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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1999
Scott Hanley Wasserman, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
James LaMonte Adams, Somerset, NJ (US);
Tong Chen, Neshanic Station, NJ (US);
George Norris Foster, Bloomsburg, NJ (US);
Laurence Herbert Gross, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Day-Chyuan Lee, Doylestown, PA (US);
Walter Thomas Reichle, Warren, NJ (US);
Robert Harold Vogel, Ringoes, NJ (US);
Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation, Danbury, CT (US);
Abstract
A polymer of the invention comprising the comonomers ethylene, one or more alpha-olefins having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and one or more cyclic dienes having up to 30 carbon atoms, said polymer having a density of at least 0.890 gram per cubic centimeter; long chain branching; a plurality of double bonds; an Mw/Mn ratio ratio (PDI) of at least 2.5; a flow activation energy of greater than about 6.5 kcal/mol; and a Relaxation Spectrum Index (RSI), PDI, and Melt Index (MI), such that RSI·MI,>2.7 and RSI·MI,·PDI,is in the range of about 0.8 to about 60, when a and b are about 0.6 and minus 1.2, respectively.