US 12,077,618 B2
Moisture crosslinkable copolymers of ethylene and hydrolysable silane
Bharat I. Chaudhary, Princeton, NJ (US); Bruce Michael Hasch, Pearland, TX (US); Sarat Munjal, Lake Jackson, TX (US); Christopher Eddy, Lake Jackson, TX (US); Kevin Paul Rogers, Jamison, PA (US); Rajesh P. Paradkar, Lake Jackson, TX (US); Arkady Krasovskiy, Lake Jackson, TX (US); Manish Talreja, Collegeville, PA (US); and Saurav S. Sengupta, Collegeville, PA (US)
Assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC, Midland, MI (US)
Appl. No. 17/291,408
Filed by Dow Global Technologies LLC, Midland, MI (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/060724
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/102079, PCT Pub. Date May 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/758,739, filed on Nov. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0363277 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. C08F 210/02 (2006.01); C08L 23/08 (2006.01); H01B 3/44 (2006.01)
CPC C08F 210/02 (2013.01) [C08L 23/0892 (2013.01); H01B 3/441 (2013.01); C08F 2800/20 (2013.01); C08F 2810/20 (2013.01); C08F 2810/50 (2013.01); C08L 2312/08 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
 
1. A copolymer of ethylene and hydrolysable silane, wherein the copolymer comprises one or both of from 0.1 wt % to 5.0 wt % hydrolysable silane groups and from 0.02 mol % to 1.00 mol % hydrolysable silane groups and has the following properties:
a Mz(abs)/Mw(abs) of less than or equal to 9.5;
a ratio of Mz(abs)/Mw(abs) to polydispersity of less than or equal to 1.2;
a polydispersity of 6.6 or greater;
a LCB of 2.9 or greater;
a Density×Polydispersity of 6.0 or greater;
an Amorphous Content at Room Temperature×Polydispersity of 360 or greater; and
an Amorphous Content at Room Temperature×Polydispersity×LCB of 1000 or greater.