A method of preparing a fiber-reinforced polymer composite is provided. The method includes (a) providing a swollen clay material; (b) chemically modifying a surface of the swollen clay material with an organosilane to form a silane-modified clay material; (c) intercalating the silane-modified clay material with a binder to form an intercalated clay material; and (d) melt compounding the intercalated clay material with a mixture comprising a polymer and fiber to form the fiber-reinforced polymer composite. A fiber-reinforced polymer composite is also provided.

Provided is a polyamide resin composition including 0.01 to 50 parts by mass of cellulose fiber in relation to 100 parts by mass of a polyamide resin, having a relative viscosity of 2.3 or more, and having an L-value, an a-value and a b-value in an Lab color space of 20 or more, 10 or less and 20 or less, respectively. The aforementioned polyamide resin composition is obtained by subjecting a polyamide resin composition having a relative viscosity of 2.2 or less to a solid phase polymerization.

Provided are multistage polymer compositions comprising (a) an initial stage polymer, and (b) a latter stage polymer, wherein latter stage polymer comprises polymerized units derived from at least one alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer, a styrene monomer, and at least one organo-phosphorus monomer. The at least one organo-phosphorus monomer is in the acid form as a salt of the phosphorus acid group. The weight ratio of the at least one alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer to styrene monomer in the latter stage polymer ranges from 50:50 to 90:10. Also provided are matrix resin compositions comprising such polymer compositions and a matrix resin, and a method for making the multistage polymer compositions.

The present invention provides a process for making a silica masterbatch that contains hydrophobated silica, solution-made rubber and emulsion-made rubber. Hydrophobated silica is mixed into a latex emulsion. Solution-rubber crumb in an aqueous suspension is mixed into the latex emulsion, which is coagulated, and a crumb is recovered, further homogenized, dried and baled to yield the silica masterbatch. A well-dispersed mixture of hydrophobated silica and emulsion-made rubber is added into a steam distillation step of a solution-rubber process from which a silica masterbatch is recovered. The emulsion-made rubber can be omitted to make a silica masterbatch of solution rubber and silica without emulsion rubber. The silica masterbatch has physical properties similar to those found in a comparable dry-mixed composition, but the silica masterbatch can be incorporated more easily and less expensively into tires and other rubber products than the dry-mixed composition.

An object of the present invention is to provide a polymer composition having properties resembling those of natural rubber, e.g. good durability (fracture resistance, wear resistance, and crack growth resistance), and a method for manufacturing the polymer composition. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a polymer composition including a mixture of polyisoprene and polystyrene/polybutadiene, comprising: polymerizing styrene monomer or butadiene monomer in the presence of a catalyst to synthesize polystyrene or polybutadiene; adding isoprene monomer to the polystyrene or polybutadiene thus synthesized, to synthesize polyisoprene and thus generate said mixture, wherein content of the styrene monomer or the butadiene monomer is set to be 10 mol % or less with respect to the total quantity of the styrene monomer/the butadiene monomer and the isoprene monomer.

A polymer comprising: a) a thermosetting epoxy-terminated oxazolidinone ring containing polymer modified by b) core shell rubber particles, wherein at least 50% of the core shell rubber particles are prepared by a process comprising: I) carrying out an emulsion polymerization of monomers in an aqueous dispersion medium to form thermoplastic core shell rubber particles; II) coagulating the thermoplastic core shell rubber particles to form a slurry; and III) dewatering the slurry to form dewatered particles and IV) drying the dewatered particles to form dried particles is disclosed.

A rubber-reinforced vinyl aromatic (co)polymer having (a) a polymeric matrix comprising at least one vinyl aromatic monomer and at least one comonomer; (b) rubber particles obtained by a continuous mass process from functionalised low cis polybutadiene rubber dispersed therein, wherein: (i) the average volumetric diameter of the rubber particles is between 0.25 m and 0.37 m; (ii) the volume of the rubber particles having a diameter greater than 0.40 m is between 20% and 50%, with respect to the total volume of the dispersed rubber particles; (iii) the ratio between rubber particles containing occlusions and rubber particles without occlusions is between 0.9 and 1.9.

The aforementioned rubber-reinforced vinyl aromatic (co)polymer has high aesthetic properties, in particular in terms of gloss and gloss sensitivity, and mechanical properties, in particular in terms of impact resistance and puncture resistance.

The aforementioned rubber-reinforced vinyl aromatic (co)polymer may be used in various applications, like injection moulding.

A discrete nanostructure formed by a method comprising providing an aliphatic multi-block copolymer. The aliphatic multi-block copolymer includes at least one polyester block and at least one functionalized polycarbonate block. The aliphatic multi-block copolymer, a deprotonating agent and water are mixed to form an aqueous mixture. The aqueous mixture is maintained at a reaction temperature suitable to result in self-assembly of the multi-block copolymer into nanoparticles.

Heterophasic polypropylene resin having an MFR (2.16 kg, 230 C.) of more than 27 g/10 min, determined according ISO 1133 comprising a propylene homo- or copolymer matrix (A) and an ethylene-propylene rubber phase (B) dispersed within the matrix, wherein the heterophasic polypropylene resin has a fraction insoluble in p-xylene at 25 C. (XCU) in an amount of 75 to 85 wt.-% with a weight average molecular weight of 110 to 190 kg/mol measured by GPC analysis according to ISO 16014-1, and 4, the fraction insoluble in p-xylene at 25 C. (XCU) containing monomer units derived from ethylene in an amount of 12.0 to 21.0 wt.-% and a fraction soluble in p-xylene at 25 C. (XCS) in an amount of 15 to 25 wt.-% having an intrinsic viscosity of 1.4 to 2.0 dl/g, determined according to DIN EN ISO 1628-1 and -3 and being composed of propylene monomer units in an amount of 40 wt.-% or more, and having a glass transition temperature Tg as measured by DSC according to ISO 6721-7 at a compression molded sample consisting of the XCS fraction in the range of 60 to 50 C.

The present invention pertains to the technical field of phase-change temperature-reducing materials, and in particular, relates to a phase-change temperature-reducing polyurethane composite material, and a preparation method and application thereof, comprising the following parts by mass of raw materials: 50-80 parts of polyurethane material A+polyurethane material B, 1-3 parts of flake graphite powder with a particle size of 850-1200 meshes, 0.8-1.8 parts of vermicular graphite with a particle size of 10-40 meshes, 10-30 parts of phase-change paraffin, 1-3 parts of activated carbon, 0.5-2 parts of catalyst, and 0.2-1 parts of co-catalyst. The polyurethane composite material made in the present invention is rapid in phase-change temperature reduction, high in heat absorption and dispersion, and free of problems of phase-change paraffin leakage, crystallization, and frosting on the surface thereof. At the same time, it also has softness and high elasticity, and can be widely applied to objects in contact with human bodies. A temperature difference is formed by reducing the temperature of the surface in contact with skin, which can bring a comfortable sense of coolness and a temperature-reducing effect to consumers.