Mono vinyl aromatic conjugated diene block copolymer and polymer composition comprising said block copolymer and a mono vinylarene acrylate copolymer
AssigneeIneos Styrolution Group GmbH
InventorsNorbert Niessner, Christof Mehler, Konrad Knoll, Thomas W. Cochran
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Abstract
The present invention relates to novel block copolymers comprising at least one mono vinyl aromatic monomer (also referred to as mono vinylarene) and at least one conjugated diene monomer, in particular to styrene butadiene block copolymers (SBC), with a defined block structure. The invention further relates to polymer blends which comprise at least one block copolymer and at least one mono vinylarene acrylate copolymer, in particular a styrene-methyl methacrylate copolymer. Related methods for preparation and articles prepared from the polymer blends are also provided.
Claims11
A block copolymer comprising at least one mono vinyl aromatic monomer and at least one conjugated diene monomer,
- wherein the block copolymer comprises at least a first and a second homo block of a mono vinyl aromatic monomer and, between these vinyl aromatic blocks, at least one homo block of a conjugated diene and at least one random block of at least one mono vinyl aromatic monomer and at least one conjugated diene,
- wherein the block copolymer comprises from 20 to 50% by weight of conjugated diene monomer, based on the total block copolymer,
- wherein the block copolymer has a star shaped structure and wherein the block copolymer is obtained by a process that comprises the steps of forming by sequential anionic polymerization and coupling at least one branch with the block sequence S1-S2-B1-S3/B2-S4 and/or S2-B1-S3/B2-S4, wherein S represents homo blocks of mono vinyl aromatic monomer, B represents homo blocks of conjugated diene, and S/B represents a random block consisting of vinyl aromatic monomer and conjugated diene, where at least the polymerization step of the random block S/B takes place in the presence of a potassium salt as randomizer.
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