block has a higher surface energy than the second block; a second block copolymer that comprises a first block and a second block; where the first block of the first block copolymer is chemically the same as or similar to the first block of the second block copolymer and the second block of the first block copolymer is chemically the same as or similar to the second block of the second block copolymer; where the first and the second block copolymer have a chi parameter greater than 0.04 at a temperature of 200&#xb0; C.

Methods for manufacturing block copolymers and articles manufactured therefrom

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

Reinforced polypropylene composition

Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a first block copolymer that comprises a first block and a second block; where the first block has a higher surface energy than the second block; a second block copolymer that comprises a first block and a second block; where the first block of the first block copolymer is chemically the same as or similar to the first block of the second block copolymer and the second block of the first block copolymer is chemically the same as or similar to the second block of the second block copolymer; where the weight percent based on total solids of the first block of the second block copolymer is greater than that of the first block of the first block copolymer; where the first block copolymer phase separates into a first morphology of cylindrical or lamellar domains when disposed singly on a substrate.

Methods for manufacturing block copolymer compositions and articles manufactured therefrom

The present disclosure provides a composition comprising: The polyolefin elastomer has an I/Ifrom greater than 7.5 to 15.0. The composition may optionally include a filler.

A copolymer composition and a method of processing a substrate to form line space features thereon are provided.

Composition and method for preparing pattern on a substrate

A method for processing a substrate is provided; wherein the method comprises applying a film of a copolymer composition, comprising a poly(styrene)-b-poly(dimethylsiloxane) block copolymer component to a surface of the substrate; optionally, baking the film; subjecting the film to a high temperature annealing process under particularized atmospheric conditions for a specified period of time; followed by a treatment of the annealed film to remove the poly(styrene) from the annealed film and to convert the poly(dimethylsiloxane) in the annealed film to SiO.

Thermal annealing process

Embodiments of the invention provide crystalline block composites and their use as compatibilizers.

Crystalline block composites as compatibilizers

A method for processing a substrate is provided; wherein the method comprises applying a film of a copolymer composition, comprising a poly(styrene)-b-poly(siloxane) block copolymer component; and, an antioxidant to a surface of the substrate; optionally, baking the film; subjecting the film to a high temperature annealing process under a gaseous atmosphere for a specified period of time; followed by a treatment of the annealed film to remove the poly(styrene) from the annealed film and to convert the poly(siloxane) in the annealed film to SiO.

High temperature thermal annealing process

A method for processing a substrate is provided; wherein the method comprises applying a film of a copolymer composition, comprising a poly(styrene)-b-poly(siloxane) block copolymer component; and, an antioxidant to a surface of the substrate; optionally, baking the film; annealing the film in a gaseous atmosphere containing &#x2267;20 wt % oxygen; followed by a treatment of the annealed film to remove the poly(styrene) from the annealed film and to convert the poly(siloxane) in the annealed film to SiO.

Embodiments of the invention provide block composites and their use in soft compounds.

Block composites in soft compounds

A diblock copolymer blend containing a unique combination of an ordered poly(styrene)-b-poly(methyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer and a disordered poly(styrene)-b-poly(methyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer is provided. Also provided are substrates treated with the diblock copolymer blend.

Diblock copolymer blend composition

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