Aqueous composition containing polymeric nanoparticles
AssigneeRohm and Haas Company
InventorsWayne Devonport, Ralph Craig Even, Ann Robertson Hermes, Dennis Paul Lorah, Joseph David Tanzer, Antony Keith VanDyk
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Abstract
An aqueous composition including an aqueous dispersion of polymeric nanoparticles having a mean diameter of from 1 to 50 nanometers, the particles including, as polymerized units, at least one multi-ethylenically-unsaturated monomer and at least one ethylenically unsaturated water soluble monomer is discloseded. Certain embodiments of the composition include pigment particles and other polymer particles. The aqueous compositions include aqueous coating compositions.
Claims1
An aqueous composition comprising a pigment, an aqueous dispersion of polymeric nanoparticles having a mean diameter of from 1 to 50 nanometers, said nanoparticles including amine functionality and further including, as polymerized units, at least one multi-ethylenically-unsaturated monomer;
- selected from the group consisting of divinyl benzene, trivinylbenzene, divinyltoluene, divinylpyridine, divinylnaphthalene, divinylxylene, ethyleneglycol di(meth)acrylate, trimethylolpropane tri(meth)acrylate, diethyleneglycol divinyl ether, trivinylcyclohexane, allyl (meth)acrylate, diethyleneglycol di(meth)acrylate, propyleneglycol di(meth)acrylate, 2,2-dimethylpropane-1,3-di(meth)acrylate, 1,3- butylene glycol di(meth)acrylate, 1,4-butanediol di(meth)acrylate, 1,6-hexanediol di(meth)acrylate, tripropylene glycol di(meth)acrylate, triethylene glycol di(meth)acrylate, tetraethylene glycol di(meth)acrylate, polyethylene glycol 200 di(meth)acrylate, polyethylene glycol 600 di(meth)acrylate, ethoxylated bisphenol A di(meth)acrylate, poly(butanediol) di(meth)acrylate, pentaerythritol tri(meth)acrylate, trimethylolpropane triethoxy tri(meth)acrylate, glyceryl propoxy tri(meth)acrylate, pentaerythritol tetra(meth)acrylate, dipentaerythritol monohydroxypenta(meth)acrylate, divinyl silane, trivinyl silane, dimethyl divinyl silane, divinyl methyl silane, methyl trivinyl silane, diphenyl divinyl silane, divinyl phenyl silane, trivinyl phenyl silane, divinyl methyl phenyl silane, tetravinyl silane, dimethyl vinyl disiloxane, poly(methyl vinyl siloxane), poly(vinyl hydro siloxane), poly(phenyl vinyl siloxane), and mixtures thereof, an anionically-stabilized emulsion polymer having a mean diameter of greater than 50 nanometers;
- and a volatile base in an amount sufficient to deprotonate the amine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.