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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2013
Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Stephen A. Crescimanno, Hatfield, PA (US);
Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides aqueous multistage copolymers, preferably, all acrylic and allylic or all acrylic copolymers, having as the outermost stage an acid functional, preferably, carboxyl or carboxylate functional, aqueous solution polymer and as the one or more remaining stage(s) a vinyl emulsion polymer, wherein the vinyl emulsion polymer stage(s) in the multistage copolymer comprises 5 wt. % or less of hydrophilic monomer, based on the total weight of monomers used to make the vinyl emulsion polymer stage(s). The multistage copolymer enables incorporation of a much higher amount of hydrophilic monomer into a vinyl emulsion copolymer. In addition, are methods of methods of making the multistage copolymers are provided.