The Dow Chemical Company

Steven R Oriani

Seema V Karande

Richard W Oertel

Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA)/ethylene-styrene interpolymer (ESI) blends are described that are useful in preparing foams which exhibit improved compression set resistance, dimensional stability and rebound resilience at similar foam densities than known foam systems, e.g. EVA. The cross-linked foams of this invention are particularly useful in fabricating footwear and gasket products.

Crosslinked foams from blends of ethylene vinyl acetate and

The present invention is a rigid thermoplastic polyurethane (RTPU) comprising units of butane diol (BDO) and a polyethylene glycol (PEG) of the type HO--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n --H, where n is an integer from 2 to 6. The RTPU of the present invention addresses a problem in the art by providing a potentially lower-cost alternative to an RTPU prepared from hexane diol, and further providing an RTPU that can be customized to a desired toughness, T.sub.g, yield strength, and transparency. The RTPUs that are prepared from certain mole ratios of BDO and the PEG exhibit a surprisingly high degree of toughness manifested by increased tensile elongation to break.

Rigid thermoplastic plyurethane comprising units of butane diol and a

The present invention is a rigid thermoplastic polyurethane having a T.sub.g of at least 50.degree. C. having a sufficient concentration of units derived from an aromatic diol to lower the temperature at which the rigid thermoplastic polyurethane can be melt processed. The present invention is also a thermoplastic polyurethane with a flex modulus of at least 100,000 psi, and having a sufficient concentration of units derived from an aromatic diol to lower the temperature at which the thermoplastic polyurethane can be melt processed. The compositions of the present invention show improved processability with insubstantial loss of physical properties.

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