Abstract:
Magnesium hydroxide having a particulate, crystalline structure with a thickness of 30 to 200 Angstroms, and a median particle size of up to about 1 micron prepared by a process in which less than or greater than an equivalent amount of alkaline material is reacted with a magnesium salt in a concentrated aqueous mixture thereof. The magnesium hydroxide is especially useful in providing flame retardancy in admixture with thermoplastic resins.
Abstract:
A process for producing mullite whiskers includes heating a non-stoichiometric mixture containing aluminum and silicon to a temperature within a range of 500 DEG C to 950 DEG C in the presence of SiF4 gas to form fluorotopaz and then to a temperature within a range of 800 DEG C to 1500 DEG C to convert the fluorotopaz into mullite. A mullite whisker-forming composition that procudes an interlaced network of single crystal mullite whiskers with a controlled permeability comprises a mixture of an aluminum-containing material with a silicon-containing material and a fluxing agent which melts at temperatures below 1000 DEG C. The ratio of aluminum atoms to silicon atoms in the resultant product is approximately non-stoichiometric. The network may, for example, be used to fabricate a regenerable exhaust gas filter element for diesel engines.
Abstract:
Fibers may be prepregged with a dope containing polybenzoxazole or polybenzothiazole. The prepreg may be contacted with water or another nonsolvent to coagulate the polymer and form a matrix composite.
Abstract:
Succinic acid or succinic anhydride grafts of HDPE were blended with LLDPE, especially ethylene/1-octene copolymers, to form blends having useful adhesive properties at elevated temperatures. The succinic acid or succinic anhydride groups were provided by grafting, respectively, maleic acid or maleic anhydride onto HDPE. The resin blends were useful for coating metal foil substrates. The adhesion of the resin blend to the metal foil substrate is particularly good at elevated temperatures (e.g., temperatures above 60 DEG C).
Abstract:
A method of forming a carpet comprising applying an adhesive to a backing material (1) via a perforated roller (3). As the roller (3) is passed over the backing material (1) adhesive is displaced out through the perforations in the roller (3) onto the backing material (1). Once the adhesive has been applied to the backing material (1) the backing material (1) is secured to the back surface of a pre-coated textile substrate layer.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a melt-blowing process for producing a fiber of an extrudable polyurethane having a large amount of hard segment, which comprises supplying a polyurethane comprising the reaction product of: (a) an organic polyisocyanate; (b) an isocyanate-reactive material having an average functionality of at least 1.9, a glass transition temperature (Tg) of less than 20 °C, and a molecular weight in the range of 500 to 20,000; and (c) at least one chain extender having a functionality from 2 to 3 and a molecular weight from 50 to 400; which reaction product has up to 25 percent by weight of soft segment derived from the organic polyisocyanate (a) and the isocyanate-reactive material (b) and at least 75 percent by weight of hard segment derived from the organic polyisocyanate (a) and the chain extender (c), in a molten form from at least one orifice of a nozzle (9) into a gas stream (10) supplied to an area adjacent to the orifice which attenuates the molten polymer into fibers. Such microfibers are particularly useful in the field of high temperature filtration, coalescing and insulation.
Abstract:
Polyolefin foams and films having improved electrostatic properties are provided by incorporating into the polyolefin foam or film a novel antistatic additive composition comprising 0.1 to 10 parts per hundred based on the weight of the olefin polymer of a quaternary ammonium salt and 0.1 to 10 parts per hundred based on the weight of the olefin polymer of a partial ester of a long-chain fatty acid with a polyol. A method of making the foam containing the novel antistatic additive composition is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A metal-metal matrix composite magnet including a magnetic material such as a neodynium-iron-boron magnetic phase bonded by a metal matrix, preferably copper and a method of making the magnet which involves platin a thin metal layer, for example, a layer having a thickness of less than 1000 angstrom average, from a preferably non-aqueous solution, onto the surface of a magnetic phase, pressing the powder, with or without magnetic alignement, into the desired shape and then sintering the pressed powder at a temperature below about 400 DEG C.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an improved design for a spiral-wound membrane separation device. The improved module (50) has one feed pipe (51A) separated into compartments (A, B) which are connected axially to a porous spacer (55) surrounded by a membrane envelope (54). A separate permeate pipe (51B) is immediately adjacent and generally in a parallel configuration to the fluid feed pipe (51A) and is in fluid communication with a different porous spacer sheet (58). When the porous feed membrane (54) are combined using appropriate complementary shaped spaced filling means (52A, 52B), a spiral-wound membrane separation device is obtained having two centrally located pipes. In one aspect, the membrane separation module (50) further includes means for the addition of a countercurrent or cocurrent sweep fluid (gas) permeate.
Abstract:
A wrap-packaging film laminate (1) having differential cling is provided having at least two layers, one which is an outer reverse layer (2) comprising a linear very low density ethylene copolymer (LVLDPE) having a critical density of less than about 0.915 g/cc which reverse layer contains a tackifier in an amount typically less than 6 percent by weight, which is sufficient to impart the desired level of cling, one of which comprises an obverse layer (3) of an olefin polymer or copolymer, such as a linear low density ethylene copolymer (LLDPE) which has a critical density of at least 0.916 g/cc which has little or no cling, and wherein the difference in density between the reverse layer and the obverse layer is at least 0.004 g/cc, the said differential cling properties being manifested in the higher level of cling of the LVLDPE reverse layer (2) as compared to that of the obverse layer (3).