Session: Thermoplastic Elastomers-2 - Session B (Fall 188th Technical Meeting)

Thermoplastic Elastomers-2 - Session B

Wednesday, October 14, 2015: 8:00 AM-12:15 PM

Co-chairs:

Krishna Venkataswamy, PolyOne Corporation and Juan Ramon Salinas, IISRP

8:00 AM

The Quest for High Melt Flow: New Kraton® Ers Polymers

Yonghua Zhou¹, John Flood², Kathryn J. Wright² and Bing Yang², (1)Kraton Polymers LLC, Houston, TX, (2)Kraton Polymers LLC, Houston, TX

8:30 AM

Styrenic Block Copolymers for Copolyester Modification

Marcus Greger, Kraton Polymers Research B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands

9:00 AM

Thermally Cross-Linked and Sulphur-Cured Soft Tpvs Based on S-EB-S and S-SBR Blends

Golok Nando, Professor¹, Pranab Dey, B.Tech.¹, Kinsuk Naskar², Sujith Nair, M.Tech.³, Biswaranjan Dash, M.Tech.³ and G. Unnikrishnan, M.Tech.³, (1)Rubber Technology Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, (2)Rubber Technology Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, (3)Ceat Ltd., Ceat Ltd., Vadodara, India

9:30 AM

Elastomeric Cyclic Olefin Copolymers

Paul Tatarka, TOPAS Advanced Polymers, Inc, Florence, KY

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

Tuning Tpu Properties By Changing the Hard Segment Content

Vahab Solouki Bonab, Macromolecular science & enginearing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH and Ica Manas-Zloczower, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

10:45 AM

Manufacturing Polypropylene (PP)/Waste EPDM Thermoplastic Elastomers Using Ultrasonically Aided Extrusion

Avraam I. Isayev¹, Hui Dong² and Jing Zhong², (1)Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, The University of Akron, Department of Polymer Engineering, Akron, OH, (2)Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, The University of Akron, Akron, OH

11:15 AM

: NBR/PVC Blends for Optimized Physical Properties in Extrusion Compounds

Paul Rau¹, Christopher Hardiman, PhD² and Bob Scribner, BS, Chemist², (1)Insa, LLC, Industrias Negromex SA de CV, Houston, TX, (2)INSA, LLC, Houston, TX