C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 08 – F
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
08
F
402/397
C08F 2/24 (2006.01) C08F 246/00 (2006.01) G03G 5/14 (2006.01) G03G 5/147 (2006.01) G03G 9/10 (2006.01) G03G 9/13 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1285693
WEAKLY ACIDIC CROSSLINKED VINYL POLYMER PARTICLES AND COATING COMPOSITIONS AND ELECTROGRAPHIC ELEMENTS AND DEVELOPERS CONTAINING SUCH PARTICLES Abstract The invention provides new weakly acidic crosslinked vinyl polymer particles having utility as components of coating compositions, liquid electrographic developers, and layers of electrographic elements and records. Each of the polymeric particles of the invention has a weakly acidic surface and an average diameter less than one micrometer and comprises a crosslinked vinyl addition copolymer obtainable by aqueous emulsion polymerization of a mixture of monomers in the presence of a polymerization initiator, wherein: 0.5-15 percent by weight of the mixture of monomers comprises polyfunctional vinyl addition-polymerizable monomers in order to form crosslinking structural units in the copolymer; 85-99.5 percent by weight of the mixture of monomers comprises monofunctional vinyl addition-polymerizable monomers selected such that A. 0-99.5 percent by weight of the mixture: of monomers comprises monofunctional monomers, the homopolymers of which would be insoluble in but swellable by an isoparaffinic hydrocarbon liquid; B. From 0 of less than 98.5 percent by weight of the mixture of monomers comprises mono- funtional monomers, the homopolymers of which would be soluble in the isoparaffinic hydrocarbon liquid; and C. 0-60 percent by weight of the mixture of monomers comprises monofunctional monomers, the homopolymers of which would be insoluble in and not swellable by the isoparaffinic hydrocarbon liquid; with the provisos that: I. if more than 0 percent by weight of the mixture of monomers comprises the monomers of part C., above, then more than 0 percent by weight of the mixture of monomers comprises the monomers of part B., above; II. if more than 9 percent by weight of the mixture of monomers comprises the monomers of part C., above, then less than 10 percent by weight of the mixture of monomers comprises the monomers of part A., above; and III. all of the polyfunctional and monofunctional monomers and amounts thereof and the polymerization initiator are selected such that: (a) the copolymer would be insoluble in the isoparaffinic hydrocarbon liquid but would be swellable by that liquid, and (b) the weakly acidic surface of each particle is such that an aqueous latex of such particles, having a concentration of about 40 grams of the particles per liter of aqueous medium, after formation by the aqueous emulsion polymerization and removal of any surfactant that may have been present during the aqueous emulsion polymerization, would exhibit a pH greater than 3 at 25°C, and such that the pKa of any acidic moiety bonded to the surface of each particle is at least 4.
530677
Borden Ladner Gervais Llp
Eastman Kodak Company
Nair Mridula
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