# US 10,370,531 B2 · Core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition, cured product thereof and method for preparing the same > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,370,531 B2 - Document ID: US10370531B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/028,614 - Filed: 2014-10-07 - Published: 2016-09-01 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2013-10-11 - Assignees: Kaneka Corporation - Applicants: Kaneka Corporation - Inventors: Yoshio Furukawa; Shohei Nishimori - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10370531B2 ## CPC - C08L 63/00: Compositions of epoxy resins; Compositions of derivatives of epoxy resins - C08F 265/06: Polymerisation of acrylate or methacrylate esters on to polymers thereof - C08F 279/02: on to polymers of conjugated dienes - C08F 283/12: on to polysiloxanes - C08L 51/04: grafted on to rubbers - C08L 2207/53: Core-shell polymer - C08L: COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS (compositions based on polymerisable monomers C08F, C08G; artificial filaments or fibres D01F; textile treating compositions D06) - C08F: MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS ## Abstract The present invention relates to a core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition, wherein the composition contains 100 parts by weight of the epoxy resin (A) and 1 to 100 parts by weight of the core-shell polymer (B), the core-shell polymer has the volume average particle diameter of 0.01 to 1 μm, the core part of the core-shell polymer (B) has the glass transition temperature of less than 0° C., the shell part of the core-shell polymer (B) has the glass transition temperature of less than 25° C., and the shell part of the core-shell polymer (B) is polymerized with at least a monomer having an epoxy group. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition, comprising: an epoxy resin; and from 1 to 100 parts by weight of a core-shell polymer with respect to 100 parts by weight of the epoxy resin, wherein the core-shell polymer has a volume average particle diameter of from 0.01 to 1 μm, a core part of the core-shell polymer has a glass transition temperature of less than 0° C., a shell part of the core-shell polymer has a glass transition temperature of less than 25° C., wherein the shell part of the core-shell polymer is obtained by polymerizing from 5 to 99% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of alkoxy alkyl (meth) acrylate, methyl acrylate, and ethyl acrylate, from 1 to 50% by weight of the monomer comprising an epoxy group, wherein the monomer comprising an epoxy group is at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of glycidyl (meth)acrylate, allyl glycidyl ether, and glycidyl alkyl (meth) acrylate, and from 0 to 50% by weight of other vinyl monomer, and wherein the epoxy resin comprises at least one polyepoxide selected from the group consisting of a polyglycidyl ether, a polyglycidylamine compound, an alicyclic epoxy resin, an addition reaction product of polyhydric alcohols and epichlorohydrin, a halogenated epoxy resin, and a homopolymer or copolymer of monomers containing unsaturated monoepoxide. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the core part of the core-shell polymer comprises a rubber elastic body composed of 50% by weight or more of at least one of a diene monomer and a (meth)acrylate ester monomer and from 0% by weight to less than 50% by weight of other copolymerizable vinyl monomer; a polysiloxane rubber elastic body; or a mixture thereof, wherein the other copolymerizable vinyl monomer comprises at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of an aromatic vinyl compound, a vinyl cyanide compound, an unsaturated acid derivative, a (meth)acrylate amide derivative, a maleimide derivative, and a vinyl ether monomer. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the shell part of the core-shell polymer is obtained by polymerizing from 5 to 99% by weight of 2-alkoxy ethyl (meth)acrylate, from 1 to 50% by weight of the monomer comprising an epoxy group, wherein the monomer comprising an epoxy group is at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of glycidyl (meth) acrylate, allyl glycidyl ether, and glycidyl alkyl(meth)acrylate, and from 0 to 50% by weight of other vinyl monomer. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the shell part of the core-shell polymer is obtained by polymerizing from 5 to 99% by weight of 2-methoxy ethyl acrylate, from 1 to 50% by weight of the monomer comprising an epoxy group, wherein the monomer comprising an epoxy group is at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of glycidyl (meth)acrylate, allyl glycidyl ether, and glycidyl alkyl (meth) acrylate, and from 0 to 50% by weight of other vinyl monomer. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the shell part of the core-shell polymer has the glass transition temperature of less than 20° C. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the core-shell polymer comprises an intermediate layer between the core part and the shell part, and wherein the intermediate layer is obtained by polymerizing from 30 to 100% by weight of a multifunctional monomer and from 0 to 70% by weight of other vinyl monomer. