Abstract:
Unique copolymers comprising propylene, ethylene and/or one or more unsaturated comonomers are characterized as having: at least one, preferably more than one, of the following properties: (i) ?13¿C NMR peaks corresponding to a regio-error at about 14.6 and about 15.7 ppm, the peaks of about equal intensity, (ii) a B-value greater than about 1.4 when the comonomer content of the copolymer is at least about 3 wt%, (iii) a skewness index, S¿ix?, greater than about -1.20, (iv) a DSC curve with a T¿me? that remains essentially the same and a T¿max? that decreases as the amount of comonomer in the copolymer is increased, and (v) an X-ray diffraction pattern that reports more gamma-form crystals than a comparable copolymer prepared with a Ziegler-Natta catalyst. These polypropylene polymers are made using a nonmetallocene, metal-centered, heteroaryl ligand catalyst. These polymers can be blended with other polymers, and are useful in the manufacture of films, sheets, foams, fibers and molded articles.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an ethylenic polymer foam structure comprising an ethylenic polymer material. The ethylenic polymer material contains a substantially linear ethylenic polymer having: a) a melt flow ratio, l10/l2 >/= 5.63; b) a molecular weight distribution, Mw/Mn, defined by the equation Mw/Mn
Abstract:
A polymerization process comprises contacting one or more olefinic comonomers in the presence of at least a high molecular weight catalyst and at least a low molecular weight catalyst in a single reactor; and effectuating the polymerization of the olefinic comonomers in the reactor to obtain an olefin polymer. Preferably, both catalysts have the ability to incorporate a substantially similar amount of comonomers in the olefin polymer. The polymers produced by the process may have a relatively higher level of long chain branching while maintaining a relatively narrow molecular weight distribution, i.e., MWD less than about 6. These interpolymers may exhibit processability similar to or better than LDPE but have physical properties similar to metallocene catalyzed polymers.
Abstract:
A polymer composition comprises: (a) a high molecular weight, branched component; and (b) a low molecular weight, branched component. Some polymer compositions are characterized by a substantial absent of amyl or methyl branches and a melt strength (MS) that satisfies the following relationship, formula (I), where x is greater than or equal to about 12.5 and y is greater than or equal to about 3. Some polymers are characterized by a melt strength (MS) that satisfies the following relationship, formula (II), where x is greater than or equal to about 3 and y is greater than or equal to about 4.5 and a molecular weight distribution of greater than 3. A process for making polymers is also disclosed.
Abstract:
Catalyst compositions that are highly tolerant of catalyst poisons comprising a catalytic derivative of a Group 4 metal complex and a Group 13 metal compound according to the formula R 2Me(NR 2), wherein R and R independently each occurrence is a hydrocarbyl, silyl, halocarbyl, halohydrocarbyl, hydrocarbyl-substituted silyl, halocarbyl-substituted silyl, or halohydrocarbyl-substituted silyl group, said R and R having from 1 to 30 carbon, silicon, or mixtures of carbon and silicon atoms, and Me is a Group 13 metal, the molar ratio of complex to Group 13 compound being from 1:0.1 to 1:100.
Abstract:
Novel Group 4 metal complexes containing one and only one cyclic delocalized, anionic, pi -bonded group wherein the metal is in the + 4 formal oxidation state and having a bridged ligand structure, also referred to as constrained geometry complexes and a conjugated diene divalent anionic ligand group; catalytic derivatives of such complexes including novel zwiterionic complexes; and the use thereof as catalysts for polymerizing olefins, diolefins and/or acetylenically unsaturated monomers.
Abstract:
A polymer blend composition comprising: (a) from 0.5 to 99 percent by weight, based on the total weight of (a), (b), and (c), of an aliphatic alpha -olefin homopolymer or interpolymer, or an interpolymer of an alpha -olefin and a non-aromatic monomer interpolymerizable therewith; (b) from 0.5 to 99 percent by weight, based on the total weight of (a), (b), and (c), of a homopolymer or interpolymer of monovinylidene aromatic monomers, or an interpolymer of monovinylidene aromatic monomer and a monomer interpolymerizable therewith other than an aliphatic alpha -olefin; and (c) from 0.5 to 99 percent by weight, based on the total weight of (a), (b), and (c), of a substantially random interpolymer comprising an alpha -olefin and a vinylidene aromatic monomer. An expandable composition, comprising such polymer blend composition and an expanding agent; a foamed composition obtained by subjecting such an expandable composition to a foaming process; an article of manufacture molded from such a polymer blend composition; and a method of packaging using such a polymer blend composition.
Abstract:
Novel titanium or zirconium complexes containing one and only one cyclic delocalized, anionic, pi -bonded, group, said complexes corresponding to formula (I), wherein: M is titanium or zirconium in the +2 formal oxidation state; L is a group containing a cyclic, delocalized, anionic, pi -system through which the group is bound to M, and which group is also bound to Z; Z is a moiety bound to M via a sigma -bond, comprising boron, or a member of Group 14 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, and also comprising nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur or oxygen, said moiety having up to 60 non-hydrogen atoms; and X is a neutral, conjugated or nonconjugated diene, optionally substituted with one or more hydrocarbyl groups, said X having up to 40 carbon atoms and forming a pi -complex with M; are catalytically activated for use as addition polymerization catalysts. Preferably, L is an optionally substituted cyclopentadienyl or fused ring cyclopentadienyl group.
Abstract:
Cationic Group 4 or Lanthanide metal catalysts containing a single, delocalized PI -bonded group are prepared by contacting a metal complex with a carbonium salt of a compatible, non-coordinating anion.
Abstract:
A dispersible ionic catalyst activator, comprising an insoluble substrate material having a correlated settling rate less than 0.03 cm/sec, and from 0.001 to 10 mmol/g of an ionic catalyst activator deposited thereon which is particularly adapted for use in a continuous, solution polymerization process.