Method for producing a thermoplastic moulding compound containing: up to 40 wt. % of a graft copolymer A, containing 50-70 wt. % graft base A1 from an acrylic ester polymer and 30-50 wt. % of a graft shell A2, and 0-90 wt. % of a hard matrix B, wherein the reaction for producing the graft copolymer A is carried out in the presence of 0.01 to 4 times the molar amount of sodium carbonate, relative to the molar amount of initiator, wherein the reaction for producing copolymer A is carried out in the presence of 0.1 to 1 wt. % of an emulsifier relative to the amount of the respective monomers used, and wherein during the polymerisation reaction, during the post-polymerisation and/or after the polymerisation reaction, water or an aqueous alkali solution are added to the reaction mixture for producing the graft copolymer A.

Method for producing a thermoplastic moulding compound containing: up to 40 wt. % of a graft copolymer A, containing 50-70 wt. % graft base A1 from an acrylic ester polymer and 30-50 wt. % of a graft shell A2, and 0-90 wt. % of a hard matrix B, wherein the reaction for producing the graft copolymer A is carried out in the presence of 0.01 to 4 times the molar amount of sodium carbonate, relative to the molar amount of initiator, wherein the reaction for producing copolymer A is carried out in the presence of 0.1 to 1 wt. % of an emulsifier relative to the amount of the respective monomers used, and wherein during the polymerisation reaction, during the post-polymerisation and/or after the polymerisation reaction, water or an aqueous alkali solution are added to the reaction mixture for producing the graft copolymer A.

Method for producing a thermoplastic moulding compound containing: up to 40 wt. % of a graft copolymer A, containing 50-70 wt. % graft base A1 from an acrylic ester polymer and 30-50 wt. % of a graft shell A2, and 0-90 wt. % of a hard matrix B, wherein the reaction for producing the graft copolymer A is carried out in the presence of 0.01 to 4 times the molar amount of sodium carbonate, relative to the molar amount of initiator, wherein the reaction for producing copolymer A is carried out in the presence of 0.1 to 1 wt. % of an emulsifier relative to the amount of the respective monomers used, and wherein during the polymerisation reaction, during the post-polymerisation and/or after the polymerisation reaction, water or an aqueous alkali solution are added to the reaction mixture for producing the graft copolymer A.

A solvent composition includes an organic solvent including one or more organic solvents (A) and one or more organic solvents (B), and one or more types of core-shell polymer particles each comprising a core layer and a shell layer. The organic sol vents (A) have a polar teen p of a Hansen solubility parameter of less than 11 and a hydrogen bond term h of less than 10, and the organic solvents (B) satisfy at least one of 11 or more of the polar term p or 10 or more of the hydrogen bond term h. A weight ratio of (A) to (B) ranges from 15:85 to 95:5. Based on a total weight of the solvent composition, a content of the core-shell polymer particles is 20 to 40% by weight and a water content is 1% by weight or less.

A solvent composition includes an organic solvent including one or more organic solvents (A) and one or more organic solvents (B), and one or more types of core-shell polymer particles each comprising a core layer and a shell layer. The organic sol vents (A) have a polar teen p of a Hansen solubility parameter of less than 11 and a hydrogen bond term h of less than 10, and the organic solvents (B) satisfy at least one of 11 or more of the polar term p or 10 or more of the hydrogen bond term h. A weight ratio of (A) to (B) ranges from 15:85 to 95:5. Based on a total weight of the solvent composition, a content of the core-shell polymer particles is 20 to 40% by weight and a water content is 1% by weight or less.

The invention relates to a method to reduce or prevent agglomeration of polyisobutylene particles in aqueous media by LCST compounds and highly pure polyisobutylenes obtained thereby. The invention further relates to polyisobutylene products comprising the same or derived therefrom.

The invention relates to a method to reduce or prevent agglomeration of polyisobutylene particles in aqueous media by LCST compounds and highly pure polyisobutylenes obtained thereby. The invention further relates to polyisobutylene products comprising the same or derived therefrom.

The invention relates to a method to reduce or prevent agglomeration of polyisobutylene particles in aqueous media by LCST compounds and highly pure polyisobutylenes obtained thereby. The invention further relates to polyisobutylene products comprising the same or derived therefrom.

An acrylic resin powder soluble in acetone, including a multi-stage polymer (M) that includes a polymer (B) obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture (b) containing methyl methacrylate and an alkyl (meth)acrylate ester (mb) in the presence of a polymer dispersion that contains a polymer (A) obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture (a) containing an alkyl (meth)acrylate ester (ma), in which an alkyl group in the alkyl (meth)acrylate ester (ma) has 4 to 8 carbon atoms, an alkyl group in the alkyl (meth)acrylate ester (mb) has 4 to 8 carbon atoms, a glass transition temperature of the polymer (A) is 20? C. or lower, a glass transition temperature of the polymer (B) obtained by polymerizing the monomer mixture (b) is 55? C. or higher, and a mass average molecular weight of the multi-stage polymer (M) is 10,000 or more and 300,000 or less.

The present invention provides vinyl-based resin particles capable of easily smoothing the surface of a thermosetting resin film when the particles are used as a pore-forming material for a thermosetting resin. Specifically, the present invention provides vinyl-based resin particles for use in making a thermosetting resin porous, the particles having a temperature of 230? C. or higher and lower than 300? C. at 10% mass loss when heated at a rate of 10? C./min in an air atmosphere, and the particles having a mass loss percentage of 85 to 100% after being heated at 350? C. for 5 hours in an air atmosphere.