Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company

Oy Smoptech Ab

Mats Sundell

Kenneth Ekman

Robert Peltonen

Barry A Murrer

Barry Anthony Murrer

A fibrous catalyst comprises at least one transition metal anchored to a polymer fiber having a plurality of grafted units grafted to a polymer backbone. The polymer backbone may be a polyolefin, a fluorinated polyethylene, cellulose or viscose. The grafted units comprise a salt of a carboxylic acid, which in a preferred embodiment is a sodium salt of acrylic acid. The catalysts are particularly suitable for scavenging oxygen from sealed packages or containers and may further comprise a chemical indicator for the presence or absence of oxygen.

Oxygen scavenging

A process for the production of a graft copolymer comprises reacting an irradiated polymer in a reaction mixture comprising a first phase and a second phase. The first phase comprises a source of at least one non-water soluble monomer and the second phase comprises water and optionally, a water miscible organic solvent. The first and second phases are substantially immiscible and non-emusifiel. A high degree on monomer conversion is achieved.

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