Scale Inhibitor Polymers

ATBS applications in adhesives and coatings

* ATBS monomer can be used to maintain adhesive stack and peel strength in pressure sensitive adhesive formulations.

Reference: Lubrizol literature

* ATBS monomer brings numerous benefits to emulsion polymer intermediates, the major ingredient in formulating a variety of consumer and industrial coatings, paints, building and construction chemicals and adhesives.

Reference: ATBS applications by Lubrizol

* ATBS homo polymers have been used in food packing adhesives, paper and paperboard in contact with dry food.

Reference: ATBS applications by Lubrizol

* ATBS monomer is hydrophilic, it imparts enhanced water absorption and transport characteristics to the polymers

Reference: Lubrizol specialty monomers (Adhering to basics)

* ATBS monomer is highly polar, attracting polar surfaces strongly, thereby imparting enhanced adhesion characteristics to its co polymers.

Reference: Lubrizol specialty monomers (Adhering to basics)

* Low molecular weight co polymers act as effective dispersants for highly polar materials and can also improve the preparation of high solids dispersions.

Reference: Lubrizol specialty monomers (Adhering to basics)

* Polymeric surfactants generated from the ATBS monomer aid in the preparation of stable dispersions and latexes, which effectively resist leaching and are used in laminating adhesives.

Reference: Lubrizol manual of ATBS

* Acrylic pressure sensitive resins made of at least one ester of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid and between 0.1 and 1.5 weight percent of ATBS. These resins are prepared in aqueous emulsion and when coated on substrates and dried provide pressure sensitive films with superior peel strength.

Pressure-sensitive resins are used conventionally in the form of films to provide adhesive bonds between normally non-adhering surfaces.The films are conventionally prepared by casting them from organic solvent solutions of pressure-sensitive interpolymers and evaporating the solvent. A disadvantage of such organic solutions arises from the large quantities of organic solvent effluent, which is discharged, into the atmosphere. Manufacturers are therefore shifting over from organic solvent to aqueous emulsions of the pressure-sensitive interpolymers to minimize atmospheric pollution.

Reference: US no 3931087

* Water-soluble co polymers based on ATBS can be used as flow controlling auxiliary for building materials.

Tiles or floor coverings made of plastic can be laid only on horizontal and absolutely level floor surfaces. However when buildings are erected only uneven concrete surfaces are obtained in the carcass, hence a screed usually first has to be applied to these uneven concrete floors. Screeds of bituminous mastic concrete, cement or magnesite were used to level the surfaces, which involved a considerable amount of expenditure for labor for their application, but now with the invention of water soluble co polymers based on ATBS it is possible to provide flow control auxiliaries for building material mixtures which on addition in only small amounts effect the desired homogeneous flow of building material mixtures to give screeds with an absolutely level surface.

A particular advantage of these polymers is that their full effectiveness is also still retained 1 hour after addition to the building material mixture.

Reference: US no 4727116

* A laminate consists of at least one layer of unprimed polyolefin film bonded to a vinylidene chloride copolymer coating.

Vinylidene chloride copolymer latexes have been prepared with a hydroxyalkyl ester comonomer and ATBS. These products can be used to coat unprimed polyolefin film and yield laminates having very high peel strength.

Vinylidene chloride copolymer latexes provide excellent coatings for materials such as paperboard, glassine and polyolefin