Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Ddp Specialty Electronic Materials Us, LLC

Dow Silicones Corporation

University of Minnesota

Wenyi Huang

Mohamed Esseghir

Bruno Rufato Pereira

Chester J Kmiec

Marcos Pini Franca

Thomas J Parsons

Ravi B Shankar

Nicolas Cardoso Mazzola

Yijian Lin

Selim Bensason

Shari Kram

Mark Alan Rickard

Joseph Dooley

Jeffrey Morris Cogen

Yabin Sun

Debkumar Bhattacharjee

Yiyong He

Jill M Martin

Laura J Dietsche

Mark Alan Barger

Stéphane Costeux

Susan L Jordan

Ioannis V Bletsos

Gary D Parsons

Hong Yang

Harpreet Singh

Yunfeng Yang

Mark David Fisher

Todd A Hogan

Patrick Chang Dong Lee

Jeffrey D Wenzel

Thomas Peterson

Christopher Ward Macosko

Yonghua Gong

Weiming Ma

Mark William Beach

Narayan Ramesh

Joseph L Deavenport

Gerald F Billovits

Kurt A Koppi

Hongming Ma

Qian Gou

Saswati Pujari

Scott R Kaleyta

Michal Elizabeth Porter

Adriana I Moncada

Robert E Wrisley

Hyunwoo Kim

Christopher John Ellison

Kumar N Sanketh

Ernest J Herst

Jie Feng

Michael H Wang

Christopher M Thurber

Jaime L Curtis-Fisk

William Ripmeester

Zhongbi Chen

Jacquelyn A Deg Root

Edoardo Nicoli

Nicholas J Horstman

Kunwei Liu

Alex Michael Jordan

Chang Dong Lee

Thomas H Peterson

Ernest Herst

Mark Beach

Bruno R Pereira

A masterbatch composition suitable for use as a flame retardant in extruded polymer foams, and process for manufacturing the same, and extruded foams containing same; the composition comprising: (a) 20 to 40 parts by weight base resin comprising styrene homopolymer or copolymer; (b) 1 to 16 parts by weight acid scavenger comprising an epoxy-based compound; (c) 2 to 6 parts by weight antioxidant comprising an alkyl or aryl phosphite; and (d) 45 to 60 parts by weight flame retardant comprising a non-hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) brominated polymer or copolymer, wherein the amounts of (a), (b), (c), and (d) total 100 parts by weight; and (e) 0.6 to 10 parts by weight of pH moderator, based on 100 parts of (a) base resin plus (e) water soluble pH moderator.

Flame retardant masterbatch composition for foams containing a pH moderator

The present disclosure provides a pellet. In an embodiment, the pellet includes a body having a first end and an opposing second end. The body is composed of a polymeric material. The body has a length and a diameter (body diameter). A channel having a diameter (channel diameter), extends through the body from the first end to the second end. The pellet has a channel diameter-to-body diameter ratio from 0.05 to 0.45. The present disclosure also provides a process for soaking the pellet in a liquid additive and forming a loaded pellet with the additive in the pellet body.

Hollow pellets and methods of soaking

An integral modified polyolefin resin/silicone elastomer layered article is provided together with a method for its production. The integral polyolefin-based resin/silicone elastomeric material article comprises a shaped layer of a polyolefin-based copolymer or grafted polyolefin. It contains silyl trialkoxy groups, carboxylic acid groups and/or —OH groups. A silicone elastomeric material layer is subsequent to being cured from a hydrosilylation curable silicone elastomer composition comprising one or more adhesion promoters.

Integral layered articles and their method of manufacture

A resin including up to 99.99 weight percent (wt. %) of a first polyolefin grafted with a functional group selected from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, a carboxylic acid anhydride, an ester functional group or a combination thereof; and 0.01 to 3.0 wt. % of a tin oxide-based catalyst, where the resin includes 0.2 wt. % to 1.5 wt. % of the functional group from the first polyolefin, the wt. % based on a total weight of the resin. The first polyolefin can be selected from a polyethylene, a polypropylene, an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer, a propylene/alpha-olefin copolymer and combinations thereof. The tin oxide-based catalyst can be selected from dibutyltin oxide, dioctyltin oxide and combinations thereof. The resin can be used in a multilayer structure, where a Layer A comprises the resin and a Layer B comprises a polyester, where a first major surface of Layer A is in adhering contact with the second major surface of Layer B.

Resin having a catalyst for reactive adhesion to a polyester

A composite panel comprises first and second metallic sheets each having an inner and outer surface, a silicone-based primer coating on the inner surface of the first and second metallic sheets and an organosilicon adhesive contacting the primer coating on both the first and second metallic sheets, wherein the adhesive has a gross heat of combustion (Q-PCS) of no greater than 1.4 MJ/m. The panel is compliant with specification EN 13501-6:2018, classification A1.

