Inorganic polymer is more excellent in heat and flame resistance than organic polymers. Generally speaking, inorganic polymers are hard and brittle compared with organic polymers.
Inorganic polymer blends with organic polymer were attempted to improve the above mentioned defects, but they were inferior in heat and flame resistance to sole inorganic polymer.
To overcome these difficulty, authors studied a new type of Non-Aqueous polymer Dispersion (NAD) with polyalkoxysiloxane as dispersant.
The NAD was obtained by polymerizings acrylic monomers (as organic polymer component) with a polymerization initiator in a aliphatic hydrocarbon solution of polyalkoxysiloxane (as an inorganic polymer component).
The NAD thus obtained was stable polymer dispersion and showed following characterstics.
1) Excellent in film-formability compared with sole polyalkoxysiloxane.
2) Superior in curability, heat resistance, flame resistance and water vapor permeability to acrylic polymer-polyalkoxysiloxane blends.
The new non-aqueous polymer dispersion with polyalkoxysiloxane as dispersant would offer an inorganic/organic polymers composite with above mentioned unique characteristics
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