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A cured product of the core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the core-shell polymer is dispersed as a primary particle in the cured product. ### Claim 8 A method for preparing a core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition, the method comprising: mixing an aqueous media dispersion in which a core-shell polymer is dispersed in an aqueous media with an organic solvent having a solubility to water at 20° C. of from 5% by weight to 40% by weight, and mixing the resulting mixture with excess water such that a slurry solution comprising floating aggregates of the core-shell polymer is obtained; separating the floating aggregates of the core-shell polymer from a liquid phase to collect the core-shell polymer; mixing the collected core-shell polymer with an organic solvent such that a dispersion containing the core-shell polymer and the organic solvent is prepared; mixing the dispersion containing the core-shell polymer and the organic solvent with an epoxy resin; and distilling the organic solvent from the mixture of the dispersion containing the core-shell polymer and the epoxy resin, thereby preparing the core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition, wherein the core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition comprises: the epoxy resin; and from 1 to 100 parts by weight of the core-shell polymer with respect to 100 parts by weight of the epoxy resin, wherein the core-shell polymer has a volume average particle diameter of from 0.01 to 1 μm, a core part of the core-shell polymer has a glass transition temperature of less than 0° C., a shell part of the core-shell polymer has a glass transition temperature of less than 25° C., wherein the shell part of the core-shell polymer is obtained by polymerizing from 5 to 99% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of alkoxy alkyl (meth)acrylate, methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, from 1 to 50% by weight of a monomer comprising an epoxy group, wherein the monomer comprising an epoxy group is at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of glycidyl (meth)acrylate, allyl glycidyl ether, and glycidyl alkyl (meth)acrylate, and from 0 to 50% by weight of other vinyl monomer, and wherein the epoxy resin comprises at least one polyepoxide selected from the group consisting of a polyglycidyl ether, a polyglycidylamine compound, an alicyclic epoxy resin, an addition reaction product of polyhydric alcohols and epichlorohydrin, a halogenated epoxy resin, and a hompolymer or copolymer of monomers containing unsaturated monoepoxide. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the epoxy resin further comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of polyalkylene glycol diglycidyl ether, glycol diglycidyl ether, a diglycidyl ester of aliphatic polybasic acid, a glycidyl ether of polyvalent aliphatic alcohol, and divinylbenzene dioxide. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the epoxy resin is at least one of a bisphenol A epoxy resin and a bisphenol F epoxy resin. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein a weight ratio of the core part to the shell part of the core-shell polymer is from 50/50 to 99/1. ### Claim 12 (depends on 2) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 2, wherein the core part of the core-shell polymer comprises the rubber elastic body, the diene monomer forming the rubber elastic body is at least one of butadiene, isoprene, and chroloprene, and the (meth)acrylate ester monomer forming the rubber elastic body is at least one of butylacrylate, 2-ethylhexylacrylate, and lauryl methacrylate. ### Claim 13 (depends on 6) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 6, wherein the multifunctional monomer is at least one selected from the group consisting of divinyl benzene, butanediol di(meth)acrylate, triallyl (iso)cyanurate, allyl (meth)acrylate, diallyl itaconic acid, and diallyl phthalic acid. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, further comprising: at least one of a curing agent, a strengthening agent, a radically curable resin, and a filler. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the core-shell polymer has the volume average particle diameter of from 0.05 to 0.8 μm, the core part of the core-shell polymer has the glass transition temperature of less than −10° C., and the shell part of the core-shell polymer has the glass transition temperature of less than 20° C. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the core part of the core-shell polymer has the glass transition temperature of less than −20° C., and the shell part of the core-shell polymer has the glass transition temperature of less than 0° C. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The core-shell polymer-containing epoxy resin composition according to claim 1, wherein the core part of the core-shell polymer has the glass transition temperature of less than −40° C., and the shell part of the core-shell polymer has the glass transition temperature of less than −40° C.