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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2015
Low gloss thermoplastic compositions, method of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same
Sabic Global Technologies B.v., Bergen op Zoom, NL;
Bin Sun, Newburgh, IN (US);
Stephen L. Taylor, Ottawa, IL (US);
Douglas Warren Howie, Jr., Evansville, IN (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a polycarbonate; a copolymer derived from a copolymerization of a vinyl aromatic monomer and an ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer; an impact modifier that comprises acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate; a first gel-type low gloss additive; where the first gel-type low gloss additive is an epoxy cross-linked styrene acrylonitrile dispersed in polycarbonate; a second gel-type low gloss additive; where the second gel-type low gloss additive is an epoxy cross-linked styrene acrylonitrile dispersed in polystyrene; a first polymethylmethacrylate; and a second polymethylmethacrylate; where the first polymethylmethacrylate and the second polymethylmethacrylate are present in a total amount of 1 to 25 wt %, based on the total weight of the composition; and wherein the first polymethylmethacrylate has a higher weight average molecular weight than the second polymethylmethacrylate.