Ethylene-ethyl acrylate plastic

Ethylene Copolymers. Ethylene copolymers probably are the most important materials in hot-melt formulations. Ethylene-vinyl acetate and ethylene-ethyl acrylate polymers are very versatile and available in a wide range of grades offering different co-monomer contents and viscosities. The melts are stable and compatible with various modifying resins, waxes, extenders, and fillers. Adhesion to many substrates is good—including the polyolefin plastics, which are difficult to bond with most other types of adhesive unless the surfaces are pre-treated. 

Kung, D.M., Ethylene-ethyl acrylate, in Modem Plastics Encyclopedia Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1994, p. 38. 

Uses in the manufacturing of acrylic resins for use in paint formulations, industrial coatings and latexes in the manufacturing of plastics, such as ethylene ethyl acrylate in the manufacturing of poly-acrylate elastomers and acrylic rubber in the forming of denture materials water-emulsion vehicle for paints, textiles and paper coatings, leather finishes, resins and adhesives lends flexibility to hard films A... 

Whilst vinyl acetate is reluctant to copolymerise it is in fact usually used today in copolymers. Two of particular interest to the plastics industry are ethylene-vinyl acetate (Chapter 11) and vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymers (Chapter 12). In surface coatings internal plasticisation to bring the Tg to below ambient temperatures and thus facilitate film forming is achieved by the use of ethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate and dialkyl maleates and fumarates. 

Radiation Induced Reactions. Graft polymers have been prepared from poly(vinyl alcohol) by the irradiation of the polymer-monomer system and some other methods. The grafted side chains reported include acrylamide, acrylic acid, acrylonitrile, ethyl acrylate, ethylene, ethyl methacrylate, methyl methacrylate, styrene, vinyl acetate, vinyl chloride, vinyl pyridine and vinyl pyrrolidone (13). Poly(vinyl alcohols) with grafted methyl methacrylate and sometimes methyl acrylate have been studied as membranes for hemodialysis (14). Graft polymers consisting of 50% poly(vinyl alcohol), 25% poly(vinyl acetate) and 25% grafted ethylene oxide units can be used to prepare capsule cases for drugs which do not require any additional plasticizers (15). 

At a considerably later date. Frankland prepared ethyl methacrylate and methacrylic acid from ethyl a-hydroxyisobutyrate and phosphorus trichloride. Tollen prepared aciylate esters from 2,3-dibromopropionate esters and zinc. Otto Rohm, in 1901. described the structures of the liquid condensation products (including dimers and timers) obtained from the action of sodium alkoxides on methyl and ethyl acrylate. Shortly after World War 1, Rohm introduced a new acrylate synthesis, noting that an acrylate is formed in good yield from heating ethylene cyanohydrin and sulfuric acid and alcohol. A major incentive for the development of a clear, tough plastic acrylate was for use in the manufacture of safety glass. 

General Description Polyethylenes consist of a family of thermoplastic resins obtained by polymerizing the gas ethylene [C2H4]. High molecular weight polymers (i.e., over 6,000) are the materials used in the plastics industry. Copolymers of ethylene with vinyl acetate, ethyl acrylate, and acrylic acid are commercially important,... 

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Polyethylene blends having toughness and elastic recovery comparable to those of plasticized PVC comprised >50 wt% of a copolymer of ethylene and either butene or hexene [LLDPE, p = 880-915 kg MI < 1 dg min , long-chain branching =0.5-1.5 long chalns/l.OOOC, M > 200 kg mol ] >5 wt% of a copolymer of ethylene and either vinyl acetate or ethyl acrylate, EVAc or EEA and 5-30 wt% liquid hydrocarbon oil. The blends showed essentially no yield point and behavior similar to that of cross-linked materials, although they were not cross-linked (strain recovery). They were found competitive with plasticized PVC in terms of both physical properties and economics... 

In order to understand the phenomena behind resistance variations in the conductive polymer composites (CPCs) due to solvent diffiision. Feller et al. [71] have performed sorption exjjeriments with poly (ethylene-co-ethyl acrylate)-carbon black (EEA-CB) and EEA films in the presence of toluene. One main point here was to determine the influence of CB in the diffiision process. The first results showed that, whichever polymer was used, the diffiision coefificiem increased with toluene activity, which indicated plasticization of the material by the solvent. However, it was interesting to note that the plasticization phenomenon was reduced when fillers were introduced into the polymer matrix. It also appeared that the toluene diflfiisivity was about twofold lower in EEA-CB than in EEA, which was certainly due to a hindrance effect of the carbon black particles. In other words, the decrease in toluene solubility was the result of a tortuosity effect due to the morphology of CPC with a dispersion of CB particles, which acted as barrier components and increased the path for toluene molecules inside the composite. 

Vinyl resins - In the coatings industry, vinyl resins usually refer to either poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) or poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) which is widely used in interior and exterior latex paints. Produced usually by emulsion polymerization, a PVAc homopolymer is too hard to allow its colloidal latex particles to coalesce well into a continuous film at ambient temperatures. Most PVAc emulsions used in the paint industry are copolymers with a plasticizing monomer such as dibutyl maleate, 2-ethyhexyl acrylate, n-butyl acrylate, dibutyl fumarate, isodecyl acrylate, or ethyl acrylate. By polymerizing under pressure, copolymers of vinyl acetate and ethylene are also produced for latex paints. External plasticizers such as dibutyl phthalate are used as well. All these methods not only soften the polymer to allow the latex particles to coalesce into a continuous film, but also impart the film flexiblity needed in exterior house paints. 

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