Session: Elastomers…Focus on Innovation-AM, Session A (Fall 186th Technical Meeting)

Elastomers…Focus on Innovation-AM, Session A

Thursday, October 16, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:15 AM

Session A-Rm #206 (Nashville Convention Center)

Chair:

Jim McGraw, Managing Director & CEO, IISRP

8:00 AM

RECENT ADVANCES IN EPDM and DYNAMICALLY VULCANIZED THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS

P.S. Ravishankar, ExxonMobil Chemical Co, Baytown, TX, Maria D. Ellul, ExxonMobil Chemical Co., Global Specialty Polymers Technology, Akron, OH and Guy Wouters, Global Polymers Technology, ExxonMobil Chemical Europe,Inc - Belgian Branch, Machelen, Belgium

8:30 AM

Innovative Coatings from Low Molecular Weight EPDM

Zhiyong Zhu, Research & Development, Lion Copolymer Geismar, LLC, Geismar, LA and Sol Tang, Technology Center, Lion Copolymer, Baton Rouge, LA

9:00 AM

EPDM with High Strength, Resilience, and Fatigue Resistance of NR Also Demonstrates Superior Heat Aging Properties

Pete Spanos, Lanxess, Burton, OH and John Beelen, Global R&D, Lanxess, Geleen, Netherlands

9:30 AM

Break

9:45 AM

Improving the Crack Growth Resistance in EPDM Compounds with Butyl Ionomer

Jon Bielby¹, Dana Adkinson, Ph.D.², Sean Malmberg² and Kevin Kulbaba, Dr.³, (1)Butyl Rubber Global Reseach and Development, LANXESS, London, ON, Canada, (2)Butyl Rubber Global Research and Development, LANXESS, London, ON, Canada, (3)Butyl Rubber Business Unit, LANXESS, London, ON, Canada

10:15 AM

Propylene-Based Elastomers Extended with Polyalphaolefins

N. Dharmarajan¹, Paul Rollin¹ and Andy Tsou², (1)ExxonMobil Chemical, Baytown, TX, (2)Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil, Annandale, NJ

10:45 AM

Novel Blends of Nitrile Butadiene Rubber and in-Situ Synthesized Thermoplastic Polyurethane-Urea: Preparation Method, Characterization and Properties

Muhammad Tahir, Institut für werkstoffwissenschaft, Leibniz-institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Dresden, Germany, Klaus Werner Stöckelhuber, Elastomers Department, Leibniz-institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Dresden, Germany, Nasir Mahmood, Technische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) and Gert Heinrich, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. (IPF), Dresden, Germany