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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1997
Chao-Fong Tien, Macungie, PA (US);
Chung-Ling Mao, Emmaus, PA (US);
Jeanine M Snyder, Whitehall, PA (US);
Adalgery Beck, Easton, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to improved aqueous dispersions containing polyurethane/vinyl polymers. The improved aqueous dispersions comprise polymer particles of a urethane prepolymer having carboxyl functionality therein and a vinyl monomer polymerized thereon, which are shelf stable and self crosslinkable at a low temperature. The polyurethanes have pendant carboxyl functionality in quaternary form and pendant epoxide groups provided by glycidyl acrylates and/or methacrylates. When the aqueous dispersions are cast as film and the water is removed, crosslinking between the carboxyl group and the epoxide group occurs.