Composite metallic panel

Microporous polymer films and methods of making same are disclosed. The microporous polymer film comprises: one or more polypropylene copolymer, said polypropylene copolymer comprising one or more polypropylene homopolymer chain segments and one or more ethylene-containing copolymer chain segments; wherein the microporous polymer film comprises: (i) polypropylene homopolymer chain segments in total amount of from 50-82 wt. %, based on the weight of the microporous polymer film; (ii) one or more ethylene-containing copolymer chain segments in total amount of from 18-50 wt. %, based on the weight of the microporous polymer film, wherein at least a portion of the ethylene-containing copolymer chain segments comprises polymerized units of ethylene in an amount of at least 45 wt. %, based on the weight of the ethylene-containing copolymer chain segments.

Polyolefin-based microporous films via sequential cold and hot stretching of unannealed polypropylene copolymer films

Microporous polymer films and methods of making same are disclosed. The microporous polymer film comprises:

Chemically modified polyesters, foamable compositions thereof that form low density foams, and methods of making the foamable compositions and foams are disclosed. The compositions comprise an amorphous copolyester, or amorphous co-polyesterpolycarbonate or amorphous co-polyesterpolyether or combination thereof. Additionally, uses for the low density foams are disclosed.

Chemically modified polyesters and process for making

The present invention provides multilayer films, packages formed from such films, and methods of making multilayer films. In one aspect, a multilayer film comprises multilayer film comprising at least 3 layers, each layer having opposing facial surfaces and arranged in the order A/B/C, wherein a top facial surface of Layer B is in adhering contact with a bottom facial surface of Layer A; wherein a top facial surface of Layer C is in adhering contact with a bottom facial surface of Layer B, wherein the film is oriented in the machine direction and wherein the film exhibits a normalized carbon dioxide transmission rate of at least 3000 cm&#xb7;mil/100 in/day, and wherein the film exhibits a ratio of the carbon dioxide transmission rate to an oxygen transmission rate of at least 4.0.

Multilayer films, articles comprising the same, methods of manufacturing multilayer films

The present disclosure provides a flexible pouch. In an embodiment, the flexible pouch includes opposing flexible films. The flexible films define a common peripheral edge. A microcapillary strip is sealed between the opposing flexible films. A first side of the microcapillary strip is located at a first side of the common peripheral edge and a second side of the microcapillary strip located at a second side of the common peripheral edge. A peripheral seal extends along at least a portion of the common peripheral edge. The peripheral seal comprises a sealed microcapillary segment. The peripheral seal forms a closed flexible pouch having a storage compartment. A liquid is present in the storage compartment.

Flexible pouch with microcapillary dispensing system

The present disclosure provides a conduit (). The conduit () includes (i) an annular wall () composed of a polymeric material, the annular wall () defining an annular passageway; (ii) a plurality of channels () extending along a length of an inner surface () of the annular wall (); and (iii) a slip material located in the channels (), the slip material forming a capillary structure () in the channels (), and the capillary structures () protruding radially inward from the annular wall ().

Conduits with capillary structures

The present disclosure provides a coated conductor. The coated conductor includes a conductor and a coating on the conductor. The coating includes (i) an annular wall composed of a polymeric material, the annular wall surrounding at least a portion of the conductor; (ii) a plurality of channels extending along a length of an outer surface of the annular wall; and (iii) a slip material located in the channels, the slip material forming a capillary structure in the channels, and the capillary structures protruding radially outward from the annular wall.

Cable jackets with capillary structures

A microporous film comprising: 75 wt. % or greater of a high density polyethylene resin having a density of 0.957 g/cc-0.970 g/cc, a melt index of from 0.2 to 10 g/10 minutes, a molecular weight distribution, M/M, of greater than or equal to 6.0, and a Mof greater than or equal to 500,000 g/mol, wherein the microporous film is oriented in the machine direction and exhibits a normalized water vapor transmission rate greater than 50 g mil/(100 in&#xb7;day).

Microporous films, and articles made therefrom

The present disclosure provides a die assembly for producing a microcapillary film. The die assembly includes a first die plate, a second die plate, a plurality of multi-jackbolt tensioners connecting the first die plate to the second die plate, a manifold, and a plurality of nozzles. The manifold is located between the pair of die plates and defines a plurality of film channels therebetween. The plurality of film channels converge into an elongate outlet, wherein a thermoplastic material is extrudable through the plurality of film channels and the elongate outlet to form a microcapillary film. The plurality of nozzles are located between the plurality of film channels. The plurality of nozzles are operatively connected to a source of channel fluid for emitting the channel fluid between layers of the microcapillary film, whereby a plurality of microcapillary channels are formed in the microcapillary film.

Die assembly for producing a film

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