3m Innovative Properties Company

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Lang N Nguyen

Albert I Everaerts

Jianhui Xia

Charles M Leir

Ying-Yuh Lu

Karl E Benson

G Marco Bommarito

Peter A Stark

Rahul R Shah

Brinda Balasubramaniam Lakshmi

George G I Moore

Junkang Jacob Liu

Roy Wong

Panu K Zoller

Karl B Richter

John P Baetzold

Cary A Kipke

Gaddam N Babu

George F Vesley

Joseph M McGrath

Jingjing Ma

Michael P Daniels

M Benton Free

Patrick G Zimmerman

Francois C D'Haese

JingJing Ma

Thomas A Kotnour

Ashish Kumar Khandpur

Deana A Klein

Peggy-Jean P Flanigan

Ingrid E Blair

George G I Moora

William C Boyd

Laura J Maursetter

George GI Moore

Francois C D'HAESE

Marco G Bommarito

Benton M Free

Siliconized fibrous webs are described. The siliconized webs include a fibrous web saturated with an electron beam cured silicone composition. Siliconized webs with electron beam cured silicone coating are also described. Methods of preparing both the coated and uncoated siliconized fibrous webs are also described.

Electron beam cured siliconized fibrous webs

Articles are provided that include an optical film and an optically clear pressure sensitive adhesive layer on at least one outer surface of the optical film. Additionally, articles are provided that include a pressure sensitive adhesive layer that resists bubble formation when adhered to an outgassing substrate. The pressure sensitive adhesive layer in the various articles contain a (meth)acrylate block copolymer.

(Meth)acrylate block copolymer pressure sensitive adhesives

Acoustic sensors, preferably surface acoustic wave sensors, and more preferably shear horizontal surface acoustic wave sensors that include soluble mixed with oligomers and/or polymers formed from such monomers), or multifunctional compounds, for example, that can function as either waveguide materials, immobilization materials for secondary capture agents (e.g., antibodies), or both.

Acoustic sensors and methods

Soluble polymers and methods for the preparation thereof, wherein the polymers of the present invention have pendant acylsulfonamide amine-reactive groups that can be used for the capture of amine containing materials.

Soluble polymers as amine capture agents and methods

Heat-activatable adhesives comprise a semi-crystalline polymer. The semi-crystalline polymer comprises alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer units having an alkyl group that contains at least about 20 carbon atoms, alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer units having an alkyl group that contains from about 4 to about 12 carbon atoms, and optionally ethylenically-unsaturated non-acidic polar monomer units. Methods for making heat-activatable adhesives and articles therefrom are also included.

Heat-activatable adhesive

Described are melt-processable block copolymers and compositions, embodiments of which may be useful in applications such as pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) or heat-activatable adhesive, comprising polymeric end block and polymeric B block, wherein end block comprises copolymer and the B block comprises homopolymer or copolymer.

Block copolymer melt-processable compositions, methods of their preparation, and articles therefrom

Adhesive articles and methods of applying and activating adhesive articles to bond to substrates using a fluid application aid. Preferably, the substrates are traffic devices such as traffic cones and the adhesive articles are retroreflective cone collars or sleeves.

Fluid-activatable adhesive articles and methods

Methods of imagewise printing of adhesives that includes providing a latent adhesive image and then activating the latent adhesive image to form an adhesive image. Methods of preparing latent adhesive toners that involve limited coalescence.

Imagewise printing of adhesives and limited coalescence polymerization method

Radiation-curable, tackifier-free compositions are provided which contain: (i) a blend of certain acrylate esters and monoethylenically-unsaturated copolymerizable monomers; (ii) certain .alpha.-olefin polymers; and (iii) a photoinitiator and optionally, a crosslinker. Pressure-sensitive adhesives having good adhesion to both low and high energy surfaces as well as possessing excellent low and high temperature performance properties are prepared by exposing the radiation-curable compositions to light having a wavelength in the range of from about 280 to 400 nm.

Pressure-sensitive adhesive

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Lang N Nguyen