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AssigneeShell Oil Company
InventorsJeffrey George Southwick, Kathleen Suzanne Kiibler, James Robert Erickson
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The invention herein is a non-aqueous solvent free process for producing UV curable adhesive and sealant compositions comprising a tackifying resin and a monohydroxylated epoxidized polydiene polymer which is comprised of at least two polymerizable ethnically unsaturated hydrocarbon monomers wherein at least one is a diene monomer which yields unsaturation suitable for epoxidation and wherein the polymer contains from 0.1 to 7.0 milliequivalents of epoxy per gram of polymer. The process involves mixing the components with an insoluble photoinitiator under conditions of high shear and/or cavitation. The invention also relates to a film of 5 mils to one inch thick which is formed from the composition made according to the process above.
A process, which does not utilize a non-aqueous solvent, for producing a ultraviolet (UV) curable adhesive or sealant composition comprising a monohydroxylated epoxidized polydiene block polymer prepared from at least two polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon monomers, wherein at least one block having a molecular weight from 100 to 15,000 is prepared from a diene monomer which provides unsaturation suitable for epoxidation, and wherein the polymer contains from 0.1 to 7.0 milliequivalents of epoxy per gram of polymer, and a tackifying resin, said process comprising mixing the epoxidized polymer and the tackifying resin with a photoinitiator which is insoluble in a mixture of the polymer and the tackifying resin under high shear conditions in a high shear mixer at a shear rate of at least 38,000 S.sup.-1 or in a sonicator at a power density of at least 4 watts per milliliter.
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