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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1982
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1980
Alan J Backhouse, South Ascot, GB;
Charles Bromley, Bourne End, GB;
Morice W Thompson, Maidenhead, GB;
Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
A process is described for making sterically stabilized non-aqueous dispersions of composite polymer microparticles, in which (1) monomers including at least one crosslinking monomer are polymerized in an aqueous medium at a temperature at least 10.degree. higher than the glass transition temperature of the polymer to be formed, in the presence of a block or graft copolymer stabilizing agent, under conditions such that there is at no time present a separate monomer phase, (2) further monomers, not including any crosslinking monomer, are polymerized in the dispersion thus obtained, the presence of a separate monomer phase again being avoided, and (3) the microparticles are transferred from the resulting dispersion into a non-aqueous medium which is a solvent for the non-crosslinked polymer generated in (2). The microparticles are of value for incorporation into coating compositions the main film-forming constituent of which is compatible with the non-crosslinked component of the particles.