Crosslinkable silarylene-siloxane copolymers
AssigneeMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
InventorGaddam N. Babu
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Abstract
Crosslinkable copolymers suitable for use as elevated temperature pressure-sensitive adhesives comprise randomly arranged silarylene units and siloxane units. Preferably, there is present in the copolymer backbone in the range of 0.8 to 1.2 siloxane to silarylene units, and there being present in the copolymer a crosslinking functionality.
Claims16
A crosslinkable silarylene-siloxane pressure sensitive adhesive copolymer composition comprises a copolymer comprising a backbone having randomly arranged silarylene units and siloxane units, of which siloxane units at least 55 mol percent are arylsiloxane units, there being an average of no more than two consecutive units of either siloxane or silarylene in the backbone of the copolymer, said copolymer comprising at least 0.05 mol percent crosslinking functionality.
A method of preparing a crosslinkable polymer comprising the steps:
- a) reacting a mixture comprising a functional silarylene compound with a diorganic group substituted silane to provide a reactive precopolymer;
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- b) reacting said reactive precopolymer with a chain extending silyl compound to provide a copolymer having a weight average molecular weight in the range of 20,000 to 5,000,000, said polymer having an average of no more than two consecutive units of either siloxane or silarylene in the backbone of the copolymer.
A silarylene-siloxane pressure sensitive adhesive copolymer composition curable to a pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising a backbone having randomly arranged silarylene units and siloxane units, of which siloxane units at least 55 mol percent are arylsiloxane units, there being an average of no more than two consecutive units of either siloxane or silarylene in the backbone of the copolymer, said copolymer comprising at least 0.05 mol percent crosslinking functionality, said copolymer having a general formula ##STR40## wherein R.sup.3 is independently a lower alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms;
- Ar is an arylene or alkylenearylene group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and
- each R.sup.4 is an organic group independently selected from aryl groups having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, linear and branched alkyl groups having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, of which R.sup.4 groups 55 to 95 mol % are aryl groups, 5 to 45 mol % are alkyl groups, and 0.05 to 5 mol % are R.sup.5 groups;
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- R.sup.5 is a functional crosslinking group selected from organic groups containing
- a) an ethylenically-unsaturated group selected from 1) groups crosslinkable under the influence of free radicals, and 2) groups crosslinkable in a hydrosilation reaction with copolyhydrosilane,
- b) an oxirane group, and
- c) a group that is a photocrosslinker;
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- c is a number having a value of 0.8 to 1.2 expressing the number of siloxane groups per arylene or alkarylene groups;
- d is a number having an average value of 50 to 500;
- e is a number having a value from 1 to about 200;
- and each R.sup.6 is a terminal group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.