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US 12,662,586 B2Granted
Compatibilization of immiscible polymers using carbon nanotubes
AssigneeHuntsman Nanocomp LLC
InventorsAshley Hart, Eitan Zeira, Geoff Rollins
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a polymer blend that includes at least two polymers which are immiscible to one another and a carbon nanotube pulp comprising entangled carbon nanotubes as a compatibilizing agent and to a method of preparing the same.
Claims11
A polymer blend comprising at least two immiscible polymers and a carbon nanotube pulp comprising entangled carbon nanotubes characterized as having two or more of the following characteristics:
- (i) a diameter of between about 10-100 nm, (ii) a length of between about 0.1-10 mm, (iii) a density of between about 0.3-1.9 g/cm3, (iv) an aspect ratio of at least about 250,000, (v) a strain to failure of between about 1.8-7%, and (vi) a surface area from about 100-300 m2/g, wherein a first immiscible polymer and a second immiscible polymer are selected from:
- polyethylene and polyester, polystyrene and polyethylene, maleic anhydride grafted polystyrene and polyethylene, ethylene vinyl acetate and polyvinyl chloride, maleic anhydride grafted polyvinyl chloride and ethylene vinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloride and polycarbonate, polyvinyl chloride and polymethyl methacrylate, polymethyl methacrylate and polyvinyl chloride, styrene acrylonitrile and polycarbonate, polycarbonate and polycaprolactam, polycarbonate and polypropylene, polycarbonate and polyethylene, ethylene vinyl acetate and polypropylene, polyethylene and polypropylene, polyethylene and polystyrene, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene copolymer and polyvinylchloride, polyethylene and polyvinylchloride and polystyrene and polyvinylchloride.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.